Microsoft announces Ignite session lineup – 85 Office 365 sessions and more

Kip Kniskern

Microsoft announces Ignite session lineup - 85 Office 365 sessions and more

With the January Consumer Preview event behind us, Microsoft is now turning its attention to a pair of upcoming conferences, Build, on April 29th- May 1st in San Francisco, and then just a few days later the new Ignite conference in Chicago, on May 4th-8th.  Microsoft has combined a number of IT pro related conferences, including Tech-Ed and the SharePoint conference, into one, and today they’ve announced the session lineup.  

Featuring sessions on Office 365, Azure, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business, Windows, SQL Server and Visual Studio, Ignite looks to provide a comprehensive set of sessions for technology professionals to learn more about the latest in Microsoft technologies, and to hear from a number of Microsoft executives, including CEO Satya Nadella, Chris Jones, Joe Belfiore, Gurdeep Singh Pall, Julie Larson-Green, Mark Russinovich, and many others.

The sessions include what’s new sessions on everything from Building ASP.net with Azure to What’s New in C# 6.0 and Visual Basic 14, How To sessions on Leveraging the Power of Microsoft Graph, Deep Dives into How Microsoft Handles Spam and Advanced Email Threats, and Overviews of the Cloud Platform System, and many more.  So far there are some 271 sessions available for attendees.