Cloud9 Community Channel- Sept 2024 Meetup

Warm welcome from Cloud9 Community Channel! We invite you to join us at the Community Meetup in September 2024.

Cloud9 Community Channel is a community driven series of cloud events dedicated to educating and engaging members of the local technical community. The community meetup draws upon the expertise of Cloud, AI & cyber security based IT professionals, developers and solutions architects who come together to share their real-world experiences, lessons learned, best practices, and general knowledge with other like-minded individuals.
Come, join us with our local folks as well as speakers from the region as we explore how various tech solutions integrate to help business digitally transform to do more with less.

Date: Sept 27, 2024 (Fri)
Time: 5:30pm BST onwards
Venue: Microsoft Teams (If you wish to receive a gentle reminder or would like to speak in upcoming Meetups, do sign up at https://forms.microsoft.com/r/3Erbxw8jQE

We are planning to come up with following topics of discussions:
Session 1- Welcome to Community & Azure Platform Overview- By Pradeep Kandel (Microsoft MVP)- Connect in Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradeepkandel/
05:30pm - 6:00pm
Pradeep will discuss about Cloud9 Community Channel and how to engage with the platform. Pradeep would also share an overview of Azure as a infrastructure platform.

Session 2- Keep your Cloud infrastructure secure the right way! - By Adnan Hendricks (Microsoft MVP)- Connect in Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahendricks/
06:00pm - 6:45pm
Adnan will show what vulnerabilities exist and how to best protect yourself from them. Learn how you can use Microsoft Azure Security Controls to help your organization prevent, detect, and respond to threats by providing increased visibility into the security of your cloud workloads along with advanced analytics to identify attacks that might otherwise go undetected.

Session 3- Smart ways to manage & optimize costs in Azure- By Shaun Wilkinson (Cloud Administrator)- Connect in Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaun-wilkinson/
06:45pm - 7:15pm
In this session, Shaun will perform a quick dive into the Azure Cost Management center, followed by a run-through of the most common cost saving techniques available on commonly used resource types

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Speaking opportunity!
Would like to speak in a future Meetup? Please do fill out your interest by filling out the speaker form at https://forms.microsoft.com/r/2Cm72SrAHt so that we can reach you back with next steps.

Community Support!
This Meetup is supported by Microsoft Tech Community. Would like to sponsor the community? Lets speak as we are looking out for potential sponsors! Thank you in advance!