The Azure journey of Gemeente Amsterdam

This meetup is at a unique location. We are welcome at the city hall of Amsterdam. Gemeente Amsterdam will tell us all about their journey to embrace Azure. They explain the lessons learned, best practices and how they apply different Azure services for their projects.

We start the evening early and have 4 sessions to give you good insights.

Thanks to Dinant PaardenKooper for organizing this Meetup at Gemeente Amsterdam.

Azure Journey of Gemeente Amsterdam
By Abdoulmajid Bozia (Directeur digitale voorzieningen Gemeente Amsterdam)

Entitlement Management
by Manfred de Laat (co-founder CloudAssist, working for Gemeente Amsterdam)
Manfred explains how Gemeente Amsterdam applies Entitlement management (EM) and Privilege Identity Management (PIM) to manage and secure access to Azure resources.

Data platform at Gemeente Amsterdam
by William van den Bosch (Cloud Data Architect at FreshMinds, working for Gemeente Amsterdam)
William tells us about the choices made and the technical and organizational challenges encountered. He also tells u show the future looks like for Gemeente Amsterdam regarding data on Azure. Technologies like Data Contracts, Databricks, Datalakehouse and Data Mesh will be discussed.

Kubernetes at Gemeente Amsterdam
By Jurgen Alleweijn (IT-architect bij Luminis working for Gemeente Amsterdam) &
Dinant Paardenkooper (IT-architect bij IT-Impressive working for Gemeente Amsterdam)
During this session Jurgen and Dinant share experiences in setting up a Multi-tenant Kubernetes environment based on agent pools in a secure, segmented and compliant manner for all your workload teams, facilitating them in the required protected cloud environment

Location:
Gemeente Amsterdam
Amstel 1
1011 PN Amsterdam

Agenda:
17:00 – 18:00 Dinner
18:00 – 18:30 Azure Journey of Gemeente Amsterdam
18:30 – 19:15 Entitlement Management
19:15 – 20:00 Data platform
20:00 – 20:45 Kubernetes

Practical information:
No free parking available
We advise to travel by public transport
(15 minute walk from Amsterdam Central Station)