Kris van der Mast
CEO at VaHa - Microsoft MVP - Solution architect at SD Worx - aOS ambassador
Mechelen, Belgium
As a freelance Microsoft technologies expert Kris helps his clients to reach their goals. Actively involved in the global community he was a Microsoft MVP between April 2007 and July 2022. First for ASP.NET and since 2016 achieving in 2 disciplines: Azure and Visual Studio and Development Technologies. Kris is also a Microsoft ASP Insider, Microsoft Azure Advisor and a Belgian Microsoft Extended Experts Team (MEET) member. In the Belgian community Kris is active as a board member of Belgian Azure User Group AZUG and is chairman of the Belgian User Group Initiative (BUG). Since he started with .NET back in 2002 he’s also been active on the ASP.NET forums where is also a moderator. For his professional profile you can check out his LinkedIn. His personal site can be found at www.krisvandermast.com. Kris is a public (inter)national speaker and is a co-organizer of the CloudBrew conference.
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Navigating the Chatbot Frontier: Hard-Earned Lessons and Best Practices
Since I got involved in making different chatbots in 2017 I learned some lessons which I want to share with you. We're going to take a look into planning, getting feedback, ops and how to handle people.
The stuff you don't want to write
Documentation. Yes, that dreadful piece of information everyone's supposed to write, keep up to date, nurture and store in an easy to find way right? Right.
Join me and find out how I solved the hurdles to get my team in actually writing decent documentation and all the aforementioned properties.
Power to the Virtual Agents
Since years I've been building chatbots / assistants for enterprises with technologies from Microsoft or IBM. Since recently Microsoft offers the possibility on their low code Power Platform to create the same. Let's see how that goes.
Serverless web applications with Blazor
Microsoft's implementation of webassembly, Blazor, forms a great way to create modern web applications. Combine these with Azure services like storage, serverless and you can develop interesting scenarios. Let's explore how you can create massively scalable applications to the masses.
A revisit of the Azure App Services
It seems all sessions are about either containers or serverless nowadays. Spoiler alert, these aren't the only things in cloud. Lets revisit or perhaps get to know for the first time Azure App Services and why they're still so darn cool.
A revisit of the Azure App Service
nowadays all sessions seem to be about either containers or serverless. So, it's time to revisit the trusted Azure App Services and how it can help your day to day work. It offers high availability, autoscaling, automated deployments from various environments and a slew of other cool features.
Embracing Agile Documentation: A professional approach to streamline your technical writing process
In this session, we delve into the world of documentation, exploring its significance and the challenges it poses. Join us to uncover the proven strategies employed to motivate teams in crafting high-quality and easily accessible documentation. Learn how to conquer the obstacles that hinder effective documentation and cultivate a culture of proficient technical writing within your organisation.
Usually this session gets into a lot of interaction with the audience and depending on it I'll take it more technical (like setting things up in azure devops from scratch, short intro to mermaid etc).