Azure & Cloud

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An introduction to Azure hosting for the ASP.NET developer

This session targets developers and teams considering the move to Azure for their applications and wanting to get a complete walkthrough of setting up a new project targeting Azure, figuring out how b ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Kevin Grossnicklaus

Topics: Azure & Cloud  

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Be a Data Liberator with Power BI

Do you want to be the hero that liberates your team's data with first class visualizations in less than an hour? This session will show you how to do it. Power BI is a full offering that allows you to ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Steve Howard

Topics: Azure & Cloud   Database/SQL  

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Building an Analytics Platform in Azure

Hadoop, Azure Data Lakes, SQL Server, and PowerBI can all play nicely together. When we capitalize on the burstable scale of Azure, a new vision for analytics starts to emerge. In this session we will ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Marcus Crast

Topics: Azure & Cloud  

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Chef on Azure - Let’s Get Cooking

Infrastructure as code is becoming increasingly popular across the industry. Automating configuration management creates a repeatable and testable process for infrastructure deployment, allows for sel ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Alexandra Rosenbaum

Topics: Azure & Cloud   DevOps  

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Chef, Meet Azure

You’ve all seen the little Chef icon when deploying to Azure. What’s it mean? How can you use that in your Azure deployment? In this session we will show you how to integrate Chef on Azure into full d ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Trevor Hess

Topics: Azure & Cloud   DevOps  

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Continuous Delivery & Operational Visibility

Leverage the capabilities of the cloud to enable Continuous Delivery. Continuous delivery, however, is more than just the rapid development, testing, and deployment of application features. It also i ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: R. Michael Querimit

Topics: Azure & Cloud   DevOps   Visual Studio  

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Fun with Mind Reading: Using EEG and Machine Learning to Perform Lie Detection

Today, we have the technology to “read minds” (well, EEG waves!). Using an EPOC headset from Emotiv, I can capture the big data stream of EEG from our brains. In this session, I will share my results ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Jennifer Marsman

Topics: Azure & Cloud   Machine Learning  

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Identity Management for Your Apps with Azure AD

Developers and organizations often need to manage access to many applications both on premise and in the cloud. In this session Mike will explain what Azure Active Directory has to offer your applicat ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Mike Green

Topics: Azure & Cloud  

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Identity Solutions Today with Azure Active Directory

Azure Active Directory (AAD) is one of the largest identity and access management services today. AAD provides identity management for Office 365 and for the Azure platform itself, but it can also wor ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Alexandra Rosenbaum

Topics: Azure & Cloud   Security  

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Introduction to Amazon AWS

Amazon AWS is the other main player in cloud computing. They have many of the same offerings as Azure, but also some that are different. We'll take a look at the basics such as SQS, S3, EC2, SNS, and ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Brian Korzynski

Topics: Azure & Cloud  

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Introduction to Azure Machine Learning: Predict Who Survives the Titantic

Interested in doing machine learning in the cloud? In this talk, I will discuss different types of machine learning (clustering, classification, regression, and anomaly detection) supported by Azure ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Jennifer Marsman

Topics: Azure & Cloud   Machine Learning  

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Introduction to DocumentDB

DocumentDB is the document database offering on the Azure platform. We'll take a look at what is, how you can use it, how much it costs, and how it compares to other cloud-based document database offe ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Brian Korzynski

Topics: Azure & Cloud   Database/SQL  

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Introduction to Hadoop and HDInsight

In this session we will introduce HDInsight, the HortonWorks Hadoop distribution on Azure. We will talk about what Hadoop is, review HDFS, Hive, Spark, Flume, and talk about why it is gaining popular ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Jim Welch

Topics: Azure & Cloud   Database/SQL  

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IoT and Azure – Better Together

Easily the most over-used buzzword of the year, IoT is everywhere. It is a big deal and Microsoft is making big bets on IoT for both Azure and Windows. We will go through this strategy and talk abou ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Jim Welch

Topics: Azure & Cloud   IoT  

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Microsoft Azure Without Microsoft

Microsoft Azure is a highly-scalable cloud computing platform. But what if my business is built on Linux and Oracle? What if I build iPhone or Android apps for a living? What if I’m a PHP developer or ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: David Giard

Topics: Azure & Cloud   Cross-Platform  

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Scenarios for Taking Advantage of Cloud Computing

You’ve heard of the cloud but you are unclear how it is relevant to you and how to use it for your business. In this session, I will cover a number of scenarios in which cloud computing can help a bus ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: David Giard

Topics: Architecture Practices   Azure & Cloud  

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The API Economy

Who would have thought that API's would be such a popular new "face" of organizations? For some companies, these API's are a new way to attract customers. For others, API's offer a completely new reve ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Jeff Fattic

Topics: Azure & Cloud   DevOps   Web Services  

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Trends in the World of Data

Are you curious what the proverbial Jones family is up to? This session is designed to look at some of the data industry "mega trends" that are not only disrupting how we view data, but how we store ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: David Harper

Topics: Azure & Cloud   Database/SQL   Security  

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Why did my Website/Web Service do that?

In this session we will use API Manager and App Insights (Low cost monitoring solutions in the cloud) to pinpoint performance issues in a production application. Find that slow service or controller q ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Brian Blanchard

Topics: Azure & Cloud   Web Services  

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