12th May 2026 - Yorkshire Azure User Group #46

Hello and welcome to the May Yorkshire Azure User Group event!

For those that are new to our community, we are a diverse technical community hosting events across South Yorkshire on a monthly basis with some of the best minds in the industry. Everyone is welcome regardless of technical background, so feel free to join us for the evening - if you have any questions, just reach out to one of the organisers!

This month's event is hosted by our good friends over at Axiologik
in Leeds - the venue is a 5 minutes' walk from Leeds station. As usual food and drink will be provided.

Session #1 - Why Understanding Hardware Topology for Resource Allocation? By Femi Osho.

Delivered by Femi Osho, an open source enthusiast, this talk will have a look at why having an understanding of the hardware topology a workload is running on is important for efficient resource allocation.

Session #2 - Running AI workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service
Delivered by Salman Iqbal, Solutions Architect at Appvia

Running AI workloads in the cloud looks simple: deploy a container, request a GPU and it just works. But what actually happens behind the scenes? This session explores how GPU workloads run in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Uncovering the hidden layers of schedulers, device plugins, drivers and container runtimes that make it possible.

We will also look at the real challenge platform teams face: sharing expensive GPU hardware efficiently across multiple applications using techniques like time-slicing and hardware partitioning. No Kubernetes or GPU expertise required, just curiosity about how modern AI infrastructure really works.

As always, we are grateful for all our speakers & sponsors for helping us keep this community alive - if you'd like to sponsor or speak at event yourself, please reach out to one of the committee members on LinkedIn.

~ The Yorkshire Azure User Group committee