Tracks -- Live! 360 Events

TechMentor Panel Discussion: Operationalizing the Cloud - Strategies and Best Practices for Seamless Cloud Integration in Your Organization Thursday November 16 11:00am - 12:00pm

Émile Cabot Microsoft MVP , Principal Consultant , TriCon Elite Consulting
Michael Niehaus, Programme Director and Master Inventor, 2Pint Software
Jan Ketil Skanke Security MVP, Enterprise Mobility MVP, Partner, CloudWay

Moderated By: Dave Kawula, Principal Consultant, TriCon Elite Consulting

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Cloud & Containers Live! Panel Discussion: Past the Hype: Cloud in the Mainstream Thursday November 16 11:00am - 12:00pm

Mike Benkovich, Developer, Business Owner, Consultant, Cloud Architect, Microsoft Azure MVP and an Online Instructor
Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX
Esteban Garcia , Managing Director - Microsoft Services, Xebia
Chris Ayers, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, AzRel team, Microsoft

Moderated By: Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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Artificial Intelligence Live! Panel Discussion: Does AI Threaten Techies, or Does it Change the Tech Skill Premise? Thursday November 16 11:00am - 12:00pm

Andreas Erben, CTO for MR and Applied AI, daenet
Kevin Feasel, Proprietor , Catallaxy Services, LLC
Veronika Kolesnikova Microsoft MVP (AI) , Sr. Software Engineer, Liberty Mutual

Moderated By: Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

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Cybersecurity & Ransomware Live! Panel Discussion: Defending Ransomware in 2023 and Beyond Thursday November 16 11:00am - 12:00pm

Maarten Goet, Microsoft MVP & RD
Dwayne McDaniel, Developer Advocate, GitGuardian
Nestori Syynimaa, Principal Identity Security Researcher, Microsoft

Moderated By: Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize

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Next? Live! 360 Networking Event Thursday November 16 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Angela Dugan, Cloud Solution Architecture Manager, Microsoft
Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize
Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights
Thomas LaRock, Manager, Data Engineering, BlackLine
Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia
Dave Kawula, Principal Consultant, TriCon Elite Consulting
Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

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Machine Learning

Modern Software Engineering

VSLHOL02 Hands-On Lab: Code to Cloud with GitHub Sunday November 12 9:00am - 6:00pm

Roy Cornelissen, Cloud Solution Architect, Xebia
Marcel de Vries, Global MD & CTO, Xebia
René van Osnabrugge, DevOps Strategy Consultant, Xpirit

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VSM02 Workshop: Ship Faster, More Securely with Azure PaaS and GitHub Enterprise Cloud

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Mickey Gousset, DevOps Architect, GitHub
Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

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VST10 Fast Focus: GitHub CLI Tuesday November 14 2:00pm - 2:20pm

Mickey Gousset, DevOps Architect, GitHub

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VST13 Be More Productive with Using GitHub Copilot and GitHub Codespaces Today and GitHub Copilot X in the Future

Tuesday November 14 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

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VST17 From One Release Per Quarter to 30 Times a Day

Tuesday November 14 4:15pm - 5:30pm

Marcel de Vries, Global MD & CTO, Xebia

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VSW04 I Love YAML: Using Azure DevOps to Build and Release to Azure

Wednesday November 15 8:00am - 9:15am

Benjamin Day, Author, Trainer, Developer

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VSW08 The Not-so-SOLID Principles of Software Development

Wednesday November 15 9:30am - 10:45am

Chris Klug, Developer , Active Solution

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VSW12 DevOps is Dead, Long Live DevOps!

Wednesday November 15 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

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VSW16 Writing Maintainable Test Automation

Wednesday November 15 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Marcel de Vries, Global MD & CTO, Xebia

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VSTH12 Are You Writing Readable Code? Thursday November 16 1:00pm - 2:15pm

John Papa, Partner Cloud Advocate , Microsoft

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VSTH16 Busy Architect's Guide to the Fallacies of Enterprise Systems

Thursday November 16 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Ted Neward, Principal, Neward and Associates

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VSF02 Workshop: How to Extend the Power Platform using Azure Services?

