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	Succeeding with Secure Access Service Edge SASE: With the emergence of the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), network and security professionals are struggling to build a migration plan for this new platform that adapts to the distributed nature of users and data. Come learn how you can gain the benefits of SASE as you work towards implementing SASE architecture. These include reduction of complexity and cost, improved performance, increase accessibility, and enhanced security. Barry Fisher
	5 Takeaways to Ignite your Creative Edge: Would you like your work to be more creative, productive AND have more fun? Discover 5 tips to Ignite your Creative Edge from experts across global organizations. Examples include the excitement of Springboard, leveraging technologies like Azure Arc, how McDonald's kept their edge in Europe, railway companies setting up a “hackatrain” and a corporate giant becoming more agile.There'll be plenty of food for thought, and five ways to boost your creativity and transform your working life. Andrew Brabban, Thomas Häggström, Ziva Khaiat
	Accelerate Digital Transformation with the Microsoft Cloud that comes to you.: Accelerate your digital transformation with hybrid cloud and leverage HPE's deep Cloud Consulting expertise across your Microsoft workloads. Learn how HPE GreenLake cloud services supports your key workloads where they live - across your colocations, data centers and edges—eliminating complexity and silos, driving speed and agility. Get a full cloud experience, as you pay per use, scale rapidly and simplify IT with HPE GreenLake for Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack, and Azure Stack HCI. Steve Richardson, Steve Showalter
	Accelerating digital customer engagement with Azure Communication Services: Building rich communication experiences - enabled by voice, video, chat, and SMS - has become an integral part of how businesses are connecting with their customers across devices and platforms. Future-proofing your business to address the challenges that change customer, developer, and business needs is more critical than ever. Learn how Azure Communication Services is helping businesses accelerate engagement and build the best communication experiences available. Mary Anne Noskowski, Anthony Valentino
	AnyData Hub powered by TIBCO Unify: Successful customer intimacy, operational excellence, and business reinvention efforts require every kind of data: metadata, reference data, master data, transactional, and streaming data. Managing this diversity in a well-governed and consistent way is the objective of Unify, TIBCO's line of data management products. Enable your team with the capabilities required for better data access, trust, and control. Rishi Shah
	Automating Database Deployments using Azure DevOps: Automation is a fundamental aspect when adopting a DevOps-style deployment process. Learn how you can use Azure DevOps tools to automate your database deployments successfully. Topics include the challenge of supporting more than one database system, deployments in Azure SQL Database, Postgres and Maria DB. Grant Fritchey
	Azure Communication Services - Build video, voice and chat apps interoperable with Microsoft Teams: Join Intelligent Communications CVP, Scott Van Vliet, to take a look at the latest updates to Azure Communication Services. We'll give you a hands-on tour of core capabilities available soon along with new capabilities, including interoperability with Microsoft Teams; using the Azure BOT Framework for Intelligent Voice Response, built-in UI controls for developers and much more. This is an Ignite exclusive show from Microsoft Mechanics. Scott Van Vliet, Jeremy Chapman
	Azure Migration - New unified tools for discovering and assessing databases, .NET apps and VMs: Join Azure Migration engineering lead, Abhishek Hemrajani, for a hands-on tour of the latest updates in Azure Migrate and walkthrough of new experiences for discovering, assessing and matching your SQL Server databases to the right Azure services. Azure Migrate is now a unified environment to discover and assess your servers, databases and Web apps, and migrate them to Azure. This is an Ignite exclusive show from Microsoft Mechanics. Jeremy Chapman, Abhishek Hemrajani
	Azure Synapse Analytics: Building end-to-end analytics solutions with a unified experience: Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless or dedicated resources—at scale. 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. Santosh balasubramanian
	Build a reliable, high-performance landscape for your SAP on Azure migration: Making the migration of a lifetime a reality takes trust not only in the skills to do the job, but the confidence that the infrastructure is up to the task. Your SAP migration may feel like a feat of this magnitude, so join me in learning how Microsoft and NetApp have put the tools in place so you can trust your migration will be as smooth as humanly possible... and the risk of failure essentially non-existent. Oh, and did I mention we can do it efficiently, yah... we got that handled also. Jeff Whitaker
