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IT/Dev Connections Sessions
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Continental Breakfast / Monday — 8:30am-9:00am / Foyer
Monday — 9:00am-5:00pm
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
A Day of Identity and Access Control for Modern Applications
Brock Allen
Bristlecone 10
DEV
Building an End-to-End Responsive Website in a Day
Dino Esposito
Bristlecone 7/8
DEV
Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server
Esteban Garcia
Bristlecone 9
EXC
Microsoft Office 365: The Master Class
Andy Malone
Pinyon 1
SPT
Building Apps for SharePoint 2013
Scot Hillier
Pinyon 8
SQL
Practical T-SQL: Efficient Solutions
Itzik Ben-Gan
Bluethorn 1/2
SQL
Storage and Virtualization for DBAs
Denny Cherry
Bluethorn 8/9
SQL
Practical Performance Monitoring
Andrew Kelly
Bluethorn 5/6
SQL
Self-Service BI Enhancements in Excel and Power BI
Stacia Misner
Bluethorn 7
WIN Using System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager in the Real World: Notes from the Field
Johan Arwidmark and Kent Agerlund
Pinyon 3
WIN Getting Started with PowerShell 4.0
Jeff Hicks
Pinyon 2
Shaun Cassells, Troy Martin, Craig Nunley,
and Mike Terrill
Bluethorn 3
WIN
1E Half-Day Workshop: Simplifying the Windows Management Experience
- Simplifying Your Problems
Lunch / Monday — 12:00Pm-1:00Pm / Bristlecone 6
Opening Reception / Monday — 5:00Pm-6:00Pm / Foyer
Monday — 6:00pm-7:00pm
Track Session Name
ALL
Keynote: Advancing Your Career Through a Mobile and Cloud Mindset
Speaker(s)
Location
Brad Anderson
Pinyon 4
Monday — 8:00pm
Track Session Name
SPT
SharePint
Location
Lobby Bar
IT/Dev Connections Sessions
Continental Breakfast / tuesday — 7:45am-8:30am / Bristlecone 5/6
Tuesday — 8:30am-9:30am
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Keynote: The Future of .NET on the Server
Scott Hunter
Pinyon 4
SPT
Keynote: The Collaborative Enterprise: Make It Work in a Social, Mobile, and Connected World
Jim Lundy
Pinyon 5
networking break / tuesday — 9:30Am-10:00am / Foyer
Tuesday — 10:00am-11:15am
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Code-First, Domain-Driven Design, and Entity Framework
Dino Esposito
Bristlecone 1
DEV
Enhancing Existing Web Applications with SignalR
Kevin Griffin
Bristlecone 2
DEV
OWIN and Katana: The New HTTP Host for .NET Web Applications
Brock Allen
Pinyon 1/2
DEV
Introduction to Speech Recognition with C#
James McCaffrey
Pinyon 6
DEV
What's New for ASP.NET Developers Using Windows Azure
Sayed Hashimi
Bristlecone 3
EXC
Exchange Connections Kick Off
Tony Redmond
Pinyon 3
SPT
What's New with Workflows in SharePoint Designer and Office 365
Fabian Williams
Bluethorn 5/6
SPT
Optimizing and Accelerating Your SharePoint Farm
Chris McNulty
Bluethorn 8/9
SPT
SharePoint 2013 Admin in a Hybrid World
Jason Himmelstein
Bluethorn 1/2
SQL
SQL Server Table Partitioning from the Ground Up
Denny Cherry
Pinyon 7
SQL
SQL Server 2014 Top 5 Hybrid Features
Scott Klein
Pinyon 8
SQL
Digging Out from Corruption
Eddie Wuerch
Bristlecone 4
SQL
Best Practice Data Visualization and Dashboard Design
Jen Underwood
Bristlecone 10
WIN Configuration Manager 2012: In-Depth Site Review
Kent Agerlund and Steve Thompson
Bristlecone 9
WIN Windows Clusters for Beginners: From Highly Fearful to Highly Reliable in 75 Minutes!
