Register, walk-in

60 mins

Tobias Hoppenthaler

Welcome talk/introduction

15 mins

Tobias Hoppenthaler

Jim Bennett

Keynote by Jim Bennett: State of the Xamarin – Microsoft Union

It’s been 2 years since a small tech start-up tech from Seattle called Microsoft became a part of the Xamarin family, and this has led to many great things happening in the cross-platform mobile space. This keynote from Xamarin Developer Advocate Jim Bennett covers where we are now with Xamarin development across classic, forms and the tooling, and takes a glimpse into where Xamarin will be going in the future.

45 mins

Jim Bennett

Glenn & Bart

Glenn & Bart: Introduction to the Actor Model through Akka.net

In this session, we'll go through what the actor model is all about and how it solves complex development problems. Afterwards, we'll tackle a small demo with the use of Akka.net on a mobile app with Xamarin. The Actor Model provides a higher level of abstraction for writing concurrent and distributed systems. It alleviates the developer from having to deal with explicit locking and thread management, making it easier to write correct concurrent and parallel systems. Akka.NET is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven applications.

50 mins

Glenn & Bart

Geert van der Cruijsen

Geert van der Cruijsen: Bots are the new Apps? Building chatbots from idea to production.

In this session Geert will explain how to build your own bots using .Net, C#, Azure and the Microsoft Bot Framework. During the session we will cover all areas involved in building a successful production ready bot. Starting from the initial idea to getting a prototype working as fast as possible to actually running it in production on channels such as skype, facebook or telegram. After this session you'll be fully ready to build your own bot that will conquer the world (if Sarah Connor doesn't stop it)

50 mins

Geert van der Cruijsen

Lunch

60 mins

Mike James

Keynote by Mike James: TBD

50 mins

Mike James

Kerry W. Lothrop

Kerry W. Lothrop: Sharing is caring: Getting the most out of .NET Code Sharing

In the olden days, everything was simple: You use C# to write .NET applications that run under Windows. Nowadays, there are many possible target platforms that will run .NET applications, from UWP or Windows Store to iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, or even Tizen. To not re-implement your app for every platform there are many different code sharing strategies: Portable Class Libraries, Shared Projects, File Linking, .NET Standard, .NET Core. The talk will give you all the information you need to make the technology decision for your next project, enabling you to maximize your code sharing. Kerry is a Principal Consultant at Zühlke. He works on projects connecting cloud backends to mobile phones to embedded devices. He runs the Xamarin User Group in Frankfurt. He has received the Xamarin MVP award.

50 mins

Kerry W. Lothrop

Luce Carter

Luce Carter: I don’t speak German – How Cognitive Services helps me on my travels

As a Microsoft MVP and possessor of a UK passport, Luce is blessed with opportunities to speak all over the UK and now Europe. In this ta,lk she discusses how Xamarin and Microsoft Cognitive Services have allowed her to engage more with locals and not worry that she is only fluent in English.

50 mins

Luce Carter

Mark Allibone

Mark Allibone: Xamarin Everywhere

Out of the box Xamarin Forms enables you to target Android, iOS and UWP/Windows 10. But thanks to an ever growing community effort you can easily expand your reach and target platforms such as WPF, macOS, Linux, your Samsung TV and even the web. Breaking out of a mobile only world comes with it's own sets of challenges when it comes to the UI. During this session we will see how we can extend Xamarin Forms to target new platforms, scale your UI and avoid a UX nightmare.

50 mins

Mark Allibone

Closing keynote, socializing and drinks 🍻

60 mins