{"id":45392,"date":"2019-09-18T10:35:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/?p=45392"},"modified":"2019-09-18T10:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:28:32","slug":"local-events-dotnet-conf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/local-events-dotnet-conf\/","title":{"rendered":".NET Conf and Local Events!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.NET Conf is back again this year and will be live streaming to a device near you September 23-25 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/?utm_source=dotnet&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_campaign=savedate\">www.dotnetconf.net<\/a> with local events around the world! .NET Conf is a FREE, 3-day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. <strong>This year .NET Core 3.0 will launch at .NET Conf 2019!<\/strong> Come celebrate and learn about the new release. You won&#8217;t want to miss this one. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w32mGFYqGsE\">Here\u2019s a sneak peek of what you can expect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w32mGFYqGsE\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<h2>.NET Conf 2019<\/h2>\n<p>This year we&#8217;re trying something new with the format of our online conference. <\/p>\n<p><strong>We\u2019ll have over 75 live sessions this year!<\/strong> With the last 24 hours featuring speakers in their local time zones on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/visualstudio\">Visual Studio Twitch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mixer.com\/visualstudio\">Mixer<\/a> channels. It was <strong>really<\/strong> difficult choosing the sessions. We invited speakers from all 7 continents and we\u2019ll be hosting them all night and day remotely from our studios in Redmond. Our partners are also hosting <strong>TWO<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/Party\/\">virtual attendee parties<\/a>! As well as a technical treasure hunt to win prizes by answering .NET trivia questions and solving technical challenges. <\/p>\n<h3>Xamarin Sessions at .NET Conf:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4>Day 1 &#8211; September 23:<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>09:00 (PDT) | 16:00 (UTC) <strong>Keynote<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/speakers\/#scott-hunter\">Scott Hunter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/speakers\/#mads-torgersen\">Mads Torgersen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/speakers\/#James-Montemagno\">James Montemagno<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/speakers\/#Olia-Gavrysh\">Olia Gavrysh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/speakers\/#Daniel-Roth\">Daniel Roth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/speakers\/#Glenn-Condron\">Glenn Condron<\/a>, &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/speakers\/#Bri-Achtman\">Bri Achtman<\/a><\/li>\n<li>13:00 (PDT) | 20:00 (UTC) <strong>Xamarin.Forms: More Productive and Beautiful Than Ever<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/speakers\/#David-Ortinau\">David Ortinau<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>\n<h4>Day 2 &#8211; September 24:<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>15:30 (PDT) | 22:30 (UTC) <strong>Build Amazing Cloud Connected Apps With Xamarin, Azure, and App Center<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/speakers\/#Matthew-Soucoup\">Matthew Soucoup<\/a><\/li>\n<li>18:00 (PDT) | 01:00 (UTC) <strong>Building Modern Android Applications with Xamarin<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/speakers\/#Jon-Douglas\">Jon Douglas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>\n<h4>Day 3 &#8211; September 25:<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>11:00 (PDT) | 18:00 (UTC) <strong>Boosting your Xamarin Development Productivity<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/speakers\/#Maddy-Leger\">Maddy Leger<\/a><\/li>\n<li>16:00 (PDT) | 23:00 (UTC) <strong>Mixed Reality with Xamarin and Azure Spatial Anchors<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/speakers\/#Sweekriti-Satpathy\">Sweekriti Satpathy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/Agenda\">Check out the full schedule and speakers here!<\/a><\/strong>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">All times listed in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7).<\/span> <\/p>\n<h2>.NET Conf Local Events<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve partnered with organizers around the globe, including our .NET Foundation meetup groups, to pull together <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/local-events\">local, in-person events and watch parties<\/a> between September 23 through the end of October. <\/p>\n<p><strong>There are now over 200 local events worldwide!<\/strong> Connect with fellow developers near you to learn more about all the latest and greatest in .NET. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/local-events\">Attend a local event!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/09\/dotnetconf-local-events-map.png\" alt=\".NET Conf Local Events\" width=\"1179\" height=\"531\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-45394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/09\/dotnetconf-local-events-map.png 1179w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/09\/dotnetconf-local-events-map-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/09\/dotnetconf-local-events-map-768x346.png 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/09\/dotnetconf-local-events-map-1024x461.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1179px) 100vw, 1179px\" \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Join in the Fun<\/h2>\n<p>Stay in the loop by following the hashtag <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23dotnetconf\">#dotNETConf on Twitter<\/a><\/strong>. And don&#8217;t forget to tune into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dotnetconf.net\/?utm_source=dotnet&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_campaign=savedate\">.NET Conf<\/a> on September 23rd!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.NET Conf: a FREE, 3-day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, is live-streaming to a device near you on September 23-25 with local events around the world through October! .NET Core 3.0 will also launch at .NET Conf 2019 &#8211; You won&#8217;t want to miss this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":45394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5216,383,6602,291],"tags":[876,589,6407,8,6108],"class_list":["post-45392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-events","category-visual-studio","category-xamarin-platform","tag-net-conf","tag-community","tag-conferences","tag-events","tag-live-streams"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>.NET Conf: a FREE, 3-day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft, is live-streaming to a device near you on September 23-25 with local events around the world through October! .NET Core 3.0 will also launch at .NET Conf 2019 &#8211; You won&#8217;t want to miss this.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}