Zero Trust Containers and Copilot development with Microsoft Copilot Studio

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This event is 17:30 for 18:15. The session content will start promptly at 18:15 PM. Attendees are welcome to arrive earlier for networking and snacks!

Agenda

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Implementing Zero Trust for Containers - A Best Practice Guide

Customers have been modernizing applications since the advent of Microservices and Serverless but have struggled with implementing Zero Trust at a container level.

In this session we uncover:
- What Zero Trust Architecture is
- How to secure your container infrastructure with Zero Trust
- What options are available in Microsoft Azure for locking down containers
- How to monitor and manage container security

By implementing Zero Trust best practices, companies are able to mitigate their cybersecurity risks and achieve a higher Cloud Security Posture state.
Come along to this session to find out how.

Speaker: Alistair Pugin

Alistair has worked in various capacities in multiple verticals from retail – manufacturing to government, spanning 50 to 15000 users utilizing all aspects of pure Enterprise Information Management.

His current position as a Microsoft MVP in South Africa, provides him with a mechanism to assist companies with architecting their SharePoint environment using "best of breed", proven methodologies to foster innovation and growth through an ECM framework while incorporating a Knowledge Management strategy.
It is with this vision that he strives to provide customers with a platform for Business Productivity Enrichment, establishing communities of practice through proper analysis and building a knowledge economy that is both quantifiable and achievable.

Enhance copilot development with Microsoft Copilot Studio

Building intelligent and powerful copilots for your customers and employees has never been easier.

Microsoft Copilot Studio is an end-to-end conversational AI platform that lets you create and customize powerful AI-powered copilots using natural language or a graphical interface for a range of requests—from providing simple answers to common questions to resolving issues requiring complex multi-turn conversations.

This session will cover how you can use Copilot Studio to extend Microsoft copilots, build your own copilot leveraging functionality such as Generative Answers to surface information from any number of data sources. AI-based topic authoring to create workflows, and publishing custom plugins and prompts to surface your business data where you need it.

Join me and discover how Copilot Studio can help you transform your business, increase your agent productivity, and reduce your development costs.

Speaker: Gomolemo Mohapi

Gomolemo is a young South African who is determined to make a long-lasting impact on the world through technology.

A .NET developer with a history of creating written programming tutorials for university students and conducting multiple coding workshops, hackathons and speaking at various conferences across the globe.

Gomolemo eventually fell in love with the Power Platform, because it was a low-code platform which gave way for him to empower and upskill not just those with a technical background, but anyone from any industry who was looking to learn how to build applications.

He has since co-authored a Power Platform Udacity course and is now a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft focused on Power Apps and Fusion Development leveraging his love and skill for both traditional and low-code development.