Microsoft Night

In November 2020, our 1st edition of the .BLD() Tech Talks XXL will take place! A fully digital and live tech event with international top-level speakers, made by developers, for developers! On Wednesday 18th of November, Scott Hunter, Director of Program Management for .NET at Microsoft, joins Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin for a special episode of the .NET Rocks! Podcast where they go all-in on .NET 5. Capgemini’s own Sjoukje Zaal and Roel van de Grint will open their editors and code away building microservices with ASP.NET Core, Kubernetes, Project Tye and more.

Event Schedule 19:00 – 19:10  19:10 – 20:00      20:00 – 21:00

Welcome by our host Kido Koenig Sjoukje & Roel | Awesome Microservices with .NET & Azure Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin  & Scott Hunter The Road to .NET 5 and the Journey to One .NET

Interested in our Java Night? Have a look here!       

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The Road to .NET 5 and the Journey to One .NET

The Next Version of .NET is almost here! Join Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell as they talk to Scott Hunter about .NET 5 and the future of .NET as a whole. With .NET 5, both .NET Core and the regular .NET framework come together – what does this mean for .NET developers in the future? Bring your questions and be part of a .NET Rocks recording stream!

About Scott Hunter Scott Hunter, Director of Program Management at Microsoft, is responsible for the Microsoft .NET platform, which includes the .NET Framework, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, .NET Tools, Entity Framework, Web Tools and the managed languages (C#, F# and VB). Prior to leading the .NET Platform, Hunter helped the Azure Developer Experience team build the Azure SDK’s, App Service Tooling, Azure Redis Cache, Azure API Management, ASP.NET, Entity Framework and the Web Tooling. In his spare time, he loves hiking mountains in Washington State and around the world.

About .NET Rocks! .NET Rocks! is the first and most widely listened to podcast for .NET developers, starred by Richard Campbell (@richcampbell) and Carl Franklin (@carlfranklin). Both Carl and Richard are Microsoft Regional Director and recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Richard for ASP.NET development and Carl in the area of Kinect for Windows.

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Awesome Microservices with .NET & Azure

What do Azure, .NET Core, Steeltoe, Kubernetes, and project Tye al have in common? You can create awesome microservices with them! In this session, Roel and Sjoukje will show you how you can build microservices by combining all these awesome services and frameworks.

About Sjoukje Zaal Sjoukje is a CTO Microsoft at Capgemini, Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 20 years of experience. She loves to share her knowledge and is active in the Microsoft community as a co-founder of the user groups Tech Daily Chronicle, Global XR Community and the Mixed Reality User Group. She is also a board member of Azure Thursdays and Global Azure. Sjoukje is an international speaker and she wrote several books and blogs.

About Roel van de Grint Roel is a Senior Software Engineer at Capgemini. Say ‘Cloud’ to wake him from hibernation. Say ‘DevOps’, ‘Containers’ and ‘CI/CD’ to really get him very going. Lately he has been diving deep on everything-as-code and secretly dipping his toes into AWS. He loves everything about IT and is proud to have been called a big nerd more than once.

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.BLD() Community
At Capgemini, we love to share our knowledge inside and outside the organization! From there, the .BLD() - build - community emerged, consisting of a group of Capgemini software experts, friends and others with a passion for tech! Every 2^nd and 4^th Tuesday of the month, we organize the .BLD() Tech Talks live on Youtube & Twitch. Are you curious about the upcoming Tech Talks? Check out our Meetup page!