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Sunday, November 15, 2015
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Dine-A-Round Dinner at Universal CityWalk
Monday, November 16, 2015
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Workshop: Modern App Technology Overview - Android, iOS, Cloud, and Mobile Web
Nick Landry
Kevin Ford
Steve Hughes
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Developer OnRamp to the Office 365 & Azure AD Highway!
Andrew Connell
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop Getting up and Running with Office 365 for IT Pros
Scott Hoag
Dan Usher
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: SQL Internals, Optimization, and Indexing Deep Dive
Bradley Ball
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Big Data, Analytics and NoSQL: Everything You Wanted to Learn But Were Afraid to Ask
Andrew Brust
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Windows PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking
Jeffery Hicks
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Service Management Automation for the Uninitiated
Jason Helmick
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Service Oriented Technologies: Designing, Developing, & Implementing WCF and the Web API
Miguel Castro
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Triple D: Design, Development, and DevOps
Billy Hollis
Brian Randell
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Busy Developer's Guide to MEANJS
Ted Neward
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Expo Preview
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Live! 360 Keynote: Microsoft 3.0: New Strategy, New Relevance
Mary Jo Foley
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
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SharePoint Live! Keynote: Conference Welcome & State of SharePoint & Office 365
Andrew Connell
Matthew McDermott
8:00am - 9:00am
SQL Server Live! Keynote: Microsoft's Data Platform Landscape
David Crook
8:00am - 9:00am
TechMentor Keynote: How To Get Your Company Moving Forward In Technology
Greg Shields
Jason Helmick
8:00am - 9:00am
Visual Studio Live! & Modern Apps Live! Keynote: The Future of Application Development - Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015
Jay Schmelzer
9:00am - 9:30am
Networking Break
9:30am - 10:45am
Defining Modern App Development
Rockford Lhotka
9:30am - 10:45am
Integrating Office Web Apps with SharePoint 2013
Brian Alderman
9:30am - 10:45am
An Introduction to SharePoint 2013 Add-ins for Developers
Rob Windsor
9:30am - 10:45am
10 Things You Should Know About Office 365
Martina Grom
9:30am - 10:45am
Designing and Managing a SQL Server Replication Topology
Chad Churchwell
9:30am - 10:45am
Encrypting Data in SQL Server
David Dye
9:30am - 10:45am
Big Data with SQL Server and Hadoop
Andrew Brust
9:30am - 10:45am
Your Approach to BYOD Sucks
Simon May
9:30am - 10:45am
Deploying Windows Apps in the Cloud with RemoteApp
John O'Neill Sr.
9:30am - 10:45am
Secure Access from Everywhere! Implementing DirectAccess in Win2012R2
Richard Hicks
9:30am - 10:45am
AngularJS 101
Deborah Kurata
9:30am - 10:45am
A Tour of Azure for Developers
Adam Tuliper
9:30am - 10:45am
Busy Developer's Guide to NoSQL
Ted Neward
9:30am - 10:45am
Visual Studio, TFS, and VSO in 2015 - What's New?
Brian Randell
11:00am - 12:15pm
Modern App Architecture
Brent Edwards
11:00am - 12:15pm
Succeeding with Hybrid SharePoint and Search: Strategy and Implementation Including SharePoint 2016
Jeff Fried
11:00am - 12:15pm
SharePoint Developers, Come to the Client Side (We Have Cookies)
Bill Ayers
11:00am - 12:15pm
No Governance as Usual
Robert Bogue
11:00am - 12:15pm
Hacking Expose: Using SSL to Secure SQL Server Connections
Chris Bell
11:00am - 12:15pm
SQL Server Reporting Services: Attendees Choose!
Kevin Goff
11:00am - 12:15pm
Predictive Analytics and Azure Machine Learning
Andrew Brust
11:00am - 12:15pm
Digging Deep into Microsoft InTune Patching and Mobile Management Solutions
11:00am - 12:15pm
Integrating Active Directory with Azure, Step by Step
John O'Neill Sr.
