Ask the Experts: Connection Zone

Microsoft Build | May 25-27, 2021 | Digital event

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Ask the Experts: A developers Guide to Embedded Analytics using Power BI Embedded in Azure Ask the Experts: A developers Guide to Embedded Analytics using Power BI Embedded in Azure
Join the Power BI Embedded Analytics product team to ask questions about everything Power BI embedded related, as well as any new and coming features and tools, such as the new Power BI Embedded Playground for developers, Power BI client for Jupyter notebooks and more. Be sure to watch the on-demand session ‘Embed actionable analytics everywhere with Power BI Embedded” to learn more.
Ofer Ashkenazi, Alon Baram, Eyal Carmel, Aviv Ezrachi, Sergei Gundorov, Ted Pattison, Amit Shuster
Ask the Experts: Azure Cognitive Search and its semantic capabilities Ask the Experts: Azure Cognitive Search and its semantic capabilities
Come join us as we dive deeper into Azure Cognitive Search to answer your questions on how you can enable your enterprise and customers to find the most relevant information quickly. Azure Cognitive Search now includes new capabilities such as support for indexing content from new data sources and understanding the meaning of words when you search, not just the syntax.
Liam Cavanagh, Puneet Hariharan, Mark Heffernan, Derek Legenzoff
Ask the Experts: Bringing Azure Linux workloads to Windows Ask the Experts: Bringing Azure Linux workloads to Windows
Azure IoT Edge for Linux, also known as EFLOW allows you to manage and deploy your Linux workloads on Windows devices using your existing Microsoft management resources and technology to efficiently optimize all your computing assets. Develop your Linux solutions, publish them on the Azure IoT Edge Marketplace and run them on Windows IoT.
Terry Warwick
Ask the Experts: Bringing data into Microsoft 365 experiences using Microsoft Graph Ask the Experts: Bringing data into Microsoft 365 experiences using Microsoft Graph
Join us to dive deeper into how Microsoft Graph Connectors have evolved to provide even richer access for your data to enterprise search, eDiscovery and more. Bring your questions and learn how you can use that same connector-fed data to create powerful cross-application workflows using the latest version of Adaptive Cards.
Jeremy Thake
Ask the Experts: Build cloud native apps of any scale with Azure Cosmos DB Ask the Experts: Build cloud native apps of any scale with Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is making it simpler, faster, and more cost effective than ever to build cloud native apps of any scale on Azure. Join the Azure Cosmos DB PM team live to learn more about Build announcements and get your questions answered. See you there!
Estefani Arroyo, Deborah Chen, Andrew Liu, Tim Sander, Thomas Weiss
Ask the Experts: Build consistent hybrid and multicloud applications with Azure Arc Ask the Experts: Build consistent hybrid and multicloud applications with Azure Arc
Come talk to the product and technical experts from the Azure Arc and AKS on Azure Stack HCI teams!
Corey Sanders, Guillermo Gomez, Jason Hansen, Matt McSpirit, Andrew Westgarth, Ryan Willis, Travis Wright
Ask the Experts: Build intelligent applications infused with world-class AI Ask the Experts: Build intelligent applications infused with world-class AI
Learn how Azure enables you to create breakthrough experiences in your applications with industry-leading AI. Join the Azure AI product team to learn more about the latest innovations, and get your questions answered during this live Q&A.
Alon Bochman, Andrew Clear, Erin Dormier, Anand Raman
Ask the Experts: Build secure B2C applications with Azure AD External Identities Ask the Experts: Build secure B2C applications with Azure AD External Identities
Join us for this Ask the Experts session on "B2C applications with Azure AD External Identities". Chat with a Microsoft panel of experts simply listen to the conversation during this 30-minute interactive session.
Vinu Gunasekaran, Christer Ljung, Gayan Randeny, Adam Stoffel
Ask the Experts: Build Zero Trust ready applications with the Microsoft identity platform Ask the Experts: Build Zero Trust ready applications with the Microsoft identity platform
Join Microsoft experts for a live Ask-the-Experts session following breakout session (BRK234) "Build Zero Trust ready applications with the Microsoft identity platform.
Saeed Akhter, Kalyan Krishna, Kyle Marsh, Jean-Marc Prieur, Jeff Sakowicz
Ask the Experts: Build, integrate and accelerate Multi-cloud Compliance Ask the Experts: Build, integrate and accelerate Multi-cloud Compliance
Join Microsoft experts for a live Ask-the-Experts session following "Build, integrate and accelerate Multi-cloud Compliance."
