Azure Community Enthusiasts User Group

SAVE THE DATE! - May 20th 2023, 7:30 pm - 9.15 pm

AGENDA

7:30 pm - Welcome and House Keeping (Nicholas Chang & Kevin Greene )

Speaker 1 - Tushar Kumar - Cloud Security Lead

Azure Certified Cloud Solutions Architect, Awarded Most valuable professional by Alibaba Cloud, former MSP, Community lead and Microsoft recognized Azure Community Hero. With rich experience in planning, designing, implementing and maintaining secure applications in Azure Cloud from x86 and non-x86 environments. A recognized leader in migrating and creating enterprise architecture for the transition from on-premise to cloud using Azure services.
I hold advanced specialization in Identity, Security, and Compliance and working extensively in the large transformation of enterprises and Banking Finance and Insurance institutions towards public cloud and responsible for designing scalable architecture with respective industry standards and security compliance Framework.

Session - Cloud Fortress : Entra Global Secure Access

Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access - coupled with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps uniquely togather as a solution and converges network, identity, and endpoint access controls so you can secure access to any app or resource, from anywhere. With the addition of these Global Secure Access products,
In this session we will unveil how Microsoft Entra ID enables access orchestration for employees, business partners, and digital workloads. and how you can continuously monitor and adjust user access in real time if permissions or risk level changes.

Speaker 2 - Shabaz Darr - Microsoft MVP

I am 39 years old from Bradford in the UK. Microsoft MVP in Enterprise & Mobility and Azure. I have been working in IT for over 15 years and specialising in Azure/ Microsoft 365 for the last 8 plus years.

I am a double author and a content creator with my own YouTube channel - https://www.YouTube.com/iamitgeek

Session - Microsoft Defender - Clearing the Confusion

Microsoft have a habit of regularly changing the name of its products or giving them similar names. In this session I will walk through the the different ‘Microsoft Defender’ product services, there features and a demo of the Microsoft Security portal

9:15 pm - Approximate Close!

SAVE THE DATE! - June 10th 2023, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

AGENDA

6:30 pm - Welcome and House Keeping

Speaker 1 - Jonah Anderton - Senior Azure Consultant at Solidify, Cloud DevSecOps Engineer • Microsoft MVP • Microsoft Certified Trainer • Author

Jonah Andersson is a Developer, Cloud & DevOps Engineer in Sweden. She works as a Senior Azure Consultant at Solidify AB.

With academic background in Computer Science and System Development, Jonah specializes in .NET technologies and has cloud development expertise in Microsoft Azure.

As a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft Azure technologies, as a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and international public speaker, Jonah has earned a reputation as a cloud computing and development expert. She wrote and has authored a book on the fundamentals of Microsoft Azure titled Learning Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing and Development Fundamentals (O'Reilly).

Jonah enjoys tackling complex problems and is passionate about developing modern applications in .NET using modern cloud technologies like Azure. She is committed to continuous learning and enjoys connecting with other developers through tech communities and international public events.

In addition to her technical work, Jonah is a committed and inclusive community leader in the Nordics. She founded and is leading the Azure User Group Sweden, a tech community focused on Azure for cloud development.

Jonah advocates for gender equality, diversity, and inclusion in the tech industry. She was awarded as the Developer of the Year at Nordic Women in Tech Awards 2023

She volunteers as a mentor to young women seeking to build careers in tech and is a passionate public speaker on these topics. Jonah is also the co-host of the ExtendWomenInTech Podcast, where she shares inspiration to inspire tech and promote inclusive tech for everyone.

Session -Cloud Development with Azure Developer CLI (azd)

As an open-source developer tool for cloud development, Azure Developer CLI (azd) is a great cloud development tool for developers and cloud development team working working with Azure.

As development-centric Azure Developer CLI,
azd allows you to develop with Azure with consistently across the terminal, integrate with your DevOps CI/CD pipelines like GitHub Actions, GitHub Codespaces, remote containers and more.

In this session, Jonah Andersson will share the important concepts you need to get started with Azure Developer CLI (azd) for your development projects - from configuring your local environment or dev containers, using the awesome azd templates, and other great stuff you need to know about this command-line tool and how it can help make you as developers productive while learning new technologies and collaborate with your team.

Speaker 1 - Dillon White Senior Microsoft Security Architect and Career Coach

Senior Microsoft Security Architect and Career Coach
Microsoft Security evangelist with over twelve years of IT Engineering and Leadership experience. Military veteran with a background in Cloud Security and Virtualization. Now providing Architecture consulting and career transition coaching.

Session - Developing Securely Ft. Defender for Cloud

8:30 pm - Approximate Close!

SAVE THE DATE! - July 17 2024, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
AGENDA

Welcome and Housekeeping:
The event will commence at 6:00 pm with a warm welcome.

Speaker 1: Callum Whyte - NET Developer, Microsoft MVP

Callum Whyte, a four-time Microsoft MVP and a six-time Umbraco MVP, will be the first speaker. His expertise lies in building robust, scalable solutions on Azure and the .NET stack. Additionally, he works on websites using the open-source Umbraco CMS. Beyond his desk, Callum actively organizes community events, including local meetups, hackathons, global conferences, and roadshows. He is also a regular speaker at events worldwide and co-hosts the weekly YouTube series “UmbraCoffee.”

Session : Tour of Azure AI

Let's explore some of the most exciting services under the Azure AI umbrella. This session showcases some cool demos including; building your own CoPilot with Semantic Kernel + Azure Open AI service, and "cloning" your voice with Azure Custom Neural Voice!

Food and Networking:
Break, enjoy refreshments, and networking.

Speaker 2: Jonathan D'Aloia Principal DevOps Engineer at Adatis

I have been working with the Azure BI stack for over 4 years now and specifically have a passion for DevOps within the data space. My particular focus now is automating Infrastructure deployments through Azure DevOps pipelines, to streamline and simplify on going deployments which improve stability withing cloud data platforms.

I started working on Data Warehouses and designing and improve existing data models but as the Azure BI stack evolved over the years, my interest turned more into the underlying Infrastructure that was hosting the Data Platforms, which is when I turned my attention to Azure DevOps and automation processes such as CI/CD.

I have experience in working with Infrastructure as code languages such as BICEP, Terraform and ARM templates, I also write and design YAML templates to automate the deployment of the Infrastructure as well as pipelines to deploy the code base to these resources.
Automation is key!

Session: Azure Vertified Modules

Approximate Close:

8:40pm.