Danny Kruge

We’re thrilled to announce our next Azure Heroes event — happening at the Microsoft Netherlands HQ! Join us for an inspiring evening of learning, networking, and deep technical sessions from two amazing community leaders.

Featured speakers

Soham Dasgupta

AI Developer Odyssey: Navigating Use Cases, Models, and Technical Patterns

In the ever-evolving world of AI, choosing the right language model and designing robust applications around it can be overwhelming. Soham takes us through a developer’s journey — from model selection and architecture patterns to automating evaluation, testing, and monitoring of AI apps.

Mike Martin

1, 2, 3… Testing: Is This Thing On(line)? Meet Your New Microsoft Testing Tools

Testing isn’t just about finding bugs — it’s about ensuring reliability, performance, and resilience in your apps. Mike walks us through modern Microsoft testing tools like Chaos Studio, Playwright, and Azure Load Testing.

Microsoft MVP

The Training section of Azure Heroes provides curated learning designed to help participants build practical skills in different skills. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to deepen your expertise, this section offers interactive modules, tutorials, and challenges that make learning engaging and rewarding.

AWS & Azure Meetup at Schuberg Philis — a rare cloud convergence! It’s not every day that these two powerhouse communities come together in one place, bridging cloud security, data, and more for both AWS and Azure professionals. But first, we feast.

Featured speakers

Jorge

Choosing Your Headline

A deep dive into three real-life security incidents where the technical realities and media narratives told very different stories.

NetApp — Robin Rico, Aymen Selmi & Verron Martina

Breaking Silos and Unlocking Data Value in a Multi-Cloud Environment

NetApp, co-organizer of this meetup, shares practical insights on overcoming cloud storage challenges in a multi-cloud environment.

Sandeep Gangaram Panday

Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)

A look at a critical framework designed to navigate increasing geopolitical tensions and ensure operational resilience when working with the cloud.

Gert-Jan ter Shure

(Dev)Containers — It Doesn’t Only Work on My Environment

Across IT, data, and software engineering, “it worked on my machine” is a familiar refrain when deploying to new environments or onboarding team members. What if development and runtime environments could be shared across the whole team? That’s not magic — that’s (dev)containers.

Join us for an Azure Heroes meetup packed with pipeline compliance and network security insights.

Featured speakers

Jev Suchoi

Decorating Pipelines with Compliance in Azure DevOps

In this session, we dive into the world of pipeline decorators in Azure DevOps, demonstrating how you can automate compliance across your organization’s pipelines. Learn how to create and implement a custom decorator that injects required steps, such as security and static code analysis, directly into your CI/CD processes.

Microsoft MVP

Omid Vahed

Azure Virtual Network Manager: Simplifying Network Security and Connectivity at Scale

Managing cloud networks across regions and subscriptions can get complicated fast. With Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM), you can apply connectivity topologies and security policies at scale, centralize network management, and simplify complex setups like hub-and-spoke topologies without manual intervention.