Microsoft Tech Briefings

Improve cyber resilience and compliance with Microsoft Defender for Cloud (26th January)

Securing and measuring the compliance of a multi cloud or hybrid infrastructure can be challenging for multiple reasons. In this session we will touch on those and explain how Microsoft can streamline your day-to-day activities and help improve your Cyber Resilience with more confidence than ever before.

Put MLOps into Practice (9th February)

Many organizations have embarked on their AI journeys and started harvesting the value from intelligent solutions built with machine learning. However, some of them struggle to scale such solutions across their entire organization. The fact that MLOps sits at intersection of data science and software development can be challenging to manage. Additional complexity arises when sensitive data is involved which demands well architected infrastructure and well designed privacy set-up. With MLOps, you will be able to streamline and manage your end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, from the inner loop of the data science lifecycle, to the outer loop of model deployment and monitoring. We welcome AI and machine learning professionals, data scientists, data engineers, architects and technology leaders to join us in this session dedicated to MLOps. Experts from Microsoft will help you understand what is MLOps and how to put MLOps into practice with best practice recommendations, reference architectures and real world customer examples.

Cloud Governance Forum: Why Cloud & Data Governance is key to success in the cloud, and how to get started (23rd February)

Learn how Microsoft Azure, Azure Purview & Azure Arc can address your needs to enable a successful Governance Framework for Security & Compliance. This session focuses on practical steps on how to get started. Hear first-hand experience from Microsoft customers and their partners in a moderated roundtable discussion, the challenges they faced, how they approached Cloud & Data Governance, the impact this has had on their organizations, and their future plans. Don't miss the chance to take part in this forum and discover how Cloud Data Governance can be applied to your Organization.

Unified & Limitless Data Platform with Azure Synapse and Azure Purview

A resilient business is built on strong data foundations. A thriving data culture, increased agility, faster time-to-insight, razor-sharp focus on innovation and future readiness are integral to maintaining the edge, and cloud analytics and AI play a pivotal role. Azure meets your data challenges with advanced cloud-based analytical solutions and data governance services. Arancha Diez, Analytics Marketing Director & Ashish Kumar, Subject Matter Expert in Cloud Scale Analytics, will cover key and unique features of Azure Synapse Analytics and its seamless integration with Data Governance, Common Data Model, Business Intelligence (BI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) toolsets, unlocking the potential for limitless analytics. Hear from our customers about their business challenges, and how Azure Synapse enabled them to innovate at speed and transform their business.

Protect your Data in the Hybrid Work Era with Microsoft Information Protection

A strong end-to-end data protection program is crucial not only to protect your organization against external and internal threats, it also unlocks powerful competitive advantages such as improved brand value and Trust creation across the entire ecosystem. But how we achieve this? This session will show how Microsoft Information Protection works in a seamless an integrated way across the entire Microsoft 365 portfolio to accomplish a unique and cost-effective data management approach. At the end, we will share some best practices around data protection to implement and accelerate your journey in this space.

Extend and Integrate SAP Solutions with Microsoft Power Platform & Teams

With secure integration to SAP on Azure, solutions built on the Power Platform enable your organization to get more out of your SAP data, from deeper analysis and reporting to more efficient, SAP-driven business processes. Take your solutions even further with seamless integration to other Azure and Microsoft 365 tools and services such as Teams - all with the scale, security and reliability of the Azure platform. In this session we will share: Why Azure is the best platform for your SAP Solutions; Opportunities to unlock business value by connecting apps and workflows to your SAP environment; How to provide a seamless integration for end -users with Microsoft Teams and SAP.

Next-generation Endpoints: devices, protection, and management

With users asking for more ways to work the way that they want, this webinar will help you better understand how Microsoft 365 and Surface devices can help you mitigate those risks while providing the best solutions that leverage existing investments with Microsoft. By attending this session you will learn how to: Modernize your endpoints with Surface for Business devices; Improve device management capabilities; Discover & protect endpoints by enforcing policies and deploying security tools; Secure identities with multi-factor authentication & conditional access from any device; Enable users to be productive with the applications they need, on the devices they want. Join us!

Zero trust beyond the buzz - a practical guide to a future without Active Directory Zero Trust Beyond the Buzz - A practical guide to a future without Active Directory

Active Directory is a fundamental piece of most IT environments for more than two decades. It is considered reliable, scalable, and the technical expertise is abundant on the market. However, the long lifecycle of the directory create a technical debt challenge, which requires attention and causes a security risk. In parallel, cloud usage is exploding and most new applications are now SaaS-based. Now is probably the good time to think about reducing the dependency on on-premises Active Directory. In this session we will discuss how to reduce the Active Directory footprint by leveraging cloud-based solutions.

Empower Every Employee to Build Agile Business Processes

Join this session to see how every Teams user can build Power Apps right from Teams, with Microsoft Dataverse for Teams that easily structures a variety of data and business logic to support apps and processes in a secure and compliant manner. Learn how to take advantage of the Microsoft Teams and Power Apps integration to quickly adapt your business processes and streamline workflows. Additionally, you will understand how to further leverage your current investment in Teams, PowerBI and PowerApps to quickly adapt to the hybrid world.

Microsoft Intelligent Security Platform Explained with a Whiteboard

Microsoft offers a broad security suite including XDR, endpoint protection, posture management both on-premises and in the cloud, IOT/OT security, information protection and governance, and SIEM solutions. This session will give you an umbrella model from which you can understand how all these solutions work together. Additionally, you will understand how the different products link to business risk management and the overall Zero Trust concepts.

Microsoft Cloud Native: DAPR - Making you and your teams more productive

Together with our experts we will dive into the use-cases and see and how DAPR can help you and your organization. Do not only expect fancy slides and stories since we will aim to have an open discussion from a business and technical perspective. Additionally, a great webinar is not complete without a super-duper demo! We will show you how to easily switch a binding with DAPR, leveraging a new technology without changing the code. Please, join us if you want to learn how to make sure everyone is more productive.