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Sunday, November 16, 2014
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Dine Around Dinner
Monday, November 17, 2014
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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: Modern Office 365, SharePoint & Cloud Development Ramp-Up
Andrew Connell
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Getting Up and Running with Office 365
Dan Usher
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Big Data and NoSQL for Database and BI Pros
Andrew Brust
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Maintaining SQL Server for Non-DBAs
Don Jones
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Microsoft Office 365: The Bootcamp
Andy Malone
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop:Automating Hyper-V with System Center Technologies
Greg Shields
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Native Mobile App Development for iOS, Android, and Windows using C#
Marcel de Vries
Rockford Lhotka
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: AngularJS in 0 to 60
John Papa
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: From Code to Release: DevOps for Developers
Brian Randell
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Expo Preview
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Live! 360 Keynote: Cloud Developer - Are You One?
Kris Lankford
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
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Modern Apps Live! Keynote: User Interaction Design in a NUI World
Tim Huckaby
8:00am - 9:00am
SharePoint Live! Keynote: Creating Interactive Experiences for Internal and External Users in Office 365
Sonya Koptyev
8:00am - 9:00am
SQL Server Live! Keynote: Select Star from Everything: Microsoft’s Growing Data Stack
Andrew Brust
8:00am - 9:00am
TechMentor Keynote: Mad IT Skillz, Not Just VaporWare
Rick Claus
8:00am - 9:00am
Visual Studio Live! Keynote: User Interaction Design in a NUI World
Tim Huckaby
9:00am - 9:30am
Networking Break - Visit the EXPO
9:30am - 10:45am
Defining Modern App Development
Rockford Lhotka
9:30am - 10:45am
Lean-Agile Development with SharePoint
Bill Ayers
9:30am - 10:45am
What's New for IT Pro's in SharePoint 2013
Brian Alderman
9:30am - 10:45am
Getting Started with Cross Site Publishing in SharePoint 2013
Prashant G. Bhoyar
9:30am - 10:45am
Best Practices for Leveraging SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Thomas LaRock
9:30am - 10:45am
SQL Server Integration Services End-to-End
David Dye
9:30am - 10:45am
Introduction to SQL Server Clustering
Chad Churchwell
9:30am - 10:45am
Desired State Configuration: An Administrator's Overview
Don Jones
9:30am - 10:45am
Automating vSphere with VMware Orchestrator, Part 1
Greg Shields
9:30am - 10:45am
Creating an Everywhere LAN without the Hassle Using DirectAccess
John O'Neill Sr.
9:30am - 10:45am
Getting Started with Xamarin
Walt Ritscher
9:30am - 10:45am
Great User Experiences with CSS 3
Robert Boedigheimer
9:30am - 10:45am
What's New in MVC 5
Miguel Castro
9:30am - 10:45am
New IDE and Editor Features in Visual Studio 2013
Deborah Kurata
11:00am - 12:15pm
Modern App Architecture
Rockford Lhotka
11:00am - 12:15pm
How to Improve the SharePoint UI Using Bootstrap 3
Ryan McIntyre
11:00am - 12:15pm
Integrating Office Web Apps with SharePoint 2013
Brian Alderman
11:00am - 12:15pm
Excel, Power BI and You: An Analytics Superhub
Andrew Brust
11:00am - 12:15pm
Designing and Maintaining a SQL Server Replication Topology
Chad Churchwell
11:00am - 12:15pm
Hadoop Administration for SQL Server DBAs
Edwin Sarmiento
11:00am - 12:15pm
PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking with Patterns and Practical Uses
Don Jones
11:00am - 12:15pm
Automating vSphere with VMware Orchestrator, Part 2
Greg Shields
11:00am - 12:15pm
Creating Map Centric Web Applications with HTML5 and JavaScript
Ben Ramseth
11:00am - 12:15pm
HTML5 and Modernizr for Better Web Sites
Robert Boedigheimer
11:00am - 12:15pm
What's New in Web API 2
Miguel Castro
11:00am - 12:15pm
Visual Studio Data Tools for Developers
Deborah Kurata
12:15pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm - 3:15pm
ALM with Visual Studio Online (TFS) and Git
Brian Randell
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Building SharePoint Single Page Apps with AngularJS
Andrew Connell
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Getting Started with Office 365 - Identity, Provisioning and Basics of Tenant Administration
Dan Usher
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Learn About the Top 5 Advanced Search Features You Never Knew You Needed
Matthew McDermott
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Big Data 101 with Azure HDInsight
Andrew Brust
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Implementing Auditing in SQL Server
David Dye
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Building Perfect SQL Servers, Every Time
Joey D'Antoni
2:00pm - 3:15pm
GO DARK:The PowerShell Delegated Administration Resource Kit (AKA JEA)
Don Jones
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Using Microsoft Azure for Easy, Secure, Off-Site Backup
John O'Neill Sr.
