Start Smart with AI Builder: Prompts, Power Platform, and Pro Tips
🚀 Start Smart with AI Builder: Prompts, Power Platform, and Pro Tips AI Builder makes it easier than ever to bring AI into Power Automate and Power Apps—but where should you begin? Join us in this fun and fast-paced session where you’ll learn the six essential things you need to know to get started the right way: ✅ Understanding licensing and credits ✅ Managing admin and governance settings ✅ Crafting the perfect custom prompt ✅ Using prompts in Power Automate ✅ Extending value into Power Apps ✅ Sharing, solutions, and real-world use cases We’ll also walk through the interface, review cost & performance considerations, and show you how to create scalable, AI-enhanced experiences that stick. Whether you’re a seasoned Power Platform pro or just starting your AI journey, this session will give you the confidence to automate smarter with AI Builder. Don’t miss it – save the date and join us! 🗓️ Date: 20 September 2025 ⏰ Time: 18:00 (CEST) 🎙️ Speaker: Pam DeGraffenreid 📌 Topic: Start Smart with AI Builder: Prompts, Power Platform, and Pro Tips🚀 Navigating the Azure AI Seas 🌊🤖
The world of Azure AI services is vast, and this session is your map to explore it! Join me as we dive into the breadth of Azure’s AI capabilities and how they can be applied to real-world scenarios. 🔹 What’s in store: ✨ Live demos to showcase what’s available and how to get started ✨ Insights into choosing the right Azure AI services for your needs ✨ Exploring Cognitive Services for vision, speech & language understanding ✨ Leveraging Azure OpenAI for Generative AI use cases ✨ Managing the full ML lifecycle with Azure Machine Learning ✨ Hands-on experience in Azure AI Foundry ✨ Real-world examples of AI in action By the end, you’ll not only discover the ocean of services available but also gain the confidence to begin testing and implementing Azure AI in your own projects. 🌐💡 Don’t miss out – this is your chance to unlock the potential of Azure AI! 🗓️ Date: 13 September 2025 ⏰ Time: 18:00 (CEST) 🎙️ Speaker: Kim Berg 📌 Topic: Navigating the Azure AI seasFortifying Your Cloud: Mastering Azure Networking Services to Protect Your Applications
🔐 Fortifying Your Cloud: Mastering Azure Networking Services to Protect Your Applications In today’s cloud-first world, securing applications is not optional—it’s mission-critical. Join us for an in-depth exploration of Azure network security services and learn how to: ✅ Review and compare networking application delivery services, their features, and limitations ✅ Identify the right security layers for hosting applications in Azure ✅ See a hands-on demo with Azure Front Door and other powerful services in action 📅 Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your Azure skills and boost your cloud security expertise. 👉 Register now and take your cloud knowledge from Zero to Hero! 🗓️ Date: 4 September 2025 ⏰ Time: 19:00 (AEST) 🎙️ Speaker: Santhosh Anandakrishnan 📌 Topic: Fortifying Your Cloud: Mastering Azure Networking Services to Protect Your ApplicationsSo You Want to Build an Event-Driven System?
