With over 20 years of software development experience, Kevin Griffin is a passionate and versatile leader, trainer, and consultant in the .NET ecosystem. He has worked with various industries, from the United States Military to health care to ticket brokering, delivering high-quality solutions and empowering his clients and teams to succeed.

In his day job, he is the CTO at Shows On Sale where he oversees the technical strategy and direction of the company. Kevin also has served as the President of the .NET Foundation for the last term. And Microsoft has conferred the Microsoft MVP to him at least 16 times. He speaks at tons of conferences and is a board member of the Stir Trek Conference series as well.

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LinkedIn
DNF Summit 2025 Video
Website
Dev Fest - Hampton Roads, Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Stir Trek May 1st.

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Maddy Montaquila is a Senior Product Manager on the Aspire team and has previous been on the MAUI team and has been working with .NET mobile apps since 2018 working on Xamarin tooling. When she first joined Microsoft and worked with the Xamarin team as an intern, she realized the impact that she could have in creating amazing developer tools and frameworks, which inspired her to pursue a role as Program Manager. You can connect with her on Twitter and GitHub @maddymontaquila!

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Github - Maui
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.NET Maui
Github Maui Samples
Github - Development Guide
Episode 244
Episode 120

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Graham is the Chief Technical Officer at Redgate Software, where he leads the teams behind industry‑leading Database DevOps tools. Before Redgate, Graham's experiences includes multiple decades in complex projects and leadership oversight at many companies including Elsevier, IBM, Sun, BEA, and Oracle.

He's also a two‑time round‑the‑world yachtsman, bringing hard‑earned leadership experience from some of the most demanding environments on earth. -

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Carola Lilienthal is an architect and coach at Workplace Solutions. She is the author of Sustainable Software Architecture and shares her knowledge at international conferences.

Henning Schwentner is a software architect, coach, and consultant at WPS – Workplace Solutions where he helps teams modernize legacy systems. He is a thought leader in DDD and software architecture, and he has also authored Domain Storytelling.

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Today I'm going to reflect back on 2025, highlight some things and project forward into 2026. I think there are some very important developments and changes that we all shipping custom software need to be on top of.

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Scott Hanselman is a teacher at heart. He speaks all over to whoever will listen. He's have written code that you, dear listener, has used. Scott has been blogging, coding, and podcasting a LONG time. He codes, writes, speaks, empowers, promotes, braids, learns and listens - usually not in that order. And he's a Vice President at Microsoft in his day job focusing on Developer Community. You can find him on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Mastodon! His Hanselminutes podcast has surpassed 900 episodes, and his Azure Friday show, over 750 episodes. Connect with him at hanselman.com

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Episode 280

Scott Hanselman's TEDx Portland Talk

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Glenn is a Principal Product Manager for the App Platform team within the Developer Division at Microsoft, focusing on .NET. Before joining Microsoft Glenn was a developer in Australia where he worked on software for various government departments.

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X Account

Episode 293

Episode 58

Github

Microsoft Devblog

Building Cloud Native apps with .NET 8

Simplifying Cloud-Native Development with .NET 8

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Jared Parsons is a Developer Manager for the .NET Tools team at Microsoft. He's also done extensive work on the C# Compiler Team. Everybody tuning in probably uses his code on a day-to-day basis! Jared started out at Microsoft over 20 years ago as a Developer; moved on to become a Senior Developer; then Principal Developer on Midori OS; and most recently, the Principal Developer on C# Compiler Team, and now a Developer Manager. He's spoken at many conferences, like Microsoft Build and others.

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Episode 287

Episode 53

Github - Rosyln

Github - Analyzers

Github - Csharplang

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