2:00pm - 3:15pm
System Center and the Modern Datacenter: A Tactical Briefing
Greg Shields
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Introduction to Developing Mobile Apps for the Web Developer
Ben Hoelting
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Build an Angular and Bootstrap Web Application in Visual Studio from the Ground up
Deborah Kurata
2:00pm - 3:15pm
ASP.NET MVC for Mobile Devices
Rob Daigneau
2:00pm - 3:15pm
The Road to Continuous Delivery, Automated UI Testing for Web, WPF and Windows Forms
Marcel de Vries
3:15pm - 4:15pm
Networking Break - Visit the EXPO
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Reusing Business and Data Access Logic Across Platforms
Kevin Ford
4:15pm - 5:30pm
SharePoint 2013 Display Templates and Query Rules
Matthew McDermott
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Office 365 Information Architecture and Governance 101
Ben Curry
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Getting Started with SharePoint 2013 Workflows
Prashant G. Bhoyar
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Integrating SQL Server Analysis Services with Hadoop
Edwin Sarmiento
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Dealing with Errors in SQL Server Integration Services
David Dye
4:15pm - 5:30pm
SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Chad Churchwell
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Top 20 Mistakes in Microsoft Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Deployments
Mark B. Cooper
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Integrating Office 365 with Active Directory, Step-by-Step
John O'Neill Sr.
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Career Strategies for IT Professionals: A Roundtable Discussion and Q&A
Don Jones
Greg Shields
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Creating Responsive Cross-Platform Native/Web Apps with JavaScript and Bootstrap
Ben Dewey
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Hate JavaScript? Try TypeScript
Ben Hoelting
4:15pm - 5:30pm
What's New in WPF 4.5
Walt Ritscher
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Understanding Dependency Injection & Writing Testable Software
Miguel Castro
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Exhibitor Reception
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
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Live! 360 Keynote: Build Better Applications with Visual Studio + Azure
Jeffrey T. Fritz
9:15am - 10:30am
Coding for Quality and Maintainability
Jason Bock
9:15am - 10:30am
Office Graph and Oslo The Future of Discovering and Consuming Information
Agnes Molnar
9:15am - 10:30am
SharePoint Tips and Tricks Avoiding Administrative Blunders
Dan Usher
9:15am - 10:30am
Real World: Hybrid Office 365 Solution
Ben Curry
9:15am - 10:30am
Who Moved My Tuple? Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2014
Joey D'Antoni
9:15am - 10:30AM
Integrating Reporting Services with SharePoint
Kevin Goff
9:15am - 10:30am
Everything You Never Wanted to Know about SQL Server Indexes
Don Jones
9:15am - 10:30am
Managing and Deploying BYOD Identity Solutions with a Microsoft PKI
Mark B. Cooper
9:15am - 10:30am
Managing Infrastructure Migrations at Windows Servers End of Life
Rick Claus
9:15am - 10:30am
Automating Application Installations: An Introduction to Software Packaging & Repackaging
John O'Neill Sr.
9:15am - 10:30am
Build Cross-Platform Apps with Shared Projects, CSLA .NET, and C#
Rockford Lhotka
9:15am - 10:30am
AngularJS Jump-Start
John Papa
9:15am - 10:30am
Best Practices for Self Hosting Web API Based Services
Rob Daigneau
9:15am - 10:30am
The Busy Developers Guide to Virtualization with Hyper-V
Brian Randell
10:30am - 11:00am
Networking Break - Visit the EXPO
11:00am - 12:15pm
UX Design for Modern Apps
Anthony Handley
11:00am - 12:15pm
SharePoint Intranet Design
Michael Doyle
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Roadmap for a Successful Migration to SharePoint Online
Ben Curry
11:00am - 12:15pm
Getting Started with MDX
William E. Pearson III
11:00am - 12:15pm
SQL Server 2014 In-memory OLTP Deep Dive
Grant Fritchey
11:00am - 12:15pm
Virtualizing SQL Server in VMware, Hyper-V, or Xen: Yes or No?
