.NET Conf: Focus on F#

Day #1

Don Syme's F# Bonanza  -  Don Syme   Ambika Eshwar   Eduard Ostrovsky   Kevin Schneider   Scott Wlaschin  

08:00 (PT) | 15:00 (UTC)

Don Syme, creator of the F# language, will kick off the day by taking us on a journey through the F# language, community, and real-world business users. Learn about the key ideas underlying F#, its unique and modern methodology, and hear live from F# users across the globe in fields including data science, supply chains, machine learning, biotech, risk management and more.

Starting Your F# Journey  -  Scott Wlaschin  

09:00 (PT) | 16:00 (UTC)

Learn the basic principles of 'functional-first' F# programming. You'll see how functions are used as the basic building blocks of code, how FP-style refactoring works, and how you can benefit from the power of F#'s composable type system.

Modern Web Applications made Simple, Succinct and Robust  -  Isaac Abraham  

09:30 (PT) | 16:30 (UTC)

Learn how you can create web applications that take the best of the .NET 5 and JavaScript + React platforms, while harnessing F# to provide a seamless, type-safe, consistent and rewarding development experience.

Productive Data Science in Biology with F#  -  Kevin Schneider  

10:00 (PT) | 17:00 (UTC)

See how F# is used in efficient problem solving in bioinformatics utilizing the FsLab toolbox; from versatile data analysis to productive tooling for open science.

A Tour of F# Editor Tooling  -  Krzysztof Cieślak   Phillip Carter  

10:30 (PT) | 17:30 (UTC)

F# supports a wide range of quality tooling you can use on any machine. In this talk, we'll demonstrate using F# for building apps in Visual Studio Code and the Ionide plugin, using F# for building interactive notebooks in Visual Studio Code, and using F# for building apps in Visual Studio on Windows. We'll also talk about how this actually works under the covers a bit. By the end of this talk, you should have a great idea about the kinds of tooling you can use to write F# code today.

Deploying Cloud Infrastructure with F#  -  Dave Curylo  

11:00 (PT) | 18:00 (UTC)

Building a cloud application also means deploying and managing all the services to support it. We’ll keep this complexity under control just like any other codebase by leveraging tools and techniques from the F# ecosystem.

Getting Started with Data Analytics & Machine Learning in F#  -  Luis Quintanilla  

11:30 (PT) | 18:30 (UTC)

Get an introduction to the tools and libraries for building data analytics and machine learning applications in F#.

Don Teaches Guido F#  -  Don Syme   Guido van Rossum  

12:00 (PT) | 19:00 (UTC)

Tune in for a fun, interactive, and fascinating session with two programming language creators. Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, learns F# from scratch from the creator of F#, Don Syme!

How I Learned To Stop FUD And Stay SAFE  -  Gina Marie Maini  

13:00 (PT) | 20:00 (UTC)

See a SAFE MVP app in action and learn how F# can radically change your perspective on web development.

Intro to Mathematical Planning with F#  -  Matthew Crews  

13:30 (PT) | 20:30 (UTC)

Mathematical Planning is the science of making optimal decisions and has transformed many industries including Logistics, Power Generation, the Stock Market and many others. Learn how F# provides a beautiful and clean way to harness this incredible tool to transform how decisions are made to ensure the optimal choice is made to increase profit, reduce waste, and maximize efficiency.

F# Tapas - Small Bites from the Cloud to the Edge  -  Houston Haynes  

14:00 (PT) | 21:00 (UTC)

Houston works through a few samples of F# native and 'interop' capabilities that recently brought him to the language. Starting with Apache Spark, he hops over to a mini-project in .NET Interactive and wraps up with compute 'at the edge' using WildernessLabs Meadow.

Polyglot Notebooks in the Wild  -  Paige Bailey  

14:30 (PT) | 21:30 (UTC)

Join Paige for a conversation about Notebooks.

Into the Land of Biotech with F# as an Ally  -  Olya Samusik  

15:00 (PT) | 22:00 (UTC)

The landscape of biotech offers a variety of challenges to software engineers. What is it like to design DNA, manage lab operations, model complex experiment workflows, utilize robot-generated data and learn from it - all with F# as a primary tool? This talk will focus on some of the problems, solutions and lessons learned while building a platform that tackles these challenges.

A Conversation About Fable  -  Alfonso Garcia-Caro  

15:30 (PT) | 22:30 (UTC)

Let's talk about Fable, an efficient, productive, F# to JavaScript compiler. We'll see why F# is a great language to build both the logic and UI of your apps, review some of the many tools and libraries created by the fabulous Fable community, and see how easily you can interop with JavaScript code when needed.

Simplifying Data with CosmosDB and F#  -  Aaron Powell  

16:00 (PT) | 23:00 (UTC)

CosmosDB is a multi-paradigm, schemaless database. With an SDK designed for an OO programming model, F# can feel a little clunky to use. So let’s take a look at how we can optimise it for F#, and how we can leverage the power of the F# ecosystem to make CosmosDB FP friendly.

F# Software Foundation & .NET Foundation Q&A  -  Alan Ball   Beth Massi  

16:30 (PT) | 23:30 (UTC)

Ask questions to board members of F# Software Foundation and the .NET Foundaiton and hear about some of the initiatives they are working on.