Friday November 17 8:00am - 5:00pm

Vishwas Lele, CTO, Applied Information Sciences
Tom McKearney, Cloud Solution Architect, Applied Information Sciences
Nick Gill, Solution Architect & Technical Strategist: Business Applications , AIS

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Office 365 for IT Pros

TMT08 Maximizing Productivity with Microsoft 365: Unlocking the Potential of Your Team

Tuesday November 14 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Stephen L. Rose, Copilot/AI and M365 Strategy Consultant, stephenlrose.com

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TMT12 Administratively Customize Microsoft Teams to our Environment

Tuesday November 14 4:15pm - 5:30pm

Karinne Bessette, Technologist, PS, Veeam

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TMW03 Microsoft Lists - Taking It to the Next Level

Wednesday November 15 8:00am - 9:15am

Stacy Deere, Solutions Architect, Focal Point Solutions LLC

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TMW07 The Future of Hybrid Work: Building a Resilient Workforce with Microsoft Tools

Wednesday November 15 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Stephen L. Rose, Copilot/AI and M365 Strategy Consultant, stephenlrose.com

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TMW12 Tips & Tricks in M365

Wednesday November 15 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Stacy Deere, Solutions Architect, Focal Point Solutions LLC

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TMH08 Plan and Communicate Together with Microsoft Loop, a New Collaborative Canvas

Thursday November 16 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Heather Severino, Founder, TeachUTech

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PowerShell and DevOps

TMHOL01 Hands-On Lab: PowerShell 101/102 - Beginner and Intermediate Concepts All IT Pro's Should Know Sunday November 12 9:00am - 6:00pm

Jeffery Hicks, PowerShell Author, Teacher, Mentor

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TMT02 Finding Needles - Better Event Log Management with PowerShell

Tuesday November 14 9:15am - 10:30am

Jeffery Hicks, PowerShell Author, Teacher, Mentor

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TMT09 Managing Active Directory with PowerShell

Tuesday November 14 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Jeffery Hicks, PowerShell Author, Teacher, Mentor

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TMW05 PowerShell Tools and Techniques Basics for IT Pros, Not Devs

Wednesday November 15 9:30am - 10:45am

John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Technologist, AWS Solutions

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TMH01 How to Use PowerShell to Become a Windows and Cloud Management Superhero - 2023 Edition

Thursday November 16 8:00am - 9:15am

Petri Paavola, Yodamiitti Oy

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TMH10 Every PowerShell Script in the World is This Simple: Get -> Filter -> Foreach

Thursday November 16 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Petri Paavola, Yodamiitti Oy

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Purple Team

CRM01 Hands-On Workshop: Don't Get RDPwned - Everything Remote Desktop Security

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Andy Milford, CEO, RDPSoft

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CRT09 Consequences of Trust in Azure Active Directory

Tuesday November 14 4:15pm - 5:30pm

Nestori Syynimaa, Principal Identity Security Researcher, Microsoft

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Ransomware Industry

CRHOL01 Hands-On Lab: Building a CyberInsurance Compliant Security Infrastructure Sunday November 12 9:00am - 6:00pm

John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Technologist, AWS Solutions

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CRM02 Workshop: Preventing Ransomware with Directory Tiering and Privileged Access Workstations

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize
Adam Felts, Sr Systems Administrator, InfoMart

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CRW03 52 Mins from Initial Access to Ransomware - Is Your Defensive Team Ready?

