DuPSUG – Spring 2026 🐰🥚

It's time for a new Dutch PowerShell User Group in-person edition. This continues our community events, bringing people together around DevOps, PowerShell scripting, and automation in the Netherlands. Hosted at Rubicon in Leusden, the evening will be a chance not only to learn but also to reconnect with fellow community members.

Speakers
As part of this restart, we have opened a Call for Papers to give both new and experienced speakers the opportunity to contribute. The full program will be announced soon.

Agenda
The event will take place on the 8th of April, 2026. All times are listed in CET.

• 17:30 – 18:00 Arrival
• 18:00 – 18:45 Dinner
• 18:45 – 19:00 Welcome from Rubicon / Organizers
• 19:00 – 19:45 First Session
• 19:45 – 20:15 Break
• 20:15 – 21:00 Second Session
• 21:00 – 21:30 Networking

Speaker Information
With the restart of DuPSUG, we are opening the stage for both familiar names and new voices. The CFP is currently live, and speakers will be announced shortly.

Sessions
As we restart our events, sessions will continue to focus on advanced topics in automation, scripting, and DevOps.

### 1. Keep secrets away from AI Assistants: Secure Secrets Management with PowerShell - Jev Suchoi

More often than not, today’s engineering happens inside AI-assisted development environments (IDE's). While this boosts productivity, it also introduces a new risk: secrets leaking into prompts, suggestions, logs, or chat history. This session shows how to set up a local engineering environment using PowerShell so secrets never end up in code, source control, or an IDE’s AI assistant.

The session starts with pragmatic local engineering patterns: separating configuration from code, structuring local secret files, and using .gitignore correctly to prevent accidental exposure. From there, it moves to a secure-by-default approach using the PowerShell SecretManagement and SecretStore modules. Encrypted vault registration, safe unlocking, and runtime secret consumption are covered without leaking sensitive values into scripts, terminals, AI prompts or sharing them with AI Assistants lurking in your development environment.

As a demo, secure authentication to Azure and Azure DevOps is demonstrated using PowerShell without exposing credentials to environment variables, clipboard history, or AI tooling. The focus remains on habits and patterns that scale from solo engineers to professional engineering teams.

### 2. Modern Powershell module development - Marko Stanojevic

Demonstrate powershell module template with built in versioning, labeling, CI/CD, devcontainer, VS code settings, built in tasks, Github Copilot and agents instructions, pull request labeling and release notes automatic generation.

https://github.com/WarehouseFinds/PSScriptModule

Location
We are in-person at:

Rubicon
Leusderend 36
3832 RC Leusden

Participation is free, and you are encouraged to attend in person.

Tickets
We kindly ask you to register your attendance through Meetup. Our events are made possible through sponsorship, and accurate attendance numbers help us secure continued support. Please make sure to register if you plan to attend, and update your RSVP if your plans change.