Yaron Hezroni, Anne Raheem, Hammad Rajjoub, Nick Robinson
Ask the Experts: Building apps across meetings, chats, and channels within or outside Microsoft Teams Ask the Experts: Building apps across meetings, chats, and channels within or outside Microsoft Teams
This is your opportunity to engage with experts to learn more about what's new with the Microsoft Teams platform. Bring your questions about the expanded features, customizable communications, APIs for hybrid scenarios and how to make interactions as inclusive and fun as can be.
Shubham Chauhan
Ask the Experts: Building Digital Twins, Mixed Reality and Metaverse Apps Ask the Experts: Building Digital Twins, Mixed Reality and Metaverse Apps
What if you could have a digital twin of any physical asset or environment? One that empowered you to run simulations to discover things that are important to you. To understand the past and predict the future. To apply AI to sense that environment and to automate things. To interact with that digital twin and all the insights it contains in a collaborative way in mixed reality. All of this is happening on the Microsoft Cloud with leading edge companies taking advantage of digital twins, mixed reality, AI, IoT and the power of the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge. Meet the Microsoft team leading this innovation and discuss about the services in the Microsoft Cloud that enable these Metaverse applications to drive transformational business outcomes.
Kence Anderson, Chafia Aouissi, Ines Khelifi, Christian Schormann, Simon Skaria, Scott Stanfield
Ask the Experts: Building Low Code Vertical Apps using the Power Platform Ask the Experts: Building Low Code Vertical Apps using the Power Platform
Join the experts from breakout session BRK216 to discuss how low code + SaaS on the Microsoft Cloud can help improve the customer experience across a wide range of industries, all using the Microsoft Cloud.
Justin Graham, Kartik Kanakasabesan, Julie Strauss
Ask the Experts: Building Scalable Startups with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Teams Ask the Experts: Building Scalable Startups with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Teams
Join us live to learn how startups are developing a new generation of enterprise-grade solutions leveraging Azure and Microsoft Teams. Jeff Ma, the VP of Startups at Microsoft will sit down with executives from Troops.ai and Mural to discuss the advantages of building natively on vs. migrating to Azure as a startup, and the opportunity to develop collaborative apps at scale on the Teams platform. This session will cover learnings and best practices generated from compelling real-world scenarios.
Richard Borenstein, Patricio Jutard, Jeffrey Ma, Greg Ratner, Dan Reich
Ask the Experts: Deliver value with apps that plug into the Microsoft Teams platform Ask the Experts: Deliver value with apps that plug into the Microsoft Teams platform
Engage with partners and customers to learn how they are building solutions on Microsoft Teams. Ask questions to learn what's possible and gain inspiration for building your own solutions to drive collaboration and productivity.
Trent Hazy
Ask the Experts: Developer tools for building apps on Microsoft Teams and enabling app adoption Ask the Experts: Developer tools for building apps on Microsoft Teams and enabling app adoption
Join us where we will dive deeper into the developer tools available that will make building apps on Microsoft Teams simpler. Get your questions answered and learn how to easily build, test, host, publish and manage apps. Ask how to increase the adoption of your app and the mechanisms available for users to discover and purchase your app.
Brian Nguyen
Ask the Experts: Dynamic Workflow Orchestration with Azure Data Factory and Prefect Ask the Experts: Dynamic Workflow Orchestration with Azure Data Factory and Prefect
Join us for a live interactive session with our CTO on how Prefect is an open-source general-purpose dataflow automation tool that lets users orchestrate workflows with Python code and how Prefect is the perfect complement to Azure Data Factory in building dynamic workflows. Features include task mapping, non-Azure resource tasks, and robust state handling, while also designed to run on user-managed infrastructure and provides an easy way to manage on-premise execution of workflows through Data Factory.
Kevin Kho, Chris White
Ask the Experts: Enrich your productivity apps with Microsoft Graph tools and data Ask the Experts: Enrich your productivity apps with Microsoft Graph tools and data
Engage with experts to dive deeper into the tools and services that make it easy to enrich your app with Microsoft Graph data. Bring your questions about the Microsoft Graph toolkit, notifications for Exchange resources, and the all-new Event Hub our new approach to web hooks.
