The .NET Developer Conference (DDC) will take place from November 24 – 27, 2025 in Cologne and offers a balanced mix of keynotes, conference presentations, half-day DevSessions and full-day workshops covering the following topics over four days:
Softwaredesign, Softwarearchitektur, Clean Code, Refactoring, Testautomatisierung, Microservices, IaC, Nunit
Blazor, MAUI, WinUI, FluentUI, Avalonia, WPF, Uno, Unity, PWA, SPA, Web Components, Bootstrap
Azure AI Services, Semantic Kernel, GenAI, AgenticAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot Studio
EF Core, ADO.NET, SQL Server Data Tools, Azure SQL, Azure CosmosDB, NoSQL, GraphQL, Vector DB
C#, F#, VB, AoT, JiT, Runtime, Native, Visual Studio, VS Code, VS Code AI Toolkit, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, v0, Microsoft Dev Box
Azure DevOps, TFS, GitHub Actions, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, CI/CD
ASP.NET Core, Orleans, Dapr, AKS, Model Context Protocol (MCP), SignalR, WebAPI, gRPC
Azure, .NET Aspire, Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, Container
The Advisory Board of the .NET Developer Conference (DDC) is responsible for the conference program under the direction of the Conference Chairs. Its members are renowned experts in their respective fields. Speakers at international conferences themselves, the Track Chairs pass on their collected impressions in order to align the DDC even more specifically to the current wishes and needs of software developers and IT decision-makers.
After reviewing and examining all submissions from the public Call for Speakers, the Conference Chairs compile the Track Chairs’ recommendations into a jointly developed program.
Fernando Schneider is editor-in-chief of dotnetpro and program director of the .NET Developer Conference. After his studies, he worked as Senior Editor and Program Manager Computing & Software Development at the publishing houses Addison-Wesley, MITP and Carl Hanser. In 2010, he moved into various sales roles at SIGS Datacom, Maximago and HeiReS before joining Developer Media in 2014, where he built up the training division (now Developer Academy) and headed the Developer Unit from 2018.
Tilman Börner is an editor at dotnetpro and Internal AI evangelist at Ebner Media Group. After graduating as a physicist, he completed a traineeship as a software editor at the computer magazine CHIP. He later became deputy editor-in-chief of Gruner + Jahr computerchannel, a web-only computer magazine. He then took on editorial responsibility for the MSDN Germany website. In 2003 he became editor-in-chief of dotnetpro. Tilman has been programming in Basic, dBASE, Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic, Fortran, C, Delphi, PHP and C# since his school days.
To be announced soon!
