The .NET Developer Conference (DDC) will take place from 24th – 27th November 2025 in Cologne. Due to the high degree of practical relevance and the high quality of the contributions and speakers, the DDC is the first address when it comes to first-class training in .NET development. The conference presentations, the DevSessions lasting several hours and the full-day workshops cover the following topics (tracks):
Distributed applications, microservices, layers, unit tests, clean code, refactoring, etc.
Web, mobile, desktop, WPF, MVVM, MAUI, Windows Forms, Blazor, Angular, React, Svelte, Uno, Avalonia, Bootstrap, WASM, etc.
Integration into own applications, AI as a tool, Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.
OR-Mapper, EF Core, SQL, NoSQL, Big Data, GraphQL, Vector DB etc.
C#, F#, VB, AOT, JIT, Runtime, Native etc.
Agile, Scrum, DevOps, CI/CD etc.
ASP.NET Core, WebAPI, gRPC, Orleans etc.
Serverless, containers, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
The Advisory Board of the .NET Developer Conference (DDC) is responsible for the conference program under the direction of the Conference Chairs. Its members are renowned experts in their respective fields. Speakers at international conferences themselves, the Track Chairs pass on their collected impressions in order to align the DDC even more specifically to the current wishes and needs of software developers and IT decision-makers.
After reviewing and examining all submissions from the public Call for Speakers, the Conference Chairs compile the Track Chairs’ recommendations into a jointly developed program.
Fernando Schneider is editor-in-chief of dotnetpro and program director of the .NET Developer Conference. After his studies, he worked as Senior Editor and Program Manager Computing & Software Development at the publishing houses Addison-Wesley, MITP and Carl Hanser. In 2010, he moved into various sales roles at SIGS Datacom, Maximago and HeiReS before joining Developer Media in 2014, where he built up the training division (now Developer Academy) and headed the Developer Unit from 2018.
Tilman Börner is an editor at dotnetpro and Internal AI evangelist at Ebner Media Group. After graduating as a physicist, he completed a traineeship as a software editor at the computer magazine CHIP. He later became deputy editor-in-chief of Gruner + Jahr computerchannel, a web-only computer magazine. He then took on editorial responsibility for the MSDN Germany website. In 2003 he became editor-in-chief of dotnetpro. Tilman has been programming in Basic, dBASE, Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic, Fortran, C, Delphi, PHP and C# since his school days.
To be announced soon!