Mark Minasi
Bristlecone 7/8
WIN Hyper-V Best Practices
Alan Sugano
Bluethorn 3
WIN Can System Center Operations Manager Monitor Stuff Other than Windows?
Dieter Wijckmans
Bluethorn 7
networking break / tuesday — 11:15Am-11:45am / Foyer
5
IT/Dev Connections Sessions
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Tuesday — 11:45am-1:00pm
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Identity Management in ASP.NET
Brock Allen
Pinyon 1/2
DEV
I Just Met You, and "This" Is Crazy, But Here's My NaN, So Call (Me) Maybe?
Rachel Appel
Pinyon 6
DEV
Empower Your Cross-Platform Teams with Git and Team Foundation Server
Esteban Garcia
Bristlecone 1
DEV
Getting the Most Out of IIS
Ido Flatow
Bristlecone 2
DEV
Introduction to AngularJS
John Petersen
Bristlecone 3
EXC
Who Wears the Pants in Your Datacenter: Taming Managed Availability
Paul Robichaux
Bluethorn 1/2
EXC
Office 365: Migrating Your Business to Office 365!
Andy Malone
Bluethorn 3
SPT
Keep SharePoint Always On
Liam Cleary
Bluethorn 8/9
SPT
The Evolution of Workflows in SharePoint 2013: A Story About External Calls with REST and JSON
Fabian Williams
Pinyon 3
SPT
Building Contoso Electronics: Understanding Cross-Site Publishing
Benjamin Niaulin
Bluethorn 5/6
SQL
T-SQL Tips and Tricks
Itzik Ben-Gan
Bristlecone 10
SQL
Assessing Your Indexing Strategy
Tim Ford
Pinyon 7
SQL
Building a BI Solution in the Cloud
Stacia Misner
Pinyon 8
SQL
Partitioning for Performance and Management of Large Tables
Eddie Wuerch
Bristlecone 4
WIN Managing Configuration Manager with PowerShell
Kent Agerlund and Kaido Jarvemets
Bristlecone 7/8
WIN Running Operations Manager in the Cloud: Don't Let the Fog Blind You
Dieter Wijckmans
Bristlecone 9
Darwin Sanoy
Bluethorn 7
WIN
Office 365 ProPlus Click-to-Run (Office 2013 Desktop Applications): Enterprise Deployment
Blueprints (as in ITIL-Compatible)
Lunch / tuesday — 1:00pm-2:00pm / Bristlecone 5/6
IT/Dev Connections Sessions
Tuesday — 2:00pm-3:15pm
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Inside Azure Diagnostics
Michael Collier
Pinyon 6
DEV
Building Rich Input Forms with ASP.NET MVC and Bootstrap
Dino Esposito
Pinyon 5
DEV
Building Single-Page Applications with AngularJS
Kevin Griffin
Bristlecone 1
DEV
Touch Your Application
Chris Love
Bristlecone 2
DEV
Developing Neural Networks with Visual Studio
James McCaffrey
Bristlecone 3
EXC
Advanced Troubleshooting Procedures and Tools for Exchange 2013
Andrew Higginbotham
Bluethorn 3
EXC
Exchange 2013 Disaster Recovery
Michael Van Horenbeeck
Bluethorn 1/2
EXC
Microsoft Office 365: Security Deep Dive!
Andy Malone
Pinyon 3
SPT
Think You Can Hack SharePoint?
Liam Cleary
Pinyon 1/2
SPT
Double Up! Moving to SharePoint on Azure and SharePoint in Office 365
Chris McNulty
Bluethorn 5/6
SPT
Exploring SharePoint 2013's Search: What's New?
