#WomenITPros APAC May 2020 v-meetup - Speaking to camera + MSBuild for ITPros

[Sonia Cuff]

With the cancellation of in-person events due to COVID-19, how do you present effectively to a cold, hard, plastic web camera? This month, Sonia will share her tips for delivering a great, online presentation with a focus on speaker skills - not technology platform choices.

Then we'll bring you our picks for the best session of Microsoft Build relevant to IT Pros, with links to the recordings!

Join Jess Dodson and Sonia Cuff on Thurs 28 May, 12 noon AEST.

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[#2]

This sounds great! Can't wait.

[#3]

If you missed this event, here's the recording!

I'll post the Microsoft Build links in a separate comment.

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MS Build highlights and IT Pro-relevant sessions:

Keynotes from Satya Nadella, Scott Hanselman, Scott Guthrie, Rajesh Jha and Kevin Scott.

• 1 billion monthly active windows 10 devices!
• Teams as an App Platform & a collaboration hub to other services. Easy to test and deploy. Pop app into own window! Activity Feed API
• Power Platform - 3.5m devs
• NZ Azure Region!
• Azure Super Computer - 285k CPU cored 10k GPUs
• Windows Server containers on AKS Azure Kubernetes Service
• GitHub pull request inside VS Code
• Cognitive Services - Apprentice mode 

Microsoft Learn launched Learn TV

Sessions:

Azure Synapse - Developing end-to-end analytics solutions with the latest Azure Synapse features

Get started with the Windows Package Manager

Expand your application's reach in the Enterprise with Windows Virtual Desktop

Azure SQL: What to use When + What's new

Microsoft IoT Vision and Roadmap

Azure Migration

Migrating your applications, data & infrastructure to Azure

Just put it in the Cloud with an Azure Migration

Identity
The importance of an Identity Platform

Creating trustworthy applications with Microsoft Identity

Reach millions of users building apps with the Microsoft Identity Platform

Teams + Power Platform
PowerShell everywhere for Microsoft Graph

Intelligent process automation with Power Automate

Power BI for BI pros and Data Engineers

Accelerate bot development in Power Virtual Agents

Teams Architecture - building scalable Teams apps

Build apps for Teams with low code/no code tools

4 building blocks for every collab app: Templates, Sites, Lists & Tasks

An introduction to Chatbots

Learn studio session: Creating interactive bots for Teams

Ten top tips for remote meetings from the Teams team 

DevOps
Create DevOps workspaces in Teams

Building a DevOps Culture in a Remote World

DevSecOps with Azure

Navigating the DevOps landscape

Continuous delivery: Deploy applications to the Cloud with confidence

Azure
Mark Russinovich on Azure innovation and more!

Infrastructure as code - build Azure applications with ARM templates

Azure Arc & Kubernetes: a Developer Story:

Azure Confidential Computing - protect data in use

What's new with Application Insights & Azure Monitor

Modernize your Windows Server apps with containers

Evaluate and optimize your costs using the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

Architecture patterns for event-driven applications using Azure Functions

Manage your cloud and hybrid environments like a pro with event-based automation

Expert Q&A: Azure Hybrid Cloud and Management

Working with Cost Management APIs

Make Infra as Code easy with the ARM Template Visualizer

Microsoft Datacenter Infrastructure securely connected with Azure Sphere

Community/Student
Spotlight Series: Mentoring Future Technologists

Introduction to GitHub for Student Developers

Using Live Share for remote work in your team

Learn Studio Session: Create a website in Azure

Meet GirlScript India

Microsoft MakeCode with Minecraft Blocks

Movement: cultivating ease with yoga

Misc
Automate spreadsheets with Office Scripts in Microsoft Excel

The new Windows command line - Windows Terminal and WLS 2

Let's talk Quantum!


Ask the Teams: 

Some of the product groups ran "ask me anything" style sessions. You can find their recordings in the session scheduler.
Power Platform, Azure Active Directory B2C, Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Azure Resource Manager, Identity & Access for Azure, Azure Networking, Teams