Andrew Welch Webinar

Title: Power Platform as a First Class Citizen in the Cloud Transformation + App Modernization Journey

Speaker: Andrew Welch, MVP, Director, Applied Information Sciences (AIS), USA

Date and Time: Wed, Aug 12, 2020 15:00  – 16:00 CEST

Power Platform has matured into the go-to cloud platform for business application development, workflow automation and RPA, chatbots, business intelligence and data visualization, and relational database as a service via the Common Data Service (CDS). Organizations large and small are finding the platform well-suited for both localized productivity use cases built by “citizen developers” as well as big line-of-business workloads whose impacts are felt across the enterprise. This session introduces the technology in the context of an organization’s cloud transformation and app modernization, and provides a framework for adopting, managing, and governing the technology at scale as a first class citizen alongside Azure and Office 365.

Key benefits of attending this webinar:
– Learn how large organizations are using Power Platform as part of their cloud transformation and app modernization journey
– Get introduced to the global community-driven framework for adopting, managing, and governing Power Platform at scale
– Learn about several specific best practices for adopting, managing, and governing Power Platform

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Ahmad Najjar Webinar

Title: Calling APIs, Consuming Services and Exposing Data using Power Automate

Speaker: Ahmad Najjar, MVP, Infoworker, Norway

Date and Time: Tue, Aug 18, 2020 15:00  – 16:00 CEST

Power Automate tooling make it possible to quickly automate Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics 365 and hundreds of SaaS services without or with minimal code – but that doesn’t mean you’re limited!
Power Automate provides an abundance of possibilities and connectors that makes it easy to go beyond the tooling to solve more sophisticated scenarios and empower citizen developers at every step of app development.
In this webinar developers will get a deep dive on how to call APIs, consume services and expose and surface data using different techniques; from using HTTP calls from within Power Automate to building custom connectors to integrate directly with services and extend the server-side logic with code plugins.
This session also provides prescriptive guidance and best practices on when to use which technique.
Join Ahmad Najjar for an advanced level webinar that will extend your Power Automate skills beyond the tooling point and click!

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Adnan Rafique Webinar

Title: Security Operation Center from Re-active to Pro-active using Azure Sentinel

Speaker: Adnan Rafique, Insight Enterprises, USA

Date and Time: Wed, Aug 26, 2020 15:00  – 16:00 CEST

Work from anywhere and any location and device are a norm today but how would you make sure your users who they are, really, they are. In this session will explore how can you leverage built-in capabilities in Azure Sentinel (AI and ML) to protect your digital assets. What are the techniques you can use and what type of information governance policies you can apply from day first?

Key benefits of attending this webinar:
– Azure Sentinel
– Cloud Security
– Threat Hunting

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Tracy van der Schyff Webinar

Title: Microsoft 365, the toolbox to enable digital citizens to work from home efficiently

Speaker: Tracy Van der Schyff, MVP, The Guid Stuff, South Africa

Date and Time: Wed, Sept 9, 2020 13:00 – 14:00 CEST

Although Office 365 was launched 9 years ago, many companies held back due to data centre availability as well as licensing / financial complexities. Even after companies moved to the cloud, most users were not trained in using the technologies efficiently. Now that working from home is no longer a stranger to most, these skills have become crucial for employees.

In this session, Tracy will share valuable insights on:

·       How to use Microsoft Teams, Stream, OneDrive, Forms to share and gather content without causing further email fatigue.
·       Staying in touch and informed using Microsoft Teams Meetings, Chat and Conversations
·       Working together using co-authoring in Office ProPlus while in Microsoft Teams
·       Tips and Tricks for #WFH employees in low / no connectivity scenarios

This session is not just meant for new users but also existing Microsoft Teams users, who might have started off on the wrong foot and currently experience frustration when using cloud technologies.

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Thurupathan Vijayakumar Webinar

Title: Democratising the Azure Governance & Security

Speaker: Thurupathan Vijayakumar, Chief Technology Officer, Aventude, Sri Lanka

Date and Time: Wed, Oct 21, 2020 15:00  – 16:00 CEST

Sometimes back the biggest challenge for the organizations was, how to adopt cloud (Azure). Now, many organizations are actively using/adopting cloud and their main challenge is how to govern it. Cloud governance covers many different aspects, due to the complexity and lack of clarity, often organizations put restrictive policies out of fear or they loosen up more than what is required and end up in trouble.

An organization typically faces different challenges from different stakeholders, this session is a collection of such cases and real-world solutions on how we can use modern Azure services to govern and manage things.

The following are covered
1. Azure Resource Governance in different departments of a single organization.
2. A large group of companies with a single Azure account with both centralized and decentralized IT.
3. A large group of companies with multiple Azure accounts.
4. Enabling Partners and other stakeholders outside the organization.
5. Enabling Managed Service providers.
6. Enabling external developers to involve in resource and application deployments.
7. Any few other related scenarios
8. Managing your customers being a SaaS provider.

We will look at how we can use different services like Azure ARM, Blueprints, Policies, Lighthouse, Azure Managed Service Identities, AAD, Key Vault etc. and provide the best in class experience in such scenarios.
This session will help the audience to understand the possibilities in governing access control, resource sprawl, monitoring and other IT aspects of an organization.

Key benefits of attending this webinar:
– Understanding the new services in Azure in governance and management.
– Real-world examples and use cases with demos.
– Practical problems being addressed and discussed more than a feature introduction.

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Stefano Tempesta Webinar

Title: Virtual Eye Vision With HoloLens

Speaker: Stefano Tempesta, CTO, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, SXiQ, Australia

Date and Time: Wed, Dec 9, 2020 11:00 – 12:00 CET

Virtual Eye is a vision technology that provides virtual sight to the visually impaired by recognizing people and the environment around using AI and AR capabilities of Azure. This session explores the technologies implemented along the Azure Kinect device to perform body tracking and image recognition in real-time, and translate this information in vocal instructions that describe the world around the user.

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