Global Azure Greece 2021

In this session we will talk about Azure App Service, how someone can get started with the cloud and how to setup application monitoring and ci/cd pipelines to automate your workflows

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Learn What is Azure Static Web Apps and how you can build modern web applications with reactJS, angular or Blazor and Azure Functions back-end Or how you publish static sites with Gatsby or Hugo. We are going to learn how to integrate Azure static web Apps with github.

In my session, we will explore MS Endpoint Manager and learn how to enrol devices and access them from the NS EndpointManager admin centre.

In this session we will learn how we can automate the deployment of a Blazor WebAssembly app and its Azure Functions API with GitHub Actions.

Our work with legacy code doesn’t often put us in a position to move quickly into new or trendy tooling. And while we almost always introduce Docker very early in our projects, it is usually only for the purpose of standardizing and easing setup of developer environments. Transitioning a live environment to containers, however, can be a daunting prospect. There are a variety of reasons for that, many of which you’ve probably encountered yourself, which include: 1. The application isn’t in the cloud yet 2. It’s too complicated 3. Container orchestration (like Kubernetes or Swarm) is too new/buggy/insecure 4. We need microservices to leverage Kubernetes 5. The application is a monolith All these might be valid reasons, but this talk will focus on our experiences in that last scenario — containerizing a monolith.

Deploying an IaaS Lab Active Directory Environment using ARM and DSC.

In this session, Dwayne Natwick will discuss the uses for Modern Authentication and how passwords are having decreased relevance within an identity infrastructure. We will discuss how these new techniques provide additional protection and security for your cloud identities, and demonstrate how to plan and architect a strong hybrid identity structure.

Microsoft Azure is an awesome platform to run your organization workloads. It supports Cloud native and non-native workloads. It's easy and fast to getting started. After moving and creating several resources in Azure some customers are struggling by the lack of a robust cloud governance structure. This session is target at organization of all sizes, not only big large organizations need governance, every single organization needs it. We will review the native services in Azure that can help you on your governance journey. We will talk and see in action: Management Groups, Azure Policy, Tags, Azure Blueprints, CAF - Cloud Adoption Framework and even a little bit of Cost Management.

Learn how to leverage basic DevOps processes and tools in order to manage your Azure Network Security Groups efficiently.

A presentation for how to create an Azure Automation, how to add Modules ,how to create credentials and finally how to create runbooks to manage your SharePoint online/onpremise

Performance efficiency is the ability of your workload to scale to meet the demands placed on it by users in an efficient manner.

An end to end deployment of an ML model using Azure ML, Azure Kubernetes Service, Application Insights

DevOps philosophy doesn't really apply to non-developers who are not creating and releasing new versions of applications every week. Or does it? In this session, I will talk about how to leverage Azure DevOps tools to boost your productivity and project management and how to save and execute your scripts and ARM templates.

A presentation on how to manage an AKS cluster the application and its Security.

What is Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and why it does matter. Strategies to approach IaC (imperative vs declarative), and hands-on-time by leveraging the most popular tools on Azure. Bicep: the natural evolution for ARM templates Terraform: the cross platform framework Az CLI / Powershell: the shortest path to entry for IaC

A simple cluster of goland, redis and mysql hosted on azure.

In this hands on session we will see how to use Azure DevOps to build and then publish a docker image as an Azure App Service, using Azure Container Registry.

As software engineers, we build applications that eventually run on one or more servers, which consume electricity. Electricity is commonly generated by coal, oil, gas; when burned, they produce carbon dioxide (CO2), which is the main driver of climate change. Clearly, our software applications have an environmental impact based on the resources (CPU, number of servers, etc.) that they consume. What can we do to reduce the environmental footprint of our software applications? This session provides practical guidelines that will help you reduce or even eliminate the emissions of carbon dioxide associated with your software applications, a process that is also known as decarbonization. It is assumed you are involved in building software applications and aspire to help prevent climate change.

