Introducing .NET 11 & AI-Enhanced .NET Debugging

Dear friends,

We are delighted to invite you to a new dotNETZone meetup featuring two talks!

The event will take place at the XM offices at 80 Michalakopoulou Street in Athens. To find out more about XM, please visit their careers page. We warmly thank XM for their generous sponsorship.

Attendees must bring valid photo ID, as this is required by building security.

18:30 Doors open

19:00 Eirik George Tsarpalis - What's new in .NET 11
.NET 11 is here! The new release brings performance improvements, powerful new language capabilities, and thousands of additional library and tooling improvements. Join me as I give you a high-level overview of some of my favourite new features that we have been working on, including union types, runtime-native async, the new process APIs, serialization features, and more.

Eirik is a Principal Software Engineer in the .NET team at Microsoft. He is author and maintainer of a number of open source .NET libraries with a long experience in F# and functional programming.

20:00 Dimitris Drosos - AI-Enhanced .NET Debugging with dotnet-trace
AI can suggest fixes, but it can only reason about what it can see. What happens when we give it real runtime data? In this talk, we’ll capture .NET Traces and build a tool that turns them into reports both developers and AI agents can use. We’ll see how this helps AI narrow down hotspots, allocations, and likely root causes in a .NET application, and how before-and-after traces help validate a fix. We’ll close with a bigger question: when building custom engineering tools becomes this cheap, which ones are worth creating for your own systems?

Dimitris is a Principal Engineer at Kaizen Gaming. With 22 years in the .NET ecosystem, focused on backend, he is passionate about architecture and performance.

21:00 - 21:30 Socializing