I’m Chris Ayers, a father, nerd, gamer, and speaker. I’m passionate about technology and love sharing my knowledge through speaking at conferences and writing about tech topics.
Feel free to check out my Sessionize profile for all my current talks and engagements.
If you’re interested in having me speak at your event, please connect and reach out to me on social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, Mastodon).
You can find some of my previous talks and online engagements on YouTube:
Upcoming Events # Event Date Talks NDC London 2026 Jan 26-30, 2026 Modern .NET Configuration Practices NDC Security 2026 Mar 2-5, 2026 MITRE ATT&CK for Developers CodeStock 2026 Apr 9-10, 2026 Modern .NET Configuration Practices, Resilient by Design NDC Sydney 2026 Apr 22-24, 2026 Real World CI/CD with GitHub Actions NDC Toronto 2026 May 5-8, 2026 Aspire 13: One AppHost, Many Languages, Fewer Headaches? DevSum 2026 Jun 2-3, 2026 Refactoring Your Technical Identity Past Events # Event Date Talks TechBash 2025 Nov 2025 TBD NDC Copenhagen 2025 Sept 8-12, 2025 Modern .NET Configuration Practices KCDC 2025 Aug 13-15, 2025 The Power of Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces DevSum 2025 Jun 12-13, 2025 The Well-Architected Architect Techorama Belgium 2025 May 26-28, 2025 Resilient by Design, Aspiring .NET with Ollama and Azure Open AI NDC Oslo 2025 May 19-23, 2025 Resilient by Design Stir Trek 2025 May 2, 2025 The Power of Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces Tampa Bay QA and Testing Meetup Apr 9, 2025 From Zero to End-to-End Tests: A Beginner’s Guide to Playwright Orlando Code Camp 2025 Apr 5, 2025 Aspiring .NET with Ollama and Azure Open AI VS Live! Las Vegas Mar 10-14, 2025 .NET Configuration In Depth, Ensuring Azure Resiliency Azure Spring Clean 2025 Mar 3, 2025 The Well-Architected Architect Tampa Bay Cyber Resilience Conference 2025 Jan 31, 2025 AI for Security and Resilience CodeMash 2025 Jan 14-17, 2025 .NET in a Box: Containerizing .NET Applications, Real World CI/CD with GitHub Actions Live! 360 Orlando Nov 17-22, 2024 Cloud & Containers Live! Panel, Ensuring Azure Resiliency, The Well-Architected Architect Festive Tech Calendar Dec 1-25, 2024 Aspiring .NET with Azure Open AI NDC Porto 2024 Oct 14-18, 2024 The Power of Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces All Day DevOps Oct 10, 2024 The Power of Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces Techorama Netherlands 2024 Oct 7-9, 2024 .NET in a Box, .NET Configuration In Depth TechBash 2024 Sep 24-27, 2024 .NET in a Box, CI/CD with Github Actions Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2024 Sep 23-24, 2024 Monitoring with Azure Application Insights, .NET Aspire and AI DevOps Days Tampa Bay 2024 Sep 19, 2024 Lead Organizer Copenhagen Developer Festival 2024 Aug 26-30, 2024 The Power of Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces KCDC 2024 Jun 26-28, 2024 .NET Configuration In Depth, CI/CD with Github Actions Microsoft Build 2024 May 20-24, 2024 .NET Aspire Expert Sessions DevSum 2024 May 16-17, 2024 .NET in a Box: Containerizing .NET Applications SDD 2024 May 13-17, 2024 .NET Configuration, Building in the Cloud with Bicep, Kubernetes resiliency Techorama Belgium 2024 May 6-8, 2024 .NET in a Box, .NET Configuration In Depth Devoxx Greece 2024 April 18-20, 2024 Kubernetes Resiliency PowerShell + DevOps Summit 2024 Apr 8-11, 2024 CI/CD With GitHub Actions, SRE, DevOps, and Platform Engineering NDC Sydney 2024 Feb 12-16, 2024 .NET in a Box: Containerizing .NET Applications .NET Conf 2023 Nov 16, 2023 .NET Configuration In Depth NDC Oslo 2023 May 22-26, 2023 Kubernetes Resiliency CodeMash 2023 Jan 10-13, 2023 Building in the Cloud with Bicep, CI/CD with GitHub Actions .NET Conf 2022 Nov 10, 2022 .NET Configuration In Depth KCDC 2022 Aug 8-10, 2022 .NET Configuration In Depth, Feature Flags See my Sessionize profile for a complete list of past speaking engagements.
