Start the day with a good cup of coffee and meet fellow Azure professionals. A great moment to catch up, make new connections and get ready for the day ahead.

Technology is moving faster than ever. Get inspired by the ideas, innovations and developments shaping the future of cloud and AI and explore what they could mean for your organisation.

How do you protect your Azure VMs when an attacker is already inside? Jeffrey Appel, Microsoft Security MVP, Founder at Cyvion and Microsoft Security Specialist, will show what it takes to configure Microsoft Defender and prepare it to respond.

Learn how to onboard Azure VMs, apply the required security settings and avoid overlooked configurations that can leave protection ineffective. See how Automatic Attack Disruption detects an ongoing attack and isolates compromised VMs before attackers can move further.

Protecting your environment is not just about detecting an attack. It is about stopping it.

Take a moment to recharge with a good cup of coffee. Use this time to discuss the first sessions and exchange ideas with fellow attendees.

Luan Erasmus, Developer at Intercept with experience in C#, databases and .NET applications, will show how agentic workflows can take on the work around the code.

You will see AI agents review infrastructure changes, investigate problems, gather context from different systems and help move work forward without constant manual effort. This is not another session about generating code or writing pull request comments. It is about building workflows where agents become part of the engineering process itself.

Through practical examples, Luan will show where these workflows add real value, where they do not and what it takes to start using them in your own environment.

Time to enjoy a good lunch and even better conversations. Sometimes, the best insights happen in between the sessions.

Not everything on the agenda can be planned. Join us for a special session designed to surprise, challenge and inspire. We’re keeping the speaker and topic secret for now, all we can say is: make sure you’re in the room.

Operational Technology and Information Technology have long been “miles apart”, separated by legacy protocols and data silos. Sander van de Velde, Principal IoT Architect at SDG Group and Microsoft MVP, will show how Microsoft’s ecosystem brings them into sync.

See how Azure IoT Operations turns industrial data into a clean, unified stream, and how Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence uses Real-Time Hub and KQL to spot anomalies before they cause unplanned downtime.

Finally, learn how Microsoft Fabric Apps adds visualisation and action, bringing streaming analytics, vibe coding and business context together.

Grab another coffee and share your biggest takeaway from the day so far. Then, it's time to dive back into the content.

Every Microsoft Fabric implementation starts with someone clicking “New Workspace”. That works for one workspace, but what happens when your organisation needs 50, 200 or more?

Danny Kruge, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Mission Critical Engineer at Schuberg Philis, will show how he transformed Microsoft Fabric into a fully automated, enterprise-ready platform using Terraform. See how Workspace Vending can automate provisioning, permissions, governance, deployment identities and supporting Azure infrastructure.

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In this session, Barbara Forbes, Azure Architect at Zure, Azure MVP and GitHub Star, explains why more Azure policies don't always mean more control. Learn how to determine which policies your organisation actually needs, avoid common pitfalls and build a simpler, more effective approach to Azure governance.

We’ve explored the technology, the opportunities and the challenges. Now it’s time to bring it all together. Hear different perspectives, challenge the status quo and join the conversation about what the future of cloud and AI really means for organisations.

One final moment before we wrap up. Wesley brings the day together, reflects on the key takeaways and leaves you with a final thought to take back to your organisation. Then, it’s time to raise a glass and keep the conversation going.

The perfect opportunity to make new connections and reflect on everything you've learned throughout the day.

Start the day with a good cup of coffee and meet fellow Azure professionals. A great moment to catch up, make new connections and get ready for the day ahead.

Technology is moving faster than ever. Get inspired by the ideas, innovations and developments shaping the future of cloud and AI and explore what they could mean for your organisation.

The session title, speaker and further details will be announced soon.

Take a moment to recharge with a good cup of coffee. Use this time to discuss the first sessions and exchange ideas with fellow attendees.

More information about the session and speaker will follow.

Time to enjoy a good lunch and even better conversations. Sometimes, the best insights happen in between the sessions.

Not everything on the agenda can be planned. Join us for a special session designed to surprise, challenge and inspire. We’re keeping the speaker and topic secret for now, all we can say is: make sure you’re in the room.

More information about the session and speaker will follow.

Grab another coffee and share your biggest takeaway from the day so far. Then, it's time to dive back into the content.

More information about the session and speaker will follow.

loud buying is changing. Marketplaces are becoming a bigger part of how customers buy and how partners scale.

Jelco Haspels, Cloud Solution Architect at TD SYNNEX Netherlands, will explain how organisations can benefit from this shift. Expect a practical session on what the marketplace economy can do for your organisation.

We’ve explored the technology, the opportunities and the challenges. Now it’s time to bring it all together. Hear different perspectives, challenge the status quo and join the conversation about what the future of cloud and AI really means for organisations.

One final moment before we wrap up. Wesley brings the day together, reflects on the key takeaways and leaves you with a final thought to take back to your organisation. Then, it’s time to raise a glass and keep the conversation going.

The perfect opportunity to make new connections and reflect on everything you've learned throughout the day.