The conference started with the official release of .NET 5. During the opening keynote, Scott Hunter, director of program management for the .NET team at Microsoft, talked about the significant growth in the .NET ecosystem. Similarly to last year, he stressed the increased adoption of .NET over the previous year (there are currently 5M active .NET developers in all platforms). After that, Hunter went back to the .NET 5, highlighting the performance improvements in the new release and short-demoing topics discussed in the next sessions.

Each of the topics covered in the keynote was presented by a different speaker, all chaired by Scott Hunter. The hands-on demos started with creating a windows desktop app, followed by demos on mobile application development with Xamarin, Visual Studio productivity tools, Blazor, ASP.NET web APIs, and Project Tye (for microservices). Although .NET 5 is not yet the expected unifying platform for all things .NET, at the end of his keynote presentation, Hunter reaffirmed the continued mission of achieving a unified platform:

We continue the journey of unifying the .NET platform. Our vision for one .NET is a unified set of libraries, tools, SDKs, and runtimes. .NET 5 begins this journey by taking everything available at .NET Core and adding several cloud and web investments […].

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