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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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