Harnessing the unique behaviour of quantum physics and applying it to computing, quantum computers introduce new concepts to traditional programming methods such as superposition, entanglement, and quantum interference. Microsoft, having a clear mindset towards the coming quantum era, is partnering with quantum hardware companies to provide developers with cloud access to quantum hardware. Leveraging the Azure Quantum platform and the Q# language, developers are now able to explore quantum algorithms and run their quantum programs on different types of quantum hardware. In this session, we will explore Azure Quantum’s capabilities and run a Q# quantum application on a real quantum computer.

These days, working with a cloud platform is already commonplace. Companies choose Microsoft Azure for a number of benefits, including security. But there are some responsibility on the customer side and that's may become weakest link in the chain. A demo-based session shows attacks on the weakest link in 3 scenarios: Hybrid Active Directory, Legacy VM-based application and Modern Application. The session includes: - Pentesting Azure AD Connect - Bypassing authentication & MFA - Getting control over Compute - Extracting secrets from Key Vault - Getting Access to App Service and Azure SQL Database - Exploring Azure Web App Firewall

The COVID-19 pandemic has definitely accelerated technological adoption.But what about Cybersecurity? Employers aren't working anymore at one specific "safe" network perimeter,they are working from anywhere using a variety of tools.So, how we can monitor all these logs, detect potential threats and respond before is too late? Do not worry, Azure Sentinel is here to save us! In this session we will make an introduction to Azure Sentinel , explain it's basic concepts and hunt potential threats in real time! Can’t Sleep at Night..? Just setup Azure Sentinel right! Do not forget to join..!

When apps are hosted in AKS, chances are that those will need to access other Azure services. Chances are also that there are some constraint in terms of security for those access, such as not writing password in the code. AAD Pod Identity is a way to answer that. Interesting in modernizing your apps on K8S while keeping your SecOps happy ? Then come discover the what and how of Pod identity in AKS and discover the steps from AKS deployment to pods accessing Azure services with managed identities

On premise security measures and strategies need to expand to the cloud. Let's check how cybersecurity evolves from on premise to a cloud solution.

What are Neural Nets really? What does Machine Learning mean, and how does Deep Learning differ from it? What does Azure offer for all of those? In this session, I try to explain concepts, and give some guidance on the above.

Bots administer a conversational platform to the user and grand the ability to fluently interact with a machine. Proactive messages notify the user, providing integral information, through the bot, in a timely manner, while separating data that is currently most important. Learn how to give your bot the ability to utilize notifications and smartly select the most relevant information to present to the user!

Chapter III: Ready, Set, Go [Infrastructure Migration] (T. Koutanis) Chapter IV: Security guards on duty [Azure Security & Governance] (G. Markou)

In this session I will present my first steps in ΙοΤ. Have you ever wondered why IoT is a hot technology and how can you control your smart devices from your mobile phone using Microsoft Azure?

Computer Vision is the area of AI that deals with visual processing. In this session we are going to see how to harness the power of Azure Computer Vision for image classification, object and face detection and more. No Machine Learning expertise required!

Join this session to learn more about the Internet breakout options of your Azure Virtual Networks as well as how to create a secure cloud perimeter with Azure Firewall and Network Virtual Appliances.

This session is for developers and system engineers who support data collection and processing in Azure by using Lambda Architecture.

Azure Cosmos DB is one of the fastest-growing Azure services on the market and one of the popular NoSQL database services in the Cloud-based Environment. Cosmos DB is not only a NoSQL type database service that stored only schema-less data. Cosmos DB also provides several Server Side objects like Stored Procedures, Triggers, etc to implement the custom business requirement. In this talk, we'll start with an introduction to the basic principals of Server-Side Objects in Cosmos DB and some of its unique features. We'll then walk through building a web application in .NET Core and C# demonstrating how to communicate with Cosmos DB. We'll then discuss code on how to execute any server-side objects like Stored Procedure, Triggers, etc using Asp.Net Core Applications. Learning objectives • Basic Concept of Azure Cosmos DB • Basic Principles of Server-Side Objects in Azure Cosmos DB • Integrate Cosmos DB operation from Asp.Net MVC Applications • Executing a Stored Procedure in Cosmos DB from Asp.Net Core Application • Demonstrate how to execute a Trigger in Cosmos DB from .Net Core Application

Find out how to use Azure SQL Database and Python to store and retrieve information. In this session, you will learn how to create an Azure SQL database via the Azure portal and use Python to connect to the database, create tables, and manipulate data.

