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Paul Duvall is an award‑winning author, longtime DevOps leader, and former AWS executive with more than two decades of experience in software engineering. He co‑founded Stelligent, establishing a business dedicated to enabling enterprise customers adopt DevOps and Security practices on AWS. He is the author of the book at defined CI for the world: Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk. The book received the 2008 Jolt Award and continues to be the official textbook for continuous integration. Today, he focuses on helping engineering teams adopt AI‑native and DevSecOps practices, drawing on multiple decades of delivering and managing software solutions.

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AI Development Patterns
Redacted Adventures
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Damian Brady is a Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub. He's a developer, speaker, and author specializing in AI, DevOps, MLOps, developer process, and software architecture. Formerly a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft for four years, and before that, a dev at Octopus Deploy and a Microsoft MVP, he has a 25-year background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries. In Australia, he co-organized the Brisbane .Net User Group and launched the annual DDD Brisbane conference.

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Github CoPilot Workspace
X Account
Website
Githubnext
Copilot for Docs
Copilot for Pull Requests
CoPilot Voice
"What is GitHub Models? Here's how to use AI models easily"
"15 Minutes to Merge: The top feature announcements from GitHub Universe!"
SpecKit

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David Starr is the President and Founder of Cumulus26, which helps companies succeed in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and other facets of Azure. He's had a multi-decade career at Microsoft, Godaddy and others in senior technical leadership roles. He's spoken at industry conferences and delivered technical training courses and many other things.

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Episode 311
Episode 149
LinkedIn
Making HIPAA and HITRUST compliance easier
Azure for Executives
Elegant Code
Elegant Coder X Account
Plural Sight
Plural Sight Course
Mastering the Marketplace
Episode 99

Cumulus26 AmpUp - for Microsoft Markeplace

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With over 20 years of software development experience, Kevin Griffin is a passionate and versatile leader, trainer, and consultant in the .NET ecosystem. He has worked with various industries, from the United States Military to health care to ticket brokering, delivering high-quality solutions and empowering his clients and teams to succeed.

In his day job, he is the CTO at Shows On Sale where he oversees the technical strategy and direction of the company. Kevin also has served as the President of the .NET Foundation for the last term. And Microsoft has conferred the Microsoft MVP to him at least 16 times. He speaks at tons of conferences and is a board member of the Stir Trek Conference series as well.

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LinkedIn
DNF Summit 2025 Video
Website
Dev Fest - Hampton Roads, Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Stir Trek May 1st.

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Maddy Montaquila is a Senior Product Manager on the Aspire team and has previous been on the MAUI team and has been working with .NET mobile apps since 2018 working on Xamarin tooling. When she first joined Microsoft and worked with the Xamarin team as an intern, she realized the impact that she could have in creating amazing developer tools and frameworks, which inspired her to pursue a role as Program Manager. You can connect with her on Twitter and GitHub @maddymontaquila!

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.NET Maui
Github Maui Samples
Github - Development Guide
Episode 244
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Graham is the Chief Technical Officer at Redgate Software, where he leads the teams behind industry‑leading Database DevOps tools. Before Redgate, Graham's experiences includes multiple decades in complex projects and leadership oversight at many companies including Elsevier, IBM, Sun, BEA, and Oracle.

He's also a two‑time round‑the‑world yachtsman, bringing hard‑earned leadership experience from some of the most demanding environments on earth. -

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Carola Lilienthal is an architect and coach at Workplace Solutions. She is the author of Sustainable Software Architecture and shares her knowledge at international conferences.

Henning Schwentner is a software architect, coach, and consultant at WPS – Workplace Solutions where he helps teams modernize legacy systems. He is a thought leader in DDD and software architecture, and he has also authored Domain Storytelling.

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Today I'm going to reflect back on 2025, highlight some things and project forward into 2026. I think there are some very important developments and changes that we all shipping custom software need to be on top of.

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