Benjamin Niaulin
Bluethorn 8/9
SQL
How To Read Execution Plans
Grant Fritchey
Bristlecone 10
SQL
TempDB 101 Plus
Andrew Kelly
Pinyon 7
SQL
Running MongoDB in Windows Azure
Scott Klein
Pinyon 8
SQL
Getting Started with SSIS 2014
Tim Mitchell
Bristlecone 4
WIN It's the End of the World As We Know It . . . Windows Server 2003 End of Life: Infrastructure Migration
Rick Claus
Bristlecone 7/8
WIN Hyper-V Health Reporting and Monitoring
Jeff Hicks
Bluethorn 7
WIN PowerShell Desired State Configuration
Jeffrey Snover
Bristlecone 9
networking break / tuesday — 3:15PM-3:45pm / Foyer
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IT/Dev Connections Sessions
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Tuesday — 3:45pm-5:00pm
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Build Real-Time Websites and Apps with SignalR
Rachel Appel
Pinyon 1/2
DEV
Programming Azure Active Directory
Michael Collier
Pinyon 6
DEV
Debugging the Web with Fiddler
Ido Flatow
Bristlecone 1
DEV
There Is No Mobile: An Introduction to Responsive Web Design
Chris Love
Bristlecone 2
DEV
A Survey of Two Popular Visual Studio Tools: Web Essentials and NuGet
John Petersen
Bristlecone 3
EXC
MAPI/HTTP In Depth
Bhargav Shukla
Bluethorn 3
EXC
Just Like Lemmings: Mass Migration to Office 365
Paul Robichaux
Bluethorn 1/2
SPT
Implementing SharePoint: a Project Manager's How-To
Eric Riz
Bluethorn 5/6
SPT
A Developer's Approach to Search Applications
Matthew McDermott
Bluethorn 8/9
SQL
Logical Query Processing
Itzik Ben-Gan
Bristlecone 10
SQL
SQL Server Management for the non-DBA
Denny Cherry
Bristlecone 4
SQL
In-Memory OLTP for the DBA
Victor Isakov
Pinyon 7
SQL
Advanced Analytics and Data Mining for Power BI
Jen Underwood
Pinyon 8
WIN Best Practices for Group Policy Deployment and Management
Darren Mar-Elia
Bristlecone 9
WIN VMware Site Recovery Manager
Alan Sugano
Bluethorn 7
WIN Building the Ultimate Operating System Deployment Task Sequence
Mike Terrill and Troy Martin
Bristlecone 7/8
VIP Reception / tuesday — 7:00PM-9:00pm / Vdara Level 3 Pool & Lounge
IT/Dev Connections Sessions
Continental Breakfast / Wednesday — 8:15am-9:00am / Foyer, Bristlecone 5/6
Wednesday — 9:00am-10:15am
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Understanding Dependency Injection and Writing Testable Software
Miguel Castro
Bristlecone 1
DEV
How to Profile your ASP.Net MVC Application
Gus Emery
Bristlecone 2
DEV
Escaping Callbacks: Using Promises in JavaScript
Kevin Griffin
Bristlecone 3
DEV
Microsoft Azure Offerings for Web Developers
Saurabh Pant
Pinyon 1/2
DEV
Visual Studio Extensibility for ASP.NET Developers
Sayed Hashimi
Pinyon 5
EXC
Managing Exchange Server Database Availability Groups
Paul Cunningham
Pinyon 3
EXC
Exchange Hybrid Deployments
Michael Van Horenbeeck
Bluethorn 1/2
EXC
Identity and Authentication Management for Office 365
Nathan O’Bryan
Bluethorn 3
SPT
Governance Strategies for SharePoint 2013
Eric Riz
Bluethorn 8/9
SPT
10 Things You Should Know About Office 365
Martina Grom and Toni Pohl
Bluethorn 5/6
SPT
Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2013: Empowering Users to Change Their World
Jason Himmelstein
Pinyon 6
SQL
Not So Secret: Get to Know SQL Server Agent
Jes Borland
Pinyon 7
SQL
Continuous Integration for Databases
Steve Jones
Pinyon 8
SQL
Get the Skinny on Minimally Logged Operations
Andrew Kelly
Bristlecone 4
SQL
Building a BI Performance Monitoring Solution
Stacia Misner
Bristlecone 10
WIN What's Next for One Microsoft?