Ben Summers
Ask the Experts: Infra as Code - Bicep Ask the Experts: Infra as Code - Bicep
Come talk with the product and technical experts from the Bicep team! Learn more about the product, hear the latest announcements, ask your questions and share your feedback. Our team of experts is looking forward to answering your questions live and in the chat window.
Brendan Burns, Alex Frankel
Ask the Experts: Introducing Test Base, a new app validation for Windows Updates Ask the Experts: Introducing Test Base, a new app validation for Windows Updates
Join us for a discussion around a new service called Test Base to help solve your challenges when it comes to validating your desktop application with Windows updates. Share your feedback with test engineers to help us expand upon an Azure cloud solution for all your testing needs anytime, anywhere.
Amalachukwu Offiah
Ask the Experts: Learn why Azure is the cloud for Open Source developers Ask the Experts: Learn why Azure is the cloud for Open Source developers
Microsoft has always been a developer-first organization, and we are always striving to make our tools and platforms better to serve developers. Azure is designed to give developers flexibility for their cloud-native applications, and the tools to innovate quickly on a highly secure cloud platform. Come and talk to technical experts that contribute to making Azure the most open cloud. We look forward to seeing you there.
Bruno Borges, Aaron Crawfis, Elena Neroslavskaya, Jose Miguel Parrella
Ask the Experts: Microsoft Certifications Ask the Experts: Microsoft Certifications
Get your Microsoft Certification questions answered by our panel of experts. We'll cover available Microsoft Certification exams, how to keep your skills and certifications current, and tips and tricks on how to best leverage your certification.
Allison Kraker, Sudarshan Krishnamurthi, Liberty Munson
Ask the Experts: Microsoft Certifications Ask the Experts: Microsoft Certifications
Get your Microsoft Certification questions answered by our panel of experts. We'll cover available Microsoft Certification exams, how to keep your skills and certifications current, and tips and tricks on how to best leverage your certification.
Dwight Goins, Anastasia Kountoura, Orin Thomas
Ask the Experts: Microsoft Edge Ask the Experts: Microsoft Edge
Meet experts from the Microsoft Edge Developer Experience, Web Platform, and Enterprise teams to ask your questions about the latest platform features, developer tools, and what's new for admins and IT Pros in Microsoft Edge. Microsoft Edge brings a compelling and consistent platform and tools for developers. As our legacy browsers phase out of support, Edge will soon be the only supported browser from Microsoft on Windows 10.
Kyle Pflug
Ask the Experts: Mobile Threat Protection Ask the Experts: Mobile Threat Protection
Mobile endpoints have a small form factor and often driven by distracted users, making them an easy target for bad actors to trick humans into clicking on links and installing bad apps. Developers have an opportunity to ensure they are building security into their coding practices as well as telemetry and signal from their app to help threat protection solutions ensure the safety of users and organizations.
Adam Hall, Kasia Kaplinska
Ask the Experts: Modernize applications using containers Ask the Experts: Modernize applications using containers
Containers are not only for cloud native applications, in fact there are benefits for using containers as vehicles for application modernization on Kubernetes. Join us to have your questions answered about how to plan for your project, prepare the environment, ensure that you can meet your governance and security requirements in a cloud native fashion, and tools and programs available to assist you through this journey.
Jorge Palma, Craig Peters
Ask the Experts: Monitoring in Azure Ask the Experts: Monitoring in Azure
Azure Monitor provides a rich set of enterprise ready monitoring capabilities to ensure you have complete observability of your Azure and hybrid environments, helping you keep them always available, reliable and performant. Join us to get your monitoring questions answered by experts from Azure Monitor team or take this opportunity to share your feedback on what you would like to see in the product.
Oleg Ananiev, Noa Kuperberg
Ask the Experts: Power Platform and the FSI Customer View App Ask the Experts: Power Platform and the FSI Customer View App
Learn more about the FSI Customer View app and discuss how to develop with the Power Platform with the team who brought you the application in this informative and interactive session.
Matthew Bolanos, Roni Karassik, Farhaz Karmali
Ask the Experts: Power Platform is the best way for teams to build together Ask the Experts: Power Platform is the best way for teams to build together
Meet the team from session from breakout 211 and discuss how developers can now collaborate to develop Power Platform solutions together at speed, with the addition of pro dev tools and functionality from VS code extensions to distributed connectors. With the extension of Power Fx and an enhanced Power Apps maker experience, all developers will be empowered to build apps together more easily and efficiently, for a streamlined connected and unified end to end experience for all makers.