Wednesday November 15 9:30am - 10:45am

Maarten Goet, Microsoft MVP & RD

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CRW04 Best Tips on How to Start a Cybersecurity Assessment

Wednesday November 15 9:30am - 10:45am

Omar Valerio , CIO / CTO / IT Director, Westminster Christian School

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CRW05 Surviving a Ransomware Attacks with Microsoft Defender 365

Wednesday November 15 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Dave Kawula, Principal Consultant, TriCon Elite Consulting
John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Technologist, AWS Solutions

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CRTH01 Safeguarding Your Microsoft Environment: Ensuring Resilient Recovery from Ransomware Attacks

Thursday November 16 8:00am - 9:15am

Cristal Kawula, President, TriCon Elite Consulting
Dave Kawula, Principal Consultant, TriCon Elite Consulting

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CRTH03 Stop Ransomware Before It Starts: Proactive Measures to Outsmart Cybercriminals

Thursday November 16 9:30am - 10:45am

Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize

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CRTH05 One Monday Morning - Ransomware Attack Post Mortem

Thursday November 16 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Cristal Kawula, President, TriCon Elite Consulting
Dave Kawula, Principal Consultant, TriCon Elite Consulting

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CRF01 Workshop: Ransomware Defense with AppLocker - A Comprehensive 8-Hour Workshop

Friday November 17 8:00am - 5:00pm

Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize
Adam Felts, Sr Systems Administrator, InfoMart

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Red Team Tactics and Techniques

CRT02 Red vs. Blue: Diving into the Breach

Tuesday November 14 9:15am - 10:30am

Michael Van Horenbeeck, CEO, “The Collective”

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Responsible and Ethical AI

AIH02 Responsible AI

Thursday November 16 9:30am - 10:45am

Veronika Kolesnikova Microsoft MVP (AI) , Sr. Software Engineer, Liberty Mutual

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Security

TMT03 Securing Identities in M365

Tuesday November 14 9:15am - 10:30am

Jan Ketil Skanke Security MVP, Enterprise Mobility MVP, Partner, CloudWay

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TMT11 Building a More Threat Resistant Windows Client

Tuesday November 14 4:15pm - 5:30pm

Jörgen Nilsson, Principal Consultant, Onevinn - Ccmexec.com
Stefan Schörling, Cloud Security and Infra Geek , Onevinn AB

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TMW08 Managing Your Risk of Vulnerabilities with MDE and a Proper Patching Strategy

Wednesday November 15 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Jörgen Nilsson, Principal Consultant, Onevinn - Ccmexec.com
Stefan Schörling, Cloud Security and Infra Geek , Onevinn AB

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TMW11 Strengthening Conditional Access: Best Practices for Security in 2023

Wednesday November 15 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Émile Cabot Microsoft MVP , Principal Consultant , TriCon Elite Consulting

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TMH09 The Code You are Getting Online has Security Issues

Thursday November 16 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Scott Norberg, President and Founder, Opperis Technologies

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Soft Skills for IT Pros

TMT05 Fast Focus: Best Tips on How to Become a Great Leader in a New Position

Tuesday November 14 1:30pm - 1:50pm

Omar Valerio , CIO / CTO / IT Director, Westminster Christian School

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TMW09 Present Like a Professional: 25 Years of Tips and Tricks

Wednesday November 15 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Derek Melber 19X Microsoft MVP in Active Directory, Group Policy, and Security, Chief Business Officer, Beak

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TMH05 Become a Better Presenter and Speaker with the Help of Microsoft 365 Apps

Thursday November 16 9:30am - 10:45am

Heather Severino, Founder, TeachUTech

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SQL Server Administration & Maintenance

SQT05 Fast Focus: Azure Arc-enabled SQL Server

Tuesday November 14 2:00pm - 2:20pm

Karen Lopez, Data Evangelist, Space Enthusiast, & NASA Datanaut

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SQW06 Arc, Arc and Arc: De-mystifying Azure Arc for Data

Wednesday November 15 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Buck Woody, Applied Data Scientist, Azure Data Services Team, Microsoft

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SQTH08 Modern Infrastructure Fundamentals for SQL Server

Thursday November 16 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Allan Hirt, Founder, SQLHA, LLC

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SQF01 Workshop: Infrastructure as Code: DevSecOps for the SQL Server GUI DBA

