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	Accelerate Your Cloud Journey - Learn from Leaders: Keeping pace with technology is hard and staying ahead of the game is very challenging. Join APAC leaders/experts and learn how they accomplish this. Ask your questions, get your answers and accelerate your career. Ian Choi, Shubhangi Gupta, Annie Mathew, Sudhir Rawat
	Accelerate your online learning journey with great content in Korean! Azure, 온택트로 마스터 하자!: 이젠 온라인 한글 컨텐츠로 최신 클라우드, Azure 의 핫 트렌드와 기술을 알아보세요. 온택트 시대, Azure를 마스터 하고자 하는 분들을 위한 스킬 로드맵을 공개합니다. 놓치지 마세요! Want to optimize your skill sets to develop your cloud journey? Here we introduce cool online content in Korean to accelerate your own learning path with Docs and Learn resources. Come and ask to famous speakers from Azure Ficial & Playlist local content in Korean for your successful learning journey which facilities your digital transformation with skilling! Ian Choi, Jemin Chun, Sungwon Ham
	Accélération des innovations pour un nouvel environnement de travail alliant sécurité et sobriété numérique: La crise sanitaire a imposé aux organisations de réagir dans l'urgence pour accélérer leur transformation digitale.• Comment mettre en place le travail à distance en toute sécurité ?• Comment répondre aux enjeux d'un système d'information plus sobre pour notre environnement ?Nous tentons d'y répondre en vous montrant comment Microsoft France s'associe à ses clients et partenaires locaux pour répondre à ces problématiques. Pierre LAGARDE, Bernard Ourghanlian
	Ask the Experts: Microsoft Certifications: Get all your Microsoft Certification questions answered by our panel of experts. We'll cover the Microsoft Certification exams that are available, the recently announced changes to certification renewal, and new certifications launching at Microsoft Ignite. Eric Kamor, Allison Kraker, Sudarshan Krishnamurthi, Sara Mashfej, Liberty Munson
	Blending Worlds: Empowering Humans through Mixed Reality: The power and potential of mixed reality in changing the world is tremendous, and we are only at the tip of the iceberg as we navigate the new normal of a distributed, remote workforce. Join this session to hear from our speakers on how they are leveraging mixed reality to solve complex problems, create positive social impact and empower ALL humans. Learn about where they believe the future of mixed reality is headed and the role you can play in driving this transformation. Xerxes Beharry, Niels Broekhaus, Alexander Meijers, Alexandra Petty
	Celebrating Canadian Women in Technology: Join us as we hear from celebrated women in technology! We will be discussing the importance of diversity and inclusion in tech and what Microsoft is doing in this space. Hear from a panel that includes Holly Peck, Director of Creative Services, Soul Machines, Kristina Balaam, Senior Security Intelligence Engineer, Lookout and Naila Moloo, Innovator, The Knowledge Society. The panel will be hosted by our very own Carolyn Byer, Human Resource Lead at Microsoft Canada. Kristina Balaam, Carolyn Byer, Naila Moloo, Holly Peck
	Hong Kong Dev Community Updates for 2021 Delivered in Cantonese: In the face of the new normal, digital transformation requires new skills for talents to stay competitive and businesses to achieve innovation for survival. In this 30-min live session, our speakers will share the latest updates in Microsoft's technical skilling resources, events, and program offers you must know as developers/IT pros/business leaders in Hong Kong! Warren Wong, Ryan Yuen
	How Gold Student Ambassadors are empowering others by using tech for good: In this panel Gold Student Ambassadors will discuss their work in equality in education, renewable energies, and building student communities on both a local and global level. Hear more about how students in the Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors program pursue their passions by helping others learn about the vast world of technology and how to gain access to it. Come learn more about the incredible work these students are doing to better our world through technology! Navika Chhauda, Antony Diaz, Phantip Kokilanon, Simran Makhija, Pablo Veramendi
	ITエンジニアが未来を創る ~ DXを推進する技術者の役割 Engineers create the future ~ New skill set for engineers to drive DX: かつてないほど、日本もデジタルトランスフォーメーション（DX) の必要性に迫られている中、技術者への注目がかつてないほど高まっています。最新テクノロジーとツールを活かして新しい変化を創造すること。近未来を見据えて活躍するエンジニアを目指すこと。そして、技術者が活躍できる文化を日本に根付かせていくこと。それらは、これからの日本を支える鍵となるでしょう。本セッションでは、テクノロジーに対するこれからの学びのあり方、技術者の人材育成の取り組みをはじめ、技術者への期待について、日本マイクロソフト　チーフラーニングオフィサー伊藤かつらとクラウドネイティブ&デベロッパーマーケティング部門 エバンジェリスト小田祥平がご紹介します。Recently attention to engineers has never been greater, while Japan is under the need for DX. To make changes with utilizing the latest technologies and tools. Katsura Ito, Shohei Oda
	Java <3 Azure / Session France: Vous êtes développeur.se Java et vous ne savez pas comment cela fonctionne avec Azure?Pourtant Azure met déjà à disposition plusieurs services et outils pour les développeurs.ses Java! On vous les fait découvrir dans cette session flash de 30 min avec Julien Dubois, Cloud Advocate Java, chez Microsoft. Objectif? Avoir une vue 360 sur les différents types de déploiement (VM, Azure App Service, AKS), ainsi que les outils clés en main (Spring Boot Starters, GitHub Actions, IDE plugins...). Julien Dubois
