SatAzureDay

9:00 am

KEYNOTE
Colin Smith, Eric Leonard

9:15 am

SA210 -Azure API Management Showcase
Joel Hebert, Arek Burcew


Select features to showcase the offering in order for you to see if this can aid your API program.

SA100 - Azure Business Realities
Colin Smith


This level set presentation focuses on the business drivers of Cloud computing and helps IT professionals understand how to speak to LOB and senior management about cloud based initiatives. Ideal for Technology professionals that want to recalibrate their pitch and for non-technologists that want to understand the benefits of cloud computing.

10:00 am

SA250 - Infrastructure as Code with ARM templates
Stephane Lapointe


This session is about what is Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and why it matters. There are several ways to do IaC on Azure, we’ll explore how ARM templates can help you on this journey. How to use proven best practices to deploy topologies and workloads consistently on Azure. See tips and tricks to help you debug your template deployments and how to handle sensitive information like credentials or resources keys.

SA110 - Data Services in Azure
Jean-Rene Roy


Azure provides a broad range of services for working with data. Using these services well requires knowing at least a little bit about all of them. In this session, Jean-Rene Roy provides a big-picture survey of Azure data offerings.

11:00 am

SA320 - Hybrid SQL Server environments
Michelle Gutzait


In this session, Michelle will talk about how you can quickly leverage Azure in a Hybrid setup to resolve on-prem painpoints, along with some examples and case studies.

SA120 - Working with Azure functions
Al Osman


Working with different types of Azure functions, Using C# and JavaScript to create Time-Base and Event based Azure Functions.

1:00 pm

SA310 - Azure Cognitive Text to Speech API
Sean Kearney


Come learn the basic to accessing a REST API as an IT Professional and consuming the Cortana Speech API in the Cloud.

SA130 - Azure DevTest Labs with Open Source tools
Eric Leonard


Deploy a dev/test environment in minutes? No way. In this presentation, we will show you how to quickly deploy a dev/test environment and demonstrate some of the capabilities of Azure DevTest Labs with Visual Studio Team Services.

1:45 pm

SA270 - Identity and Access Management
Ahmed Al-Asaad


In organizations, every time a new employee joins the organization, a lot of manual work has to be done to get a user account, add the user account to specific security groups based on their role, give the user access to applications based on their role and position, etc. The Same process needs to be done when an employee leaves the company. Most of the above tasks are done manually. They are time consuming and error prone. In this session, Ahmed will give an overview of what's tools are available in Azure and on Prem for Identity and Access Management.

SA140 - Azure KeyVault where do you keep your app secrets?
Taswar Bhatti, Mihai Petrica


Learn about Azure KeyVault! What does it bring to your solution and how you can store application secrets inside of KeyVault using HSM encryption. Demo in C# and Node.js

2:45 pm

SA260 - Real World Serverless Architecture Built on Azure
Curtis Johnstone, Andrew Nepogodin


This talk will present a real world light-weight core reference architecture running in Azure. The core is a collection of micro-services which leverage Azure PaaS services such as the API Management Gateway, Azure Functions, KeyVault and Storage services, but can easily integrate with other Serverless offerings on AWS and Google. This architecture is used today in a commercially available application which has processed over 1 million customer objects in Office 365. In addition, this talk will deliver 5 real-world lessons to leverage in your application development journey.

SA150 - Azure Governance
Eric Leonard


Implementing governance in Microsoft Azure can be challenging. In this presentation, we will dive deep into some of the core governance areas: Policy-based management, Cost management, Resource visibility and Subscription governance.