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Mads Kristensen

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Mads Kristensen is a Principal Product Manager on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft, where he focuses on improving the everyday experience of developers using the IDE. With a deep passion for productivity, performance, and extensibility, Mads has built a reputation for making Visual Studio more powerful and user-friendly - both through his role at Microsoft and his prolific work in the open-source community. He is the creator of dozens of popular Visual Studio extensions, and he maintains the Extensibility Essentials toolkit to help other developers build better extensions. Known for his engaging presentations and practical insights, Mads is a frequent speaker at developer conferences worldwide. His mission is simple: to make Visual Studio the most delightful development environment on the planet.

Sessions at .NET Conf 2026

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM

.NET AICopilotVisual Studio

mercoledì, novembre 11

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8 AM - 8:30 AM PST

Keynote

Mads Kristensen

A lot has changed in Visual Studio, and there's much more on the way. Join us for a tour of the ideas, improvements, and new capabilities transforming how developers get things done. We'll look at what's possible today, explore how the developer experience is evolving, and peek around the corner at what's coming next for Visual Studio.

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