.NET loves AI
Phi Huynh
The session will introduce how to create generative AI applications using Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on integrating with Azure OpenAI and utilizing frameworks like Semantic Kernel. It will also cover techniques such as prompting engineering and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to build language-powered apps, highlighting the transformative impact of ChatGPT on the development of language-based applications.

Entity Framework Core Internals
Phong Nguyen
Have you ever wondered what and how Entity Framework Core (EF Core) does behind the scenes after you instantiate a DbContext and use it to execute a LINQ query? You might have known or heard that people usually say that it will translate your query into something that your target database can understand to execute and return the results, this looks very simple at first glance but what really happens behind is more complex than that.

High performance programming in .NET
Hai Nguyen
Good performance is crucial for a great user experience. Faster apps bring better results, while slow websites lose customers and sales. Performance optimization, like software development, is a mix of science and art. Finding and fixing problems are both important and sometimes tricky. This presentation will demonstrate practical methods for identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving typical performance problems in .NET applications.

Building Portable Event-Driven .NET 8 Apps with Dapr and Radius.
Thang Chung
Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a way of designing systems that use events to communicate between different components or applications. And benefits of this approach are scalability, resilience, flexibility, and responsiveness for the enterprise, microservices, and serverless applications.
This presentation will walk you through the challenges of building EDA and how Dapr will simplify and standardize the EDA technical stack, making applications more portable in the world of cloud-native applications.
We will end up with a demo of a coffee shop application with Dapr and Microsoft Radius.

Integration on Azure in practice
Phuong Le
Integration is always the required topic when developing software, especially in the modern era with cloud migration. This presentation will give you another aspect of integration besides workflow, messaging, event-driven, ETL,... It is demonstrated via our journey from setting up the basic infra for the application to the solutions to connect the environments together when the business grows or acquires... The topic ends with the hope, that my problems will be your experience.

Blazor vs JavaScript Frontend Frameworks
Thien Nguyen
Recap Blazor’s hosting models: Blazor WebAssembly, Blazor Server, Blazor Hybrid as well as render modes: Static, Interactive Sever, Interactive WebAssembly, Interactive Auto, Streaming. Then compares it with common frontend framework such as Angular, Next.js.