Let's keep this group rolling! The next meetup will be on Wednesday 1 October from 5:30pm at EPIC. Join us for pizza, networking, and learning. If you have a specific topic you would like to learn about (and/or present on) please fill out the form: https://forms.office.com/r/3PATUNdZpk.
Agenda
5:30 - Start of pizza and networking
6:00 - Talk 1
6:30 - Break
6:35 - Talk 2
7:05 - Finish
Talk 1: Breaking Free from PaaS Security Pain — Andrei Mahalean, Senior Platform Engineer @ Mantel
Tired of juggling IP whitelists, trusted services toggles, and inconsistent PaaS security controls? Azure's new Network Security Perimeter finally delivers the unified solution we've been waiting for. Discover with Andrei how NSPs cut through traditional PaaS security complexity, delivering unified inbound and outbound controls alongside standardised logging that actually works across all supported services.
Talk 2: Context is Key: Making Your Data AI-Ready with MCP — Jerome Brown, Principal Consultant @ Mantel
What's the critical ingredient that unlocks your data's full potential for generative AI? Context. In this presentation Jerome will introduce Model Context Protocol (MCP), the powerful new standard for making your existing data and services AI-Ready. He will show you why MCP is essential for enabling intelligent systems to understand, reason, and interact with your resources, and demonstrate how to easily leverage Azure API Management to make existing APIs ready for AI.