🚀 So You Want To Build An Event Driven System? In his bestselling book Homo Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari highlights the power of stories and words — our ability to collaborate at scale is one of humanity’s greatest strengths. In this upcoming MicrosoftZeroToHero session, we’ll explore how to apply that same principle in technology: ✨ Bring the language of your business to drive technical implementation. ✨ Harness the power of event-driven architecture to improve resilience, extensibility, and scalability. ✨ Learn practical patterns — from simple examples to advanced integrations — that you can apply directly in your own applications. Whether you’re starting your journey or looking to level up, this session will give you the why, the what, and the how of event-driven systems. 📅 Don’t miss this opportunity to transform the way you build applications! 🗓️ Date: 29 August 2025 ⏰ Time: 17:00 (CEST) 🎙️ Speaker: James Eastham 📌 Topic: Revolutionising DevOps with AI: So You Want To Build An Event Driven System?Revolutionising DevOps with AI: From Pipelines to Deployment
AI Meets DevOps: Transforming the Future of Application Delivery 🚀 In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, the fusion of AI and DevOps is reshaping how we build, test, and deploy applications. 🌐⚡ Join us for an engaging and insightful session where we dive into the next wave of innovation: ✅ AI-Powered DevOps Pipelines – Enhance workflows, automate tasks, and drive efficiency. ✅ Smart Lint Tests – Maintain top code quality with AI-driven linting. ✅ AI Infrastructure on Azure – Deploy scalable, secure, and production-ready AI models. ✅ PSRule for Azure – Enforce governance & compliance seamlessly in your pipelines. 🔹 Whether you’re a developer, DevOps engineer, or AI enthusiast, this session will equip you with practical strategies to modernise your pipelines with AI on Azure. 📅 Don’t miss this opportunity to upskill and get inspired! 🗓️ Date: 28 August 2025 ⏰ Time: 19:30 (AEST) / 11:30 (CEST) 🎙️ Speaker: AJ Bajada 📌 Topic: Revolutionising DevOps with AI: From Pipelines to DeploymentCoding with a Copilot: Lessons from My GitHub Copilot Journey
🚀 Behind the Scenes with GitHub Copilot as a Data Scientist Excited to share that in our upcoming Microsoft Zero to Hero Community session, our speakers take you behind the scenes of their experience learning and using GitHub Copilot in real-world data science work. 🔹 How Copilot boosted their coding speed 🔹 How it helped them explore new languages & frameworks 🔹 Where it fell short and lessons learned 🔹 Practical tips to get the most out of Copilot 🔹 What it taught me about human + AI collaboration in coding If you’re curious about how AI is transforming the way we code and collaborate, this session is for you! 🗓️ Date: 19 August 2025 ⏰ Time: 09:00 EDT (15:00 CEST) 🎙️ Speakers: Sahebeh Dadboud & Eduard Gringinger 📌 Topic: Coding with a Copilot: Lessons from My GitHub Copilot JourneyData Intelligence at Your Fingertips: Fabric’s AI Functions & Data Agents
🧠 Data Intelligence at Your Fingerprint – Fabric’s AI Functions & Data Agents in Action ⚙️📊 🧠✨ AI-Powered Analytics with Microsoft Fabric | No Code, No Fuss — Just Insight Unlock the power of AI directly within your data workflows — no coding, no integration, no delays! Join us for this game-changing session to discover how Microsoft Fabric empowers everyone — from business users to data pros — to apply AI effortlessly for faster, smarter decisions. 🚀 Whether you're building dashboards or exploring raw data, Fabric’s built-in AI Functions and Data Agents deliver advanced insights instantly through natural language and automation. 🔍 In This Session, You’ll Explore: 🧩 Fabric’s Built-in AI Functions • Perform sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, and text summarization out of the box — no custom models or APIs required. • Use these capabilities to elevate reports, dashboards, and storytelling with data. 🗣️ Data Agents (formerly AI Skills) • Ask questions in natural language and get results immediately — powered by generative AI and contextual intelligence. • Enable users across the business to engage directly with their data using conversational AI. 