2026 TrailBlazor Conference

Daniel Roth

Explore the future of ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 11

Explore the future of ASP.NET Core & Blazor in .NET 11 What’s next for web development on .NET? In this session, we’ll explore the future direction of ASP.NET Core and Blazor in .NET 11, highlighting the themes, priorities, and opportunities shaping the platform’s next chapter.

Daniel Roth is the Principal Product Manager for ASP.NET Core & Blazor at Microsoft.

David Ortinau

.NET MAUI Takes on Web and More

Blazor has conquered the browser, and by the power of .NET is bringing joy to desktop and mobile as well through partnership with .NET MAUI. Now what is .NET MAUI’s take on the web? The answer today may shock you. We’ll talk about that and show you some of the amazing things you can now do with .NET MAUI that you couldn’t just a few short months ago.

David is a Principal Product Manager for .NET Client Apps at Microsoft, focused on .NET MAUI. A .NET developer since 2002, and versed in a range of programming languages, he has developed web, environmental, and mobile experiences for a wide variety of industries. After several successes with tech startups and running his own software company, he joined Microsoft to follow his passion: crafting tools that help developers create better app experiences.

Brady Gaster

Squad: The Programmable Multi-Agent Runtime for GitHub Copilot

What if your AI coding assistant had a team? Squad is an open-source framework that orchestrates GitHub Copilot agents as persistent specialists — each with memory, expertise, and decision-making authority. Instead of one agent answering every question, you get a DevRel who writes docs, a QA lead who blocks PRs, and a security engineer who guards secrets. They remember what they've done, learn from your project, and work in parallel when the job calls for it. Squad isn't RAG over a knowledge base — it's a runtime. Agents have charters, history files, and ceremonies (triage, standup, retro). Work routes based on capability profiles. When multiple agents can help, they fan out in parallel. It's battle-tested on its own development (we use Squad to build Squad), and it works with GitHub, Azure DevOps, or standalone.

Brady Gaster is a PM Architect in the CoreAI division at Microsoft where he works on Apps, Agents, MIDI, and most recently, Squad.

Adam Ratzman

How Aspire uses Blazor & .NET to build a great CLI and Dashboard Experience

In this session Adam will demonstrate how the Aspire team at Microsoft "eats their own dogfood" by utilizing the Blazor UI Framework and .NET to build a great CLI and Dashboard Experience for Aspire.

Adam Ratzman works on Aspire tooling at Microsoft

Jeremy Likness

From Models to Agents: The Essential Building Blocks of AI Apps

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming how we build applications. The .NET team has prioritized keeping pace with the rapid changes in generative AI and continue to provide tools, libraries, and guidance for .NET developers building intelligent apps. With .NET, developers have a powerful ecosystem to integrate AI seamlessly into their apps. In this session Jeremy will explore the .NET AI Essentials – the core building blocks for .NET developers.

Jeremy Likness has been writing computer code for over 30 years. Currently Principal Product Manager for AI Tools in .NET at Microsoft.

Shaun Walker

Scaling Blazor Web Applications

From the very beginning of Blazor's existence, skeptics have claimed that it cannot scale effectively. This misconception stems from misunderstandings about Blazor's architecture and capabilities... limitations which have largely been addressed by additional render modes and optimizations that significantly enhance its scalability and performance. In this session, we will break down the myths and explore how the latest advancements in Blazor make it a robust solution for modern web applications.

Shaun Walker is the original creator of Oqtane and DotNetNuke (DNN), web application frameworks which have earned the recognition of being amongst the most pioneering and widely adopted Open Source projects native to the Microsoft platform. He has 30+ years professional experience in architecting and implementing enterprise software solutions for private and public organizations. Based on his significant community contributions he has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for over 17 years. He was recognized in 2011 as a leading entrepreneur in the BIV Forty Under 40 business awards, and is currently the Founder of a boutique software consulting firm, Devessence, which focuses primarily on Microsoft technology solutions.

Michael Washington

Using a Knowledge Graph to Supercharge Your AI RAG Process

Many developers rely on RAG for AI powered apps, but it can’t leverage the tool calling strengths of modern LLMs. This session shows how lightweight, text defined knowledge graphs provide real business logic by modeling relationships instead of tables composed of columns and rows. From there, we break down the Directed Labelled Property Graph model—nodes, edges, labels, and properties—and show how this structure maps elegantly onto real-world software needs. We also address why enterprise graph databases are often too heavy and flexible for typical domains. The alternative: a constrained JSON graph loaded into C# objects, delivering RAG level context without the operational cost of systems like Neo4j. You’ll see how small, well bounded domains enable fast in memory traversal, clean rules, and AI ready context, with real-world examples from AIStoryBuilders.com.

Michael Washington is a .NET C# developer. He has extensive knowledge in process improvement, billing systems, and student information systems. He is a Microsoft MVP and a member of the Oqtane Core Team. He has a son, Zachary and resides in Los Angeles with his wife Valerie.

Rocky Lhotka

Agentic Architecture in Practice: Harness, LLM, Directives

An agent is not just an LLM with tools bolted on. In practice, it’s the combination of three things: a harness that controls execution, an LLM that reasons and generates, and directives that shape behavior. This talk uses RockBot as a concrete example of that architecture and shows how the pieces fit together in a real system. From there, we’ll look at what becomes possible once the core is solid: memory that preserves context, skills that package repeatable behavior, self-learning and skill evolution that improve the system over time, and integration layers like MCP and A2A that let agents reach tools and collaborate with other agents. The point is to move from abstract “agent” talk to a working model for how agentic systems are actually designed, governed, and extended.

Rocky Lhotka is the VP of Strategy at Xebia Microsoft Services and leads the vision and direction of its software development solutions and services. He leverages his extensive experience and knowledge of framework design and implementation, distributed systems architecture, and cloud and container technologies to help clients achieve their business goals and deliver value to their customers. He is also the creator of the CSLA .NET open-source development framework, which enables developers to create scalable, maintainable, and secure object-oriented applications. He is a member of the Microsoft Regional Director and MVP programs, as well as the co-chair of the Visual Studio Live! and the chair of the Cloud & Containers Live conferences. Rocky is passionate about advancing the software industry and empowering developers to build better software.

Scott Galloway

Advanced Bot Detection For Everyone

StyloBot is an open‑source, self‑hosted bot detection and response engine designed to identify and respond to automated traffic in real time, with optional integration into your application stack.

Scott builds systems that work. He has spent his career designing and delivering platforms that scale, stay online, and make sense to the people who run them. He doesn't care much for frameworks or buzzwords — if it doesn’t ship, it doesn’t count. He has led teams, written code, designed architectures, and debugged problems that others would still be diagramming. His focus is on practical, reliable engineering that gets results fast without cutting corners.

Shriram Sankaran

Build AI-Driven Blazor UIs with Design Systems and Agent Skills

Building AI-driven Blazor UIs requires a strategy that bridges design systems (consistent styling) with agent skills (functional AI logic). Modern tools like the Syncfusion Blazor UI Components Library allow you to generate full Blazor applications using natural language while strictly adhering to your design goals.

Shriram Sankaran is a Senior Product Manager at Syncfusion with over 12 years of experience in developing and managing applications using cutting-edge technologies. He began his career as a full-stack developer at Syncfusion and has since played a key role in delivering real-time solutions to customers, addressing business challenges, and driving product development. Based in Chennai, India, he enjoys movies, traveling, and exploring different cuisines.