C# Corner Annual Conference 2019: Official Recap

New Delhi (India), April 24, 2019

The C# Corner Annual Conference 2019, one of North India’s largest developer conferences, was held on April 20 at the Leela Ambience Convention Hotel, New Delhi. It was a one-day event and hosted 30+ celebrated international and national speakers with around 38 extremely informative sessions covering all the latest cutting-edge technologies, along with career advice and personality improvement tips.

The Welcome Note, Keynote, and Closing Note were open to all, and the sessions were divided into two separate tracks, each imparting knowledge on various latest technologies. After that, a private MVP-only session was also hosted exclusively for C# Corner MVPs, team members, and speakers.

Here are the highlights of the complete event.

C# Corner Annual Conference Public Event

The conference started at 7:30 sharp with registration and breakfast, as per the agenda. The attendees kept gathering at the venue on time for collecting their entry pass and enjoyed networking with each other just before the final showdown.

After registration, the first session was started by Microsoft MVP and speaker Nitin Pandit. He covered the crucial topic of “Simplifying @Output and EventEmitter in Angular,”. Nitin is a Microsoft MVP three times in a row. He is passionate about learning and sharing knowledge on Microsoft and other technologies. Meanwhile, parallel sessions were also started. The first speaker to deliver a parallel session was Vivek Raj with the topic “Creating Chatbot Avatars using Unity 3D and IBM Watson” for the second Track. His expertise in Unity 3D and Chatbots proved to be vital for the attendees.

Next were the sessions from Sachin Kalia and S. Ravi Kumar in both the tracks respectively. While Sachin explored the new features of latest version, C# 8.0, S. Ravi unveiled what is new is Xamarin Forms 4.0. These sessions by experts obviously motivated the audience to decide why they should work on the latest versions of these emerging technologies.

Next sessions to take place were of Sundaram Subramaniam in Track 1 where he proposed the tricks and tips of using Flutter efficiently to build robust applications; and of Nanddeep Nachan in Track 2, who presented a session on building powerful Intranets with Office 365.

By this time, the halls were packed with attendees and MVPs. Now, Sourabh Somani started his session in Track1 unfolding the new updates added to ECMA 2019. In the parallel track, Vithal Wadje shared with the audience a practical approach of configuring and managing IoT devices using Microsoft Azure.

While Vithal continued his session in Track 2, Track 1 attendees got the chance to get the insights of Deep Learning for Computer Vision, in an informative session taken by Stephen Simon. The knowledge was spread everywhere in the conference arena.

After such wonderful sessions, attendees in both the tracks got to experience the power of Women in technology. The Track 1 stage was occupied by our avid speaker Nishu Goel where she performed the CRUD operations in Angular7. On the other hand, Niloshima Srivastava got hold of the Track 2 stage talking about Web API development in .NET Core 3.0, the latest version of .NET.

After that, the keynote speaker, Magnus Mårtensson, put together a fully informative session with his topic, " Future of Azure PaaS", in Track 1. This was quite a wonderful topic because attendees got to have close look into the future of Microsoft’s Cloud services. In the parallel track, Mala Gupta talked about what is new in Java 12.0.

Now, the conference was in full swing and all the attendees and speakers were having a fantastic experience sharing and learning from each other. A well-deserved feeling of enjoyment among the speakers and the attendees was easily noticed everywhere. In Track 1, Ritesh Modi started his session where he talked how Azure is for Architects. In Track 2, Abhishek Kant reached the stage to talk about various modern-era technologies being used for Machine Learning.

The last sessions before the grand keynote were taken by Nishith Pathak and David McCarter respectively. While David McCarter told the tips on how to rock the performance of your .NET Core code, in Track 2, Nishith talked about Cognitive Services in Azure, in Track1.

By the time of the Keynote, the main hall was packed with over 500 attendees. Around 150 MVPs joined in the occasion from all over the world. The Keynote started with a cheerful welcome by Naveen Sharma, the host of the Keynote session. After a warm welcome of all the attendees, Naveen invited the founder of C# Corner Community, Mahesh Chand on stage. Opening the main public event, Mahesh Chand took to the stage, welcomed the MVPs, speakers and the attendees, and talked about the history of C# Corner and how C# Corner reached this success in 20 years.