11:00am - 12:15pm
Using Sysinternals to Fight Malware
Michael Wiley
11:00am - 12:15pm
From ASP.NET Site to Mobile App in About an Hour
Jordan Matthiesen
11:00am - 12:15pm
Introduction to Next Generation of Azure PaaS – Service Fabric and Containers
Vishwas Lele
11:00am - 12:15pm
Real World SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
Benjamin Day
11:00am - 12:15pm
Automate Your Builds with Visual Studio Online or Team Foundation Server
Tiago Pascoal
12:15pm - 2:00pm
Lunch - Visit the Expo
2:00pm - 3:15pm
ALM with Visual Studio Online (TFS) and Git
Brian Randell
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Building Great Search Experiences in SharePoint
Matthew McDermott
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Building JavaScript-Only Web Parts for SharePoint
Rob Windsor
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Intro to Content Web Parts: the Sweetest Way to View and Manage Content
Kim Frehe
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Introduction to SQL Server Clustering
Chad Churchwell
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Implementing Auditing in SQL Server
David Dye
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Using Integration Services 2014 (SSIS) to Load a Data Warehouse
Thomas LeBlanc
2:00pm - 3:15pm
PowerShell Remoting Best Practices
Jeffery Hicks
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Why Your Company Needs a Cloud-Based Identity
Simon May
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Windows 10 - The Important New Features
Sami Laiho
2:00pm - 3:15pm
I Just Met You, and "This" is Crazy, But Here's My NaN, So Call(Me), Maybe?
Rachel Appel
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Cloud or Not, 10 Reasons Why You Must Know "Web Sites"
Vishwas Lele
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Windows 10 for Developers: What's New in Universal Apps
Nick Landry
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Defensive Coding Techniques in C#
Deborah Kurata
3:15pm - 4:15pm
Networking Break
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Reusing Logic Across Platforms
Kevin Ford
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Configuring SharePoint Hybrid Search
Matthew McDermott
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Introduction to Node.js for the SharePoint & Office 365 Developer
Andrew Connell
4:15pm - 5:30pm
OneDrive for Business: Much More than a File Share
Erica Toelle
4:15pm - 5:30pm
The Spy Who Loathed Me: An Overview of SQL's Security Features
Chris Bell
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Advanced SSIS Techniques
David Dye
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Skills Needed to Transition from DBA to Data Warehouse Architect
Thomas LeBlanc
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Mastering Regular Expressions in PowerShell
Jeffery Hicks
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Rocking Your Cloud with Docker!
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Windows Server 2016: Here's What We Know
Don Jones
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Better Unit Tests through Design Patterns for ASP MVC, WebAPI, and AngularJS
Benjamin Day
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Running ASP.NET Cross Platform with Docker
Adam Tuliper
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Build Your First Mobile App in 1 Hour with Microsoft App Studio
Nick Landry
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Recruiters: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Miguel Castro
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Exhibitor Reception
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
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Live! 360 Keynote: DevOps - What it Means to You and How to Get There - Sponsored By: Pluralsight
Don Jones
Brian Randell
9:15am - 10:30am
Coding for Quality and Maintainability
Jason Bock
9:15am - 10:30am
SQL 2014 Always On Availability Groups for SharePoint 2013
Vlad Catrinescu
9:15am - 10:30am
SharePoint Development Lifecycle for Solutions and Add-ins
Robert Bogue
9:15am - 10:30am
SharePoint 2013 Workflow Basics in Plain English for Business Users
Kim Frehe
9:15am - 10:30am
SQL Server on Azure VMs: The Important Details
Thomas LaRock
9:15am - 10:30am
Kick Start SQL Server 2014 Performance Tips and Tricks
Pinal Dave
9:15am - 10:30am
Implementing Data Warehouse Patterns with the Microsoft BI Tools
Kevin Goff
9:15am - 10:30am
Ethical Hacking Methodologies and Fundamentals
Mike Danseglio
Avril Salter
9:15am - 10:30am
Using Azure Site Recovery for Easy, Secure Off-Site Backup
John O'Neill Sr.
