Event kickoff 

Digital Transformation in the Cloud: What They Don’t Always Tell You

Tudor Damian, Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP

The payoff of successful Digital Transformation can be essential for companies engaged in highly-competitive markets. Being fully based on Tudy’s involvement in projects and experience from recent years, this session provides a quick insight into the role that the Cloud plays within Digital Transformation initiatives, touching on challenges companies usually face when dealing with governance, security, change management & cost-control.

Break

Cloud Architecture and Securing the Move to Cloud

Ahmed Nabil, Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Microsoft Regional Director

Whether people admit or not, everyone is moving to the cloud and all future businesses will run somewhere on the internet. Moving to the cloud requires a different set of architecture and mindset. Data is stored, accessed, and processed on different platforms and devices. Employees are working anywhere from the world, corporate data is no more under company IT custody. CISOs and CIOs need to think differently and set a new Cloud Security Architecture. This session will try to draw the main areas of concern from a Security perspective while moving to the cloud.

Break

Observations on Microsoft’s pandemic responses & Office 365 roadmap

Daniel Popescu, IT Business Strategy Executive

This year has been unlike any other. At the beginning of the year, Microsoft announced ambitious new sustainability initiatives and how they plan to help their customers reduce their carbon footprint. Then COVID-19 changed everything. Technology companies like Microsoft were clearly central to helping organizations navigate a new landscape while maintaining and speeding up their public products’ roadmaps. As far as Office 365 workloads are concerned, during the pandemic, Microsoft accelerated the implementation for some features and, even more, add new ones in the pipeline. So join this session to learn about what new functionalities that have been implemented in Office 365 and what’s to come next.

Event Wrap-up

Welcome coffee and networking

Docker with Windows Containers

Mihai Tibrea

I was recently asked to help with the dockerization of a project. Easy task, right ? Until I was made aware that one of the projects in the solution was a windows service, and I was forced to use windows containers.

Cloud security fundamentals – Developer view

Radu Vunvulea

Do you want to improve cloud security? I thought so. Then why not join this session and build your fundamentals knowledge related to cloud security from a developer perspective. We have a lot of demos and hands-on expertise from Microsoft Azure and AWS.

Coffee and networking

Making Kubernetes Serverless with KEDA

Florin Loghiade

KEDA (Kubernetes-based Event-Driven Autoscaling) is an opensource project built by Microsoft in collaboration with Red Hat, which provides event-driven autoscaling to containers running on an AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) cluster. KEDA allows for fine-grained autoscaling (including to/from zero) for event-driven Kubernetes workloads. KEDA serves as a Kubernetes Metrics Server and allows users to define autoscaling rules using a dedicated Kubernetes custom resource definition. Most of the time, we scale systems (manually or automatically) using some metrics that get triggered. For example, if CPU > 60% for 5 minutes, scale our app service out to a second instance. By the time we’ve raised the trigger and completed the scale-out, the burst of traffic/events has passed. KEDA, on the other hand, exposes rich events data like Azure Message Queue length to the horizontal pod auto-scaler so that it can manage the scale-out for us. Once one or more pods have been deployed to meet the event demands, events (or messages) can be consumed directly from the source, which in our example is the Azure Queue. In this session, we will talk about KEDA, deploy a Function to it, and see where we can use it in production.

Networking and discussions

Mihai Tataran is the General Manager of Avaelgo, he is also a Microsoft MVP on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Regional Director.

His primary roles at Avaelgo are to extend the business, focusing on Managed Services on top of the Microsoft Cloud, and act as a pre-sales and consulting resource on key cloud projects. Mihai has been teaching Microsoft technologies courses to software companies in Romania and abroad, being invited by Microsoft Romania to deliver many such training programs for their customers.

Mihai is a regular speaker at international conferences: Microsoft Summit, Experts Live Europe, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference, Microsoft TechEd, DevReach in Bulgaria, Codecamp Macedonia. He is also a co-organizer of the ITCamp Romania Conference, event that reached its 9th edition this year.

Daniel Popescu is the Head of Avaelgo Managed Services department. He is responsible for leading, managing and developing the operations teams in our Managed Services Division including, technology implementations and pre-sales, 1st and 2nd line Services desk and Service Management.

Before Avaelgo he worked for Microsoft Romania for more than 18 years, with more than 11 years in Microsoft IT. He worked as Helpdesk Service Technician for 5 years, and after he was IT Manager for Microsoft Romania. During this period he managed the IT for Sales, Marketing and Services division, Customer Support division and CIAO Shopping division. During his period as IT Manager, he was one of the first IT peoples from Microsoft that implemented Hyper-V in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa region. Later on, Daniel was Partner Technology Advisor and Strategist for Microsoft partners and Account Technology Strategist for Enterprise customers for Financial and Insurance Industry. He acted as a “trusted advisor” for CIO’s in order to build a common strategy, a strategy that includes Microsoft technologies and solutions.

Ovidiu Pismac is Account Technology Strategist at Microsoft Romania. He is a trusted advisor for Microsoft Romania Financial Services Industry enterprise customers.

Since 2006, Ovidiu has been responsible for Microsoft management, virtualization and security solutions from the System Center family or the hybrid Operations Management Suite for Windows or Linux. His focus is Microsoft virtualization solutions (Hyper-V, APP-V, VDI, and RDS), Windows Server and Windows Client platforms. Ovidiu is also involved in the area of Microsoft security solutions: Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection and integration with various Windows / Linux / Mac OS X platforms, Advanced Threat Analytics, PKI Windows Server Certificate Services solutions.

Registration & coffee

ITCamp Romania & București

Mihai Tătăran, Co-organizator ITCamp Romania, CEO Avaelgo

Adrian Purcarea, Microsoft Director EMEA Support Engineering & Romania Site Lead

Artificial Intelligence in Azure

Mihai Tătăran, Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft Azure MVP, CEO Avaelgo

In this presentation, you will understand the basic terminology and the foundations of AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, and then you will see how Microsoft and Azure can help build such solutions.

Zero Trust Networks – reshape security in your organization

Ovidiu Pismac, Account Technology Strategist @ Microsoft

Sharing experience of running azure functions in production at scale.
In this presentation, you will see how to use machine learning and deep learning to prevent the newest cybersecurity attacks.

Machine Learning in Microsoft 365

Daniel Popescu, Head of Managed Services @ Avaelgo

In this presentation, you will see how Machine Leaning is used in Office 365 and Microsoft 365. With Windows Machine Learning, developers will be able to use pre-trained machine learning models, ensuring real-time analysis of data for lower costs.