Scott Hanselman
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- NDC London3 editions2018–2025
- Microsoft Build2 editions2023–2024
- NDC Sydney2 editions2016–2024
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on a stage with
- Mark Russinovich2×
- Alex Dunnonce
- Alex Ellisonce
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who talks about the same things
- Mark Rendle47 talks
- Alex Thissen20 talks
- Scott Sauber13 talks
- Layla Porter35 talks
- Rainer Stropek12 talks
- Kevin Griffin10 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| The EiC Problem: Junior Devs, AI Agents & the Missing Context Layer | Accelerate Chicago 2026 | 2026-06-22 |
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2026. #GOTOcon #GOTOchgo
https://gotochgo.com
Scott Hanselman - VP, Member of Technical Staff at… | ||
| Will AI Replace My Job? A Town Hall for Software Developers | Great International Developer Summit 2025 | 2025-04-22 |
Panel conversation about immediate, practical impacts: coders use LLM assistants for day-to-day coding, infra-as-code, and incident debugging; consultants… | ||
| Keynote: AI without the BS, for humans | NDC London 2025 | 2025-01-27 |
Argues that small models often beat cloud hogging for real users and demos a working pipeline: a Python/Node proxy that extracts token log‑probs and a token… | ||
| 20 year old cloud native apps with .NET | NDC London 2025 | 2025-01-27 |
Twenty‑year‑old .NET apps compile and run on modern runtimes: legacy site images and XML “database” (≈6,000 files) move from a 30 GB physical disk to… | ||
| The Power of Developer Communities | WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2024 | 2024-07-17 |
Developer communities drive product-led growth through concrete programs and numbers: Atlassian Marketplace reports ~5700 apps, ~20,000 third-party developers… | ||
| Get Plans for your journey with Microsoft Learn | Microsoft Build 2024 | 2024-05-21 |
Microsoft Learn launches Plans as a reusable, shareable curriculum that combines documentation, code samples, modules and learning paths with built-in… | ||
| "Highly Technical Talk" with Hanselman and Toub | Microsoft Build 2024 | 2024-05-21 |
Join Scott Hanselman and partner software engineer Stephen Toub for a talk is that 100% LIVE demo. Zero slides, just code. In this "highly technical talk" on… | ||
| How Cephable Applies On-Device AI to Accessibility | Microsoft Build 2024 | 2024-05-21 |
Cephable runs its entire camera and ML pipeline locally using NPUs and ONNX runtime, converting face expressions, head movements and voice into app controls; a… | ||
| Level up your dev box how devs at Microsoft are productive on Windows with Scott | Microsoft Build 2024 | 2024-05-21 |
Shows concrete, usable tweaks and demos: saved window layouts with PowerToys Projects, one-click machine setup that exports a WinGet configuration (DSC) to… | ||
| Scott and Mark learn AI | Microsoft Build 2024 | 2024-05-21 |
Live demo builds a MAUI C# app that uses Semantic Kernel to orchestrate cloud and local models, local execution via ONNX/DirectML and a Phi-3 Q4 mini on port… | ||
| .NET and Containers - each layer of abstraction indistinguishable from magic | NDC Sydney 2024 | 2024-02-12 |
Creates a small .NET console app, publishes with trimming to ~17 MB, then AOT to ~1.5 MB, and pushes container images directly with dotnet publish (no… | ||
| Iron Man or Ultron: Is AI here to help us or hurt us? | NDC Sydney 2024 | 2024-02-12 |
Compares OpenAI’s online limits (max temperature 2) with Azure OpenAI Studio’s default of 0.7 and shows how the temperature knob changes randomness; runs Llama… | ||
| EngX Community Day 1 | EngX Community Day 2023 | 2023-10-05 |
Seventeen years of websites (50+ domains, 900 podcast episodes, ~5,000 XML posts) move off a failing host by treating DNS as the migration lever, staging a… | ||
| Moving 17 years of old legacy code and sites into the Cloud | EngX Community Day 2023 | 2023-10-05 |
Seventeen years of sites and 50+ domains move off an unbacked physical host after a disk full crisis by staging behind DNS and Azure Front Door, porting old… | ||
| How to Build a Meaningful Career | Strange Loop 2023 | 2023-09-21 |
Says a meaningful career comes from deliberate choices not vague passion and gives concrete, repeatable things: the luck formula opportunity + preparedness… | ||
| Iron Man or Ultron: Is AI here to help us or hurt us? | Copenhagen Developers Festival 2023 | 2023-08-28 |