9:15am - 10:30am
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Advanced VMM Networking
Greg Shields
9:15am - 10:30am
Mobile App Development with Xamarin and F#
Rachel Reese
9:15am - 10:30am
Notify Your Millions of Users with Notification Hubs
Matt Milner
9:15am - 10:30am
Let's Write a Windows 10 App: A Basic Introduction to Universal Apps
Billy Hollis
9:15am - 10:30am
To Git or Not to Git for Enterprise Development
Benjamin Day
10:30am - 11:00am
Networking Break
11:00am - 12:15pm
Start Thinking Like a Designer
Anthony Handley
11:00am - 12:15pm
Automating SharePoint On-Premises Tasks with PowerShell
Ben Stegink
11:00am - 12:15pm
Building Office Add-Ins with Visual Studio
Bill Ayers
11:00am - 12:15pm
Understanding Your SharePoint 2013 Business Intelligence Options
Darrin Bishop
11:00am - 12:15pm
SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Chad Churchwell
11:00am - 12:15pm
Monitoring Databases in a Virtual Environment
Thomas LaRock
11:00am - 12:15pm
Getting Started with Analysis Services 2012 Tabular
William E. Pearson III
11:00am - 12:15pm
Ethical Hacking: Recon, Data Gathering, and Target Selection
Mike Danseglio
Avril Salter
11:00am - 12:15pm
Real Time Monitoring of User Experience in VDI
Jeff Stokes
11:00am - 12:15pm
Sysinternals – The Latest and Greatest Updates!
Michael Wiley
11:00am - 12:15pm
Automated UI Testing for Android and iOS Mobile Apps
James Montemagno
11:00am - 12:15pm
Busy Developer's Guide to the Clouds
Ted Neward
11:00am - 12:15pm
Designing and Building UX for Finding and Visualizing Data in XAML Applications
Billy Hollis
11:00am - 12:15pm
Anything C# Can Do, F# Can Do Better
Rachel Appel
Rachel Reese
12:15pm - 1:45pm
Birds-of-a-Feather Lunch
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Applied UX: iOS, Android, Windows
Anthony Handley
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Managing Data Recovery in SharePoint 2013
Brian Alderman
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Building Search-Driven Apps with the Office Graph
Jeff Fried
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Plan to Migrate to SharePoint Online
Erica Toelle
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Just Enough SQL Administration to Keep it Running
Don Jones
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Ancient Problems and Modern Solutions: Troubleshooting CPU in SQL
Pinal Dave
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Introducing Forensic Analytics with PowerPivot for Excel
William E. Pearson III
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Ethical Hacking: Destroying and Compromising Wireless Networks
Mike Danseglio
Avril Salter
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Top Seven Tasks Required to Successfully Administer Office 365
Justin Harris
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Windows Internals Black Belt: Become a Troubleshooting Ninja
Sami Laiho
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Stop Creating Forms in Triplicate - Use Xamarin Forms
Matt Milner
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Build Universal HTML5 Web Apps Within Visual Studio
Sandeep Adwankar
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Developing Awesome 3D Games with Unity and C#
Adam Tuliper
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Unit Testing Makes Me Faster: Convincing Your Boss, Your Co-Workers, and Yourself
Jeremy Clark
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Networking Break - Raffle at 3:30pm MUST be present to win
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Leveraging Azure Services
Kevin Ford
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Setting Up Directory Synchronization for Office 365
Dan Usher
Scott Hoag
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Utilizing jQuery in SharePoint - Get More Done Faster
Mark Rackley
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Building an Award-Winning Wellness Program Using SharePoint
Sandra Mahan
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Reading and Interpreting Execution Plans and Tea Leaves
Don Jones
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Configuring SQL Server for Performance… Like a Microsoft Certified Master
Thomas LaRock
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Power BI 2.0: Analytics in the Cloud and in Excel
Andrew Brust
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Ethical Hacking: Denial of Service and Social Engineering
Mike Danseglio
Avril Salter
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Migrating to Office 365: Strategies
J. Peter Bruzzese
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Career Strategies for IT Professionals: A Roundtable Discussion and Q&A