	Cloud Transformation at Speed: Public Health England’s COVID-19 Response: Public Health England (PHE) were first introduced to Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (Cognizant MBG) by the Microsoft Health team in April 2018, where a conversation regarding cloud adoption started. Cognizant MBG took the team at PHE on an envisioning journey of what the Microsoft Cloud could achieve within their organisation. Watch this session and learn about our client's transformative journey and find out how COVID-19 was the catalyst for the deployment of new capabilities. Sam Lloyd, Stephen McQueen, Dan Scarfe
	Customer Tech Talks – Microsoft Customer PCL shares their technical learnings.: Hear from Microsoft Customer PCL on how they have innovated in their business. We will dive into how they develop, deploy and manage their solutions, what they learned through the process, and what they wish they had known before they started. Sean Barnes, Mark Bryant, Ben Walters
	Deliver Enterprise AI at Scale with Dataiku and Microsoft: Moving data science projects from design to deployment requires a variety of technical skills and tools. As more people in different roles participate, the potential for delay and miscommunication increases. This session will show how the fusion between Dataiku and Microsoft help global organizations innovate and activate enterprise AI at scale. You will discover how democratization of data use outside of so-called “traditional” data-centric roles can create seamless project collaboration. Greg Willis
	Dell Technologies: Expand your data perspective: Data is being generated from multiple sources, and formats, and consumed at rates never seen before. It falls upon you and your business to find the most efficient and easy way to extract intelligent and actionable insights. Empowering your organization to thrive requires a holistic model - across far edge and hybrid cloud environments. Join us for an overview of Dell Technologies' holistic approach to becoming a digital organization, powered by data, running in a multi-cloud world. Stephen McMaster
	Enable unified data governance with Azure Purview: Azure Purview is a unified data governance service that helps you manage and govern your on-premises, multi-cloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) data. Get the latest product news and view demos. See how Azure Purview can help you easily create a holistic, up-to-date map of your data landscape with automated data discovery, sensitive data classification, and end-to-end data lineage that will empower data consumers to find valuable, trustworthy data. Pratik Verma
	Extend Azure management and services anywhere with Azure Arc: Learn how Azure Arc enables you to standardize visibility, operations and compliance across a wide range of resources and hybrid locations by extending the Azure control plane. See how you can build cloud native apps anywhere, at scale, by centrally coding and deploying applications confidently using any Kubernetes distribution, any location, on premises or multicloud. Learn to flexibly use cloud innovation by deploying consistent, always-up-to-date Azure data and application services anywhere. Jason Hansen
	Faster Management Performance – Inventory and Financial Management learnings in Azure using SAP Data: During the session we will explore how Qlik Data Integration, and Microsoft Azure joint solutions decrease the time-to-insights and how to blend data with other sources like SAP data in Azure. We will also explore how you can gain insights into inventory and financial management performance. Attend and learn how you can easily get started with Qlik and Microsoft's free Proof-of- Value (PoV) that includes software and expertise to remove barriers and accelerate real-time analytics. David Frericks
	Fast-track Your Way to Multicloud Kubernetes with Nutanix HCI and Azure Arc: Cloud native technologies pave the way for big gains in business agility, but deploying and managing Kubernetes across clouds is operationally complex. Legacy infrastructure isn't built for the way Kubernetes uses IT resources, and without the right approach, multicloud Kubernetes is difficult to manage. In this session, you'll learn how Nutanix HCI and Azure Arc combine to enable effective multicloud Kubernetes management that incorporates a production-grade Kubernetes stack on prem. Sean Roth
	From Hadoop to a Modern Big Data Platform: Hadoop was the original big data platform. It enabled companies to store and analyze large volumes of data, both structured and unstructured. However, new advances, coming from the public cloud as well as the changing needs of businesses, require a new, more modern data platform—the enterprise data cloud. In this session, you'll learn about the key technology differences between Hadoop and an enterprise data cloud as well as the benefits to moving to a modern data platform. Deepak Narain, Sushant Rao
	Future-proof your data protection: Backup as a Service for your Microsoft ecosystem: If you're driving digital transformation and powering remote workers with your Microsoft ecosystem—moving applications to Azure and migrating to Office 365—this session is for you. Learn how the unique breadth and flexibility of Metallic BaaS—powered by Commvault technology—helps safeguard data on-prem, on Azure, in SaaS applications, and even containers - all with an enterprise-grade, SaaS-delivered solution. David Ngo