Argues that large language models are a next-word predictor not conscious, citing the November 2021 base models and showing how Bing/Sydney uses hidden… | ||
| Developer joy with Scott Hanselman and friends | Microsoft Build 2023 | 2023-05-23 |
Open-source Dev Home becomes a hub for cloning repos, installing configs and adding widgets; it reads YAML winget configure files (and VS .vsconfig) to set up… | ||
| Developer career tools: Saying NO to improve mental health Q&A | Microsoft Build 2023 | 2023-05-23 |
Claim: saying no and carving friction into workflows measurably reduces burnout. Practical steps include colorize calendar to mark red (prepare) vs green… | ||
| Scott and Mark Learn to Code | Microsoft Build 2023 | 2023-05-23 |
Builds a multiplayer Asteroids prototype end-to-end using GitHub Copilot chat, ChatGPT and DALL·E for assets, SignalR and C# for the server, and JavaScript… | ||
| Research SuperCluster(RSC): Accelerating AI Research at Scale | AI Infra @Scale 2023 | 2023-05-18 |
A custom cluster delivers concrete hardware and measured gains: a homogeneous fabric with about 48,000 InfiniBand links and no oversubscription, servers with… | ||
| Mentorship vs Sponsorship | Craft Conference 2023 | 2023-05-18 |
Claims that mentorship guides, sponsorship spotlights: mentorship helps someone define goals and build skills, sponsorship actively creates opportunities by… | ||
| Building Careers With Empathy | DevTernity 2022 | 2022-12-08 |
Clear difference: mentorship mirrors and coaches while sponsorship creates luck by putting people into rooms, recommending them for talks and jobs, or… | ||
| Developing for Linux on Windows with WSL | Build Stuff 2022 | 2022-11-09 |
Demonstrates that WSL runs full Linux distros (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Oracle Linux) side‑by‑side with Windows, supports containers (Docker or podman), and even GUI… | ||
| Mentorship, Sponsorship, and Storytelling | All Things Open 2022 | 2022-11-01 |
Argues that sponsorship invents luck by creating real opportunities (examples: bringing junior engineers into level reviews, literally smuggling colleagues… | ||
| .NET for Linux and Windows | .NET fwdays'22 conference | 2022-10-15 |
Clear claim: Windows 11 (and Windows 10 with updates) runs real Linux environments that install in seconds and actually host .NET builds, Docker containers and… | ||
| Beyond Mentorship - Storytelling and Sponsorship | RenderATL 2022 | 2022-06-01 |
Argues that mentorship alone is insufficient and sponsors must lend privilege by making warm introductions, advocating, and creating luck; defines a… | ||
| How Static Web Apps saved time and money! | Azure Static Web Apps Anniversary 2022 | 2022-05-19 |
Shows moving many personal sites off App Service to Azure Static Web Apps to cut cost and complexity, migrating nine hobby sites including a game with… | ||
| Developing for Linux on Windows | NDC Porto 2022 | 2022-04-25 |
WSL1 translates Linux syscalls with lightweight pico processes and hits roughly 80–95% coverage; WSL2 runs a real Linux kernel inside a utility virtual machine… | ||
| Moving 17 years of old legacy code and sites into the Cloud | NDC Porto 2022 | 2022-04-25 |
Migrates 17-year-old .NET sites off a dying Windows Server 2003 box into modern cloud services, replatforming from .NET 2/3/4 to .NET 6 and Linux where… | ||
| Keynote - Building Teams Through Systems Thinking and Stories | NDC Porto 2022 | 2022-04-25 |
Argues mentorship differs from sponsorship: mentorship guides career phases while sponsorship creates opportunities like warm introductions and public speaking… | ||
| Americas Live Stream | Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2022 | 2022-04-19 |
Live demos and customer stories show Azure Cosmos DB powering microservices, global apps and analytics: a retail membership system cuts point‑of‑sale… | ||
| Understanding Teams Through Systems Thinking and Stories | Imagine Cup Kick Off: Build Your Epic | 2021-10-08 |
Claims that teams improve when members share knowledge and practice systems thinking for toast not just tooling; shows concrete practices like blogging and… | ||
| Keynote Panel: Getting Hired | OpenJS World 2021 | 2021-06-02 |
Hiring tightens in the pandemic: entry-level posts sometimes ask for five years of experience and companies increasingly hesitate to invest in juniors, while… | ||
| Keynote Address - The Joy of Azure | AzConf 2020 | 2020-11-24 |
Argues cloud basics are concrete: storage + compute underlie everything, not magic. Shows live account where an app service plan = VM hosting six Windows apps… | ||