Mary-Jo Foley
Bristlecone 7/8
WIN JitJea: A PowerShell Toolkit to Secure a Post-Snowden World
Jeffrey Snover
Bristlecone 9
Kenny Buntinx and Tim De Keukelaere
Bluethorn 7
WIN
System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager and Intune: Setup and Deployment Notes from
the Field, with a Focus on Single Sign-On
networking break / tuesday — 10:15aM-10:45am / Foyer
9
10
IT/Dev Connections Sessions
Wednesday — 10:45am-12:00pm
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Securing ASP.NET Web API with OAuth2
Brock Allen
Pinyon 5
DEV
Introduction to Twitter Bootstrap
Joseph Guadagno
Pinyon 6
DEV
SPAs Are Easy
Chris Love
Bristlecone 1
DEV
Mastering IntelliTrace in Development and Production
Sasha Goldshtein
Bristlecone 2
DEV
Introduction to JavaScript Testing
John Petersen
Bristlecone 3
DEV
Things Every Developer Must Know About HTTP
Yaniv Rodenski
Pinyon 1/2
EXC
Using PowerShell to Manage and Monitor Exchange
Siegfried Jagott
Bluethorn 1/2
EXC
Deep Dive: Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 Integration
Paul Robichaux
Pinyon 3
EXC
Performance Counters You Never Knew and Why They're Important
Nathan O'Bryan
Bluethorn 3
SPT
Designing for the Office 365 Experience
Cathy Dew
Bluethorn 8/9
SQL
Query Tuning Superstardom for Beginners
Tim Ford
Bristlecone 10
SQL
Understanding SQL Server Trace Flags
Victor Isakov
Bristlecone 4
SQL
Make Your Virtualized SQL Server Machines Top Performers
David Klee
Pinyon 7
SQL
Dynamic SSIS Package Generation with Biml
Tim Mitchell
Pinyon 8
WIN Desired State Configuration for Windows Server Administrators
Darren Mar-Elia
Bluethorn 7
WIN Inside Windows Mobile Device Management: Managing Windows with OMA DM
Michael Niehaus
Bristlecone 9
Rick Claus
Bristlecone 7/8
WIN
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the "Fire Breathing Dragon" Feature (aka Storage Spaces, Scale-Out File
Server, and SMB 3.0)
Lunch / wednesday — 12:00pm-1:00pm / Bristlecone 5/6
IT/Dev Connections Sessions
Wednesday — 1:00pm-2:15pm
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Designing for Extensibility
Miguel Castro
Bristlecone 1
DEV
Making Rich Data Apps Is a Breeze(.js)
Gus Emery
Bristlecone 2
DEV
An Introduction to the DOM API and JavaScript Best Practices
Chris Love
Bristlecone 3
DEV
Microsoft Azure Redis Cache
Saurabh Pant
Pinyon 6
EXC
How to (Safely) Stop Backing Up Exchange
Wes Blalock
Bluethorn 1/2
EXC
Options for Moving an Exchange or SBS Environment to Office 365 or Remaining On-Premises
Andrew Higginbotham
Bluethorn 3
EXC
Exchange 2013 Site Resilience
Tim McMichael
Pinyon 3
SPT
SharePoint 2013 Search: Display Templates and Query Rules
Matthew McDermott
Bluethorn 5/6
SPT
Hybrid Solutions with SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 365
Bill Baer
Bluethorn 8/9
SQL
Panel: Ask the SQL Server Experts
Multiple Speakers
Pinyon 1/2
WIN Mary-Jo Foley and Paul Thurrott on the State of Microsoft
Mary-Jo Foley and Paul Thurrott
Bristlecone 7/8
WIN Compliance Settings (Desired Configuration Management): The Most Under-Appreciated Configuration Management Feature
Nash Pherson
Bristlecone 9
networking break / Wednesday — 2:15pM-2:45pm / Foyer
Wednesday — 2:45pm-4:00pm
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Ask the Development Experts
Chander Dhall and Multiple Speakers
Pinyon 5
EXC
Exchange 2013 Transport: A Detailed Comparison to Exchange 2010
Siegfried Jagott
Bluethorn 1/2
EXC
Role Based Access Control and YOU!