🛠️ Live Demos • See real-world applications of AI in action within Microsoft Fabric — with no code and no additional setup. • Learn how these tools improve productivity, enhance analytics, and fast-track decision-making. 💡 What You’ll Learn: ✔️ How to use AI-driven insights without being a data scientist ✔️ The power of Fabric’s AI Functions to analyze text instantly ✔️ How Data Agents bring conversational analytics to everyone ✔️ Use cases that demonstrate measurable impact in real scenarios ✔️ Tips to integrate AI into your daily workflows within Microsoft Fabric 🗓️ Date: 16 August 2025 ⏰ Time: 16:00 AEST (Australia, Melbourne Time Zone) 🎙️ Speaker: Ronak Vachhani 📌 Topic: Data Intelligence at Your Fingertips: Fabric’s AI Functions & Data AgentsExploring Microsoft Intune: Manage and Secure your Devices and Apps
Empower Hybrid Work with Microsoft Intune | Simplify Endpoint Management & Strengthen Security 🔐🌍 In today’s dynamic world of hybrid and remote work, managing and securing endpoints has never been more critical—or more complex. In this session, we explore Microsoft Intune, a powerful cloud-based endpoint management solution built on Azure, and part of the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) suite. ✅ Whether you're managing mobile devices, desktops, laptops, or virtual endpoints, Microsoft Intune equips IT teams to securely manage access, apps, and devices. What you'll learn: ➡️ How Microsoft Intune simplifies device and app management ➡️ Best practices for securing endpoints and enforcing compliance ➡️ How to enable secure, identity-driven access to corporate resources ➡️ Intune's integration with Microsoft 365, Azure AD, Defender, and more ➡️ Real-world use cases for supporting hybrid and remote employees ➡️ How to reduce IT complexity while improving data protection and user experience 🔍 If you're an IT admin, security architect, or tech leader exploring modern endpoint management, this session is packed with insights to help transform your workplace strategy. 🗓️ Date: 14 August 2025 ⏰ Time: 18:00 EDT (American Time zone) 🎙️ Speaker: Sucheta Gawade 📌 Topic: Exploring Microsoft Intune: Manage and Secure your Devices and AppsCreate a Tic Tac Toe Game & Learn About Event Sourcing
🎮 Create a Tic Tac Toe Game & Learn About Event Sourcing – Build Smarter Systems Through Simple Play 🧠⚡ What if building a simple game could teach you a powerful backend pattern? In this hands-on session, we’ll use a classic Tic Tac Toe game to introduce Event Sourcing — an architectural approach where every state change is captured as an event. You'll build the game step-by-step, then explore how to store and replay every move using event streams. This session is perfect for developers curious about Domain-Driven Design, CQRS, and event-driven systems, all while having some fun! 🎓 What You’ll Learn 🎯 What is Event Sourcing? – Understand the core principles and when to use it 🎮 Modeling Game State with Events – Each move becomes part of the system's history 📦 Storing & Replaying Events – Learn how to rebuild game state from an event log 🛠️ CQRS in Action – Separate commands and queries for better design ⚙️ Event Versioning – What happens when your events evolve over time 🔍 Debug with Confidence – Use event history for tracing and analytics 🌩️ Scaling the Pattern – How this idea applies beyond games (finance, IoT, SaaS) 🧰 Tech Stack: .NET / C# | EventStore / SQL / Custom In-Memory Store 🗓️ Date: 8 August 2025 ⏰ Time: 18:00 CEST 🎙️ Speaker: Shahab Ganji 📌 Topic: Create a Tic Tac Toe Game & Learn About Event SourcingLet There Be Cloud-Native Endpoints
🔐 Modern, Secure, and Cloud-Native Endpoints - Powered by Microsoft Entra and Intune ☁️💻 Managing endpoints in today’s hybrid world comes with complex challenges—but it doesn’t have to rely on outdated infrastructure. Join us in this MicrosoftHero session to learn how Microsoft Entra and Microsoft Intune enable a cloud-native endpoint strategy that’s modern, secure, and efficient. 🎯 What to Expect: ✅ Current challenges in endpoint management ✅ Rollout phases for modern endpoint transformation ✅ Identity-driven access with Microsoft Entra ✅ Zero-touch provisioning through Intune ✅ Built-in compliance and security ✅ How to simplify operations while strengthening your security posture 🗓️ Date: 5 August 2025 ⏰ Time: 19:00 AEST / 11:00 CEST 🎙️ Speaker: Shehan Perera 📌 Topic: Let There Be Cloud-Native Endpoints
