Maik Van Der Gaag

The last meetup before the summer holidays — join us for an evening of Azure insights, networking, and great company at BetaBit!

Featured speakers

Maarten van Diemen

Turbocharge Your Pipelines

Practical tips and tricks for Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions covering templating, speed optimization, and software provisioning for CI/CD pipelines.

Christian Peeters

Getting Started with Ethical Hacking

Vulnerability identification, common attack types, exploitation practices, AI-based hacking methods, and social engineering awareness. Learn how attackers think and how to defend your Azure environments.

We’re excited to be hosting Global Azure Heroes Community Day, once again partnering with Azure Thursdays. Join us for a full-day celebration of learning, sharing, and connection — with engaging technical sessions, inspiring talks, and a fantastic BBQ prepared by Schuberg Philis’ own chefs. This event is part of the worldwide Global Azure 2026 celebration.

Featured speakers

• 12 speakers in 2 tracks — full speaker line-up to be announced soon!

Join us for the March edition of Azure Heroes Netherlands, an evening packed with Azure insights, as we kick off 2026 hosted by i8c.

Featured speakers

Hans Muns

Event-Driven DevOps: Automating Azure with Event Grid System Topics

Modern DevOps on Azure isn’t just about pipelines — it’s about making your platform reactive. With Event Grid system topics, you can automatically respond to changes in your Azure environment, triggering workflows the moment resources are created, updated, or deleted. This session covers how system topics work, connecting Event Grid to automation tools, practical use cases, and a live demo.

Sagar Sharma & Steef Jan Wiggers

Beyond Building an AI Agent

Build and launch AI agents faster by prototyping with open models and scaling to production using Microsoft Foundry and the AI Toolkit.

LinkedIn LinkedIn Microsoft MVP

Get ready for another exciting Azure Heroes Meetup! Whether you’re a seasoned Azure professional or just starting your cloud journey, this is the perfect chance to connect with like-minded people, share knowledge, and be inspired by real-world Azure experiences.

Featured speakers

Sagar Sharma

Future of Azure Integration Services

Azure offers a wide range of tools for message, data, and event-based integrations, and the journey so far has been impressive. Sagar takes us through what’s next for Azure Integration Services, with a special focus on the impact of AI.

Microsoft MVP

Irwin Strachan

AI Won’t Replace You — But Someone Using AI Will

The age of intelligent cloud operations is here — but are we ready? In this session, we explore how AI is reshaping DevOps in Azure, challenge assumptions, and share real-world experiences from the field.

Join us for an exciting day of learning and networking at the Global Azure 2025 event hosted by Azure Heroes Netherlands. This full-day extravaganza promises engaging sessions led by top-notch speakers from the Azure community — whether you’re an Azure veteran or just beginning your cloud journey. This is a ticket-only event; tickets are free, so please only reserve one if you can attend (zero waste).

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Mathijs Vermaat

Risk Mitigation with Defender for Cloud

A practical session exploring vulnerability management, threat detection, and risk mitigation strategies across hybrid and cloud workloads using Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Bogdan Grozoiu

Azure Vol

Deep dive with Bogdan Grozoiu from Schuberg Philis on Azure engineering and operational resilience.

Maik van der Gaag

Deploying Resources to Azure with Bicep and GitHub: Infrastructure as Code and Testing

Learn how to build, test, and automate scalable cloud infrastructure deployments with Bicep and GitHub Actions.

Microsoft MVP

Melissa Paasen

404: Cost Not Found – FinOps for Engineers

Explore FinOps principles, cost monitoring, and architectural choices that keep cloud costs in check without compromising scalability.

Jev Suchoi

The Perfect Azure Naming Convention: Designing for Scalability and Automation

Design enterprise-grade naming conventions and tagging strategies that streamline automation, governance, and cloud platform maintenance.

Microsoft MVP