Bhargav Shukla
Bluethorn 3
EXC
Help, I'm Hybrid! (How to Manage Hybrid Coexistence with Office 365)
Wes Blalock
Pinyon 3
SPT
Create Engaging Branded SharePoint Portals and Plan for Content
Cathy Dew
Bluethorn 5/6
SPT
Power BI and SharePoint Online
Martina Grom and Toni Pohl
Bluethorn 8/9
SQL
Scaling Your Virtualized SQL Servers Up and Out
Ben DeBow and David Klee
Pinyon 7
SQL
Index Methods You're Not Using
Jes Borland
Pinyon 1/2
SQL
Maintaining High Performance When Using Encryption
Steve Jones
Bristlecone 10
SQL
The Next BI and Data Discovery Killer App
Jen Underwood
Bristlecone 4
WIN Managing Your Hybrid Mobile Cloud Workforce with System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
Kenny Buntinx and Tim De Keukelaere
Bristlecone 9
WIN Synchronize Active Directory with Office 365 and Windows Azure Active Directory
Brian Desmond
Bristlecone 7/8
WIN Deploying Windows 8.1 with WIMBoot
Michael Niehaus
Bluethorn 7
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12
IT/Dev Connections Sessions
Wednesday — 4:15pm-5:15pm
Track Session Name
ALL
Location
Women in Technology Panel
Pinyon 5
Continental Breakfast / Thursday — 8:15am-9:00am / Bristlecone 5/6
Thursday — 9:00am-10:15pm
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Quick Tour to Front-End Unit Testing Using Jasmine
Gil Fink
Bristlecone 1
DEV
Performance and Debugging with the Diagnostics Hub in Visual Studio 2013
Sasha Goldshtein
Pinyon 1/2
DEV
Rock Your Code Using Code Contracts™
David McCarter
Bristlecone 2
DEV
Busy Developer's Guide to TypeScript
Ted Neward
Bristlecone 3
DEV
Introduction to NoSQL with Couchbase Server
David Ostrovsky and Yaniv Rodenski
Pinyon 6
EXC
Autodiscover: What's the Deal?
Jaap Wesselius
Bluethorn 1/2
EXC
Build Your Own Super-Fast Exchange Lab for Under $2,000!
Jeff Guillet
Bluethorn 3
SPT
SharePoint 2013 Sharing and Security
Dan Holme
Pinyon 3
SPT
Create Your First SharePoint 2013 App in About 60 Minutes
Darrin Bishop
Bluethorn 8/9
SQL
Making DBCC CHECKDB Go Faster
Argenis Fernandez
Bristlecone 4
SQL
Troubleshoot SQL Server Like a Microsoft Engineer
Denzil Ribeiro and Tim Chapman
Bristlecone 10
SQL
Power Query: Self-Service ETL Made Easy
Rafael Salas
Pinyon 7
SQL
Creating a Pipeline for Database Deployment
Grant Fritchey
Pinyon 8
WIN Crash Course: Deploying Multi-Tier and Scalable Services with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Neil Peterson
Bristlecone 7/8
WIN Truly Better Together: Configuration Manager 2012 R2 and PowerShell
Greg Ramsey and Kaido Jarvemets
Bristlecone 9
WIN Application Management Best Practices in the Enterprise
Nash Pherson
Bluethorn 7
networking break / thursday — 10:15aM-10:45am / Foyer
IT/Dev Connections Sessions
Thursday — 10:45am-12:00pm
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Creating a Single-Page Auction Site with MVC, SignalR, Web API, and Knockout.js
Roland Guijt
Bristlecone 3
DEV
Rock Your .NET Coding Standards™
David McCarter
Pinyon 5
DEV
GPUs: Not Just for Graphics Anymore
David Ostrovsky
Bristlecone 1
DEV
Exploring the Essentials of ASP.NET Routing
Walt Ritscher
Bristlecone 2
DEV
SignalRity
Yaniv Rodenski
Pinyon 1/2
EXC
Making Exchange ActiveSync Work
Paul Cunningham
Bluethorn 1/2
EXC
Managed Availability: What Just Happened to My Server?
