BBQ & mingling, 3 sessions and a panel debate to kickstart the autumn!

This will be the ultimate motivation booster as we approach autumn! We have the honor of hosting 3 major MVPs whom you often come across when googling for answers: Eldert Grootenboer, Steef-Jan Wiggers and Tomasso Groenendijk. See the agenda below and be inspired:

4:45pm – 5:30pm: BBQ (Communicate's rooftop)

5:30pm – 6:00pm: Integrating life with cognitive services (Eldert Grootenboer)

6:00pm – 6:30pm: A lap around Azure EventGrid (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

6:30pm – 7:00pm: Using CosmosDB in a real life scenario (Tomasso Groenendijk)

7:15pm – 8:00pm: Panel debate and beers

Details on the speakers and their sessions:

Eldert Grootenboer

Eldert is an Azure MVP and Integration Architect from the Netherlands, currently working at Motion10, mainly focused on IoT, Azure integration and BizTalk Server. He comes from a .NET background, and has been in IT since 2006. He has been working with BizTalk since 2010 and since then has expanded into Azure and surrounding technologies as well. Eldert loves working in integration projects, as each project brings new challenges and there is always something new to learn. In his spare time Eldert likes to be active in the integration community and get his hands dirty on new technologies. He can be found on Twitter at @egrootenboer and has a blog at http://blog.eldert.net/ .

Session Abstract

Integrating life with cognitive services

In this session, we will see how we can get data from the real world, and use this to drive our business. Thanks to Microsoft Cognitive Services we can easily work with data from the real world, like text, images and videos. By using Azure to integrate this data into our processes, we can make even more engaging and better solutions.

Steef-Jan Wiggers

Steef-Jan has over 15 years’ experience as a technical lead developer, application architect and consultant, specializing in custom applications, enterprise application integration (BizTalk), Web services and Windows Azure. Steef-Jan is very active in the Azure and Application Integration community as a blogger, Wiki author/editor, forum moderator, writer and international speaker. For these efforts, Microsoft has recognized him a Microsoft MVP for the past 7 years. He can be found on Twitter at @steefjan and has a blog at https://blog.steef-jan-wiggers.com/ .

Session Abstract

A lap around Azure EventGrid

Microsoft has released another service in its Azure Platform named Event Grid. This enables you to build reactive, event driven applications around this service routing capabilities. Event Grid is the missing piece in Serverless messaging and is available as preview in Microsoft Azure. Serverless messaging means you can build a messaging solution in Azure leveraging Service Bus, Logic Apps, Functions, and EventGrid. In this session you will learn more about this service and see a few demo's to better understand EventGrid.

Tomasso Groenendijk

Tomasso lives in Netherlands and is a senior BizTalk consultant at Motion10. He has over 17 years of experience in software development and software design and is specialized in application integration with a strong interest in the Windows Azure cloud platform. He is an international speaker and an active contributor to the Integration community through his work on MSDN forums, TechNet Wiki and his blog. He has been awarded with the Microsoft Integration MVP award since 2014.

Session Abstract

Using CosmosDB in a real life scenario

NoSQL databases are becoming more popular but what is the difference with a relational database like SQL server and when would you use them?

In this session Tomasso is going to show how you can use API Apps and CosmosDB to create a high performant API and how to use API Management to expose the API.