C Sharp conference 2016 highlights

06th April 2016
C Sharp conference  2016 highlights
Mahesh Chand delivering the keynote session

Conference Wrapup
Ghaziabad (NCR), April 5 2016:  The C# Corner Annual Conference 2016, one of North India’s largest developer conferences, was held held here last month to great6 enthusiasm  from the programming community.
The conference hosted 14 celebrated international speakers with 20 sessions covering cutting-edge technologies. The C# Corner team showcased the new features and enhancements introduced this year. The session was followed by Glenn Block on “How to become a better programmer.” Glenn is a product manager for Splunk’s developer experience.
Day two was a public event for the C# Corner members. About 450+ attendees and 50 MVPs enjoyed 20 sessions from 14 speakers. Microsoft MVP and speaker Brij Mishra, covered the crucial topic of “Building next generation Web Apps with ASP.NET 5.” The first speaker to deliver a parallel session was Nitin Pandit with the topic “Creating Web API for Mobile Apps” for the Mobile Track. His expertise in describing the topics fantastically again proved vital for the attendees. Next was a session from Brijraj Singh, Sr. Tech. Evangelist, Developer Experience, Microsoft on “Running ASP .NET 5 with Docker Containers over Linux.” For the Cloud Track, Prabhjot Singh presented a session on “Internet of Your Things - With Azure.” He is the Director of Getwings Technologies.
Opening the main public event, C# Corner Founder Mahesh Chand took to the stage, welcomed the MVPs, speakers and the attendees, and delivered the Keynote session. Jason Beres, Sr. VP, Developer Tools Division, Infragistics, Board of Directors INETA, put together a fully informative session with his topic, "Ignite UI and jQuery." For the Mobile/Cloud track, Kjell Hegstad presented an  informative session on “Design thinking and innovation.” Kjell was most recently Managing Director of Mobile and Emerging Technologies at ING DIRECT/Capital One where he was responsible for design and feature roadmaps for the digital platforms – desktop and mobile – servicing eight million digital customers for ING DIRECT. Then, the session of Glenn Block started and he explained how to “Deploy Web APIs on Core CLR to Docker.” He created quite an interactive environment. Glenn is a product manager for Splunk’s developer experience. Abhishek Kant presented a session on “Creating Android App using JavaScript.” He initiated the process of Android app development using JavaScript, which is not known to many. He is certified as a Scrum Master & Microsoft Certified Application Developer. Renowned speaker, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Pluralsight Author, Sekhar Srinivasan presented the session on “Getting started with Xamarin Forms.” Dhananjay Kumar, who is a well-known speaker, put together a fully entertaining session with his topic, “Step by Step creating Single Page Application using AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API.
For the Mobile/Cloud track, Allen O'Neil presented a session on “Advanced Hybrid mobile dev with VS Taco and the Ionic Framework.” Allen’s background is in medical health software, and he is currently CTO of a data company in the UK. , Gaurav Mantri described the importance of Azure with his topic, “Azure is a Swiss Army Knife.” Gaurav Mantri is Founder of Cerebrata Software, an ISV based out of India which focuses exclusively on building developer tools for the Windows Azure platform.
The last session of this year’s conference was presented by Vinod Kumar on a topic that created an interesting environment. He presented on the topic “5 Life lessons that Cricket taught me,” and many attendees were able to relate their life with the lessons.
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