Tim McMichael
Bluethorn 3
SPT
Access Services: What It Is and How to Use It
Darrin Bishop
Bluethorn 5/6
SPT
Convert Your SharePoint Solutions to SharePoint 2013 Solutions and Apps
Sonja Madsen
Pinyon 3
SQL
Extended Event Functionality: New Use for Old Ways | Sponsored by datAvail
Andy McDermid and Siva Thangavelu
Bristlecone 10
SQL
Shredding XML in SQL Server
Jason Strate
Bristlecone 4
SQL
Silent Killers Lurking in Your Schema
Mickey Stuewe
Pinyon 7
SQL
Solving Real-World Problems with Power Query
Rafael Salas
Pinyon 8
SQL
Manage SQL Server Efficiently with PowerShell Remoting
Allen White
Pinyon 6
WIN Quickly and Easily Protect Applications and Infrastructure with Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication
Brian Desmond
Bluethorn 7
WIN Company Portal Deep Dive
Greg Ramsey and Peter Daalmans
Bristlecone 9
WIN Building a Seamless Remote Access Experience for the Hybrid Cloud Using Windows Server 2012 R2
John Savill
Bristlecone 7/8
Lunch / Thursday — 12:00pm-1:00pm / Bristlecone 5/6
13
14
IT/Dev Connections Sessions
Thursday — 1:00pm-2:15pm
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Create Your First Graph Database with Neo4j
Roland Guijt
Pinyon 6
DEV
Building Custom Tools with PowerShell
Kaido Jarvemets and Greg Ramsey
Bristlecone 1
DEV
Creating Cross-Platform Games with Unity
Brian Lagunas
Bristlecone 2
DEV
Data Visualization: Techniques for Graphical Display of Information
Walt Ritscher
Pinyon 5
DEV
NoSQL for the Mobile Generation: Couchbase Lite
Yaniv Rodenski
Bristlecone 3
EXC
PowerShell Tips and Tricks for Exchange
Jaap Wesselius and Michel de Rooij
Bluethorn 1/2
EXC
Modern Public Folders: What to Expect
Siegfried Jagott
Bluethorn 3
SPT
Wish I'd Known That Sooner! SharePoint 2013 Insanity Demystified
Dan Holme
Pinyon 3
SPT
Building Sandboxed Solutions with Apps
Sonja Madsen
Bluethorn 8/9
SQL
Developing an Environment Dashboard
Tim Ford
Pinyon 7
SQL
Stored Procedures vs. Ad Hoc SQL: Performance Showdown
Argenis Fernandez
Bristlecone 10
SQL
SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP Index Internals
Denzil Ribeiro and Tim Chapman
Bristlecone 4
SQL
Automate Your ETL Infrastructure with SSIS and PowerShell
Allen White
Pinyon 8
WIN Using Windows Server 2012 R2 and Azure Active Directory to Manage Access to On-Premises and Cloud Applications
Sean Deuby
Bristlecone 9
WIN Service Management Automation Runbook Creation Deep Dive
Neil Peterson
Bluethorn 7
WIN Deep Dive into Hyper-V Mobility and High Availability
John Savill
Bristlecone 7/8
Raffle / networking break / thursday — 2:15pM-2:45pm / Foyer
IT/Dev Connections Sessions
Thursday — 2:45pm-4:00pm
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Scaling to 1 Billion Hits Per Day
Chander Dhall
Pinyon 5
EXC
Panel: Ask the Exchange Experts
