AzureForceRecon._ tactical bootcamps

The first of many Azure tactical bootcamps.

Designed to deal with customer cloud fears through tactics, planning and strategy.

Be a part of the Microsoft Africa Datacenter transformation and drive your customers transformation through clever & simple solutions at the heart of which lies Open-Source.

"Mastery of LOB Apps over Slow Networks" (Assisted Demos) - 40

• Doug Gillings & Lawrance Reddy

Join Special Guest & Combatting Wildlife Crime Programme Manager Doug Gillings and myself for our session, and how we delivered critical apps to conservation agencies using Azure, get to see how the SA data-centers brings Africa even closer to these Conservationists.
1 of many African challenges, with tactical solutions brought to you on the day.

"Cost Clarity & Cost Control" (Assisted Demos) - 40mins

• Vishaan Singh & Lawrance Reddy

Albeit great capabilities and automation that comes with Azure & other intelligent Clouds, there also comes great risk & fears, none more so than runaway bills & cost management. Join Astel's CTO Vishaan Singh & myself for our session demonstrating near real-time cost clarity at the resource level, accurate departmental cost charge-back & targeted resource scaling, keeping costs in control. Don't let the new SA datacentres be a journey into the unknown.

"Teaching Machine Learning to Kids" (Assisted Demos) - 40mins

• Dave Semmelink

Godigitalsa foundation's CTO Dave Semmelink presenting his session "Teaching Machine Learning to Kids". His solution is built on OpenSource Scratch, Azure ML & Cognitive Services. His organization is dedicated to teaching coding to kids. What a privilege to get to see how he uses OpenSource & Azure to demystify ML for kids.

"Live Or Die With Your Data" (Assisted Demos) - 90mins
-Niels Berglund

Join Niels Berglund Microsoft MVP & Azure Durban User Group Organizer for his "Live Or Die With Your Data" tactical session.
Using the best of OpenSource, Kubernetes, Hadoop, Spark, Linux & SQL. You will understand why only those who possess Intelligence from their data will survive. The SA data-centers are coming... Are you Ready to see the other side of your data and how you can start today?

"Complexity of Real-Life Lift & Shifts" (Demo & Q&A) - 40mins

• Ronald Mariah - Immedia Senior Software Developer

Ronald Mariah shares an amazing adventure of tips & tricks as he prepares to migrates one of SA's most popular sports data provider to Azure. The techniques used for legacy data migration is especially interesting as these techniques will serve to avoid hidden gotchas on your journey to the Cloud.

"Dependencies, Migration & Reassurance " (Demos & Q&A) - 40mins

• Lawrance Reddy & Avinash Ramhlal

This was one of the most voted of topics. customers are seeking answers as to where to start with their existing on-premise Open-Source & other critical workloads, how to determine dependencies, plot a migration path and how to design for regional outages.

See how a local government customer is starting to do just that.

This is a combination of a Q&A, demos and open architectural dialogue to raise your concerns and help you get the answers you need. We will share best practice patterns and designs that will help stem the fear.

All attendees will receive a 3 month Azure Pass to explore these new tactics.