In this episode of On.NET, we have a special guest, Beth Massi, who provides us with her insight around .NET Conf 2017 and what to expect – there will be a few surprises so please definitely tune in. [00:20] Overview of .NET Conf by Beth, discussion around concurrent tracks with 40+ sessions over 3 days[00:39] Day 1 keynote live stream from DEVIntersection Europe in Stockholm, Sweden, with Scott Hunter, Miguel de Icaza, and Mads Torgersen in front of a live audience[00:59] Days 2 & 3 streaming concurrent tracks through MVA & Channel 9[01:25] .NET Core 2.0 release, .NET Standard,[01:40] Scott will discuss new features of ASP.NET Core, the .NET Core CLI, new features in Visual Studio for building Web and Container based applications, Azure diagnostics features, Azure functions[02:03] Miguel will walk through Visual Studio for Mac – he has a few surprises, it will be quite entertaining[02:34] Mads will show us Visual Studio productivity, like interloop, debugging, code refactoring, C# 7.1, C# 7.2, and a preview of C# 8.0[02:51] We have a couple of announcements – please tune in for details![03:21] The history of .NET Conf: For the community, by the community, including a whole day of community speakers from all over on day 2: Red Hat, Google, PeachPie author, Bleacher Report author, not just Microsoft talking heads[05:22] Day 3 '.NET Fundamentals' Track Overview: It's all about the basics, getting started with .NET, C#, programming. We have Bob Tabor, who is a really great trainer joining us[05:47] Day 3 'Learn Web and Mobile' Track overview: It's all about getting started with web and mobile – we have a great set of content there run by our partner, Xamarin University[06:13] Scott Hanselman will be emceeing the community tracks[06:39] We're also running local events worldwide in various 65+ cities near you, starting on the 19th running through the end of October, so you can watch the livestream with others, (or alone in your pajamas if you prefer), som