	Led by Purpose, Driven by Action.: Charu Srinivasan, Partner Director of Engineering, Cloud & AI, Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) in conversation with leading community leaders as they share their journey and how they have tamed the code, platform and every bug that's come along their way to build successful products, careers and institutions. Nishu Goel, Charumathy Srinivasan, Praveen Srivatsa
	Meet Your Local Technical Community: In this session, we'll put the spotlight on your local Azure technical groups, highlighting all the great initiatives they're doing and looking at some cool and geeky projects other developers are working on. Suzanne Daniels, Susana Felicio
	Mental Health Check in Power Apps: Using Tech to Manage Anxiety and Build Community: Mental health struggles and social isolation are both things that challenged many people in the last year. Jon Russell merged his two passions, Mental Health and Power Platform, to build an app to help manage his anxiety and ended up helping others along the way. Learn how he used tech in his mental health journey with his check-in app and how he helped build a supportive community of over 250 people to look after his town and connect to one another. Jon Russell
	Microsoft Ignite - Local Connection Session - Germany: Microsoft Germany Local Connection session is the place to get in touch with the Developer and IT Professional Community. Topics covered include: Ignite March 2021 Tourguide & Highlights, a Developer-Chat about Kubernetes and Open Source, TechConnect & Community-Offerings, Training and Skilling powered by Microsoft and its partners….and many more. Feel free to also join the Live-Chat during this session and address your questions directly with our team. Let`s connect - wir freuen uns auf Euch! Dr. Benjamin Kreck, Nico Meisenzahl, Edip Saliba, Ida Tang, Robin-Manuel Thiel
	Microsoft Ignite Brazil Session – Local Connections 2021: Join our session to go deeper on the main announcements on the first big event of the year! This session will be held in Portuguese with some of the best Microsoft technologies specialists, across all the different solution areas: Azure, Business Applications and Modern Work! Jackson Feijo Filho, Betina Hess, Joao Tranquez, Rodolpho Ugolini Neto
	Microsoft Ignite Highlight and Local Developer Community Connection: Microsoft Ignite Taiwan Connection will talk about the latest updates and highlights of Microsoft Ignite as Live event in Chinese language. Thomas Huang, Kunchi Tsai
	Microsoft Ignite Highlights – Latin America Spanish Session: Come LEARN, CONNECT and EXPLORE, hear about the latest news from Ignite and a complete dossier from executives and experts across Latin America in Spanish. Ernesto Cardenas , Isaac Carrada, Adriana Gomes, Humberto Jaimes, Juliana Orcaizaguirre, Ivana Tilca
	Microsoft Ignite: “Leave me alone – I know what I’m doing!”: In this session, Finnish community leaders will discuss what skills organizations need to acquire or develop in the coming years to thrive. From broader set of skills every employee needs to master, to more in-depth SME knowledge covering different categories. Oskari Heikkinen, Karoliina Kettukari, Vesku Nopanen, Petri Paavola, Nestori Syynimaa
	Microsoft’ and MTS strategic partnership in Russia: Hybrid Cloud, Ecosystem development and IoT: Microsoft and leading telecommunications group in Russia and CIS - MTS will bring together the power of Microsoft IoT Platform and MTS connectivity capabilities for local ISV partners and developers. The content will cover details on creating innovative IoT solutions using wide MTS infrastructure coverage and Microsoft Azure cloud services such as Microsoft IoT Central. Denis Kuzminykh, Andrey Plavich, Dmitry Teteruk
	ML Ops in Action: Key learnings and best practices from the community: In this session we have gathered some ML Ops experts from Microsoft, our partners and customers in Norway. They will have a panel discussion on what is ML Ops, why ML Ops matters and share some key learnings and best practices from their first hand experiences taking ML from PoC to Production on Azure. Stephen Allwright, Luca Garrè, Øyvind Hetland, Shoresh Khezri, Xiaopeng Li
	Modernizing Security for Government Datacenters: Cyber is never a fair fight, especially in State and Local Government. As governments move to modernize their datacenters and re-imagine them in the cloud, there is an opportunity to level the playing field with attackers by deploying advanced security capabilities and automating many of the manual processes that slow or complicate cyber-response today. Hear how we enable resource constrained government customers to meet these challenges with Microsoft Cloud Security tools powered by Azure. Dennis Guzy, Dean lacovelli
	New Breakpoint - Australia @ Microsoft Ignite: Check-in with the Australian tech community as we explore two diverse local topics that are sure to grab your attention. Our first future-focused topic will look at the ongoing developments in quantum computing with Professor David Reilly from Station Q in Sydney and Dr Chris Granade from the Q# team. We will then be joined by Aussie MVPs Lisa Crosbie and Amey Holden who will share their stories about their career in tech and their learning journey. So, grab a drink, drop by, say g'day! Lisa Crosbie, Shiva Ford, Chris Granade, Amey Holden, David Reilly
