[GDN] 19th Microsoft Azure User Group Poland meetup in Gdańsk

Join us for the 19th Azure User Group meeting in Gdańsk!
This time, the meetup will focus on exciting topics, including Azure API Emulations, Azure DevSecOps with Sentinel, and a re-cap of the most important announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025.

ℹ️ KEY INFORMATION

• Date: December 4th
• Time: 🕕 18:00 (6:00 PM)
• Location: DevOne HUB, al. Grunwaldzka 411, Gdańsk
• Language: Please note that thanks to the fact we will have Gareth, a speaker from Barcelona, all sessions will be delivered in English.
• Registration: Please register using your full name (first and last name). The list of registered participants is shared with building security to grant access

🎤 AGENDA
📌 18:00 - 18:10 Welcome - Paweł Siwek

📌 18:10 – 19:00 "Is Azure Service Emulation Hard?"
Kamil Mrzygłód, Technical Lead, Jit Team

📌 19:05 - 19:45 From Zero to a DevSecOps Hero: Extending Microsoft Sentinel
Gareth Emslie, Senior Product Manager & Tech Evangelist, Dynatrace

📌 19:50 - 20:15 Microsoft Ignite 2025 re-cap
Pawel Siwek, Principal Product Architect, Dynatrace

📌 20:30 - 21:00🙂 Pizza, re-hydrate & networking 🙂

SESSION DETAILS & SPEAKERS
1. "Is Azure Service Emulation Hard?"
Kamil Mrzygłód, Technical Lead, Jit Team
Working with Azure can be challenging, especially when you lack the capability to quickly verify your changes. While Microsoft provides emulators for some basic services, checking changes in IaC (Infrastructure as Code) or RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) is neither obvious nor simple. During this session, we will explore how to emulate key Azure functionalities and services, including authentication using Entra ID, authorization, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Key Vault, and many others.
About the Speaker:
Kamil Mrzygłód is a Tech Lead & Developer, as well as a trainer and consultant who has been involved with Microsoft technologies for years. In his daily work, he focuses on developing software based on the Azure cloud but does not shy away from topics related to infrastructure or broadly defined DevOps. He is the author of books on Microsoft Azure, a three-time Microsoft Azure MVP, and a weekend OSS contributor.

2. From Zero to a DevSecOps Hero: Extending Microsoft Sentinel
Gareth Emslie, Senior Product Manager & Tech Evangelist, Dynatrace
Learn how to impress your SecOps colleagues by building custom connectors, analytics rules, and playbooks; enhancing detection and remediation capabilities, and shortening the time required to detect and mitigate attacks.
About the Speaker:
Gareth is a Senior Product Manager & Tech Evangelist with a background in architecting and building cloud software & services. Currently working at Dynatrace, where he helps to shape cloud strategy.

3. Microsoft Ignite 2025 Re-cap
Paweł Siwek, Principal Product Architect, Dynatrace
The week of November 17th - 21st, the San Francisco Moscone Center becomes the heart of the Azure universe, packed not only with AI but plenty of interesting sessions on existing and just announced Azure services. During this 25 minutes, I'll try to give a subjective re-cap of the sessions I've joined and what the Expo and the Ignite venue looked like in reality.

👋👋👋 We look forward to seeing you there!