Application Modernization: The $h1t no team wants to be responsible for

It's the new year 2020 and you just deployed the last cumulative security update for Windows Server 2008. Then the cold hard reality settles in - you and your team have to deal with the wild unknown of exactly how many applications are still running on this unsupported platform and could become vulnerable to future attacks and exploits. You and team are at a crossroads: do you turn a blind eye and stay the course or do you bite the bullet and consider application modernization?

Join us for a light hearted exploratory session that will include crowd sourced input on how to best address this opportunity. This discussion will directly benefit from an open conversation and crowd participation.

Our Speakers

Rick Claus
Rick Claus engages in person and online with the worldwide IT Pro / Ops community on behalf of Microsoft. As a lead for one of the Cloud Advocate teams in Azure engineering, Rick's role is to connect with technical communities in order capture feedback on how to make things better and to share his knowledge about the ecosystem. Technical areas of expertise from his 20+ years of experience in the IT Industry include; Core Azure infrastructure services, Windows Server, systems management and all things "cloud" ;-)
Unofficially, Rick is focused on spreading his enthusiasm, passion and excitement on all things technical to anyone who has the time for a coffee (or pint) and a chat (in English or français - naturellement).

Pierre Roman
Pierre Roman engages with the operations and infrastructure communities on behalf of Microsoft. His role is to listen to the concerns of the communities and bring that information back to the Azure Engineering Team in order to improve the platform. With over 25 years of experience in the industry, Pierre brings a well-rounded view of the Ops/infra lifecycle. His experiences enable him to relate to his audiences and cultivate relationships at all levels (from the nuts and bolts guy/gal to management.) He’s a husband, a dad, a hockey fan, a gadget freak and a geek. Pierre is always ready for a conversation (in English or français - naturellement).

Anthony Bartolo
As a Sr. Cloud Advocate for Microsoft, Anthony Bartolo takes great pride in architecting and conducting “science experiments” that incorporate Microsoft technology and services to address a customer problem or opportunity. Anthony accomplishes this by conducting hackathons with industry leading organizations to test theories and create Proof of Concepts (PoC) utilizing Microsoft cloud services. Some of the more interesting Proof of Concepts completed have included teaching drones to identify objects to aid in search and rescue efforts and automating research via Azure Functions to extract information from social media to aid law enforcement in finding children reported missing. Results and best practices of these and other projects are then shared openly with the community at large to help upskill everyone.
Anthony regularly conducts conversations on Twitter @WirelessLife and regularly submits blog content to http://www.ITOpsTalk.com

As always food arrives at 5:30pm presentation begins at 6pm. The elevators are locked after 6pm so please call (905) 580-4087, if you can't get upstairs.

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