	Getting 110% from You Azure App Services: The Internet is powered by cloud computing. And if you use Azure, chances are pretty good that you have one of more App Services running some of your websites, services, infrastructure and Nicholas Cage meme generators.In this talk Lars will share best practices, tips, llama-induced tricks and more to get the best, and most, out of your Azure App Services. It could save you both cash and time. Lars Klint
	How Azure Databricks and Delta Lake enabled city wide data improvements and cost savings: Learn how Azure Databricks and Delta Lake enable a modern data architecture for data engineering, data science, analytics and machine learning. See how the City of Spokane reduced their ELT/ETL total cost of ownership (TCO) by 50% while improving data quality. Tony Gilbert
	How Pelayo moved from traditional IT to DevOps with Red Hat and Microsoft: Pelayo, a leading insurance company in Spain is transforming its traditional IT to a more modernized architecture with cloud technology and DevOps processes in order to take advantage of new technologies that will help them operate more efficiently. Together with DevOps, Pelayo partnered with Red Hat and Microsoft to use Azure Red Hat OpenShift® to implement an architecture that will support their legacy applications and the new technology and tools that will help drive their business forward. James Read, Oscar Rivas Sendin
	How ServiceNow migrated SAP to the Cloud 3X Faster: Two years ago, ServiceNow IT made a plan to decommission our physical datacenters by 2022. SAP and BI applications were some critical services being migrated as part of this plan. Hear how we moved SAP and BI applications to Microsoft Azure by: leveraging automation pre/post-migration to manage workload ownerships and attributions in CMDB; utilizing AIOps workflows for anomaly detection and flag issues before causing bigger problems; and saving on cloud spend by identifying unneeded resources. Venkat Lakshminarayanan
	How Snowflake's Data Cloud powers Retail & CPG Use Cases: Join Snowflake as they discuss how the Snowflake Data Cloud helped a top CPG company journey to the cloud, and how they are solving the toughest data challenges facing retail and CPG organizations today. This discussion will cover: •Overview of the state of the retail industry •How customers are using data to better serve customers, power data-driven decision-making, and build business-critical products •How the retail and CPG industry can more seamlessly and securely share data in real-time Craig Collier, Craig Dickman, Rosemary Hua
	How to implement full lifecycle security for Azure Kubernetes Service AKS: "Platforms like AKS provide developers, DevOps, and infrastructure teams with scalable, reliable deployments. But security teams must ensure clusters are configured properly, deployed apps meet vulnerability and compliance requirements, and everything is secured at runtime.Learn how to:- Understand top security concerns for running cloud native applications on Kubernetes- Implement security controls across container pipelines, securing builds and deployments- Protect running applications on Annie Mathew, Keith Mokris, Hari Srinivasan
	How to implement hybrid and multi-cloud approach in your cloud journey​: Learn about the common motivations, challenges and lessons learnt by customers in their hybrid and multicloud journey. In this session, we will be talking about new guidance in the cloud adoption framework that can help you implement solutions with best practices for hybrid and multicloud approach.  Join us if you have questions on your mind about successfully implementing this approach in your cloud journey. ​ Brian Blanchard
	HubStor Joins Veritas: Learn more about the evolution of backup and get a brief overview of HubStor Geoff Bourgeois, Stacie Poon
	IBM / Red Hat / Microsoft Partnership Solutions including Azure on Open Shift ARO: Extend Investments and Unleash the Power of the Cloud Leverage IBM Services' cloud expertise in the Azure platform and assets—together with Red Hat OpenShift—to simplify and accelerate your application modernization. Speed cloud adoption for a competitive advantage Nicholas Gerasimatos, Kimberly Smith
	Innovate with Azure Stack HCI in education powered by Intel technology: Join Intel and Microsoft as we explore how moving from traditional storage to hybrid-cloud architecture can improve your business.  Topics include insights on stretch clusters, compute, platform and storage deployment from a single source. Talal Alqinawi, Andrew France, Ellen Kirby, Howard Lo, Dion Ubert
	Inside Azure Datacenter Architecture with Mark Russinovich: Join Mark Russinovich, CTO and Technical Fellow of Microsoft Azure, to learn how Azure enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises, and on the edge. Featuring the latest in liquid immersion cooling, massive supercomputing clusters, DNA synthesis, and guests from across industry, Mark takes you on a tour of the latest innovations in Azure datacenter architecture. Mark Russinovich