The "Earthquakes Notification" system is being used at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for classifying earthquake events and notifying the Seismological Station personnel via phone. This session aims in describing the main components of this system (Azure Storage , Azure Functions , Azure Machine Learning , Azure Cognitive Services , Twilio) as well as the challenges during the development process. The "Earthquakes Notification" project has won the 3rd place in the Microsoft Cloud AI Research Challenge https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/microsoft-cloud-ai-research-challenge/ .

Deploying an IaaS Lab Active Directory Environment using ARM and DSC.

In this session, Dwayne Natwick will discuss the uses for Modern Authentication and how passwords are having decreased relevance within an identity infrastructure. We will discuss how these new techniques provide additional protection and security for your cloud identities, and demonstrate how to plan and architect a strong hybrid identity structure.

Microsoft Azure is an awesome platform to run your organization workloads. It supports Cloud native and non-native workloads. It's easy and fast to getting started. After moving and creating several resources in Azure some customers are struggling by the lack of a robust cloud governance structure. This session is target at organization of all sizes, not only big large organizations need governance, every single organization needs it. We will review the native services in Azure that can help you on your governance journey. We will talk and see in action: Management Groups, Azure Policy, Tags, Azure Blueprints, CAF - Cloud Adoption Framework and even a little bit of Cost Management.

Learn how to leverage basic DevOps processes and tools in order to manage your Azure Network Security Groups efficiently.

A presentation for how to create an Azure Automation, how to add Modules ,how to create credentials and finally how to create runbooks to manage your SharePoint online/onpremise

Performance efficiency is the ability of your workload to scale to meet the demands placed on it by users in an efficient manner.

An end to end deployment of an ML model using Azure ML, Azure Kubernetes Service, Application Insights

DevOps philosophy doesn't really apply to non-developers who are not creating and releasing new versions of applications every week. Or does it? In this session, I will talk about how to leverage Azure DevOps tools to boost your productivity and project management and how to save and execute your scripts and ARM templates.

A presentation on how to manage an AKS cluster the application and its Security.

What is Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and why it does matter. Strategies to approach IaC (imperative vs declarative), and hands-on-time by leveraging the most popular tools on Azure. Bicep: the natural evolution for ARM templates Terraform: the cross platform framework Az CLI / Powershell: the shortest path to entry for IaC

A simple cluster of goland, redis and mysql hosted on azure.

In this hands on session we will see how to use Azure DevOps to build and then publish a docker image as an Azure App Service, using Azure Container Registry.

As software engineers, we build applications that eventually run on one or more servers, which consume electricity. Electricity is commonly generated by coal, oil, gas; when burned, they produce carbon dioxide (CO2), which is the main driver of climate change. Clearly, our software applications have an environmental impact based on the resources (CPU, number of servers, etc.) that they consume. What can we do to reduce the environmental footprint of our software applications? This session provides practical guidelines that will help you reduce or even eliminate the emissions of carbon dioxide associated with your software applications, a process that is also known as decarbonization. It is assumed you are involved in building software applications and aspire to help prevent climate change.

Harnessing the unique behaviour of quantum physics and applying it to computing, quantum computers introduce new concepts to traditional programming methods such as superposition, entanglement, and quantum interference. Microsoft, having a clear mindset towards the coming quantum era, is partnering with quantum hardware companies to provide developers with cloud access to quantum hardware. Leveraging the Azure Quantum platform and the Q# language, developers are now able to explore quantum algorithms and run their quantum programs on different types of quantum hardware. In this session, we will explore Azure Quantum’s capabilities and run a Q# quantum application on a real quantum computer.

