25.Apr Greece (Virtual)

Global Azure Greece 2020

One day full of Microsoft Azure and the Cloud
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Global Azure Greece 2020

One day event where everyone, globally, talks about the expanding universe of Microsoft Azure!



Global Azure Greece 2020

Welcome to Global Azure Greece 2020! In April 25, 2020, all communities will come together once again in the seventh great Global Azure event! Each user group organizes their own one to three day Azure event the way they see fit and how it works for their members. The result is that thousands of people will get together to learn about Azure and join together online under the social media hashtag! Around the world user groups and communities want to learn about Azure and Cloud Computing!

A Community of Communities!

Learning about Azure is a massive undertaking for anyone. The Azure Cloud Platform is really big and offers a very long list of great services. How do you get a grip on it all? Together!

Who should sign up!
  • Anyone wanting to learn about Azure and cloud computing.
Deep Dive Sessions

One full day of deep dive sessions on Azure for Developers and IT Pro's delivered by the experts to get you started on complex topics like Azure Ap Services, IoT, Machine Learning, Cognitive Services, Containers and a lot more.

Have questions, need to discuss your technical issues, or looking for some advise, do attend to speak to the experts.

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Schedule

Vast number of different speeches
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Watch Video 11:00 - 11:15
Welcome Keynote
Konstantinos Pantos, Paris Polyzos, Pantelis Apostolidis
Pantelis Apostolidis
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At my session we will explain the tools that Microsoft Azure provides to help the administrators to enforce rules to all subscriptions. Some examples of those rules are to help the organizations to stay compliant with their corporate standards, to standardize the resources creation and management & to manage the permissions and access controls.

Pantelis Apostolidis
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In this session we will explore what is Azure Bastion, how we can setup to use it and what can we do with it. Bastion combined with Azure Serial Console can provide us with tools to use in a browser, to gain flexibility and to be more secure. But we will also check this from the Pen-Tester's point of view.

George Kavvalakis
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An introduction of suitable methods to load data into Azure SQL DW (Synapse)

Antonios Chatzipavlis
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Find out what Azure Stack Hub is (and is not), how it integrates with the datacenter and what are the management options. During the demo you will see how to deploy the Azure Stack Development Kit, which is a free version of Azure Stack Hub for trial purposes.

Dimitris Pantazis
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An introduction to the hurdles of Azure automation and orchestration in our IaaS/PaaS environments, how much code is enough, and cost-saving solutions practices via Logic Apps and automation. Τhe focus is on cases with logic apps integrations against Azure Automation solutions and the actual cost-saving.

Dimitris Fintzos
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Building end-to-end a cloud native application on Azure, managing no servers, scalable to support any load, operationalize all the components involved with minimal effort. It will be a session with the absolutely necessary powerpoint slides and focus mostly of how a cloud native application may be realized on Azure. It will have a public facing web site to collect product orders, customer identity will be backed by AAD B2C, an Azure Functions based REST API, Azure Service Bus to act a load leveling mechanism, Cosmos DB as the NoSQL engine for persistence and App Insights as the end-to-end monitoring solutions.

Vaggelis Kappas
11:00 - 11:15
Welcome Keynote
Konstantinos Pantos, Paris Polyzos, Pantelis Apostolidis
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Why and how to use ARM Templates along with PowerShell, to deploy your infrastructure on Azure. Aimed for IT Pros and DevOps people.

Vassilis Ioannidis
Paris Polyzos
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In this session I will talk about Azure API Management service. How someone can get started using it and gradually move to more advanced topics covering policies, developer portal, authentication and how it can be used in a hybrid and multi-cloud environment.

Paris Polyzos
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In this session, we are going to see how to use the designer and the Azure ML SDKs and CLI to quickly prep data, train and deploy machine learning models. We will see how several Azure Machine Learning features work like multiple framework support and advanced ML capabilities like automated machine learning and pipeline support.

Georgia Kalyva
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In this session, we are going to demistify what brings the General Availability of Microsoft Threat Protection. We will discuss what's the new way to do cross investigations and forensics with Advanced Hunting across Endpoints, Identities, E-mails and Data.

Michael Haggar
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An intro to cloud native. Learn about possible containers solutions on azure and when to use them.

Konstantinos Ziazios
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Do you want to achieve a better security exposure for your online identities? In this presentation you will learn a practical strategy on how to safeguard your cloud identities with Azure Active Directory. This session is intended for Business leaders, IT Pro’s, IS Professionals and Cloud enthusiasts.

George Markou
11:00 - 11:15
Welcome Keynote
Konstantinos Pantos, Paris Polyzos, Pantelis Apostolidis
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Yianni Touliatos
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An introduction to Azure Service Bus with a short demo combining Service Bus Queues and Azure Logic Apps.

George Grammatikos
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Konstantinos Pantos
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Building cost effective scalable server(less) solutions.

Nikolaos Antoniou
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A high level overview on the architecture of the Speech to Text component developed for the European Union Intellectual Propery Office.

