Decentralized Identity and Azure Bicep

We're kicking off our first session of 2021 with a double header:

• Decentralized identity (DID) and verifiable credentials
• Infrastructure as Code: Introduction to Azure Bicep

# Agenda

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm: Networking and Pizza
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Decentralized identity (DID) and verifiable credentials - Rory Braybrook
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm: Intro to Azure Bicep - Dan Scott-Raynsford
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm: Q & A

# Decentralized identity (DID) and verifiable credentials - Rory Braybrook

Own your own Identity! Decentralized identity, a new way to provide ownership of personal data.

Decentralized digital identity (DID) is not just a technology buzzword: It promises a complete restructuring of the currently centralized physical and digital identity ecosystem into a decentralized and democratized architecture.

We'll have a look at this and also look at verifiable credentials.

Rory is an Identity Architect and a Microsoft MVP. He is active on stackoverflow and Twitter (@rbrayb) and posts often on Identity issues at https://authory.com/RoryBraybrook

# Infrastructure as Code: Introduction to Azure Bicep - Dan Scott-Raynsford

Deploying and configuring your Azure services with Infrastructure as Code is an important step on any DevOps journey. You may be familiar with ARM templates or Terraform, but now there is also Azure Bicep.

We'll take a look at the basics of the Bicep syntax and how the improvements it makes over ARM templates. You'll learn how to get started with Bicep and convert existing ARM templates over to Bicep.

Dan is a Partner Technology Strategist at Microsoft, working with SaaS partners building & running software in Azure. He specializes in App Dev and DevOps. @dscottraynsford and http://danielscottraynsford.com/

# Live Event Details

We'd love to see you there in person, but if you can't make it this event will also be live streamed as a Teams Live event: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDk4MGY0MjUtY2M0Mi00MmY0LTkyNzMtZTlhY2QxNzNlZDI1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2272f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22395a309a-7b10-4aa8-83ab-4f4dbcf29616%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d&btype=a&role=a

Looking forward to seeing you!