{"id":57522,"date":"2025-08-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/?p=57522"},"modified":"2025-08-04T23:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:40:44","slug":"dotnet-conf-2025-announcing-the-call-for-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/dotnet-conf-2025-announcing-the-call-for-content\/","title":{"rendered":".NET Conf 2025 &#8211; Announcing the Call for Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/08\/header.webp\" alt=\".NET Conf 2025 Banner\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hey .NET developers! \ud83c\udf89 The moment we&#8217;ve all been waiting for is here &#8211; the <strong>Call for Content<\/strong> for .NET Conf 2025 is officially open!<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/dotnetconf.net\">dotnetconf.net<\/a> to add it to your calendar so you don&#8217;t miss it!<\/p>\n<h2>Why .NET Conf Rocks<\/h2>\n<p>.NET Conf is our free, three-day virtual celebration that brings together .NET developers from around the world. It&#8217;s a community effort &#8211; we partner with Microsoft, the .NET Foundation, and awesome sponsors to make it happen. But honestly? The best part is YOU &#8211; the incredible .NET community.<\/p>\n<p>This is where we get together to share what we&#8217;re building, learn from each other, and get genuinely excited about the future of .NET development.<\/p>\n<p>This year we&#8217;re launching .NET 10, diving deep into .NET Aspire&#8217;s latest features, and exploring how AI is changing the game for .NET developers.<\/p>\n<h2>We Want to Hear from YOU<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing &#8211; .NET Conf has always been about our amazing community. We&#8217;re looking for passionate developers who want to share their stories, show off their cool projects, and teach others what they&#8217;ve learned along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;ve been speaking at conferences for years or you&#8217;ve never presented before but have something awesome to share &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<h3>What Kind of Sessions Are We Looking For?<\/h3>\n<p>We want <strong>30-minute sessions<\/strong> (including Q&amp;A time) that show off what&#8217;s possible with .NET. Here&#8217;s what gets us excited:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Web stuff<\/strong>: Cool ASP.NET Core projects, Blazor adventures, or that awesome web architecture you built<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mobile &amp; Desktop<\/strong>: .NET MAUI apps, cross-platform tricks, or how you modernized that old desktop app<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI &amp; Machine Learning<\/strong>: ML.NET projects, AI integrations, or how you&#8217;re using AI in your .NET apps<\/li>\n<li><strong>IoT &amp; Edge<\/strong>: .NET running on tiny devices, IoT solutions, or embedded projects<\/li>\n<li><strong>Games<\/strong>: Building games with .NET, Unity integrations, or game development tips<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cloud &amp; Containers<\/strong>: Your containerization journey, microservices patterns, or cloud-native adventures<\/li>\n<li><strong>DevOps<\/strong>: CI\/CD pipelines that actually work, deployment strategies, or how you made your team more productive<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open Source<\/strong>: That library you built, your contribution story, or community projects you love<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;d love to see what you&#8217;re doing with .NET 9 or 10, but honestly, if you&#8217;ve got something cool and .NET-related that&#8217;ll make developers go &#8220;wow, I want to try that!&#8221; &#8211; we want to hear about it!<\/p>\n<h3>What Makes a Session Stand Out?<\/h3>\n<p><div class=\"alert alert-success\"><p class=\"alert-divider\"><i class=\"fabric-icon fabric-icon--Lightbulb\"><\/i><strong>Insider Tip<\/strong><\/p>\nThe 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\u2014your experiences, your projects, and your &#8220;aha!&#8221; moments.\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>Think about sessions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Your war stories<\/strong>: What you learned building that challenging project<\/li>\n<li><strong>Architecture deep-dives<\/strong>: How you solved complex problems in your apps<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open source adventures<\/strong>: That library you created or contributed to<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best practices you discovered<\/strong>: Patterns and techniques that actually work<\/li>\n<li><strong>Side projects<\/strong>: That fun thing you built that shows off .NET in a cool way<\/li>\n<li><strong>Productivity hacks<\/strong>: Tools and techniques that make you a more effective developer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The community wants to hear about what <strong>you&#8217;re<\/strong> building with .NET, not rehash what they can already read in the release notes. Show us your creativity!<\/p>\n<h2>The Important Stuff<\/h2>\n<p><div class=\"alert alert-info\"><p class=\"alert-divider\"><i class=\"fabric-icon fabric-icon--Info\"><\/i><strong>Don't Procrastinate!<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Call for Content closes on <strong>August 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM PDT<\/strong>. Trust us, you don&#8217;t want to be scrambling at the last minute!\n<\/div><\/p>\n<h3>Here&#8217;s What You Need to Know<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>When<\/strong>: November 11-13, 2025<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where<\/strong>: Online (present from wherever you are!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>How long<\/strong>: 30 minutes including Q&amp;A<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time zones<\/strong>: Present in your own time zone &#8211; we&#8217;ll figure out the schedule magic<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sessions per speaker<\/strong>: We&#8217;re limiting it to 1 session per person so more folks can participate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Ready to Submit? Here&#8217;s How<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Head over to<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/sessionize.com\/net-conf-2025\">sessionize.com\/net-conf-2025<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Write an awesome proposal<\/strong>: Give us a catchy title and tell us why your session will be amazing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tell us about you<\/strong>: Share your background and any speaking experience (but don&#8217;t stress if you&#8217;re new!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Show your creds<\/strong>: Got videos of past talks? Links to your projects? Throw them in there!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><div class=\"alert alert-success\"><p class=\"alert-divider\"><i class=\"fabric-icon fabric-icon--Lightbulb\"><\/i><strong>Insider Tip<\/strong><\/p>\nInclude 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!\n<\/div><\/p>\n<h2>Come Celebrate with the .NET Family<\/h2>\n<p>Look, .NET Conf isn&#8217;t just another conference &#8211; it&#8217;s our yearly family reunion! It&#8217;s where developers from every corner of the planet come together to geek out about code, share those &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe that worked!&#8221; moments, and push each other to build even cooler stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;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 &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<h2>Your Turn to Shine<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing &#8211; 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 &#8220;what if I tried this?&#8221; experiment that actually worked &#8211; that stuff is pure gold to other developers.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let that voice in your head tell you &#8220;someone else probably knows this better.&#8221; Nope! Your perspective, your journey, your hard-won insights could be exactly what another developer needs to hear right now.<\/p>\n<p><div  class=\"d-flex justify-content-center\"><a class=\"cta_button_link btn-primary mb-24\" href=\"https:\/\/sessionize.com\/net-conf-2025\" target=\"_blank\">Submit Your Session Now!<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n<h2>Let&#8217;s Make This the Best .NET Conf Yet<\/h2>\n<p>.NET Conf 2025 is going to be incredible, but it won&#8217;t be complete without voices from our amazing community. We&#8217;ve got the submission portal open through August 31st, and we&#8217;re genuinely excited to see what awesome sessions you&#8217;ll propose.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we know: .NET Conf is where magic happens. It&#8217;s where a casual conversation in the chat leads to your next big project idea. It&#8217;s where that demo you&#8217;re nervous about becomes the solution someone&#8217;s been searching for. It&#8217;s where you realize you&#8217;re part of something way bigger than just writing code.<\/p>\n<p>Your session could be the one that sparks the next breakthrough, solves a problem thousands of developers are facing, or just makes someone&#8217;s day a little brighter with a cool demo.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wait &#8211; submit your session today and let&#8217;s make .NET Conf 2025 absolutely unforgettable! 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