Event Calendar

Webinar:
Azure Platform Engineering - What Is It and Why Do You Need It?

• 1.    Today’s Drivers & Challenges
• 2.    What is Platform Engineering?
• 3.    Organizational Value & Team Benefits
• 4.    Environment Standardization & Automation
• 5.    Template Libraries & InnerSource
• 6.    Azure Platform Engineering Case Study
• 7.    What it Looks Like! (live PE demo!)

Platform Engineering Accelerator - Learn more!

Interested participants include:

• CTOs
• Engineering/Dev Leadership
• Operations & Infrastructure Managers
• Enterprise Architects

Wednesday, May 17th, 2:00PM EST (11:00 AM PT)

Now On Demand

Webinar:
Secrets to Azure Modernizations at Scale

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  Strategies for app/workload inventory and analysis
• How to prioritize for maximum and rapid business impact

• Understanding financial impact (ROI) of modernization  
• Learn to translate prioritization into detailed modernization strategies
• Accelerating app delivery by leveraging self-service automation (i.e., platform engineering)
  

App Modernization at Scale - Learn more!

Interested participants include:

• CTOs/CIOs
• Business Leaders
• Enterprise Architects
• Engineering/Dev Leadership

Now On Demand

Webinar:
What is MLOps & Why is it Important?

Topics include:

• Data & AI Fundamentals
• Model Development
• MLOps!
• Stakeholders & Roles
• Key Challenges
• Azure Data & AI Services

Interested participants include:

• DataOps
• MLOps
• Data Engineers
• Data Scientist
• Product/Program Managers

Now On Demand

Topics include:

• Modern Organizations
• Innovation in a multi-tool environment (DevOps, ITSM, SCM, CRM etc.)
• Value of an Integration Fabric
• Designing your integration strategy
• Integration use case – Azure DevOps & ServiceNow
• Demo
• Key Takeaways

Interested participants include:

• Engineering/Dev Leadership
• Enterprise Architects
• DevOps Engineers
• Integration Engineers
• QA 

Now On Demand

Topics include:

• Benefits of using containers in your cloud strategy
• What is a container a registry and why do we need it?
• Why Kubernetes is a great choice for managing containerized applications
• Benefits of using a Kubernetes service (i.e., AKS)
• Applying DevOps to AKS

• Enterprise Architects
• System Architects
• DevOps Engineers
• Developers
• Infrastructure Managers

Now On Demand

Topics include:

• What's an APIM program and why are they important?
• How do you operationalize API management?
• APIM integration tips and strategies
• API Discoverability
• API Security
• Managing API consumption

Interested participants include:

• CIOs
• Business Leaders
• Enterprise Architects
• Data Engineers

Now On Demand

Webinar:
Unlocking Data & AI with Trusted Data Fabric on Azure

Coming soon!

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Coming Soon!

Webinar:
App Modernization and Security with GitHub

Coming soon!

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Coming Soon!

Microsoft Azure Immersion Workshop:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

Explore how to accelerate your organization’s innovation by incorporating AI into your new and existing apps. You’ll gain a deep understanding of the possibilities and best practices of modernizing your apps with AI, followed by hands-on deep dives into Azure AI tools and relevant topics like machine learning, knowledge mining, cognitive services, and chatbots. 

Who should attend:

• Architects
• IT administrators
• Developers
• Data scientists

After completing this workshop, you will:

• Have hands-on experience using Azure Cognitive Services,  Azure Machine Learning, Azure Bot Service, and Azure Databricks.
• See which Azure AI solutions are most applicable to you and your business.

January 17, 2023

10:00 AM EST

This immersive, guided, and collaborative lab experience is designed to help you explore best practices for adopting Azure Arc. Discover how to use Azure Arc to extend your Azure platform and build applications and services with the flexibility to run across datacenter, edge, and multi--cloud!

Who should attend:

• Architects
• IT professionals
• Database administrators
• Data engineers
• Developers

After completing this workshop, you will be able to:

• Accelerate progress and learn how to extend Azure services across your resources, including cloud, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments.
• Make an impact using a holistic approach to your organization’s IT, app, and data estates.

February 7, 2023

10:00 AM EST

Microsoft Azure Immersion Workshop:

Database Modernization

During this immersive, guided, and collaborative lab experience, you’ll explore best practices for migrating and modernizing applications and databases to Azure and for utilizing Azure Arc, Azure SQL, and open-source databases on Azure. You’ll also see how to modernize cloud environments with analytics using Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL. 