	Introducing Microsoft Mesh - New platform to deliver collaborative mixed reality experiences: Join Simon Skaria, an engineering leader on the Microsoft Mixed Reality team to take an early hands-on look at Microsoft Mesh a collaborative mixed reality platform that brings multiple participants into a 3D space to collaborate. We'll also introduce the capabilities of the platform you can use to deliver your own custom mixed reality experiences. This is an Ignite exclusive show from Microsoft Mechanics. Dorrene Brown, Jeremy Chapman, Simon Skaria
	Kubernetes for the hybrid enterprise: Kubernetes is the defacto container orchestrator for hybrid enterprises as it promotes application portability and consistent management. On its own, Kubernetes is quite complex for application development, especially since the applications run in distributed environments. Learn how Azure complements Kubernetes to help you architect, modernize and manage hybrid applications, write and deploy anywhere with a consistent pipeline, and have a single pane of glass for governance and monitoring. Brendan Burns
	Learn everything about the next generation of ARM Templates: Project Bicep is the future of declarative deployments of your Azure infrastructure. It is built on top of ARM Templates, so all your knowledge of templates will carry forward to Project Bicep. In this session, we'll go in-depth on why Project Bicep is important, how it advances the state of infra-as-code, and demo all the new capabilities of our production-ready 0.3 release. Brendan Burns, Alex Frankel
	Learn how Azure powered by Intel SGX enables confidential computing to combat fraud: Discover how R3 and IntellectEU have created a solution to reduce Insurance fraud using Azure Confidential Computing. Dive more deeply into how Microsoft Azure Powered by Intel SGX uniquely enables the solution to handle data securely. Richard Brown, Chaim Finizola, Kami Zargar
	Learn how Microsoft & Intel unlock the potential of edge & AI in healthcare to collect data & turn it into actionable insights: Explore how Microsoft and Intel are working together with World Wide Technology to unlock the potential of edge compute and AI in healthcare through collecting, storing and managing data realtime at the edge and turning it into actional insights. Take a look at our open source solution designed using Azure Stack Edge, with concepts that can be applied across multiple industries. Sanaz Cordes, M.D., Kevin Lopez, Scott Pellow
	Learn how to connect VDI Users to VMware Horizon with Azure VMware Solution and VMware SD-WAN: Join VMware as we show how users can connect to their applications from anywhere using any device with VMware Horizon, Azure VMware Solution and VMware SD-WAN. As enterprises look to accelerate the pace of digital workspace transformation this need has become critical. To help enterprise IT achieve this goal VMware SD-WAN and VMware Horizon deliver a consistent and reliable user experience to access Horizon VDI and applications hosted on Azure VMware Solution (AVS). Trevor Davis, Gabe Knuth, Jay Thontakudi
	Learn how to integrate, compliment and extend Azure monitoring with Dynatrace’s advance observability platform: Whether you're just getting started or already underway with migrating and modernizing your application portfolio, there are new demands and challenges introduced from the pace and complexity of digital transformation that put customer experience and SLOs at risk. This talk will delve into the challenges commonly found with modernization initiatives and review how Dynatrace helps accelerate innovation within each area of Microsoft Azure's cloud adoption framework. Rob Jahn
	Learn how using pre-built automations saves time and increases productivity: In 2017, PwC's $3B New World New Skills investment in employee upskilling led to the creation of 6,500+ digital automations, driving 8.6M hours out of its business. PwC has curated the best of these into its automation marketplace, Digital on Demand. Learn how these trusted automations were created and how these curated digital assets can help you work faster and smarter, ultimately freeing up valuable developer resources to focus on other critical initiatives. Robin Stein, Joe Atkinson, Brian Shanberg
	Mark Russinovich on Azure Innovation and more!: Join Rick and Mark in a conversation discussing Azure innovation, cloud native programming models, and other exciting technology. Mark Russinovich, Rick Claus
	More scale, More performance. Get the latest from Azure Cache for Redis and Azure Cosmos DB: As a developer, you need solutions with global scale, unconstrained throughput, and split-second latency. Azure Cache for Redis and Azure Cosmos DB offer these capabilities and more—making them go-to choices for cloud application development. Explore the new features that make each service even more effective for developers, including active geo-replication in Azure Cache for Redis and MongoDB 4.0 API compatibility in Azure Cosmos DB. Gahl Levy, K7 Shanmugam
	OpenText Extended ECM - Driving deployment and scaling efficiency with Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service AKS: Learn about the containerization path of OpenText Extended ECM and how it leverages Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to simplify deployment and upgrades operations and increase application scalability. The session will cover high level concepts and provide a demo of a deployment procedure Juliano Ghisi
