.NET Conf 2025 Spokane

Join us for .NET Conf 2025 Spokane — a half-day developer event exploring everything new in .NET 10, modern app development, AI-assisted workflows, and real-world tooling from Microsoft and the local .NET community.

This year’s event brings together engineers, architects, and technical leaders for four focused sessions, live demos, and plenty of time for Q&A and networking. Whether you’re building cloud-native applications, exploring AI workflows, or modernizing existing solutions, these sessions will give you practical insights you can apply immediately.

What You’ll Learn

Discover how .NET 10 unlocks new possibilities for performance, productivity, and app modernization — and explore the future of development across .NET, Azure, and AI.

Sessions include:

1. Modern Apps, Simplified — How Aspire Will Change Your Workflow

Cutting complexity with Microsoft’s new distributed app tooling
Aspire makes modern cloud app development more approachable. See how Aspire simplifies onboarding, deployment, and distributed application workflows — and why it’s quickly becoming a go-to tool for teams building cloud-native systems.

2. Machine Learning in .NET: Blasphemous or Blessed?

Training custom models entirely in the .NET ecosystem
AI is everywhere, but you don’t need to switch to Python to build custom models. Learn how .NET developers can train ML models natively, iterate faster using GitHub Copilot, and use existing skills and code to build domain-specific AI solutions.

3. What's New in Visual Studio 2026

Discover the latest Visual Studio 2026 features that will transform your .NET development workflow. Explore enhanced GitHub Copilot integration with new AI agents, powerful debugging improvements including inline visualizations and the Profiler Copilot Agent, and productivity boosters like modernized editor controls. See how the refreshed IDE, better Git tooling, and .NET 10 support help you code faster and debug smarter.

Whether you're building cloud apps, exploring AI workflows, or modernizing solutions, this session shows practical tools you can use immediately.

4. Featured Microsoft Session (Gareth Jones)

Speaker: Gareth Jones, Principal Architect for Copilot Extensibility Tooling at Microsoft
Gareth will explore how developers can extend and integrate Copilot across modern applications, enhance developer productivity, and build intelligent workflows using Microsoft’s evolving AI ecosystem.

Event Schedule

12:00–12:45 PM – Lunch & Opening Remarks
1:00–1:40 PM – Session 1
1:45–2:30 PM – Session 2
2:30–2:45 PM – Break
2:45–3:25 PM – Session 3
3:30–4:10 PM – Session 4
4:15–4:20 PM – Closing
4:20–5:00 PM – Networking & Discussion

Location

IntelliTect
1720 West 4th Avenue
Spokane, WA

Who Should Attend?

Developers, engineers, software architects, technical leaders, or anyone using .NET, Azure, or AI in their applications — or anyone curious about how the ecosystem is evolving.