Jeff Guillet/Tony Redmond
Bristlecone 10
SPT
Panel: Ask the SharePoint Experts
Multiple Speakers
Pinyon 1/2
SQL
5 Amazing Reasons DBAs Need to Love Extended Events
Jason Strate
Pinyon 8
SQL
Creating User-Friendly SSRS Reports
Mickey Stuewe
Bristlecone 4
WIN Top Ways to Improve Your Network Security
Alan Sugano
Bristlecone 7/8
WIN Building a Pilot Program
Nash Pherson
Bristlecone 9
Continental Breakfast / Friday — 8:30am-9:00am / Foyer
Friday — 9:00am-5:00pm
Track Session Name
Speaker(s)
Location
DEV
Building Scalable JavaScript Apps
Gil Fink
Bristlecone 9
DEV
Debugging .NET Applications
Sasha Goldshtein
Bluethorn 7
EXC
Deploying a Hybrid Exchange Environment
Michael Van Horenbeeck
Bluethorn 1/2
SPT
Dan Holme's SharePoint and Office 365 Master Class: End-to-End Excellence
Dan Holme
Bluethorn 8/9
SQL
Query Performance Tuning in SQL Server 2014
Grant Fritchey
Bluethorn 5/6
SQL
Implementing In-Memory OLTP Database Solutions
Victor Isakov
Bluethorn 3
Bruce Mackenzie-Low
Bristlecone 7/8
WIN Hard-Core Windows Troubleshooting Workshop
Lunch /friday — 12:00pm-1:00pm / Bristlecone 6
15
IT/Dev Connections Speakers
Featured Speakers
Brad Anderson
Jim Lundy
Scott Hunter
Mary-Jo Foley
Steve Jones
kent agerlund
Brock Allen
Rachel Appel
Johan Arwidmark
Itzik Ben-Gan
Darrin Bishop
Wes Blalock
Jes Borland
Kenny Buntinx
Shaun Cassells
Miguel Castro
Tim Chapman
Denny Cherry
Rick Claus
Liam Cleary
Michael Collier
Paul Cunningham
Peter Daalmans
Tim De Keukelaere
Michel De Rooij
Brian Desmond
Sean Deuby
Chander Dhall
Gus Emery
Dino Esposito
Argenis Fernandez
Gil fink
Ido Flatow
Tim Ford
Grant Fritchey
Esteban Garcia
Sasha Goldshtein
Kevin Griffin
Martina Grom
Joseph Guadagno
Roland Guijt
Jeff Guillet
JeffRey Hicks
Andrew Higginbotham
Scot Hillier
Jason Himmelstein
Dan Holme
Siegfried Jagott
Kaido Jarvemets
Andrew Kelly
David Klee
Brian Lagunas
Chris Love
Bruce Mackenzie-Low
Andy Malone
Darren Mar-Elia
Troy Martin
James McCaffrey
David McCarter
Andy McDermid
Matthew Mcdermott
Tim McMichael
Chris McNulty
Mark Minasi
Stacia Misner
Craig Nunley
Nathan O’Bryan
David Ostrovsky
John Petersen
Nash Pherson
Toni Pohl
Tony Redmond
Eric Riz
Paul Robichaux
Rafael Salas
Darwin Sanoy
John Savill
Bhargav Shukla
Jeffrey Snover
Mickey stuewe
Alan Sugano
Michael Terrill
Siva Thangavelu
Paul Thurrott
Jen Underwood
Michael Van Horenbeeck
Jaap Wesselius
Allen White
Dieter Wijckmans
Fabian Williams
Eddie Wuerch
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Bill Baer | Ben DeBow | Cathy Dew | Sayed Hashimi | Victor Isakov | Scott Klein | Sonja Madsen | Tim Mitchell | Ted Neward | Benjamin Niaulin | Michael Niehaus
Saurabh Pant | Neil Peterson | Greg Ramsey | Denzil Ribeiro | Walt Ritscher | Yaniv Rodenski | Jason Strate | Steve Thompson