Name: Azure November Meetup (Pre-NIC)
Start: 2023-11-07T16:30:00+01:00
End: 2023-11-07T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Microsoft Norway

Welcome to a November Meetup in Oslo at Microsoft offices! We've been planning on some exciting sessions for you this afternoon, which will happen on the eve of NIC in:

* 🪄 Damian Flynn: "From Witchery to Wizardry : Crafting Azure Policies"
* 🧑🏻‍💻 Viktor Hedberg: "Extending the PAW mentality to the cloud"
* 🧠 Loredana Groza: "Processes framework for AI enabled organizations and innovation at scale"

See more session details at our upcoming schedule https://azureusergroup.no/#schedule.

We will serve some pizza and beverages before the event. There will be time to mingle and get to know the community before, during and after the event.

Hope to see you there!

Jan Vidar Elven

Anders Eide

Martin Ehrnst

Zach Olinske

Jan Egil Ring

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### **Damian Flynn**

Making incredible technology, incredibly simple.
Damian is a Principal Consultant for Innofactor (Norway); an evangelist guided on the principal of “Making incredible technology, incredibly simple.”. Recognized as a Microsoft MVP since 2011 and Cisco Champion since 2014, he can be found blogging at [www.damianflynn.com](http://www.damianflynn.com/), tweeting under the alias @damian_flynn, and has published a number of white papers, technical articles, webinars, and co-author of multiple Microsoft Cloud related books, and Official Course-ware. He is a regular presenter at many international and community events,

Currently focused on Cloud Technologies, Specialising in Azure Governance, and sustainable DevOps; Assisting organisations on Cloud optimised delivery of Legacy Apps and Microservices, leveraging containers and serverless when possible. When not working; his passion is IoT, with a background in PLC and embedded electronics, and has delivered professional home automation solutions.

### **Viktor Hedberg**

Cyber Security Consultant @ Truesec AB
[Microsoft MVP](https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5004563?fullName=Viktor%20Hedberg) (verified)

Security consultant with a focus on Microsoft Security either on-prem or in the cloud, and a blueteamer at heart. Viktor has worked within IT for the past 10 years always within Cyber Security. Working for public sector in Sweden for years but now as a specialist at Truesec AB focusing on proactive security measures, DFIR and advises on all things cyber.

### **Loredana Groza**

Microsoft
Currently, I am a Cloud solution architect in the Azure Core team in Microsoft Norway.

Previously, I worked for 5 years in Microsoft Development Center Norway as a Software engineer for Azure backend services in M365 Core and 5 years in IBM as Software engineer for Business Analytics services. In Microsoft I served also as Service excellence driver for a part of the services in M365 Core.

Damian Flynn | Viktor Hedberg | Loredana Groza