Azure: Learning Zone

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	Analyze costs and create budgets with Azure Cost Management: Azure Cost Management gives you the tools to plan for, analyze and reduce your spending to maximize your cloud investment. In this session, learn how to use cost analysis to understand how your costs accrue each month. Use this understanding to create an Azure budget to monitor and alert on your costs. You'll also learn how to use Azure budget to monitor and alert on your costs and major factors that influence the cost of running in the cloud. Aparna Gopalakrishnan, Yashesvi Sharma
	Create a Windows virtual machine in Azure: Azure virtual machines (VMs) enable you to create dedicated compute resources in minutes that can be used just like a physical desktop or server machine. This session will explore how to create and work with Windows virtual machines in Azure, including connecting to it and installing software and nework configuration. Esther Ehindero, Rishab Verma
	Experience a new class of data analytics: Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics. Azure Synapse brings these worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, explore, prepare, manage and serve data for immediate BI and machine-learning needs. In this session, you'll get an introduction to when, why and how to get into this area of expertise. Shannon Lindsay, Brenda Su
	Getting started with Azure AI: AI seemed like science fiction just a short time ago. Today, we can build AI solutions to make this a better world. Right now, AI solutions are enabling incredible advances in health care, financial management, environmental protection, as well as other areas. This session will highlight the kinds of solutions AI can make possible and how you can get started today! Graeme Malcolm, Sherry Yang
	GitHub for beginners: collaborating with the dev community: GitHub has long served as one of the most popular collaboration tools for developers. Even so, things can get complicated and confusing. In this session, you will be introduced to the basics of GitHub, collaboration workflow and the importance of version control, even for personal projects. Join us as we explore the GitHub tool set and begin leveraging it for your own development and collaboration needs. Justin Garrett, Sarah Guthals, PhD, Shana Matthews
	Hello, World! in 3 languages: beginning coding with C#, Python and Javascript: Hello, World! Are you new to coding? This session has been created for aspiring developers or anyone looking to better understand how software development works. Get a taste for popular languages including C#, Python, and JavaScript in one quick session. Justin Garrett, Sarah Guthals, PhD, Shana Matthews
	How to be a Data Scientist on Azure: Ever wonder what it means to be a data scientist? By attending this session, you will how data scientists explore and analyze data, and use it to create predictive machine learning models. You'll also learn how Azure Machine Learning enables data scientists to manage experiments and models through the whole lifecycle from data preparation to production. Graeme Malcolm, Sherry Yang
	How to become a software developer: Software development is one of the most in-demand professions today. If you are curious about the skills necessary and pathways available to becoming a software developer, join our panel of experts as they discuss their experiences. Safia Abdalla, Hani Chaaban, Scott Hanselman
	Intro to App and Infrastructure Migration and Modernization through Azure: Ever wonder about the real benefits of migrating your organization's apps and infrastructure to Azure? Ever think about the steps your organization could take when undergoing the process of modernizing those apps and infrastructure, transforming them to take advantage of Azure? In this session, you'll learn the triggers for modernization,determining which apps and infrastructure you should modernize and migrate, and the optimal migration and modernization strategy for your organization. Sonia Cuff, Orin Thomas
	Intro to Mixed Reality Business Apps + Real-Life Use Cases in Healthcare: Believe it or not, ANYONE can get started with infusing mixed reality into their daily lives. Join this session to build your confidence with Mixed Reality Business Apps like Remote Assist! Hear from Mt Sinai Hospital about practical use cases of mixed reality in healthcare and learn about deployment best practices so you can empower your organization with mixed reality today! Shona Bang, Katie Glerum, Payge Winfield
	Learn to program with .NET and C#, the platform for building anything: .NET provides a development platform where you can build anything, the first step is learning a language. You traditionally start with a “Hello World!” program to get started. From those first steps you can follow your chosen learning path to continue your journey. You'll learn the C# programming language, the .NET ecosystem, and the tools you'll use to build your application. We'll walk through those first steps together, and show you how to find your chosen path. Shayne Boyer, Bill Wagner
	Manage complex cloud deployments by using advanced ARM template features: Moving to the cloud, many teams have adopted agile development methods. These teams iterate quickly. They need to repeatedly deploy their solutions to the cloud, and know their infrastructure is in a reliable state. To meet these challenges, you can automate deployments and use the practice of infrastructure as code. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates have numerous constructs and are able to handle both simple and complex setups. Christoffer Noring, Ángel Perez
	Secure your data with Azure SQL: Ensuring the security and compliance of data is always a top priority. In this session, you'll learn how to use Azure SQL to secure your data, configure logins and users, monitoring security, ensure that your data meets industry and regulatory compliance standards. You'll also learn how to take advantage of the extra benefits and intelligence that Azure provides. Anna Hoffman, Bob Ward
	So you want to switch to a career in Mixed Reality!: Interested in pursuing a career in mixed reality but feel intimidated or unsure where to start? Fret not! Join this session and hear #RealTalk from our panel on taking a leap of faith to work in mixed reality. Learn how to acquire and build on core mixed reality skills to unlock your tech superpowers and create a positive impact in the blend of our physical and digital worlds. Amara Anigbo, Catherine Diaz, Archana Iyer, April Speight
	Where does an organization begin using Azure?: Azure is a global cloud platform with 200+ products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life. So which should you use first? The answer often reflects the unique circumstances of the person, team, or organization asking the question. Before adopting cloud technologies, organizations need to pause and reflect on who they are and what they want to accomplish. The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework provides the structure to help organizations discover where to begin. Sarah Lean

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