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Wed 27th Nov 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 27th Nov 2019 9:00pm (Europe/London)

Glasgow Azure User Group Meetup #17

Agenda

6:15pm – 6:30pm Registration

6:30pm – 7:15pm - Speaker 1

7:15pm – 7:45pm Break/Beers/Pizza

7:45pm – 8:30pm - Speaker 2

8:30pm - 8:45pm Quiz

8:45pm – 9pm Finish

https://www.gaug.co.uk

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-azure-user-group-meetup-17-tickets-79317818731?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=eventcard

Wed 26th Feb 2020 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 26th Feb 2020 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Glasgow Azure User Group Meetup #16

Agenda

6:15pm – 6:30pm Registration

6:30pm – 7:15pm - Kirk Ryan from NetApp - TBC

7:15pm – 7:45pm Break/Beers/Pizza

7:45pm – 8:30pm - Callum Fay from Barclays - Kubernetes

8:30pm - 8:45pm Quiz

8:45pm – 9pm Finish

https://www.gaug.co.uk

https://gaugdec19.eventbrite.co.uk/

Wed 11th Dec 2019 6:15pm (Europe/London)

Wed 11th Dec 2019 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Glasgow Tech Communities

The Microsoft Cloud Advocate team are visiting Scotland and in honor of that we are organizing an event to bring together the various IT communities within Glasgow to network, socialise and learn.

The evening agenda will be as follows:

Welcome and introduction to the Cloud Advocates
Introduction from meetup organisers
Microsoft Ignite update presentation - we will highlight some of the big announcements, why they are important and share how you can learn more about them
Quiz - test your IT knowledge for some cool prizes
Q & A - Ask your questions and one of our experts will help
Networking - Get to know the meetup organisers, the Microsoft Valuable Professionals (MVPs), Cloud Advocates and your fellow attendees.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-tech-communities-tickets-79521505965

Fri 27th Dec 2019 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Fri 27th Dec 2019 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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https://www.gaug.co.uk/conduct

The Glasgow Azure User Group is pleased to host the first Global Azure Bootcamp event in Glasgow and join the other communities for a full day event of Azure related sessions.

*AGENDA*


• 10:00 - Initial networking

• 10:30 - Introduction (Sarah Lean)

• 10:45 - How to learn Azure and become certified - Gregor Suttie

This talk will cover how I went from knowing nothing about Azure to being exam ready.
It will cover how to learn Azure, where to find the latest up to date courses, how to find the exam content, by doing this you will learn a tonne of amazing Azure content and get hands on familiar with a wide array of arrays in Azure. So if you want to learn more about Azure and at the end of it get a certification to put on your resume join me and I'll show you how I learn Azure and how I became exam ready.

• 11:45 - Azure Serverless Computing - Analben Mehta

In this session, learn about serverless computing using Microsoft Azure platform. Learn how to develop and manage your serverless applications through demo.

• 12:45 - Lunch

• 14:00 - Chatbots, Azure and MS Cognitive Services (LUIS) - Jamie Maguire

Building intelligent Chatbots in Azure with Microsoft Cognitve Services LUIS.

• 15:00 -

Azure Stack and the Hybrid Cloud: Modernise Applications Anywhere - Kenny Lowe

How do you approach those applications and workloads that simply cannot go to public Azure due to compliance, connectivity, latency, or other reasons? Join this session to witness how a modernised Azure public compatible app on Windows or Linux can run in your own physical DC on Azure Stack, and learn some of the lesser known secrets of how Azure Stack can help transform your datacentre.

• 16:00 - Competitions/Prizes

• 17:00 - End

Glasgow Azure User Group Meetup #6

6:15pm – 6:30pm Registration

6:30pm – 7:15pm Speaker #1 - David McKay - Software & Technology Consultant

Introduction to Docker

Docker has changed the paradigm for packaging, distributing, and running applications, regardless of operating-system, programming language or architecture. Join me on a whirlwind tour of the Docker landscape, focusing on those dreaded first steps into a new reality: containerisation.

In this presentation we will cover all the essentials of building, running and sharing your first container images; followed by a shallow dive into image layering, networking; finishing with some top-tips from the best container experts in the world.

7:15pm – 7:45pm Break/Beers/Pizza

7:45pm – 8:30pm Speaker #2 - Andrew Kemp from Softcat

Overview for a successful migration in to Office 365, common hurdles, typical mistakes made and how to best prepare for a smooth transition

8:30pm - 8:45pm Quiz

8:45pm – 9pm Finish

http://www.gaug.co.uk

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-azure-user-group-meetup-6-tickets-41137064066

Wed 25th Apr 2018 6:15pm (Europe/London)

Wed 25th Apr 2018 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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The Glasgow Azure User Group is dedicated to providing a harassment-free user group/conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks. Attendees or speakers violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event at the discretion of the groups organizers

Global Azure Bootcamp

The Glasgow Azure User Group is pleased to host the first Global Azure Bootcamp event in Glasgow and join the other communities for a full day event of Azure related sessions.