Mohammad Ali, Per Mikkelsen, Julie Strauss, Clay Wesener
Ask the Experts: Scaling DevSecOps with GitHub and Azure Ask the Experts: Scaling DevSecOps with GitHub and Azure
Adopting DevSecOps practices at scale requires that development teams can shift left by integrating security in their delivery(CI/CD) pipeline and SecOps can ensure observability and controls on those scans. Join us to have your questions answered on how to configure code scanning, secret scanning etc. in your GitHub Actions based workflow. Learn how to configure and onboard CICD scanning in Azure Security Center.
Lavanya Kasarabada, Steven Murawski
Ask the Experts: Serverless: Event-driven application development Ask the Experts: Serverless: Event-driven application development
Event-driven architecture has become popular for its ability to ingest, process, and react to events in real-time. Come learn from the Functions team on how to translate business processes to event-driven applications.
Anthony Chu
Ask the Experts: The future of modern application development with .NET Ask the Experts: The future of modern application development with .NET
This is your opportunity to engage with the .NET team members building the next version of the platform, .NET 6. Team members working on C# 10, .NET MAUI, Blazor, ASP.NET, and more will be available to answer your questions.
Jeffrey Fritz, Stephen Halter, Scott Hunter, Dmitry Lyalin, Maria Naggaga, David Ortinau, Daniel Roth, Mads Torgersen
Ask the Experts: Visual Studio Team Ask the Experts: Visual Studio Team
This is your opportunity to engage with product and technical experts from the Visual Studio team and learn more about our latest Visual Studio release and Visual Studio 2022! Team members working on .NET productivity and diagnostics, C++, Git tooling and more will be available to answer your questions.
Mika Dumont, Mads Kristensen, Andy Sterland, Gherfal Taysser, Nick Uhlenhuth
Ask the Experts: Welcome to Mixed Reality: Tools & strategies to approach MR development Ask the Experts: Welcome to Mixed Reality: Tools & strategies to approach MR development
Curious about mixed reality application development? Here is your opportunity to connect with experts and have your questions answered on how to approach getting started. Regardless of your developer background, Microsoft's cross-platform, open-source approach enables you to innovate flexibly and solve problems in a fun and unique way. Learn about real-world applications, requirements to get started, 2D and 3D development, and resources such as the MRTK and common UX building blocks to jumpstart your efforts.
Roger Liu, Jesse McCulloch, Summer Wu
Ask the Experts: What’s new in analytics and governance Ask the Experts: What’s new in analytics and governance
Right after John Macintyre announces the latest innovations in analytics and governance, join members of the Azure Synapse, Azure Purview and Power BI product teams to get your questions answered! Whether it is about what's new, what's coming, or something specific, experts will be live to answer your questions in real-time.
Josh Caplan, Euan Garden, Gaurav Malhotra, Miguel Martinez, Saveen Reddy
Ask the Experts: Why Microsoft going all in on game development with Azure Ask the Experts: Why Microsoft going all in on game development with Azure
How games are developed and monetized has changed dramatically. Top grossing games are dominated by titles running as games-as-service, shipped in cycles of constant iteration to increase engagement and monetization of their player base. These models create sticky, high margin games that rely on cloud-based services for analytics, multiplayer, networking, and performance marketing. This session digs to why Microsoft is ALL-IN on game development. Come hungry to ask questions and learn how what we're doing in game development applies to you!
Travis Bradshaw, Chad Lewis, Lawrence Sanchez
Ask the Java at Microsoft Experts Ask the Java at Microsoft Experts
This is your opportunity to engage with the experts that work on all things Java on Azure and Java at Microsoft. We can dive into the broad range of tools, runtimes, services, and APIs that Microsoft offers Java and Azure developers, including the new Microsoft Build of OpenJDK. Our portfolio encompasses Java SE, Spring, Jakarta EE, Kubernetes, serverless, Visual Studio Code for Java and much more! We will also cover the roadmap for what Java developers can expect from Microsoft in the future.
Bruno Borges, Ed Burns, Theresa Nguyen, Reza Rahman, Asir Selvasingh, Martijn Verburg

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