Microsoft Azure Bern User Group

✨ Talk 1 –Agentic Modernisation with GitHub Copilot
🎤 Antoine Combremont (Microsoft) (EN)
Application modernisation remains a top priority for many organisations, but legacy codebases, limited engineering capacity, and growing technical debt often make transformation difficult and time-consuming. GitHub Copilot and emerging agentic capabilities are changing this equation by helping teams modernise applications faster, more consistently, and at greater scale.
In this session, we will explore how the Agentic Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) is evolving and how GitHub Copilot can accelerate modernisation initiatives across the application lifecycle. From understanding and assessing existing applications to refactoring, code transformation, testing, and documentation, attendees will learn where AI can provide the greatest impact and what it takes to adopt these capabilities successfully.

✨ Talk 2 – From Policy to Proof: Building an AI Compliance Rules & Validation Engine with Claude Code and Azure Native Services
🎤 Daniel Hogg (Adnovum) (EN)
This talk demonstrates how to develop an AI Compliance Rules & Validation Engine using Claude Code and Azure Native Services in a fast time-boxed manner. The resulting PoC application shows how complex policy documents can be turned into deterministic, auditable compliance checks. We start with the business context, then walk you through a live end-to-end demo from policy ingestion to rule execution and explainable results. Afterwards, we'll explain how the application was developed using Claude code and how the architecture looks like based on Azure Native Services. We end with lessons learned from building the system and advice on using AI to accelerate architecture decisions, implementation speed, and reliability.

🕓 Agenda
17:30: Doors open
17:45: Introduction
18:00: Code modernization with Copilot
18:40: AI Compliance and Validation
19:10: Quiz
19:30: Networking

🚆 Getting there:

• 🚏 Bus 11, 21 from Bern Train Station. Stop: Bierhübeli
• 🚶Walk: 15 minutes from Grosse Schanze

🎟️ Limited capacity – Please unregister if you can’t attend, so your spot can be freed up for someone else 🙏 The event is free and open to all interested parties. With your registration you agree to the Azure Tech Groups code of conduct.

🤜🤛 Huge thank you to our Sponsor Adnovum and our friends from the Silicon Chalet for supporting this meetup!

Join us for a special evening event with the Azure Cloud Bern User Group and Swiss End User Computing Community! Before the year winds down, let's swap the keyboards for lanterns and explore Bern's medieval Old Town on a guided Night Watchman Tour.

💙 A heartfelt thank you to our loyal community — your enthusiasm and support throughout the year mean the world to us. This evening is our way of celebrating you!

📅 Date: Thursday, December 10, 2026
🕝 Meeting time: 17:30 (please arrive on time!)
🚶 Tour start: 18:00
⏱️ Duration: 90 minutes
📍 Meeting point: Zytglogge (Kramgasse side)
🏁 End point: Berner Münster (Bern Minster)

Step back in time as our guide leads us through the historic streets of Bern, sharing stories from the days when night watchmen kept the city safe after dark. It's a great chance to connect with fellow community members in a relaxed, informal setting.

We'll be splitting into 2 groups of up to 20 people each, so there's plenty of room to join!
The tour is conducted in German, but our guides also speak English and are happy to answer any questions in English along the way.
Please RSVP early to secure your spot.
Come for the history, stay for the community! Let's end the year on a memorable note. 🍻
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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