Events

Azure Heroes is teaming up with GitHub Dev Days for an evening of hands-on learning, community, AI, and plenty of Copilot.

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April Yoho (Senior Developer Advocate @ GitHub)

Ctrl+Alt+Delegate: Development in the Age of AI Agents

April is a Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, where she helps organizations modernize how they build, deploy, and operate software at scale. She specializes in application transformation and DevOps ways of working, with a strong focus on enabling enterprises to adopt modern, code-first practices using GitHub. April is actively involved in technical content creation and education, producing enterprise-focused blogs, videos, workshops, and presentations. Through speaking engagements, executive briefings, and community events, she shares practical, real-world insights to help teams successfully adopt modern DevOps practices.

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Rob Bos

GitHub Copilot Surfaces: My Leveling Up with AI

GitHub Copilot is everywhere now: inline, in chat, in agent mode, in the CLI, the app, and the cloud. Rob will walk us through his journey of leveling up with Copilot and explain which surfaces matter most at each stage of your workflow.

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Paul Stolk

Stop Prompting and Praying, Start Specifying

In this hands-on session, Paul will show how Spec-Driven Development can turn Copilot from a hopeful prompt box into a reliable engineering partner, building a full app in just 60 minutes.

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

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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.

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• 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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.