{"id":224694,"date":"2019-03-18T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=224694"},"modified":"2019-03-18T09:02:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:02:02","slug":"visual-studio-2019-launch-event-agenda-and-speakers-now-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/visual-studio-2019-launch-event-agenda-and-speakers-now-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2019 Launch Event agenda and speakers now published"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re only 15 days away from the general availability of Visual Studio 2019 and our virtual Visual Studio 2019 Launch Event<\/a>. It\u2019s been incredible to see all the buzz and excitement in the community around the launch, from the 180+<\/strong> local launch events<\/a> happening all across the globe over the next months to all the posts about the features you\u2019re most excited about on Twitter<\/a>. Today, I\u2019m happy to share the full agenda for the Visual Studio 2019 Launch Event with you, alongside the list of speakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Pacific Daylight Time \u200e(UTC-7)\u200e<\/th>\nCoordinated Universal Time \u200e(UTC)\u200e<\/th>\nSession<\/th>\nSpeaker(s)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
9:00 AM<\/td>\n16:00<\/td>\nNot your average keynote<\/td>\nScott Hanselman & friends<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:00 AM<\/td>\n17:00<\/td>\nLive Q&A with Visual Studio Big Wigs<\/td>\nAmanda Silver & Joseph Hill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30 AM<\/td>\n17:30<\/td>\nWrite beautiful code, faster<\/td>\nKendra Havens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:00 AM<\/td>\n18:00<\/td>\nStreamline your dream dev team<\/td>\nAllison Buchholtz-Au & Jon Chu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:30 AM<\/td>\n18:30<\/td>\nSquash bugs and improve code quality<\/td>\nLeslie Richardson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00 PM<\/td>\n19:00<\/td>\nTaking DevOps to the next level with GitHub and Azure DevOps<\/td>\nSteven Borg & Stanley Goldman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:30 PM<\/td>\n19:30<\/td>\nAI-infused break<\/td>\nSeth Juarez<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:00 PM<\/td>\n20:00<\/td>\nAccelerate your C++ development<\/td>\nErika Sweet & Marian Luparu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:30 PM<\/td>\n20:30<\/td>\nCross-platform mobile apps made easy using Xamarin<\/td>\nJames Montemagno<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:00 PM<\/td>\n21:00<\/td>\nTo the cloud with Visual Studio and Azure<\/td>\nAndrew Hall & Paul Yuknewicz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:30 PM<\/td>\n21:30<\/td>\nBuild amazing web apps with .NET Core<\/td>\nDan Roth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:00 PM<\/td>\n22:00<\/td>\nA tour of Visual Studio for Mac for .NET development<\/td>\nMikayla Hutchinson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:30 PM<\/td>\n22:30<\/td>\nAmazing devs doing amazing things<\/td>\nJeff Fritz, Ginny Caughey (MVP), & Oren Novotny (MVP)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:00 PM<\/td>\n23:00<\/td>\n#CodeParty Virtual Attendee Party, live on Twitch<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

As you can see, we have a day packed with exciting demos and conversations with the incredible people behind the products in store. Be sure to stick around for the #CodeParty Virtual Attendee Party closing out the day on twitch.tv\/visualstudio<\/a>, sponsored by our amazing Visual Studio partners. There will be plenty of opportunities to talk to our team, hang out, and of course win some awesome prizes. Check out the full list of partners behind the party on the launch event website.<\/p>\n

Be a part of the launch celebration<\/h2>\n

Of course, it wouldn\u2019t be much of a celebration if we\u2019re the only ones celebrating. We\u2019re hoping you\u2019ll join in on the launch, here\u2019s how you can participate:<\/p>\n