A full agenda has yet to be confirmed but it will run something along the lines of…

*AGENDA*

• 10:00 – Initial networking

• 10:30 – Introduction (Sarah Lean)

• 10:45 – Session 1

• 11:45 – Session 2

• 12:45 – Lunch

• 14:00 – Session 3

• 15:00 – Session 4

• 16:00 – Competitions/Prizes

• 17:00 – End

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-azure-bootcamp-glasgow-tickets-41463578680

Sat 21st Apr 2018 10:00am (Europe/London)

Sat 21st Apr 2018 5:00pm (Europe/London)

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Glasgow Azure User Group Meeting #5

Agenda
6:15pm – 6:30pm Registration

6:30pm – 7:15pm Simon Binder - Powershell
Simon shares his time between two roles as a Modern Workplace/Productivity Solution Architech and Technical Sales Specialist with a focus on Modern Workplace. Simon holds many Microsoft certifications, and is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. In his session he will take you though PowerShell Management of InTune with some Azure Automation. He will be showing you how to use code samples from Microsoft and the community to enable you to deploy a more automated Intune solution.

7:15pm – 8:00pm Break/Beer/Pizza

8:00pm – 8:45pm Gary Lumsden - IoT Architecture in Azure
The capability of Microsoft Azure to help solve complex Internet of Things problems has matured significantly over the past few years. It is, however, still a daunting challenge to design and implement a robust, scalable and highly available architecture for your IoT solution. In this talk, Gary will explore the architecture for an IoT solution making use of Azure's IoT, Storage and Data Processing technologies to develop a simple proof of concept capable of growing to a full production deployment.
8:45pm – 9pm Finish

http://www.gaug.co.uk

https://gaugfebruary2018.eventbrite.co.uk

Wed 21st Feb 2018 6:15pm (Europe/London)

Wed 21st Feb 2018 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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December Meetup

We will be holding our last meeting of the year in the wonderful space at Collabor8te courtesy of our sponsors Servent UK. We will have beer and pizza available during the break thanks to HAYS Recruitment.

Agenda
6:15pm – 6:30pm Registration
6:30pm – 7:15pm Speaker #1 (TBC)
7:15pm – 8:00pm Break
8:00pm – 8:45pm Speaker #2 (TBC)
8:45pm – 9pm Finish

http://www.gaug.co.uk

https://gaugdecember.eventbrite.co.uk

Wed 6th Dec 2017 6:15pm (Europe/London)

Wed 6th Dec 2017 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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October Meetup

Following on from the success of our August meetup we have secured a larger event space for our October meetup. Thanks to our sponsors Servent UK the meetup will be held within the Collabor8te workspace on Montrose Street.
And thanks to the support from HAYS Recruitment we will have beer and pizza during the break.
For the October meetup we have a slightly different agenda format. This time we will have three speakers. We have Declan Gildea talking about Azure and the Security side of it. While MVP Kenny Lowe will be taking us through the HoloLens in the Datacentre.
We are confirming the third speaker and will release details soon.

Agenda
6:15pm – 6:30pm Registration
6:30pm – 7:00pm Speaker #1 (Declan Gildea & Azure Security)
7:00pm – 7:30pm Speaker #2 (Kenny Lowe & HoloLens)
7:30pm – 8:00pm Break
8:00pm – 8:45pm Speaker #3 (TBC)
8:45pm – 9pm Finish

http://www.gaug.co.uk

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-azure-user-group-meetup-3-tickets-36351550466

Wed 25th Oct 2017 6:15pm (Europe/London)

Wed 25th Oct 2017 9:00pm (Europe/London)

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Glasgow Azure User Group Meetup #2

Our second meetup will be hosted within HAYS Recruitment Glasgow city centre office. We will have two speaking sessions, one covering the basics of Azure and the second will give a more advanced insight into what the platform can do. We also have a license for SQL Monitor to giveaway to one lucky attendee courtesy of Redgate!
HAYS are also kindly supplying the half time food and drinks at the meetup.

6:00pm – Registration
6:15pm – Azure basics and what it is all about (Speaker to be confirmed)
7:00pm – Break/Food/Drinks
7:15pm – Christos Matskas, a Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft will be talking about what Azure can offer over a traditional data centre especially around the serverless technology.
8:00pm-8:30pm – Networking & getting to know each other
8:30pm - Finish

http://www.gaug.co.uk

https://gaugmeetup2.eventbrite.co.uk

Wed 23rd Aug 2017 6:00pm (Europe/London)

Wed 23rd Aug 2017 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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