Join Microsoft at Azure Day & KubeCon North America 2023 in Chicago!

Microsoft

Oct 19, 2023

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is just a few weeks away and will take place in Chicago, Nov 6-9, 2023. With a keynote, multiple conference sessions, and 3 full days of informative presentations at the Microsoft booth, there are lots of options to connect and see what Microsoft has been up to with Kubernetes and open-source on Azure.

Check out Brendan Burns blog post on day one of KubeCon to Learn more about our announcements.

Azure Day with Kubernetes, Chicago, Monday Nov 6 2023, 9am-5pm (FREE)

Are you interested in learning about best practices for building cloud-native and intelligent apps with Kubernetes on Azure? Join the AKS product team in-person for an all-day session on Monday Nov 6 2023, 9am-5pm. This free event is suitable for technical practitioners using Kubernetes (developers, devOps, solution architects). Spots are limited and prior registration is required. You can check out past Azure Day videos here. Learn more and sign-up at https://aka.ms/aks-day

Microsoft Azure booth learning opportunities

Join us at the Microsoft Azure booth to meet subject matter experts and see the latest about building cloud-native and intelligent apps, and open-source projects - see below for the complete list.

Microsoft keynote on community-powered Kubernetes LTS, Nov 8, 10:10am
We will be doing live theater sessions on a range of topics including AI, security, stateful workloads, monitoring and observability, backup, managing data on Kubernetes, scalability, and more. Daily schedule will be posted at the booth.
Stop by the Microsoft booth to pick up the latest copy of Kubernetes Best Practices book and have it signed by Brendan and co-authors Tuesday 11/7 evening!
Stop by the booth to play some games and have fun!
Enter to win a raffle for cool prizes, including Xbox controllers and an Xbox!

Microsoft Theater Presentations | KubeCon NA Booth Theater

Tuesday, November 7th

Time	Session Title	Speaker
11:00 - 11:30	Learn about the benefits of Azure Linux for your Kubernetes	Sudhanva Huruli and Ally Ford
11:45 - 12:15	Building and deploy a copilot with AKS Landing Zone Accelerator	Ayobami Ayodeji
2:00 - 3:00	Radius, a new open-source application platform for the cloud	Ryan Waite and Ryan Nowak, Azure Open-Source Incubations
2:45 - 3:15	Unveiling AKS Cost Analysis: an Azure native tool for cost visibility and allocation	Kaysie Yu
3:30 - 4:00	AKS Observability Best Practices: Monitoring and troubleshooting in Production	Aritra Ghosh, Dalan Mendoca, and Rong Zhang
4:15 - 4:45	Securing the Supply Chain for Containers on Azure	Toddy Mladenov
5:00 - 5:30	Azure Backup for AKS	Lorraine Bichara Assad

Wednesday, November 8th

Time	Session Title	Speaker
11:00 - 11:30	Monitor your k8s infrastructure at scale	Dalan Mendonca
11:45 - 12:15	How Microsoft 365 leverages Azure Kubernetes Service to operate at scale	Andrey Lukyanov
2:00 - 2:30	Securing Your Intellectual Property and AI Models with Confidential Containers	Suraj Deshmukh Jens Freimann and Tanay Baswa
2:45 - 3:15	Learn how to extend the capabilities of your AKS deployments with a vibrant ecosystem of tested and transactable third-party solutions	Subhav (Bob) Mital with Dynatrace, Hashicorp
3:30 - 4:00	Using Azure Arc to extend Azure services everywhere	Vinicius Apolinario
4:15 - 4:45	Building and deploy a copilot with AKS Landing Zone Accelerator	Ayobami Ayodeji

Thursday, November 9th

Time	Session Title	Speaker
11:00 - 11:30	Learn how to extend the capabilities of your AKS deployments with a vibrant ecosystem of tested and transactable third-party solutions	Subhav (Bob) Mital with Elastic, Portworx
11:45 - 12:15	Scaling stateful workloads in AKS with Azure Container Storage	Lorraine Bichara Assad

One-on-One meetings

Attending KubeCon and have specific questions about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure? Reach out to your Microsoft Account Manager or contact us at the booth to setup a 1:1 meeting with a Microsoft Azure subject matter expert.