Welsh Azure User Group - April 2025 Event (Virtual)

Join the Welsh Azure User Group for our April 2025 event, held virtually. This month, we have an exciting line up of speakers and topics to help you enhance your skills and leverage the power of Microsoft Azure. Whether you're new to Azure or an experienced user, there's something for everyone in this event.

SAVE THE DATE! - 16th April 2025 6.30pm-8.30pm GMT
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The bridge will be open from 6.00pm for people to join before we kick of promptly at:

6.30pm - Welcome and House Keeping

6.45pm – Owain Osbourne-Walsh - Building Self Hosted AI Applications on Kubernetes with KAITO

In this talk Owain will discuss how KAITO (The Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator) can be leveraged to enable self hosted AI Application development. Owain will talk about the benefits of self hosted LLM's and the potential future state of AI development including a demo showing KAITO in action, simplifying the creation, management and tuning of a self hosted LLM.

7.30pm – Colin Chaplin - Using Azure Communications Service for an SMTP relay

Azure Communication Services (ACS) is a relatively new service for customer contact, and Microsoft are recommending the use of ACS to send emails following limits being applied to Office365.

This session introduces the ins-and-oust of using ACS to relay emails following limits, told by telling the story of a household names migration to it.

8.15pm - Quiz time!

8.30pm - Approximate Close!