Maarten Balliauw

Maarten Balliauw loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, Microsoft Azure and application performance. He is Head of Customer Success at Duende Software. Creator and maintainer of https://speaker.travel. He's an ASP Insider and former Microsoft MVP. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events and organizes Azure User Group events in Belgium. In his free time, he brews his own beer.

Montreal 2026 sessions

A Practical Guide to Passkeys with ASP.NET Core

English session - Intermediate

Passkeys, using the WebAuthn protocol, replace passwords with stronger, simpler, and phishing-resistant authentication using your device's built-in security or a dedicated hardware key.
Let's look at passkey authentication and its implementation in ASP.NET Core applications. We'll demonstrate how to integrate passkey authentication into your projects. We will also explain origins and why they matter in a passkey deployment.

Building a supply chain attack with .NET and NuGet

English session - Beginner

"Haha, npm had yet another supply chain attack!"

I'm waiting for the day this happens with .NET and NuGet. The tools are there! A number of interesting techniques exist to smuggle code into someone's codebase, malicious or genuine.

In this talk, we'll look at several .NET, NuGet and MSBuild techniques to inject code into a software supply chain. We'll also look at some ways to mitigate the risk (but you can't eliminate it).