George Spyrou
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In this session we will see how we can prototype a real-time PowerBI IOT dashboard with almost no code.

Michalis Nikolaidis

Speakers



Pantelis Apostolidis

Pantelis Apostolidis

Sr. Solutions Architect @ Office Line SA | Microsoft Azure MVP

Passionate about information technology, Pantelis is a Solutions Architect at Office Line SA & a Microsoft Azure MVP. For the last 10 years, Pantelis has been involved to major cloud projects in Greece & abroad. He is an author, blogger & a spokesperson | Moderator of the azureheads.gr & autoexec.gr communities | Husband | DAD

Paris Polyzos

Paris Polyzos

Senior Software Engineer / Microsoft Azure MVP

Paris is a Senior Software Engineer and a Microsoft Azure MVP. He holds an MSc in Electical & Computer Engineering; he is passionate about the Web, Microsoft Technologies and the cloud!

Konstantinos Pantos

Konstantinos Pantos

Cloud Solutions Architect @ Microsoft

Since 2001, when I started my professional career, I was given the opportunity to work with some of the largest Greek Software development Companies and worked with cutting edge Microsoft technologies. Nowadays I work as a Solutions Architect for Microsoft where I focus in providing innovative cloud solutions.

Nasos Loukas

Antonios Chatzipavlis

Data Solutions Consultant Trainer | MVP on Data Platform | MCT, MCSE, MCITP, MCPD, MCSD, MCDBA, MCSA, MCTS, MCAD, MCP, OCA, ITIL-F

Antonios is a Data Solutions Architect and Trainer. He has been working in IT since 1988. In his career, he has worked as senior developer, IT Manager, Software Architect and IT Consultant. Since 1995 he has been devoted on new technologies and software development tools, mainly by Microsoft, either by training company staff and colleagues (he has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2000) or assisting them in design, development and implementation as a consultant or chief developer. He focused in Databases and Data Science since 2000. He specialized in Microsoft SQL Server since version 6.0 in areas like SQL Server Internals, Database Design and Development, Business Intelligence and in 2010 he has started working with Azure Data Platform, NoSQL databases, Big Data Technologies and Machine Learning. He is an active member in many IT communities in Greece, answering colleagues' questions and writing articles in his web site. He focused in Databases and Data Science since 2000. He specialized in Microsoft SQL Server since version 6.0 in areas like SQL Server Internals, Database Design and Development, Business Intelligence and in 2010 he has started working with Azure Data Platform, NoSQL databases, Big Data Technologies and Machine Learning. He is an active member in many IT communities in Greece, answering colleagues' questions and writing articles in his web site. He is the owner of SQLschool.gr which is a community portal with a lot of information about Microsoft SQL Server. Microsoft honored him as MVP on Data Platform due to his activities in Microsoft Data Platform. He holds a large number of Microsoft Certifications and Microsoft SQL Server Certifications since version 6.5.

Vaggelis Kappas

Vaggelis Kappas

Solution Specialist for Azure Apps & Infra @ Microsoft

Microsoft Solution Specialist for Azure Applications and Infrastructure, that is helping enterprise customers to realize the benefits and value of Cloud. Administrative member and moderator of autoexec.gr. Frequent speaker on technology events organized by the major IT communities in Greece, such as autoexec.gr and azureheads.gr. Proud husband and dad.

Pantelis Apostolidis

Georgia Kalyva

Microsoft AI MVP, Web Applications Developer, B.Sc, MSP, MCP

Georgia Kalyva has graduated from the University of Piraeus, is a Microsoft AI MVP with years of experience in software engineering and is currently working for ITT as Web Applications Developer. She is passionate about AI and Azure and has represented Greece in global competitions in Technology and Entrepreneurship. She is a member of the Microsoft Student Partners team and has taken over the role of mentor in several Microsoft competitions and trainings.

Giorgos Kavvalakis

Giorgos Kavvalakis

Risk Management & Security Architect @ BNP Paribas Fortis. Top100 Leaders in Global Healthcare 2019, BSc, MSc, MCSA, interoperability influencer, Azure Solutions Architect

George has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry where he started working as a Systems and Network Engineer since 1998. He has worked for global firms like Robert Bosch SA and he was the sole Greek representative in the global Microsoft-Robert Bosch summit at the age of 20. In 2008, while working for Vamvas Group of companies, he took the role of IT Manager and two years later he was promoted to Chief Information Officer for the group. In 2019 he was awarded as one of the Top 100 Leaders in Global Healthcare for his work, his innovative solutions and his contribution in global healthcare. He was one out of two CIOs that received this award. His achievement led to numerous proposals and thus he made his next step. He currently works as Risk Management Officer and Security Architect for BNP Paribas Fortis in Brussels. He is an active member of Azureheads.gr and moderator of Autoexec.gr and he is passionate with technology. Pen-tester hobbyist, Gamer, Entrepreneur, Speaker.

