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Microsoft Ignite | Nov 2-4, 2021 | Digital event
Find out more about Azure cloud platform's 200+ products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life to solve today's challenges and create the future.
| A relaxed discussion on what's happening in our Swiss tech community and how to get involved. We have a thriving technical community in Switzerland - developers, ITPros, Data Lovers - everybody is using Azure and Open Source. Learn about what we do and what's happening next. Florian Georg, Matthias Gessenay, Yannic Graber, Isidora Katanic, Jose Luis Latorre, Karl Ots, Annie Talvasto, Samuel Zuercher |
| Accelerate your Migration and Modernization Journey to Azure Microsoft Azure provides access to a comprehensive set of cloud services that, as developers and IT professionals, can be used to build, deploy, and manage applications through a global network of data centers. Learn how migrating to Azure can help organizations optimize costs, stay secure, and be resilient by avoiding costly business interruptions. Rashi Joshi, Deepika Seelam |
| APAC Local Connection: Build the next generation of applications that run anywhere, Empowered Dev community with Hybrid We believe that innovation can happen anywhere/anytime to unlock potential of your business. Microsoft Azure is hybrid by design so we will hear from popular community leads to see how Microsoft Azure Hybrid can innovate anywhere, unlock limitations that Thai customers may have experienced. We have answer to that. Thai Community leads will show how simple it is. Fukiat Julnual, Wittawat Karpkrikaew, Kasidis Satangmongkol |
| APAC Local Connection: Driving business value through Application Innovation and Modernization using Azure Cloud Native services While more and more organizations have started migrating their applications to the cloud, organizations who invest in modernizing their applications using the cloud native services stack are seeing higher long-term business value creation by operating with agility, increasing flexibility and innovating at scale to truly meet the needs of their internal and external stakeholders. Join us in this session to learn from BiqMind who have worked with organizations across APAC to help drive an innovation and modernization mindset and help them achieve desired results. Vinod Narayanankutty, Gaurang Shenoi |
| APAC Local Connection: Mixed Reality in a New Reality: rebuilding organizations on the foundation of innovation COVID-19 has posed numerous challenges for all. With it, however, it has brought about ample opportunities to adopt new and innovative ways of doing things. In this session, we explore examples and learnings from the Asia region of how organizations are embracing new technologies, particularly in a world where physical gatherings and interactions are minimized. Learn about use cases that cut across industries and get inspired to start your journey with the HoloLens. Lawrence Crumpton |
| Ask the Experts - An introduction to the Azure OpenAI Service Join us for an interactive Q&A with the core team of the Azure OpenAI Service. This new service is designed to unlock advanced language scenarios using OpenAI's GPT-3 and Codex models. If you have a string use case and/or wondering if the service will meet your needs, this is the forum to get your questions answered. Sarah Bird, DOMINIC DIVAKARUNI, Christopher Hoder, Trang Le |
| Ask the Experts: Bring Azure Kubernetes Services to a Hybrid Environment The Blueprint Files Join our experts to answer your questions with an in-depth view of deploying Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) anywhere in your hybrid environment using Azure Stack HCI. Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Stack HCI is an on-premises implementation of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which automates running containerized applications at scale and allows customer to bring Azure services to their on-premises environment using Azure Arc. Abhilasha Agarwala, Raymond Baziwane, Subodh Bhargava, Sarah Cooley, Mike Kostersitz, Thomas Maurer |
| Ask the Experts: Build secure apps with collaborative DevSecOps practices As the threat landscape shifts with new types of cybersecurity attacks targeting development environments and the software supply chain, shifting security left becomes a necessity. To securely deliver innovation, organizations must harden their dev environments, integrate security early in the development cycle, and foster collaboration between the DevOps and SecOps teams. Learn how Microsoft's unified solution combines GitHub and Azure to empower your development teams to securely deliver innovative apps at DevOps speed. Grey Baker, Jessica Deen, Lavanya Kasarabada, Bas van Schaik |
| Ask the Experts: Building a Hybrid data platform with Azure Arc-enabled data services Get your questions answered and learn how to bring Azure services to any environment. Our experts will share how organizations can leverage Azure Arc to manage any infrastructure across multi cloud and hybrid environments. Learn how you can leverage your existing SQL servers and optimize them with the benefits of the cloud, while keeping them on-premises. Lior Kamrat, Dhananjay Mahajan, Dinakar Nethi, Jes Schultz |
| Ask the Experts: How to accelerate cloud migration and modernization with expert help and expanded tools Customers are accelerating cloud adoption plans as they recover and reimagine their businesses. Attend this Ask the expert session to learn how to successfully move your apps, data, and infrastructure to Azure with hybrid flexibility. Learn about our latest investments in Azure capabilities, tools, Azure Migration and Modernization Program (AMMP), and FastTrack for Azure so you can move with confidence. Tony Korolis, Debbi Lyons, Chhavi Nijhawan, Shikher Saluja, Ananthanarayan Sundaram, Naga Surendran |
