We'll start with the basics, teaching you how to effectively use prompts in AI, before moving on to their integration in your general workflow, and finally building fully Agentic Apps. 

You'll learn how to evaluate AI output, deploy your AI application, and monitor its performance. We'll conclude with insights on creating a robust AgenticOps plan. Through real-world examples and hands-on practice, we'll help you seamlessly incorporate Agentic AI into your development process.

1 Day

Unlocking AgenticAI - A Principle-First Guide for Developers

GenAI

Architecture

DevOps

This advanced one-day workshop dives deep into the Aspire application model, showcasing how to rapidly develop, debug, and deploy distributed apps using Visual Studio, VS Code, and the Aspire CLI. Learn how to integrate Azure services into your development workflow—both locally using emulators and in the cloud with auto-provisioning and infrastructure-as-code. 

Explore extending Aspire to connect with legacy systems, and set up streamlined CI/CD pipelines to deploy your applications to Azure with confidence. Ideal for experienced .NET developers and architects ready to modernize their cloud development workflow.

Advanced Aspire & Azure

.NET

Azure

This workshop will teach you everything you need to know to start building distributed systems in .NET and ASP.NET Core, and how to combine multiple services to choose the right tool for each use case you might encounter. We will define clear requirements for a system and proceed to build the entire system using all the services and tools you will use to build your own systems later at your company.

- Defining the system we need to build with clear requirements
- Introduction to RESTful Services
- Understanding Monoliths and Microservices
- Using relational databases
- Using NoSQL databases
- Understanding what “cloud native” means
- Understanding event-driven architecture
- Using Messaging and Queues
- Using Events
- Using Redis as a distributed cache
- Implementing observability with OpenTelemetry
- Using .NET Aspire to run our system locally
- Dockerizing our system
- Deploying services to the cloud
- Introduction to Performance Testing

This workshop is for backend developers with some experience writing web applications using C# and ASP.NET Core. You must be able to read, write, and debug C# at a decent level and have some experience with ASP.NET Core.

- Visual Studio 2022 or JetBrains Rider or Visual Studio Code with the C# Dev Kit installed
- .NET 9
- Docker or Podman
- Minikube
- Azure CLI
- Lens or k9s (Optional)
- Insomnia (Optional)
- A Free Tier Azure Account

Building cloud native, distributed systems with .NET Aspire

Cloud


Comprehensive hands-on workshop covering generative AI application development in .NET using Microsoft Extensions for AI. Participants will learn to build production-ready AI applications with vector databases, RAG patterns, function calling, and deploy them using .NET Aspire. The workshop includes practical experience with MCP servers, AI orchestration, and enterprise deployment patterns.




• Building generative AI applications with Microsoft Extensions for AI
• Implementing vector databases for semantic search and embeddings
• Creating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns
• Function calling and AI tool integration
• Deploying AI applications with .NET Aspire
• Building and integrating MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers

Workshops

09:00 - 17:00 (UTC+01)

Building cloud native, distributed systems with .NET Aspire

Nick Chapsas

Building AI Applications with .NET

Jon Galloway

James Montemagno

Unlocking AgenticAI - A Principle-First Guide for Developers

Seth Juarez

Advanced Aspire & Azure

David Fowler

Damian Edwards