These days, working with a cloud platform is already commonplace. Companies choose Microsoft Azure for a number of benefits, including security. But there are some responsibility on the customer side and that's may become weakest link in the chain. A demo-based session shows attacks on the weakest link in 3 scenarios: Hybrid Active Directory, Legacy VM-based application and Modern Application. The session includes: - Pentesting Azure AD Connect - Bypassing authentication & MFA - Getting control over Compute - Extracting secrets from Key Vault - Getting Access to App Service and Azure SQL Database - Exploring Azure Web App Firewall

The COVID-19 pandemic has definitely accelerated technological adoption.But what about Cybersecurity? Employers aren't working anymore at one specific "safe" network perimeter,they are working from anywhere using a variety of tools.So, how we can monitor all these logs, detect potential threats and respond before is too late? Do not worry, Azure Sentinel is here to save us! In this session we will make an introduction to Azure Sentinel , explain it's basic concepts and hunt potential threats in real time! Can’t Sleep at Night..? Just setup Azure Sentinel right! Do not forget to join..!

When apps are hosted in AKS, chances are that those will need to access other Azure services. Chances are also that there are some constraint in terms of security for those access, such as not writing password in the code. AAD Pod Identity is a way to answer that. Interesting in modernizing your apps on K8S while keeping your SecOps happy ? Then come discover the what and how of Pod identity in AKS and discover the steps from AKS deployment to pods accessing Azure services with managed identities

On premise security measures and strategies need to expand to the cloud. Let's check how cybersecurity evolves from on premise to a cloud solution.

What are Neural Nets really? What does Machine Learning mean, and how does Deep Learning differ from it? What does Azure offer for all of those? In this session, I try to explain concepts, and give some guidance on the above.

Bots administer a conversational platform to the user and grand the ability to fluently interact with a machine. Proactive messages notify the user, providing integral information, through the bot, in a timely manner, while separating data that is currently most important. Learn how to give your bot the ability to utilize notifications and smartly select the most relevant information to present to the user!

Chapter III: Ready, Set, Go [Infrastructure Migration] (T. Koutanis) Chapter IV: Security guards on duty [Azure Security & Governance] (G. Markou)

In this session I will present my first steps in ΙοΤ. Have you ever wondered why IoT is a hot technology and how can you control your smart devices from your mobile phone using Microsoft Azure?

Computer Vision is the area of AI that deals with visual processing. In this session we are going to see how to harness the power of Azure Computer Vision for image classification, object and face detection and more. No Machine Learning expertise required!

Join this session to learn more about the Internet breakout options of your Azure Virtual Networks as well as how to create a secure cloud perimeter with Azure Firewall and Network Virtual Appliances.

This session is for developers and system engineers who support data collection and processing in Azure by using Lambda Architecture.

Azure Cosmos DB is one of the fastest-growing Azure services on the market and one of the popular NoSQL database services in the Cloud-based Environment. Cosmos DB is not only a NoSQL type database service that stored only schema-less data. Cosmos DB also provides several Server Side objects like Stored Procedures, Triggers, etc to implement the custom business requirement. In this talk, we'll start with an introduction to the basic principals of Server-Side Objects in Cosmos DB and some of its unique features. We'll then walk through building a web application in .NET Core and C# demonstrating how to communicate with Cosmos DB. We'll then discuss code on how to execute any server-side objects like Stored Procedure, Triggers, etc using Asp.Net Core Applications. Learning objectives • Basic Concept of Azure Cosmos DB • Basic Principles of Server-Side Objects in Azure Cosmos DB • Integrate Cosmos DB operation from Asp.Net MVC Applications • Executing a Stored Procedure in Cosmos DB from Asp.Net Core Application • Demonstrate how to execute a Trigger in Cosmos DB from .Net Core Application

Find out how to use Azure SQL Database and Python to store and retrieve information. In this session, you will learn how to create an Azure SQL database via the Azure portal and use Python to connect to the database, create tables, and manipulate data.

The "Earthquakes Notification" system is being used at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for classifying earthquake events and notifying the Seismological Station personnel via phone. This session aims in describing the main components of this system (Azure Storage , Azure Functions , Azure Machine Learning , Azure Cognitive Services , Twilio) as well as the challenges during the development process. The "Earthquakes Notification" project has won the 3rd place in the Microsoft Cloud AI Research Challenge https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/microsoft-cloud-ai-research-challenge/ .