The .NET Developer Conference (DDC) will take place from November 25 – 28, 2024 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.
Christian Giesswein studied business informatics in Vienna and has been developing software with .NET and C# from an early age. He founded his company "Giesswein Software Solutions" (www.software.tirol) in Tyrol, which specializes in individual software, consulting and training in the Microsoft area.
Fabian Gosebrink is a Pluralsight author, Microsoft MVP and ASP.NET Core & Angular web developer. As a software engineer, consultant and trainer, he advises and supports customers in the implementation of web applications in the front and back end area up to cross-platform applications with HTML5 and Javascript/Typescript. Fabian is also a speaker at local user groups and conferences, trainer, head of the Swiss community "Swiss Angular", head of the .NET user group in Zurich and administrator of the largest German-speaking C# community (myCSharp.de).
Thomas Claudius Huber is Microsoft MVP in Windows Development and Senior Principal Consultant and Partner at Trivadis AG. As a trainer, consultant and developer, he works in the areas of C#, TypeScript, WPF, UWP, Angular and Azure. As he has been fascinated by user interfaces since his computer science studies, he has been involved in UI programming with XAML since the first WPF version. Today, in addition to XAML UIs, he enthusiastically implements applications with TypeScript and Angular. Thomas is the author of various books, including the comprehensive guide to the Windows Presentation Foundation and the book "Getting Started with TypeScript". You can find his personal website at http://www.thomasclaudiushuber.com.
Thorsten Kansy, living near Frankfurt in the heart of Germany, is with heart and soul and for what feels like an eternity (aka nearly 30 years) developer, software architect, and mentor. Full stack developer meets Microsoft SQL Server and Azure.
Michael Kaufmann is a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director and the CEO of Xpirit Germany. Mike has been working as a .net developer and architect for more than 20 years. In addition to implementing agile techniques (like scrum), ALM and DevOps practices, he is an Azure architect and a Clean Code addict. He shares his knowledge in books, trainings, his blog, articles and as a speaker and keynote speaker at international conferences.
Marc Müller works as a Principal Consultant for ALM/DevOps and .NET/Azure solutions at 4tecture GmbH and has been recognized by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Developer Technologies (DevOps). He has been able to contribute his DevOps expertise and know-how for enterprise architectures and component-based distributed systems to many projects in recent years. As a trainer and speaker, he specializes in training and coaching DevOps and .NET project teams.
Jörg Neumann is the founder and managing director of NeoGeeks GmbH. He has been advising companies on technology selection, architecture and the design of apps and AI solutions for many years. For his commitment in this area, he has received the "Most Valuable Professional" award from Microsoft several times, most recently in the areas of Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Machine Learning Platform. He regularly shares his knowledge in the form of books, articles in specialist journals and as a speaker and trainer at conferences and seminars. You can reach him via Twitter (@JoergNeumann) or www.neogeeks.de.
David Tielke has been a freelance consultant, coach and trainer on the Microsoft technology stack for over 10 years
and is a certified expert in architecture and software quality. He advises and trains his customers throughout Europe and is a speaker at numerous conferences as well as a specialist author. You can find more information on his blog.