Don Jones
11:00am - 12:15pm
Securing Cloud Servers and Services with PKI Certificates
Mark B. Cooper
11:00am - 12:15pm
Everything You've Needed to Know about Windows Scale Out File Server
Rick Claus
11:00am - 12:15pm
A Journey through the Dark Web: The Secrets of TOR Revealed
Andy Malone
11:00am - 12:15pm
Building Mobile Cross-Platform Apps with HTML5 & Cordova in Visual Studio
Nick Landry
11:00am - 12:15pm
AngularJS Anywhere with Node.js
John Papa
11:00am - 12:15pm
Slice Development Time With ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, and Razor
Philip Japikse
11:00am - 12:15pm
Build It and Ship It with TFS and Release Management
Brian Randell
12:15pm - 1:45pm
Birds-of-a-Feather Lunch
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Applied UX: iOS, Android, Windows
Anthony Handley
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Deploying Provider-Hosted Apps into Production
Paul Schaeflein
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Optimizing SQL Server 2014 for SharePoint 2013
Brian Alderman
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Office 365: Considerations for a Hybrid Deployment
Geoff Varosky
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Getting Started with Analysis Services 2014 Tabular
William E. Pearson III
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Programming the T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2012
Leonard Lobel
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Prevent Recovery Amnesia Forget the Backups
Chris Bell
1:45pm - 3:00pm
CIM-ple Remote Management with PowerShell
Jeffery Hicks
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Troubleshooting the Windows Client, an Introductory Clinic
Jeff Stokes
1:45pm - 3:00pm
The Dark Side Social Networking and How to Survive it
Andy Malone
1:45pm - 3:00pm
What's New in Azure for Developers
Vishwas Lele
1:45pm - 3:00pm
I Just Met You, and "This" is Crazy, But Here's My NaN, So Call (me) Maybe?
Rachel Appel
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Automated Cross Browser Testing of Your Web Applications with Visual Studio CodedUI
Marcel de Vries
1:45pm - 3:00pm
Readable Code
John Papa
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Networking Break - Visit the EXPO - Expo Raffle at 3:30pm
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Leveraging Azure Services
Kevin Ford
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Test-driven Development with SharePoint 2013
Bill Ayers
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Bringing the Users with You - SharePoint 2013 Adoption and Engagement
Robert Bogue
4:00pm - 5:15pm
SharePoint and the Mystical OneDrive for Business
Dan Usher
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Implementing Data Warehouse Patterns with the Microsoft BI Tools
Kevin Goff
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Accelerate Database Performance through Data Compression
Joey D'Antoni
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Building a Database Deployment Pipeline
Grant Fritchey
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Creating Graphical PowerShell Tools (BYOL-HOL)
Jeffery Hicks
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Building a Better VDI Image: Best Practices from Microsoft
Jeff Stokes
4:00pm - 5:15pm
The Hacker's Guide to Identity Theft and How to Survive It
Andy Malone
4:00pm - 5:15pm
API Management
Vishwas Lele
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Creating HTML5 and Angular Websites Using Visual Studio LightSwitch
Michael Washington
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Build Real-Time Websites and Apps with SignalR
Rachel Appel
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Visual Studio Online: An Update Every Three Weeks
Brian Randell
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Live! 360 Dessert Luau
Thursday, November 20, 2014
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Analyzing Results with Power BI
Steve Hughes
8:00am - 9:15am
How to Develop and Debug Client-Side Code
Mark Rackley
8:00am - 9:15am
Managing SharePoint 2013 with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 R2
Jason Kaczor
8:00am - 9:15am
Getting a Grip on SharePoint Social
Michael Doyle
8:00am - 9:15am
SQL Server Reporting Services for Application Developers – Attendees Choose
Kevin Goff
8:00am - 9:15am
Getting Started Reading Query Execution Plans
Grant Fritchey
8:00am - 9:15am
Database Design Size DOES Matter
Thomas LaRock
8:00am - 9:15am
Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell (BYOL-RA)
Jeffery Hicks
8:00am - 9:15am
Building a Secure and Cost-Effective BitLocker
Sami Laiho
8:00am - 9:15am
Improve Your Tech Writing Skills: Lessons from a Professional Author
Don Jones
8:00am - 9:15am
Creating Visual Studio Cloud Business Applications for Office 365 / SharePoint 2013
Michael Washington
8:00am - 9:15am
Games Development with Unity and Other Frameworks for Windows and Windows Phone
Brian Peek
8:00am - 9:15am
Managing the .NET Compiler
Jason Bock
9:30am - 10:45am
Building a Modern App with Xamarin
Nick Landry
9:30am - 10:45am
Deep Dive into Office 365 APIs
Jeremy Thake
9:30am - 10:45am
No Governance as Usual
Robert Bogue
9:30am - 10:45am
Is "Enterprise Search" Dead???