Who should attend:

• Architects
• Database administrators
• Developers
• IT professionals

After completing this workshop, you will be able to:

• Understand best practices for applying fully managed cloud database services to your business.
• Accelerate progress in your journey to the cloud.
• Put your new skills to work to make an impact in this deep dive into migration and modernization.

February 22, 2023

10:00 AM EST

Join Microsoft and InCycle for a comprehensive overview of the range of hosting options for Java apps on Azure.

Through the Azure Immersion Workshop, you’ll learn how to design solutions using DevOps tooling and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), secrets management, virtual networks, authentication and authorization, monitoring, and auto-scaling.

Who should attend:

• Developers
• Architects
• IT professionals
• DevOps engineers

After completing this workshop, you will:

• Have hands-on experience to begin modernizing your Java applications using Azure managed services.
• Design solutions to speed the development and deployment of these applications.
• Explore enterprise best practices and architectures.

February 28, 2022

10:00 AM EST

Jump-start your organization’s digital transformation. This workshop was designed to help you manage and modernize your Microsoft .NET application states as you migrate them to Microsoft Azure App Service.

You’ll learn how to evaluate and prioritize your .NET apps for modernization—while limiting interruptions, increasing resiliency and scalability, and preparing for migration and hosting on Azure.

Who should attend:

• IT professionals
• Architects
• Developers
• App owners

After completing this workshop, you will:

• Have hands-on experience with Azure App Service and Azure SQL Database.
• Learn how to evaluate and prioritize .NET apps for modernization.
• See new features to apply to your apps to fuel your digital transformation.

March 7th, 2022

Coming soon!

This immersive, guided, and collaborative lab experience is designed to help you explore best practices for adopting Azure Arc. Discover how to use Azure Arc to extend your Azure platform and build applications and services with the flexibility to run across datacenter, edge, and multi--cloud!

Who should attend:

• Architects
• IT professionals
• Database administrators
• Data engineers
• Developers

After completing this workshop, you will be able to:

• Accelerate progress and learn how to extend Azure services across your resources, including cloud, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments.
• Make an impact using a holistic approach to your organization’s IT, app, and data estates.

March 21st, 2022

Join Microsoft and InCycle to learn how to build a resilient tool chain that will allow you to code, collaborate, and ship from anywhere.

You’ll learn how Microsoft and GitHub gain efficiencies by implementing DevOps across multiple engineering teams.

Who should attend:

• Developers
• IT professionals
• Architects

After completing this workshop, you will:

• Have hands-on experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub as a comprehensive solution for organizations of all sizes.
• Learn how to optimize efficiency by modernizing your DevOps.
• Expand your knowledge of every aspect of DevOps, from initial planning to launch.

March 29th, 2022

Join Microsoft and InCycle to discover how to simplify and accelerate your journey toward app modernization and Cloud-Native Apps.

You’ll dive deep into migration and modernization strategies, obstacles to avoid, and maximizing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your cloud investments.

Who should attend:

• IT professionals
• Developers
• Architects

After completing this workshop, you will:

• Have hands-on experience creating cloud-based apps using Azure Kubernetes Service, microservices, serverless, and containers.
• Learn how to modernize your applications quickly and easily.
• See how to use Azure Database Migration Service and Azure Cosmos DB to migrate from MongoDB.

May 11, 2023

Topics include:

• Why did Microsoft acquire GitHub?
• The value of using GitHub today - how is it different?
• What is the best tool for each phase of DevOps?
• Tips and strategies for successful implementations

Interested participants include:

• Engineering/Dev Leadership
• Enterprise Architects
• DevOps Engineers
• Security Team

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Participants can expect to:

• Learn from experts how to approach a complete, end-to-end DevOps toolchain
• Go deep on key concepts and considerations for improving productivity and Developer Velocity
• Get hands-on and solve real customer use cases with the latest tooling across GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure
• Learn how to ship code faster by automating the code-to-cloud journey

• DevOps Engineers
• Developers

Complete

In this session, you’ll  hear from Kubernetes on Azure advanced specialization partners on key lessons they learned deploying customer solutions using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

InCycle will present how we implemented AKS node upgrades with blue/green node pools.

• Enterprise Architects
• System Architects
• DevOps Engineers
• Developers
• Infrastructure Managers

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