The Malta Microsoft AI User Group (MMAUG) is launching its 2026 Speaker Series and invites passionate technologists, architects, developers, researchers, and AI leaders to share their expertise with the growing Microsoft AI community in Malta.
As a new but strategically positioned community focused on Microsoft AI Foundry, Agentic AI, and Enterprise AI Engineering, MMAUG aims to become the premier AI-focused Microsoft technical community in Malta.
We welcome sessions aligned with the Microsoft AI ecosystem, including (but not limited to):
- Azure AI Foundry (Models & Agent Service)
- Multi-agent architectures (Orchestrator + Domain Agents)
- Tool-using AI agents
- Enterprise-grade RAG systems
- Copilot Studio vs Foundry positioning
- AI-native enterprise solution patterns
- LLM architecture and deployment strategies
- Prompt engineering & evaluation frameworks
- Multimodal AI (text, speech, vision)
- Fine-tuning and grounding models
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Responsible generative AI design patterns
Beyond Foundry, we welcome sessions around:
- Azure AI Search
- Document Intelligence
- Speech-to-Text (STT) & Text-to-Speech (TTS)
- Vision & Image analysis
- Azure Machine Learning
- Azure AI Content Safety
AI requires robust infrastructure and security. We will also consider sessions around:
- AKS & Container Apps for AI workloads
- GPU VM strategies
- Hub-and-spoke landing zones for AI
- Private endpoints & secure networking
- Scaling and cost optimization
- Observability for AI systems
- Securing AI from code to runtime
- Prompt injection & data exfiltration mitigation
- Defender for Cloud for AI workloads
- EU AI Act readiness
- NIST AI RMF alignment
- Identity & RBAC for AI systems
- Human-in-the-Loop governance models
We will emphasise reproducibility and automation. Therefore, sessions that cover the following are highly welcome:
- Azure Bicep
- Terraform for Azure
- Policy-as-Code
- Landing zone automation
- AI environment provisioning
- Drift detection & compliance automation
AI systems require modern engineering practices. We will strongly welcome sessions covering the following:
- GitHub Copilot for AI development
- Azure DevOps pipelines for model deployment
- GitHub Actions for AI CI/CD
- MLOps & LLMOps lifecycle management
- Model versioning & evaluation pipelines
- DevSecOps for AI workloads
The Meetup Sessions are scheduled to run two Saturdays in a Month starting on Saturday, May 9, 2026, to Saturday, Dec 12, 2026.
If you would love to present a session, submit your session https://sessionize.com/malta-microsoft-ai-user-group-meetup-series-2026
