Mississauga .NET User Group

The official launch of .NET 11

.NET Conf is back for its 16th year: free, online, and open to everyone. From November 10 to 13, the .NET community gets together virtually to celebrate the release of .NET 11 and look at what’s next for the platform. Whether you work in ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, Aspire or desktop, you’ll leave with new features to try and practical ideas you can use right away.

What to expect at the conference

The first two days belong to the product teams. Day 1 opens with the .NET 11 release and covers what’s new: C# 15, performance gains, ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates, .NET MAUI, Aspire, AI-powered development and the latest in Visual Studio. Day 2 is a hands-on deep dive with teams from across Microsoft on building secure, cloud-native apps with Azure, AI, testing and containers. Days 3 and 4 are Community Days. Open-source maintainers, MVPs, .NET Foundation leaders and developers from around the world share real-world lessons and projects built with .NET.

Sessions stream live each day from 8 AM to 5 PM Pacific (11 AM to 8 PM Eastern). Also watch for the sponsor swag bag giveaway: 17 bags, each with over $5,500 in software licenses, learning resources and gift cards.

Microsoft Ignite is Nov 17-20 this year (online). It looks like this year's ignite will be focused on AI:

What to Expect at Microsoft Ignite 2026

Microsoft Ignite 2026 runs November 17–20 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, and you can join online for free from anywhere. It’s Microsoft’s biggest event of the year. This time the focus is on AI agents: how to build them, run them, govern them and secure them across Azure, Microsoft 365 and Windows.

Themes & Content Focus

The week opens on Tuesday, November 17 with a keynote from Satya Nadella and Judson Althoff, followed by four days of announcements, technical sessions and hands-on learning.

Key focus areas will include:

• Agents & agentic business apps: building agents, running them on Microsoft’s agent platform, and using them in everyday business applications
• Copilot: what’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot and how organizations are actually rolling it out
• Cloud, data & AI platforms: Azure and the data and AI services behind intelligent apps at scale
• Security: protecting identities, data and AI systems, including governing the agents your users create
• Windows & Frontier Transformation: how Windows and the wider organization are changing around AI
• Hands-on labs & certifications: try things for yourself and validate your skills

Why Attend?

Hear Microsoft’s AI, cloud and security announcements first, straight from the keynote
Learn from Microsoft leaders including Mark Russinovich, Arun Ulag, Nicole Herskowitz and Seth Juarez
Dig into deep technical sessions and real-world implementations you can apply right away
Build practical skills through hands-on labs and certification opportunities
Connect with Microsoft engineers, partners and peers, and catch up on sessions on demand afterward

.NET Conf 2026 - What's New
In this session we'll look at new features and announcements from .NET Conf 2026.

Speaker: Bruno Capuano
On 2021 I joined Microsoft, now I’m working as Principal Cloud Advocate 🥑, which is a role that focuses on helping developers and organizations to understand, adopt and successfully use Microsoft cloud technologies. My main goal is to empower developers with the knowledge and tools they need to build and deploy applications on Azure, and other Microsoft cloud platforms.

🌱 Previous to Microsoft, I was leading the Innovation Team for Avanade Canada, which means I spent much part of my time trying to figure our the best way to connect real Business with cool technologies, and engage my colleagues to perform smart and fun activities like participate in hackathons, coordinate hackathons and Innovation Contests, support tech meetings, and more!