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Thursday April 16, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am PDT
Corporate dysfunction is a fact of life. We see it in: siloed teams, keynote-driven projects that are abandoned after announcement, promotion-focused developers delivering checkbox features and ignoring admin needs. 
I tried to fix those problems but knew that I would fail, so I also designed PowerShell to route around the damage.
This is a case study in pragmatic design. I'll show how PowerShell's core architecture directly attacks these predictable failures. You'll see how the Adaptive Type System normalizes the 'Not-Invented-Here' data problem, how pipeline binding-by-property-name bridges the silos created by Conway's Law, and how deep extensibility empowers the community to finish the job the corporation won't. This is the story of designing for the world we have, not the one we wish we had.
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Jeffrey Snover

Distinguished Engineer, Google
Jeffrey Snover is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the Chief Architect for Azure Storage and Edge Cloud Group where he focuses on Azure Stack. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell... Read More →
Thursday April 16, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am PDT
Meydenbauer Center - Room 404 11100 NE 6th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA

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