Agnes Molnar
9:30am - 10:45am
Transact SQL for Application Developers: Attendees Choose
Kevin Goff
9:30am - 10:45am
Secrets of SQL Server: Database WORST Practices
Pinal Dave
9:30am - 10:45am
Securing Your Database by Using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Bradley Ball
9:30am - 10:45am
Document Everything with PowerShell BYOL RA
Jeffery Hicks
9:30am - 10:45am
The Real-World Guide to Upgrading Your IT Skills AND Your Infrastructure, Part 1
Rick Claus
9:30am - 10:45am
Proactive Security in Windows Environments
Sami Laiho
9:30am - 10:45am
Microsoft Azure Web Sites for the Web Developer
Eric D. Boyd
9:30am - 10:45am
Building Rich Data Input Windows 8 Applications
Brian Noyes
9:30am - 10:45am
XAML Antipatterns
Ben Dewey
9:30am - 10:45am
Writing Asynchronous Code using .NET 4.5 and C# 5.0
Brian Peek
11:00am - 12:15pm
Building an iOS and Android App with Xamarin.Forms
Brent Edwards
11:00am - 12:15pm
Lazy Client-side Dev: Let the 3rd-party Libraries Do the Heavy Lifting
Mark Rackley
11:00am - 12:15pm
Automating Your Enterprise Application Deployments with PowerShell
Geoff Varosky
11:00am - 12:15pm
Implementing ECM Solutions with SharePoint 2013
Robert Bogue
11:00am - 12:15pm
Self-Service BI Governance
Jen Underwood
11:00am - 12:15pm
Statistics and the Query Optimizer
Grant Fritchey
11:00am - 12:15pm
Discussing the Future of Desktop Administration: Are Configuration Manager's Days Numbered?
Don Jones
Greg Shields
11:00am - 12:15pm
The Real-World Guide to Upgrading Your IT Skills AND Your Infrastructure, Part 2
Rick Claus
11:00am - 12:15pm
How to Build a Perfect File Server with Windows Server
Sami Laiho
11:00am - 12:15pm
Moving Web Apps to the Cloud
Eric D. Boyd
11:00am - 12:15pm
Building Your First Universal Application for Windows Phone and Windows Store
Brian Peek
11:00am - 12:15pm
Build Your First Mobile App in 1 Hour with Microsoft App Studio
Nick Landry
11:00am - 12:15pm
Asynchronous Debugging in .NET
Jason Bock
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Lunch on the Lanai
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Building a Windows App
Brent Edwards
1:30pm - 2:45pm
BreezeJS Makes Client-Side SharePoint 2013 REST Development a… BREEZE!
Andrew Connell
1:30pm - 2:45pm
10 Misconceptions of Information Architecture You Should Forget
Agnes Molnar
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Developers Approach to Search Applications
Matthew McDermott
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Busy Developers Guide to R
Ted Neward
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer
Bradley Ball
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Monitoring Databases in a Virtual Environment
Thomas LaRock
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Eliminate the Regulatory Compliance Nightmare
J. Peter Bruzzese
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Oh Snap! Active Directory Attribute-level Recovery when the AD Recycle Bin Cannot Help
Ashley McGlone
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Node.js for .NET Developers
Jason Bock
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Building Maintainable and Extensible MVVM WPF Apps with Prism 5
Brian Noyes
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Learning Entity Framework 6
Leonard Lobel
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Rock Your Code Using Code Contracts
David McCarter
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Building a Responsive Single Page App
Allen Conway
3:00pm - 4:15pm
SharePoint Design Manager Step by Step
Paul Schaeflein
3:00pm - 4:15pm
SharePoint Forensics for IT Professionals
Jason Kaczor
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Introducing Office Web Apps as a Tool for Developing Content Rich Applications
Ryan McIntyre
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Advanced Analytics and Data Mining for Power BI
Jen Underwood
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Cardinality Estimates in SQL Server 2014
Thomas LaRock
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Busy Developer's Guide to NoSQL
Ted Neward
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013: Better Together
J. Peter Bruzzese
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Migrating Your Windows Failover Clusters Is Now the Right Time to Upgrade
Bruce Mackenzie-Low
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Migrate GPOs from One Domain/Forest to Another Using PowerShell
Ashley McGlone
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Building Mobile Cross-Platform Apps in C# with Azure Mobile Services
Nick Landry
3:00pm - 4:15pm
XAML for the WinForms Developer
Philip Japikse
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Database Development with SQL Server Data Tools
Leonard Lobel
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Rock Your Code with Visual Studio Add-ins
David McCarter
4:30pm - 5:45pm
Live! 360 Conference Wrap up
Rockford Lhotka
Andrew Connell
Matthew McDermott
Don Jones
Greg Shields
Friday, November 21, 2014
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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: Apps for SharePoint - The Next Level
Paul Schaeflein
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Implementing Search Based Intranet in SharePoint 2013 and Office 365
Agnes Molnar
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Performance Tuning Best Practices - Every DBA and Developer MUST Know
Pinal Dave
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: SQL Server 2014 for Developers
Leonard Lobel
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Microsoft Exchange Boot Camp for the Accidental Exchange Administrator
J. Peter Bruzzese
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Windows Troubleshooting DEEP DIVE
Bruce Mackenzie-Low
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Service Orientation Technologies: Designing, Developing, & Implementing WCF and the Web API -
Miguel Castro
8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Creating C#/XAML Applications for Desktop, Store, and Phone
Philip Japikse