Friday November 17 8:00am - 5:00pm

Allan Hirt, Founder, SQLHA, LLC

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SQL Server Features & Components

SQHOL01 Hands-On Lab: Security, Privacy and Compliance in Azure Data Platform Sunday November 12 9:00am - 6:00pm

Karen Lopez, Data Evangelist, Space Enthusiast, & NASA Datanaut
Thomas LaRock, Manager, Data Engineering, BlackLine

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SQM01 Hands-On Workshop: Discover Microsoft Fabric: Full Day of Azure Modern Data Analytics

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Bradley Ball, Sr. Azure Engineer for the Azure FastTrack CXP PG , Microsoft
Josh Luedeman, Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft
Buck Woody, Applied Data Scientist, Azure Data Services Team, Microsoft
Neeraj Jhaveri, Sr. Engineer, Microsoft

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SQW04 SQL Server 2022 and the Wheel of Power

Wednesday November 15 9:30am - 10:45am

Abdullah Mamun, Program Manager, Microsoft
Kendal Van Dyke, Senior Program Manager, SQL Server, , Microsoft

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SQHT06 What's New with Azure Data Factory Thursday November 16 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Josh Luedeman, Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft

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SQL Server for Developers

SQM02 Workshop: Developer Dive into SQL Server 2022

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.
Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights

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SQT01 A Database Designers Favorite Security and Privacy Features in SQL Server/Azure DB

Tuesday November 14 9:15am - 10:30am

Karen Lopez, Data Evangelist, Space Enthusiast, & NASA Datanaut

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SQTH02 Using REST APIs from within TSQL Thursday November 16 8:00am - 9:15am

Josh Luedeman, Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft

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SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization

SQT09 Let's Make Azure SQL FASTER

Tuesday November 14 4:15pm - 5:30pm

Bradley Ball, Sr. Azure Engineer for the Azure FastTrack CXP PG , Microsoft

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SQW02 Database Design: SQL Server Datatypes

Wednesday November 15 8:00am - 9:15am

Thomas LaRock, Manager, Data Engineering, BlackLine

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SQTH01 Performance Tuning SQL Server using Wait Statistics

Thursday November 16 8:00am - 9:15am

Thomas LaRock, Manager, Data Engineering, BlackLine

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SQTH04 Making the SQL Query Processor Work For You

Thursday November 16 9:30am - 10:45am

Kendal Van Dyke, Senior Program Manager, SQL Server, , Microsoft

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The Core of .NET

VSHOL03 Hands-On Lab: Asynchronous and Parallel Programming in C# Sunday November 12 9:00am - 6:00pm

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

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VST04 What's New in Modern .NET Library APIs

Tuesday November 14 9:15am - 10:30am

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Staff Software Engineer, Rocket Mortgage

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VST09 Fast Focus: Getting Polyglot Notebooks

Tuesday November 14 2:00pm - 2:20pm

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Staff Software Engineer, Rocket Mortgage

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VSW11 Go (con)figure - Making Sense of the .NET Configuration System

Wednesday November 15 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Alex Thissen, Architect, Lead Developer, and Mentor

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VSW15 Busting .NET Myths

Wednesday November 15 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Staff Software Engineer, Rocket Mortgage

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VSTH03 C# Past, Present, and Beyond

Thursday November 16 8:00am - 9:15am

Jim Wooley, Senior Delivery Principal, Slalom Consulting

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VSTH07 DI Why? Getting a Grip on Dependency Injection

Thursday November 16 9:30am - 10:45am

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

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VSTH11 Improving Code Quality with Static Analyzers

Thursday November 16 1:00pm - 2:15pm

Jim Wooley, Senior Delivery Principal, Slalom Consulting

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VSTH13 LINQ - It's Not Just for Databases

Thursday November 16 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com

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Vision and Image

AIW04 AI Driven Image Generation Wednesday November 15 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Andreas Erben, CTO for MR and Applied AI, daenet