Michail Angelos Haggar

Michail Angelos Haggar

Technology Solutions Professional @ Microsoft

Michael is a Technical Specialist at Microsoft for Central and Eastern Europe specialized in Cybersecurity. He has 13 years’ experience and is passionate about Microsoft Technologies. His focus is to bring modern cloud-powered solutions to organizations and help them achieve more.

George Markou

George Markou

George Markou | CDM MVP | Technical Trainer

George Markou is a Technical Lead for Cloud & Infrastructure technologies at Bewise, Microsoft CDM MVP and a Technical Trainer. George is all about the software defined datacenter and the Hybrid Cloud, mainly focused in Microsoft Technologies. He is currently based in the south frontier of Europe, Greece. When he is not glued to his PC, he seeks to explore other Countries, spent his free time with friends and family and parenting his Persian Cat.

George Grammatikos

George Grammatikos

Azure Architect @ Tisski ltd. | Microsoft Azure MVP

George has more than 10 years of experience in different technologies like Azure services, servers, networks, security solutions, etc. He is the cloudopszone.com founder and one of the moderators of the Microsoft Wiki community.

Dimitris Pantazis

Dimitris Pantazis

Senior Engineer @ UniSystems | MCSE, Azure Associate

Dimitris is a Senior Engineer at UniSystems, focusing on Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server, Exchange Server as well as Azure and Office 365. In the past 10 years he has worked for several companies both in Greece and abroad. One of his passions is to automate IT operations and inspire others to do so.

Dimitris Fintzos

Dimitris Fintzos

Senior Systems Engineer @ Oriflame Software | MCSE, Azure Solutions Architect

Experienced Senior Systems Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software and outsourcing industry. Skilled in Hyper-V, Azure, Windows Server, VMware and a strong understanding of Citrix and Networking. Currently working with AKS, Azure Automation and Logic apps.

Vassilis Ioannidis

Vassilis Ioannidis

Technical Manager @ incadea | Azure Solutions Architect | Trainer

Vassilis Ioannidis is a Lead Technical Consultant and a seasoned Microsoft SQL Server expert, working at incadea group, and is in the IT industry for more than 2 decades. Vassilis has a degree in Computer Programming, has numerous Microsoft certifications since 2000 and has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2005. The past 4 years he is working closely with clients, in projects that span across the globe, to move workloads on Microsoft Azure and modernize client solutions on-premises and/or the cloud. Vassilis is a community enthusiast and speaker in many events. Result-driven and a lifelong learner.

Yianni Touliatos

Yianni Touliatos

Regional Director, Technical Sales for CEE @ Microsoft

As Regional Technical Sales Director, Yianni Touliatos is leading a team of Cloud Solution Architects and Technical Specialists in a 28 country region in CEE for Microsoft. His prior role was as a Cloud Solution Architect also in the CEE region working with Partners. Yianni has a background of more than 20 years of experience in systems engineering and consulting. Since 2003 he has been primarily focused on hosting and cloud computing and has advised service providers all over the world. Prior to joining Microsoft, Yianni was the managing director of Nimateks, a systems integrator. Yianni and his team worked closely with Citrix and with the Microsoft Hosting and Cloud solutions team designing multi-tenant IaaS and SaaS platforms and executing implementation and migration projects for hosting companies.

Nikos Antoniou

Nikolaos Antoniou

Azure App/Dev Specialist @Microsoft

Passionate about software engineering in the cloud era, avid coder, casual gamer and amateur cyclist. On a mission to help companies achieve more through strategic employment of Azure technologies.

George Spyrou

George Spyrou

Software Engineer @ Intrasoft International S.A.

Software Engineer at Intrasoft International S.A.

Konstantinos Ziazios

Konstantinos Ziazios

Software developer @ Pheron ltd

Long time C#/.NET developer with roots in C++. He has developed ASP.NET (WebForms and MVC and core) web apps for many years. Konstantinos has spent many years working as a consultant for many different projects and has deep ties to the agile community. He is also very interested in automated testing using tools like WatiN or Selenium. On any given day he could be programming in C#, Javascript, Java or all of them. (C# is his favorite language though.)

Konstantinos Ziazios

Michalis Nikolaidis

Senior Software Engineer | Microsoft Certified Professional | Microsoft Certified Trainer | MSP Digital Lead Greece

Michalis is a Senior Software Engineer, Consultant, Microsoft Certified Professional & Microsoft Certified Trainer. He is mainly interested in the development of innovative web and mobile solutions that take full advantage of the Microsoft technology stack. He has worked on multiple projects providing quality services both in team environments and individually.

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About Global Azure Greece 2020

Welcome to Global Azure 2020! Around the world user groups and communities want to learn about Azure and Cloud Computing! On Apr 25, 2020, all communities will come together once again in the fifth great Global Azure Greece event! Each user group will organize their own one day deep dive class on Azure the way they see fit and how it works for their members.

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