Global Azure Heroes / Thursdays Community Day

By Maik van der Gaag May 8, 2025

Global Azure Heroes / Thursdays Community Day

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).

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

Agenda

  • 13:30 – 14:15 — Welcome reception, walk-in, networking, refreshments and snacks
  • 14:15 – 14:45 — Keynote — Danny Kruge (Organizer) & Roelant Dieben (Azure Thursdays)
  • 15:00 – 15:45 — Risk Mitigation with Defender for Cloud — Mathijs Vermaat
  • 15:45 – 16:00 — Break
  • 16:00 – 16:45 — Azure Vol — Bogdan Grozoiu (Schuberg Philis)
  • 16:45 – 17:00 — Break
  • 17:00 – 17:45 — Deploying Resources to Azure with Bicep and GitHub — Maik van der Gaag (3fifty)
  • 17:45 – 19:15 — Dinner break — BBQ and drinks
  • 19:15 – 20:00 — 404: Cost Not Found – FinOps for Engineers — Melissa Paasen (Microsoft)
  • 20:00 – 20:15 — Break
  • 20:15 – 21:00 — The Perfect Azure Naming Convention — Jev Suchoi (Tata Consulting)
  • 21:00 – 22:00 — Networking, drinks, bites, and ice cream

Event details

  • Date: May 8, 2025
  • Time: 13:30 – 22:00
  • Location: Schuberg Philis, Amsterdam
  • Topics: Azure DevOps AI IaC

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