Visual Studio 2015 Launch: Chicago

WELCOME! Welcome every one to the Chicago Visual studio 2015 Launch Event. We are extremely excited that all of you can attend this event. Its going to be full day of great presentations, and interaction.

Speakers Brian Harry – Corporate Vice President Randy Pagels – Developer Tools Technical Specialist Dan Gartner – Developer Tools Technical Specialist Anubha Gupta – Microsoft Software Engineer Krystin Stutesman – Developer Evangelist We have arranged for some fantastic speakers to be hear today. As you can see you will hear from Microsoft Executives, Software Engineers, and our extremely talented developer tools technical specialists. In addition to Microsoft representatives we are very fortunate to have two incredible partners with us today: Xamarin & Incycle Software Dave Burnison dave– Senior ALM Consultant

Agenda Agenda: · 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. – Arrivals / Registration ·      9:00 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. – Intro ·      9:10 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – keynote 5 MIN BREAK ·         10:05 a.m. – 10:55 a.m.– Increasing Developer Productivity with VS 2015 5 MIN BREAK ·         11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. – Maximizing Reach Through Cross Platform Mobile Development Grab Complementary Lunch (60min) ·         12:50 a.m. – 1:35 p.m. – Enabling Developers To Leverage Cloud For Performance and Load Testing 10 MIN BREAK ·         1:45 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. – Improving Quality ·         2:45 p.m. – 3:35 p.m. – Leveraging Modern Tools to Streamline Build and Release (DevOps) ·         3:35 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Session Wrap up and Prize give away ·     4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. – Social Mixer As you can see. Today’s event is pack with lots of great sessions. **Review the agenda** A couple of key reminders for every one: We will be hosting a happy hour/social event, here in this room starting at 4:00pm. This will be a great opportunity for you to speak with your peers, and connect with the Microsoft team. Just before the social hour we will have a drawing for a Dell Venue 8. The winner will be picked from a completed survey.

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Closing Remarks & Next Steps:

Activate your MSDN Benefits!! Aka.ms/devopsassess menttool Experience it NOW!! Are you leaving money on the table?  Learn more about the Visual Studio promo SKU’s that will be expiring 12/31/15 from your Developer Tools Specialist Activate your MSDN Benefits!! Leverage your FREE benefits! Software, Training, Support For MSDN related support contact: 800-997-9502 Hours of Operation: 5:30AM-5:30PM (M-F) Is your organization ready to deliver apps to all of your customers?    Aka.ms/devopsassess menttool Its bee a great day with tons of information from both the Microsoft team, Xamarin, and Incycle. We hope that you learned a lot As Brian said in his keynote, Microsoft’s development tools is for every developer and every application. They only way you can experience these new features is by using the latest release of Visual Studio. To try it out visit visualstudio.com and download the FREE trial for Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise. **Cover the Four Boxes in the slide** Box 1 – Talk about the Promo Box 2 – Tell every one they need to activate their MSDN benefits so that they can get all of the free tools and software Box3 – Take the free devops assessment tool. Box 4 – Provide us feedback on the event. Enter to win a Dell Venue 8 Tablet by turning in a completed event evaluation form.

Thank You!! Thank you so much for attending today, and we hope that it was very informative. Please stick around for the social gathering, and we hope to talk with you very soon.