| Ask the Experts: New innovations from edge to cloud across SQL Server and Azure SQL Join experts from SQL Server and Azure SQL team as they answer your questions on how the latest innovations in SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance can transform your business with data, across on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge. Anna Hoffman, PEDRO LOPES, Joseph Sack, Bob Ward |
| Ask the Experts: PowerShell Unplugged with Jeffrey Snover The Blueprint Files PowerShell is more than just a management and configuration framework for IT Pro's, it's the glue that DevOps, Developers and IT Pro's use to manage, configure, and automate servers and services. Are you taking full advantage of what PowerShell has to offer? Come hear the experts show off their favorite solutions building from PowerShell's successful 15-year past and leveraging the new solutions for the future. Regardless if you focus on the cloud, on-premises, or a combination of both, PowerShell is the cross-platform management tool to do it all. Justin Grote, Jason Helmick, Jeffery Hicks, Mike Kanakos, Steve Lee, Danny Maertens, Sydney Smith, Jeffrey Snover |
| Ask the Experts: The cutting edge of AI: Discover the possibilities with Azure Percept The Blueprint Files Join our experts as they answer your questions and get inspired to begin building with edge AI solutions to start the digital transformation and modernization within your organization. Azure Percept is simplifying AI at the edge by giving you rapid prototyping, fully integrated experiences and a supporting ecosystem with hardware and software. Henk Boelman, Paul DeCarlo, Nitya Narasimhan, Amira Youssef |
| Ask the Experts: What’s new in analytics and governance Join experts from the Analytics product teams as they answer your questions on how the latest innovations in Synapse Analytics and Purview can help you accelerate time to insight. Charles Feddersen, Priyanka Langade, Martin Lee, Aaron Merrill, Manoj Raheja, Evangeline White |
| Assess your Architecture with Azure Well-Architected Framework Imagine you're building a new system or migrating an existing system to the cloud. How do you know the data is secure? Can your architecture handle the failure of one or more critical components? Are your resources being used efficiently? The Azure Well-Architected Framework will help you design, build, and continuously improve a secure and reliable application. During this session, the framework, along with the pillars essential to a great Azure architecture will be introduced. David Blank-Edelman, Jason DeBoever |
| Build a basic cloud-native service using PostgreSQL and Node.js By leveraging managed database services, such as Azure Database for PostgreSQL, you can focus on developing your cloud-native applications, rather than on deploying and configuring your data store. Learn how this will allow you to choose the open-source technologies that you're used to but rely on Azure to perform most of the administration and deployment tasks for you. Scott Coulton, Glaucia Lemos |
| Calling All Futurists with Microsoft Data and AI Simply put, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can empower amazing new solutions and experiences. Machine Learning is the foundation for most AI solutions. Learn more about what Microsoft Data and AI mean, how they apply and change every industry, and what it takes to get started with these solutions. Chelsea Lee |
| Deploy IoT Solutions with Azure SQL Database Many organizations are investing in IoT to increase operational efficiency, deliver better customer experiences, increase levels of security, enhance workplace safety, and reduce costs. This session will introduce how Azure SQL Database provides a price-performant backend, including templates that simplify deploying and configuring IoT solutions for any scenario. Anna Hoffman, Davide Mauri |
| France Local Connection: Are you ready to App-grade your customer experience? What we have acknowledged in the past 18 months is that all companies wanting to thrive must launch, upgrade, multiply products faster to meet unpredictable & always changing client needs. IT teams have been struggling with exponential demand and legacy systems, and traditional application development has come to stall innovation. With Microsoft, discover a new era of modern apps with cloud native, low code & visual modelling, 1-click cloud deployment & app store. In this session, Amélie Lair, Fabien Medat & Benjamin Talmard will explain how Azure, Power Platform and Teams as a Platform enable you to develop the next gen applications. Amélie Lair, Fabien Medat, Benjamin Talmard |
| Introduction to Azure Arc-enabled Data Services Azure Arc-enabled data services are designed to make it possible to run Azure-managed data services in the infrastructure of your choice using the power of Kubernetes. Azure Arc-enabled data services include Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance and Azure Arc-enabled PostgreSQL Hyperscale. This session will highlight the fundamentals of hybrid computing, Azure Arc, and Azure Arc-enabled data services. Bob Ward, Buck Woody |
| Learn how Azure empowers developers to innovate by listening to what Greek customers and MVPs have to share from their experience. At Microsoft Greece, Cyprus and Malta we strive to empower developers to achieve more. During this session, we will connect you with our top-notch Application Development Specialists, Greek MVPs and representatives from Greek developer communities who will discuss real-life experiences and Greek customer case-studies. Join us to connect directly with our experts and hear from them how Azure is the best place for developers! Nikolaos Antoniou, Mary Bina, Vaggelis Kappas, Efstathios Mouzakis, Paris Polyzos |
| MEA Local Connection: Rolling Out Azure Arc Enabled Data Services Nation-Wide Success Story Join this session to learn more about how the Microsoft Hybrid Solutions Stack (Azure Stack HCI, AKS on HCI, Arc Enabled Data and Application Services) helped regulated industries to port and run Azure PaaS services like data, application, machine learning, etc. anywhere—at the edge, on-premises, and in multi-cloud environments. Our speakers will share KocSistem customer stories, best practices, exciting features, and value proposition of these technologies. Mesut ALADAG, Cuneyt Batmaz, Sönmez Hazar, Firuze Ilkoz |