| The Art of Computers | CodeLand 2020 | 2020-07-23 |
Thirty years of debugging yields concrete techniques: recover lost WAV files by copying the disk, inspecting 345 million bytes and repairing a zeroed file… | ||
| IoT Competition Teams | Caribbean Developers Conference 2019 | 2019-10-04 |
Intelipark counts cars by sensing entries and exits with metal-detecting sensors, aggregates devices on a Raspberry Pi hub, shows live spot counts on a web… | ||
| Tips on public speaking | Caribbean Developers Conference 2019 | 2019-10-04 |
Start with one clear takeaway and design a simple story arc around it, localize examples for the audience, and practice demos offline (airplane mode) so they… | ||
| Solving diabetes in 2019 with an Open Source Artificial Pancreas | REFACTR.TECH 2019 | 2019-06-05 |
Claim: a 24/7 open source artificial pancreas assembled from off‑the‑shelf parts actually runs and keeps glucose mostly in range. Hardware: Dexcom CGM… | ||
| Solving Diabetes with an Open Source Artificial Pancreas | NDC London 2019 | 2019-01-30 |
An open source artificial pancreas runs a 5‑minute CGM feed (Dexcom) into code (OpenAPS/LoopKit) that commands insulin pumps via a RileyLink radio bridge or a… | ||
| Keynote: The Microsoft Open Source Cinematic Universe - Phase 2 | NDC London 2019 | 2019-01-30 |
Microsoft scopes .NET as an open-source platform with about 60% of contributions coming from outside Microsoft, unifies innovations across .NET Framework, .NET… | ||
| Welcome to ! | .NET Conf 2018 | 2018-09-12 |
Community update lists concrete resources and actions: an aggregator DiscoverDotnet and a gallery BuiltWith.NET for submitting projects, a new open‑source .NET… | ||
| JavaScript is the new metal the cloud vs the browser | ngAtlanta Conf 2018 | 2018-01-30 |
Argues that JavaScript becomes a second operating system by showing concrete builds and tradeoffs: a Windows 3.1 emulator running Netscape inside a browser… | ||
| Building a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster and running .NET Core | NDC London 2018 | 2018-01-15 |
A six-node home cluster (about 6 Raspberry Pis for ~$300) runs Kubernetes + OpenFaaS and successfully hosts functions written in multiple languages. A .NET… | ||
| The Hello World Show Live | NDC London 2018 | 2018-01-15 |
Live panel gives concrete fixes and demos: credential stuffing is automated by blasting collated breach lists (one headline list ~1.4B pairs) at other sites… | ||
| JavaScript, the Cloud & the Rise of the New Virtual Machine | GOTO Copenhagen 2016 | 2016-10-03 |
Argues the cloud moves beyond invisible hosting to programmable services: creating VMs with Azure CLI and pulling images from VM Depot, 30% of Azure is Linux… | ||
| Solving Diabetes with Open Source Software & Hardware | GOTO Copenhagen 2016 | 2016-10-03 |
DIY systems pair a Dexcom CGM with pumps via a Bluetooth-to-915MHz bridge and run control logic on tiny Linux boards (Intel Edison or Raspberry Pi) or phones… | ||
| If I knew then what I know now | NDC Sydney 2016 | 2016-08-01 |
Covers why the cloud is programmable rather than just renting VMs, argues for learning JavaScript plus one backend language, and shows concrete wins: the New… | ||
| Architecture in the Azure Cloud | NDC Sydney 2016 | 2016-08-01 |
Shows concrete Azure moves: move images to Blob storage + CDN, add client-side lazy loading and cut egress bills (example goes from ~$15/month); upload a VHD… | ||
| What does an Open Source Microsoft Web Framework Look Like | NDC Sydney 2016 | 2016-08-01 |
A concrete view of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core: a cross-platform .NET runtime with a released 1.0 runtime but tooling in preview (SDKs pinned via global.json)… | ||
| Head to Head: Scott Allen and Jon Skeet | NDC Sydney 2016 | 2016-08-01 |
Five Stack Overflow .NET puzzles get concrete answers: IQueryable accepts Func vs Expression<Func> so ORMs can translate queries to SQL while IEnumerable runs… | ||
| Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler | Velocity Conference Santa Clara 2014 | 2014-06-24 |
Argues that JavaScript now behaves like an operating system virtual machine and shows real artifacts: Linux compiled to JS running an x86 emulator, a working… | ||
| Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler | Fluent 2014 | 2014-03-11 |
Argues that the web now runs millions of client-side virtual machines alongside hundreds of cloud VMs, shows concrete tools and demos: npm install azure to… | ||
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