August 5th, 2025
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.NET Conf 2025 – Announcing the Call for Content

Jeffrey T. Fritz
Principal Program Manager

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Hey .NET developers! 🎉 The moment we’ve all been waiting for is here – the Call for Content for .NET Conf 2025 is officially open!

We want YOU to be part of this amazing celebration of everything .NET. Mark your calendars: November 11-13, 2025, will be three days of pure .NET goodness as we launch .NET 10 and dive into all the cool stuff happening in our ecosystem. Head over to dotnetconf.net to add it to your calendar so you don’t miss it!

Why .NET Conf Rocks

.NET Conf is our free, three-day virtual celebration that brings together .NET developers from around the world. It’s a community effort – we partner with Microsoft, the .NET Foundation, and awesome sponsors to make it happen. But honestly? The best part is YOU – the incredible .NET community.

This is where we get together to share what we’re building, learn from each other, and get genuinely excited about the future of .NET development.

This year we’re launching .NET 10, diving deep into .NET Aspire’s latest features, and exploring how AI is changing the game for .NET developers.

We Want to Hear from YOU

Here’s the thing – .NET Conf has always been about our amazing community. We’re looking for passionate developers who want to share their stories, show off their cool projects, and teach others what they’ve learned along the way.

Whether you’ve been speaking at conferences for years or you’ve never presented before but have something awesome to share – we want to hear from you! Seriously, some of our best sessions have come from first-time speakers who just had something cool they wanted to show the world.

What Kind of Sessions Are We Looking For?

We want 30-minute sessions (including Q&A time) that show off what’s possible with .NET. Here’s what gets us excited:

  • Web stuff: Cool ASP.NET Core projects, Blazor adventures, or that awesome web architecture you built
  • Mobile & Desktop: .NET MAUI apps, cross-platform tricks, or how you modernized that old desktop app
  • AI & Machine Learning: ML.NET projects, AI integrations, or how you’re using AI in your .NET apps
  • IoT & Edge: .NET running on tiny devices, IoT solutions, or embedded projects
  • Games: Building games with .NET, Unity integrations, or game development tips
  • Cloud & Containers: Your containerization journey, microservices patterns, or cloud-native adventures
  • DevOps: CI/CD pipelines that actually work, deployment strategies, or how you made your team more productive
  • Open Source: That library you built, your contribution story, or community projects you love

We’d love to see what you’re doing with .NET 9 or 10, but honestly, if you’ve got something cool and .NET-related that’ll make developers go “wow, I want to try that!” – we want to hear about it!

What Makes a Session Stand Out?

Insider Tip

The Microsoft .NET team will be showing off the shiny new features and big announcements. To give your session the best shot, focus on real-world content—your experiences, your projects, and your “aha!” moments.

Think about sessions like:

  • Your war stories: What you learned building that challenging project
  • Architecture deep-dives: How you solved complex problems in your apps
  • Open source adventures: That library you created or contributed to
  • Best practices you discovered: Patterns and techniques that actually work
  • Side projects: That fun thing you built that shows off .NET in a cool way
  • Productivity hacks: Tools and techniques that make you a more effective developer

The community wants to hear about what you’re building with .NET, not rehash what they can already read in the release notes. Show us your creativity!

The Important Stuff

Don't Procrastinate!

The Call for Content closes on August 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM PDT. Trust us, you don’t want to be scrambling at the last minute!

Here’s What You Need to Know

  • When: November 11-13, 2025
  • Where: Online (present from wherever you are!)
  • How long: 30 minutes including Q&A
  • Time zones: Present in your own time zone – we’ll figure out the schedule magic
  • Sessions per speaker: We’re limiting it to 1 session per person so more folks can participate

Ready to Submit? Here’s How

  1. Head over to: sessionize.com/net-conf-2025
  2. Write an awesome proposal: Give us a catchy title and tell us why your session will be amazing
  3. Tell us about you: Share your background and any speaking experience (but don’t stress if you’re new!)
  4. Show your creds: Got videos of past talks? Links to your projects? Throw them in there!

Insider Tip

Include videos of past talks or demos of your projects in your proposal. It helps us see your presentation style and gets us excited about your session!

Come Celebrate with the .NET Family

Look, .NET Conf isn’t just another conference – it’s our yearly family reunion! It’s where developers from every corner of the planet come together to geek out about code, share those “I can’t believe that worked!” moments, and push each other to build even cooler stuff.

Whether you’re the person building the next big web app, creating mobile experiences that users love, or figuring out how to make AI work in your business apps – your story matters. The .NET community wants to celebrate your wins, learn from your mistakes, and cheer you on as you tackle your next challenge.

Your Turn to Shine

Here’s the thing – the .NET ecosystem is amazing because of people like you. That unique way you solved a problem, that library you built in your spare time, that “what if I tried this?” experiment that actually worked – that stuff is pure gold to other developers.

Don’t let that voice in your head tell you “someone else probably knows this better.” Nope! Your perspective, your journey, your hard-won insights could be exactly what another developer needs to hear right now.

Let’s Make This the Best .NET Conf Yet

.NET Conf 2025 is going to be incredible, but it won’t be complete without voices from our amazing community. We’ve got the submission portal open through August 31st, and we’re genuinely excited to see what awesome sessions you’ll propose.

Here’s what we know: .NET Conf is where magic happens. It’s where a casual conversation in the chat leads to your next big project idea. It’s where that demo you’re nervous about becomes the solution someone’s been searching for. It’s where you realize you’re part of something way bigger than just writing code.

Your session could be the one that sparks the next breakthrough, solves a problem thousands of developers are facing, or just makes someone’s day a little brighter with a cool demo.

Don’t wait – submit your session today and let’s make .NET Conf 2025 absolutely unforgettable! And while you’re at it, head over to dotnetconf.net to add the event to your calendar so you don’t miss the big day.

Happy coding, friends! We can’t wait to see you there! 🚀✨

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Jeffrey T. Fritz
Principal Program Manager

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