Greg Shields
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Go Mobile with C#, Visual Studio, and Xamarin
James Montemagno
4:00pm - 5:15pm
.NET Applications at Scale on Amazon Web Services
Norm Johanson
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Visual Studio 2015 Productivity Enhancements
Marcel de Vries
4:00pm - 5:15pm
DI Why? Getting A Grip on Dependency Injection
Jeremy Clark
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Live! 360 Dessert Luau - Sponsored by Amazon Web Services
Thursday, November 19, 2015
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Building for the Modern Web with JavaScript Applications
Allen Conway
8:00am - 9:15am
To the Cloud! Using IaaS as a Hosting Provider for SharePoint
Dan Usher
Scott Hoag
8:00am - 9:15am
Using jQuery to Maximize SharePoint Form Usability
Mark Rackley
8:00am - 9:15am
Three Must-Have SharePoint Workflows with SharePoint Designer
Vlad Catrinescu
8:00am - 9:15am
Managing SQL Server at Scale
Joey D'Antoni
8:00am - 9:15am
Indexes - The Unsung Heroes of SQL Server 2014
Pinal Dave
8:00am - 9:15am
Database Development with SQL Server Data Tools
Leonard Lobel
8:00am - 9:15am
Advanced PowerShell Traps and Gotchas
Don Jones
8:00am - 9:15am
VDI Image Optimization and Troubleshooting
Jeff Stokes
8:00am - 9:15am
Windows Internals Black Belt: Memory Management
Sami Laiho
8:00am - 9:15am
Getting Started with ASP.NET 5
Scott Allen
8:00am - 9:15am
Lessons Learned: Being Agile in a Waterfall World
Philip Japikse
8:00am - 9:15am
Windows, NUI and You
Brian Randell
8:00am - 9:15am
Improving Performance in .NET Applications
Jason Bock
9:30am - 10:45am
Building a Modern App with Xamarin
Nick Landry
9:30am - 10:45am
Getting Started with PowerShell for Office 365
Ben Stegink
9:30am - 10:45am
Building Secure Client Applications for Office 365
Bill Ayers
9:30am - 10:45am
Content Management Using the Power of Search
Kim Frehe
9:30am - 10:45am
A Lap Around Multi-Site Clustering for SQL Server DBAs
Edwin Sarmiento
9:30am - 10:45am
Dealing with Bad Roommates - SQL Server Resource Governor
Joey D'Antoni
9:30am - 10:45am
Exploring T-SQL Enhancements: Windowing and More
Leonard Lobel
9:30am - 10:45am
DSC Design and Planning
Don Jones
9:30am - 10:45am
Securing Devices with InTune: Deep Dive
Justin Harris
Lawrence Novak
9:30am - 10:45am
Building Better Hyper-V Guest Clusters
Bruce Mackenzie-Low
9:30am - 10:45am
Build Data Driven Web Applications with ASP.NET MVC
Rachel Appel
9:30am - 10:45am
User Story Mapping
Philip Japikse
9:30am - 10:45am
Building Adaptive UIs for All Types of Windows
Ben Dewey
9:30am - 10:45am
Asynchronous Tips and Tricks
Jason Bock
11:00am - 12:15pm
Building a Modern Cross-Platform App
Brent Edwards
11:00am - 12:15pm
A Lap Around SharePoint 2016
David McNamee
11:00am - 12:15pm
Using Azure to Replace Server-Side Code in Office 365
Paul Schaeflein
11:00am - 12:15pm
Style Your Web Apps and Office & SharePoint Add-ins with the Office UI Fabric
Andrew Connell
11:00am - 12:15pm
Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008/2012
Kevin Goff
11:00am - 12:15pm
Top 10 Wait Types Everyone Should Know
Janis Griffin
11:00am - 12:15pm
Python and R for SQL and Business Intelligence Professionals
Jen Stirrup
11:00am - 12:15pm
Building a Secure DSC Pull Server
Jason Helmick
11:00am - 12:15pm
Managing and Securing Devices with Microsoft EMS
Justin Harris
Lawrence Novak
11:00am - 12:15pm
Windows Internals Black Belt: Security
Sami Laiho
11:00am - 12:15pm
Automated Cross Browser Testing of Your Web Applications with Visual Studio CodedUI
Marcel de Vries
11:00am - 12:15pm
Performance and Debugging with the Diagnostic Hub in Visual Studio
Sasha Goldshtein
11:00am - 12:15pm
XAML Antipatterns
Ben Dewey
11:00am - 12:15pm
Roslyn and .NET Code Gems
Scott Allen
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Lunch on the Lanai
1:30pm - 2:45pm
DevOps and Modern Applications
Dan Nordquist
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Information Management Strategy with Office 365 in Mind
Jeff Fried
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Introduction to the SharePoint Client Object Model and REST API
Rob Windsor
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Working Together with Groups Yammer and Exchange Online
Martina Grom
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Geekin' Out on Extended Events - The System Health Session
Janis Griffin
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Troubleshooting SQL Server Performance using Wait Statistics
Edwin Sarmiento
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Business Intelligence Barista: What DataViz Tool to Use, and When?