	Open Source at Microsoft Western Europe – Sharing Experiences: During this session we will briefly explain our Open Source Strategy and how we translated that into innovative use cases.We will have customers like KPMG & Elkjop joining us together with the partner Wortell to share their experiences. Why did they choose Microsoft and how do they feel Microsoft is supporting them to become even more successful?Join us. Gustav Kaleta, Rene Moddejongen
	Polish Cloud Region – What it means to You?: Data Center and Azure Region in Poland is a key enabler to accelerate development of Polish Digital Valley - to build wide range of digital skills, empower companies to compete globally, support Partners to create and unleash the potential of future entrepreneurs and leaders.During the session we will excite you with the opportunity of opening Microsoft Data Center in Poland. Piotr Bralski, Pawel Jakubik, Tomasz Kopacz
	Productivity Tips & Tricks for the Age of Digital Overload: Working styles have changed significantly - we have more meetings, fewer breaks between them, too many online conversations to count, and never-ending digital distractions. Loryan and Megan Strant will discuss the executive functioning challenges this presents for neurodiverse and neurotypical people alike. Learn how they leverage technology to stay productive and how their learnings can help everyone. Loryan Strant, Megan Strant
	Skilling is @ the Heart of our Datacenter activities in Greece: At Microsoft, we're building a “learn it all” culture where we aim to embrace curiosity, focus on being resourceful, and take our learnings and apply them for future success. Join this dedicated session to learn more about “GR for GRowth” a digital transformation initiative to support Greece's growth with technology and resources and Microsoft's commitment to invest on a skilling program in digital technologies. Mary Bina, Albertos Bourlas, Evangelos Kapsalakis
	The Developer Cloud Journey in Middle East & Africa: Best Practices and Learnings Panel: The Developer Cloud represents the power of the Visual Studio Family, GitHub, Microsoft Azure, and many other developer tools, open-source projects and cloud services coming together to transform software development experiences for a cloud-first future. In this panel, we'll discuss best practices from the Developer Cloud journey in the Middle East & Africa region, highlight key learning from embracing a cloud native approach for software development and share challenge around application lifecycle management and DevOps in a remote-first world. Quintin de Kok, Hatim nagarwala, Adir Ron, Batel Zohar
	The Human-Technology Symbiosis: An EDU Success Story: Join Tracy and 3 guest speakers, Quinton Mulder, Neil Treurnicht & Tryphine Nota. We'll be taking a look at the evolution of online education in 2020. This magical triad will give us a look into the struggles they had to overcome, the lessons they learnt and help us gain perspective through the eyes of the 3 main characters in the education space: EdTech Admin, Teacher & Student.They'll shed light on how when doing the right things, for the right reasons, humans not only survive, but thrive Quinton Mulder, Tryphine Nota, Neil Treurnicht, Tracy Van der Schyff
	Transforming communities and nonprofit organizations through digital access, skilling, and support: The last year has amplified gaps in digital access and skilling, the importance and power of technology, and the need to address this at the local level to support our most vulnerable communities. Darrell Booker leads Microsoft's Nonprofit Tech Acceleration (NTA) for Black and African American Communities program and is on the forefront of this work to combat the digital divide and empower nonprofits to have even more impact through access to and adoption of technology. Darrell Booker
	Trust, but verify! How to unlock great innovation while retaining full control with Microsoft Power Platform.: Business Decision Makers and IT Professionals are partners in crime when it comes to unlocking innovation and implementing new ideas and processes in a company. But they approach topics differently and pursue different aspirations. This session dives into the governance challenges from different points of view and shows how Microsoft Power Platform connects and supports both worlds - the Citizen Developer as well as Governance and Compliance. Andreas Aschauer, Martina Saller
	Upskilling Developers: Focus on Italian Communities: Ever wondered how many Italian developers describe themselves as skilled in specific technology domains? How many of them are participating in communities and what are the latest and interesting trends? And what's the value that Microsoft can provide to whom that don't usually work with its technologies? Let's have a discussion with a couple of those communities, Microsoft Developers and technology enthusiasts to answer some of those questions and see where to go next to learn and have fun with Massimo Bonanni, Mariangela Orme, Daniele Pagani

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