Dev Days: Building Software in the Agent Era

From Modern .NET to AI-Native & Cloud-Native Engineering .NET is evolving rapidly—from a powerful application development platform into a foundation for building cloud-native, distributed, and AI-powered applications. Join us for .NET Conf 2026, a hands-on technical community event exploring the latest trends, tools, patterns, and engineering practices shaping the future of .NET development. This event is designed for developers, software engineers, architects, technical leads, and technology enthusiasts who want to go beyond the basics and understand how modern .NET is being used to build intelligent, scalable, production-ready systems. ## 🎯 What You'll Learn During the event, we'll explore the journey from traditional .NET development to modern AI-powered engineering: What's new and evolving in the modern .NET ecosystem Modern C# development practices and productivity techniques Building cloud-native applications with .NET .NET Aspire and distributed application development Integrating AI into .NET applications Building AI-powered applications and intelligent features AI agents and agentic application architecture GitHub Copilot for modern .NET development AI-assisted coding, testing, debugging and refactoring Designing scalable and resilient .NET architectures Observability and production readiness Enterprise development patterns and best practices ## 🧠 Featured Technical Theme ### From .NET Developer to AI-Powered Engineer AI is changing how software is designed, developed, tested, deployed and maintained. We'll look beyond simple code generation and explore how developers can use AI throughout the engineering lifecycle: Requirements → Architecture → Development → Testing → Review → Deployment → Operations The goal is not simply to write code faster, but to become a more effective engineer by combining human engineering judgment with AI capabilities. ## 👨‍💻 Who Should Attend? This event is ideal for: .NET / C# Developers Software Engineers

We started with AI autocomplete. Then came chat. Now AI coding agents can understand a repository, plan changes, modify multiple files, run tests and iterate. What happens when the developer moves from writing code to supervising agents that write code? xplore the evolution from: Autocomplete → Chat → Agent Mode → Coding Agents → Autonomous Development Possible sessions: GitHub Copilot Agent Mode Coding agents in VS Code Copilot CLI AI-powered code review Agent-driven testing Repository-level reasoning Human-in-the-loop development Microsoft's 2026 developer direction is heavily emphasizing coding agents and agent-native development. “Stop Writing Every Line of Code. Start Engineering the Agent.”

The next generation of applications won't simply respond to users—they will reason, plan, use tools and take action. Explore the architecture, engineering practices and emerging patterns behind agentic applications. Sessions: What Makes an AI Agent? Agent Architecture Patterns Tool-Using Agents Agent Memory Planning & Reasoning Multi-Agent Systems Agent Orchestration Agent-to-Agent Communication MCP Human-in-the-Loop Autonomous Workflows > “From AI That Answers to AI That Acts.”

> AI agents can access APIs, databases, files and business systems. That changes the security model. > This event explores how developers, architects and security teams can build trustworthy AI systems. Event Topics: AI Threat Landscape Prompt Injection AI Identity Agent Authorization Tool Security Data Leakage AI Supply Chain Security Model Security Zero Trust for AI AI Governance > “Your AI Agent Has Access. Is It Safe?”