Jen Stirrup
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Creating Class-Based DSC Resources
Jason Helmick
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Exchange and O365 PowerShell
Michael O'Neill
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Debunking the Myths about Virtualization Performance With All-Flash Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Dave Kawula
Kelly Murphy
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Hate JavaScript? Try TypeScript.
Ben Hoelting
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Advanced Modern App Architecture Concepts
Marcel de Vries
1:30pm - 2:45pm
WPF MVVM In Depth
Brian Noyes
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Getting More Out of Visual Studio Online: Integration and Extensibility
Tiago Pascoal
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Analyzing Results with Power BI
Steve Hughes
3:00pm - 4:15pm
What's New for Developers in SharePoint, Visual Studio and Windows Server
Paul Schaeflein
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Mixing in Code with a No-Code Access Services Applications to Get the Job Done!
Darrin Bishop
3:00pm - 4:15pm
How to Fire People Using SharePoint
Sandra Mahan
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Building Perfect SQL Servers, Every Time
Joey D'Antoni
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Proactively Identifying and Dealing with SQL Server Database Corruption
Edwin Sarmiento
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Eye Vegetables and Eye Candy: How to Visualize Your Data
Jen Stirrup
3:00pm - 4:15pm
PowerShell Unplugged: Stuff I Stole from Snover
Don Jones
3:00pm - 4:15pm
O365 and Exchange Hybrid Management
Michael O'Neill
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Windows 10 Deployment with Config Man OSD - Planning and Strategy
Steven Rachui
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Grunt, Gulp, Yeoman and Other Tools for Modern Web Development
Ben Hoelting
3:00pm - 4:15pm
The Vector in Your CPU: Exploiting SIMD for Superscalar Performance
Sasha Goldshtein
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Building Maintainable and Extensible MVVM WPF Apps with Prism
Brian Noyes
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Readable Code
John Papa
4:30pm - 5:45pm
Live! 360 Conference Wrap-Up
Andrew Brust
Andrew Connell
Don Jones
Matthew McDermott
Brian Randell
Greg Shields
Rockford Lhotka
Friday, November 20, 2015
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Workshop: Modern App Development In-Depth - iOS, Android, Windows, and Web
Brent Edwards
Anthony Handley
Allen Conway
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Deep Dive into Authentication and Authorization in the Cloud
Paul Schaeflein
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Create Your End User Adoption Strategy
Erica Toelle
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Windows Server Failover Clustering for the SQL Server DBA
Edwin Sarmiento
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: SQL Server 2014 for Developers
Leonard Lobel
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Mastering Windows Troubleshooting: BSODs, System Hangs, and Performance Problems
Bruce Mackenzie-Low
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Application Deployment - The Configuration Manager Way
Steven Rachui
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Angular in 0 to 60
John Papa
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Native Mobile App Development for iOS, Android and Windows Using C#
Marcel de Vries
Roy Cornelissen