| Microsoft Azure in Middle East and Africa: Catalyst for digital innovation and economic resilience Join Microsoft Executives for a virtual tour of the Microsoft cloud regions in Middle East and Africa to discover how we are transforming industries and accelerating economic growth and competitiveness. Learn how the Azure global infrastructure is empowering organizations and developers in the region with access to scalable, highly available and resilient cloud services and enabling them to innovate without compromising on data residency, security, and compliance requirements. Built on a secure foundation with innovative services designed for hybrid flexibility, Azure can help you achieve financial, productivity and performance efficiencies at every stage of your cloud migration and modernization strategy through the Azure Migration and Modernization Program Celine BREMAUD, Lana Khalaf, Lillian Barnard, Onur Gorur, Ronit Atad, Sayed Hashish |
| Model and Partition your Data in Azure Cosmos DB Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's fully managed NoSQL database on Azure. As a NoSQL database, Azure Cosmos DB is both horizontally scalable and nonrelational. This session will overview the concepts, techniques, and technologies unique to NoSQL databases for modeling and partitioning data. Mark Brown, Gary Hope |
| Monitor Windows Server IaaS Virtual Machines and Hybrid Instances Azure Monitor can be used for virtual machines (VMs) to observe performance, diagnostic, and dependency information about Windows Server Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) VMs. This session will cover enabling Azure Monitor for VMs, how to use Azure Monitor to collect data in a hybrid environment, how to use it to monitor VMs, and how to integrate Azure Monitor with Operations Manager. Shannon Kuehn, Orin Thomas |
| Programming Essentials for Beginners Every hero's journey begins with a good origin story that highlights how their passion and perseverance got them to where they are today. Turns out, software developers aren't much different. It takes hard work and focus to become a proficient developer. But, where to start? There are fundamental concepts every developer should know, regardless of programming language. In this session, we'll explore some of these concepts like variables, functions, loops and more using Python. Cecil Phillip |
| Reimagine the new era of Business in Thailand with Digital CIO, Empowers your Business in the new era with Dev & Data Velocity A business in the new era requires agility and velocity to bring innovation to market ahead of competitors especially in Telecommunication business, CIO bring digitalization to empower business to achieve more. Learn how top CIO partners with Microsoft to transform their services with faster time to market and building their best practices. Data and Dev velocity is part of the key differentiations that CIO make transformation practical. Phupa Akavipat, Sanjay Andrew Thomas |
| Running mission critical workloads on Azure in Norway - using Availability zones? In this panel, let's hear from the Norwegian companies about how do they build and migrate applications with extreme requirements for availability and resilience. Based on the experiences from the field, you will learn how to use Availability Zones, and how to think around migration. Harald Solstad Fianbakken, Jan Egil Ring, Maxim Salnikov |
| US Local Connection: Data is the new air – how customers use data & apps to drive innovation How do we break down data silos and derive valuable insights about your customers to deliver transformational experiences? Join us for a conversation with the Director of Interconnected Retail Technology at Estée Lauder Companies to learn how they are using Azure data and application services to bridge the physical and digital shopping experience for their MAC Cosmetics customers. This ability to create engaging experiences intertwining physical and digital interactions with customers has enabled them to remain resilient during a pandemic, and is delivering valuable insight to help further personalize the customer experience, accelerate employee productivity, and optimize supply chain planning to future-proof their business. Louis Lionetti, Matthew Smith |
| WE Local Connection: OMV's Cloud Center of Excellence Journey Many IT organizations face the challenge to implement and operate the Microsoft Azure cloud platform on an enterprise scale. We will tell you about our journey from a classic IT organization who acted as a “gatekeeper” for classic infrastructure services to a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) who acts as broker for the modern IT organization. The journey at OMV was supported by the Microsoft CCoE offering and we will discuss the challenges we faced and the milestones we were able to achieve in this large transformation. Robin Dorn, Ulrich Endlich, Mustafa Kurtulus, Thomas Vater |
| WE Local: Como LaLiga reimagina una nueva era en el deporte a través de la transformación digital en el fútbol a nivel mundial. Local industry session (Retail/Media) with real world example and customer story of LaLiga (https://www.laliga.com/). In this session we will have the protagonists of the history of transformation that LaLiga has lived in the last 6 years, starting with a fan management platform and going through the orientation to the data that has led the change to become LaLiga Tech, with a commercial approach outside the borders of the organization itself. LaLiga has relied on Azure technology not only to modernize its applications and services but also to radically transform its business model. LaLiga is a Spanish benchmark of App Innovation and Data&AI solutions. Kiko de Angel, Cristina Herrero, Miguel Ángel Leal, Ignacio Melero, Minerva Santana |
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