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Workshops

VSM01 Workshop: Blazor Top to Bottom

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Staff Software Engineer, Rocket Mortgage
Allen Conway Microsoft MVP, Azure App Modernization Consultant, Xebia
Rockford Lhotka, VP of Strategy, Xebia

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VSM02 Workshop: Ship Faster, More Securely with Azure PaaS and GitHub Enterprise Cloud

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Mickey Gousset, DevOps Architect, GitHub
Brian A. Randell, Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub

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VSM03 Workshop: Mastering Human Factors

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Benjamin Day, Author, Trainer, Developer
Angela Dugan, Cloud Solution Architecture Manager, Microsoft

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SQM01 Hands-On Workshop: Discover Microsoft Fabric: Full Day of Azure Modern Data Analytics

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Bradley Ball, Sr. Azure Engineer for the Azure FastTrack CXP PG , Microsoft
Josh Luedeman, Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft
Buck Woody, Applied Data Scientist, Azure Data Services Team, Microsoft
Neeraj Jhaveri, Sr. Engineer, Microsoft

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SQM02 Workshop: Developer Dive into SQL Server 2022

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.
Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights

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TMM01 Workshop: Get Away from GPO with Intune

Monday November 13 8:30 am - 5:30pm

Jan Ketil Skanke Security MVP, Enterprise Mobility MVP, Partner, CloudWay

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TMM02 Workshop: How to Learn Azure, the AZ-900 and Beyond

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Travis Roberts MVP, MCT, Product Marketing Manager, Blogger, and Enthusiast

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AIM01 Workshop: Azure Open AI Master Class Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Prashant G Bhoyar, AI Architect in the Office of the CTO, AIS
Andreas Erben, CTO for MR and Applied AI, daenet

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CCM01 Hands-On Workshop: Building Cloud-native Microservices with Dapr

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Alex Thissen, Architect, Lead Developer, and Mentor
Marcel de Vries, Global MD & CTO, Xebia

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CRM01 Hands-On Workshop: Don't Get RDPwned - Everything Remote Desktop Security

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Andy Milford, CEO, RDPSoft

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CRM02 Workshop: Preventing Ransomware with Directory Tiering and Privileged Access Workstations

Monday November 13 8:30am - 5:30pm

Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize
Adam Felts, Sr Systems Administrator, InfoMart

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VSF01 Workshop: Design Thinking for Software Development Teams

Friday November 17 8:00am - 5:00pm

Billy Hollis, Developer. Designer. Speaker. Author.

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VSF02 Workshop: How to Extend the Power Platform using Azure Services?

Friday November 17 8:00am - 5:00pm

Vishwas Lele, CTO, Applied Information Sciences
Tom McKearney, Cloud Solution Architect, Applied Information Sciences
Nick Gill, Solution Architect & Technical Strategist: Business Applications , AIS

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SQF01 Workshop: Infrastructure as Code: DevSecOps for the SQL Server GUI DBA

Friday November 17 8:00am - 5:00pm

Allan Hirt, Founder, SQLHA, LLC

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TMF01 Workshop: Modern Management - Windows Autopilot and Intune Advanced Workshop

Friday November 17 8:00am - 5:00pm

Petri Paavola, Yodamiitti Oy

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AIF01 Hands-On Workshop: Build an Outlier Detector in a Day

Friday November 17 8:00am - 5:00pm

Kevin Feasel, Proprietor , Catallaxy Services, LLC

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CCF01 Workshop: Permit to Cloud - Land with confidence in Azure

Friday November 17 8:00am - 5:00pm

Mike Benkovich, Developer, Business Owner, Consultant, Cloud Architect, Microsoft Azure MVP and an Online Instructor

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CRF01 Workshop: Ransomware Defense with AppLocker - A Comprehensive 8-Hour Workshop

Friday November 17 8:00am - 5:00pm

Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize
Adam Felts, Sr Systems Administrator, InfoMart

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