	Operational Excellence Best Practice with Infrastructure as Code on Azure - using HashiCorp: HashiCorp and Microsoft Azure talk to organizations of all sizes about their infrastructure plans, and how they're adopting the new cloud operating model as they navigate the transition to building new applications to differentiate their business. In this video, Armon Dadgar, co-founder of HashiCorp, discusses how enterprises can leverage Azure and HashiCorp for four areas across infrastructure, security, networking and application delivery. **
	Rapidly extend and modernize your business with Azure VMware Solution: For customers with existing on-premise VMware environments, Azure VMware Solution accelerates and simplifies the journey to the cloud, without the complexity of re architecting applications or disruption to operations. In this session, learn how our customers are using Azure VMware Solution to migrate to the cloud and support their hybrid and modernization strategies. Eric Lockard
	Recipe for Modern Applications: .NET, Azure SQL, Functions, Geospatial, JSON: Join us to learn the recipe for modern applications in Azure. Through a relatable and real-world scenario, you'll learn about Azure SQL Database's built-in capabilities related to JSON, Geospatial, scale, and CI/CD, and how it can help you build modern applications with .NET and Azure App Service. We'll also show you how to take advantage of other Azure Services, like Azure Functions. Anna Hoffman, Davide Mauri
	Resiliency and growth in uncertain times with Azure migration and modernization: Customers around the world are looking to accelerate their cloud journey to optimize costs, enhance security and resiliency, and scale on-demand. We know that this journey can be complex to navigate in the real world. In this session, we will share proven best practices drawn from thousands of customer engagements, including key elements such as assessments and business case. We will also cover the mix of Azure tools, capabilities, and programs that you can use to drive successful migrations. Jeremy Winter
	Search Made Simple: Benefits of native integration with Elastic on Azure: Discover why Microsoft Azure is the best place to run everything Elastic, from Elastic Search, Logstash, Beats to Kibana. Learn about our joint efforts to enable a seamless experience for running Elastic on Azure, the benefits of using managed services, and the strength of our partnership. Explore how Elastic is making search easier than ever with a deep dive on app and workplace search and learn how you can enhance your Linux workloads with Elastic on Azure to boost productivity. Amy Ghate
	Securing Workloads in Azure Cloud through Network Detection and Response: "It costs a business on-average $8.2M per breach. As you migrate workloads to Azure, you must think of securing them along the way. It takes people, processes, and technology and requires close collaboration between network and security teams - hence the term network detection and response. Having adequate visibility in the cloud is a fundamental enabler as you cannot control what you cannot see. Learn how the network becomes an integral part of the broader security practice. " Nadeem Zahid
	Six ways to accelerate your journey to the cloud -- by leveraging Veeam alongside Microsoft: “The Cloud” means many different things, including SaaS (Office 365), IaaS (cloud-hosted servers/storage), and PaaS (Kubernetes). Veeam covers all these and can help you accelerate your journey to the Microsoft cloud. Attendees will hear the latest updates across the Veeam portfolio and quickly look at accelerating and protecting each of these cloud scenarios. Learn how the evolution of your production architecture requires evolutions in your protection strategy. Jason Buffington
	Steps for a Successful Database Migration: The global pandemic accelerated plans for cloud computing and digital transformation. But database migration—the process of moving a database from one place to another—is no walk in the park. In this session, we'll review how to explore your data, gather the right performance metrics, and track costs going forward. We'll also show you tools to accelerate your migration and provide tips to help ensure a smooth process. Kevin Kline, Thomas LaRock
	What’s new in Azure Machine Learning – hybrid with Azure Arc and more: In this demo-led session, learn about our new announcements, use output datasets, labeling and interactive data preparation in Azure Machine Learning studio. Use custom roles and RBAC for fine grained access control. Seamlessly train models on-premises, across multi-cloud and edge with Azure Arc integration. Train thousands of models in parallel with the Many Models accelerator. Use interpretability, fairness, and built-in security to develop responsible solutions. Anthony Bartolo, Cassie Breviu, Seth Juarez
	What's new in Azure Cognitive Services: We have had many updates to Azure Cognitive Services, including the general availability of Custom Neural Voice, new features in Form Recognizer, and improvements to Spatial Analysis and Text Analytics for Health, as well as breakthrough AI innovations. This session will showcase these new capabilities. Come see how Azure Cognitive Services can help you unlock the value of AI in your apps and services. Ayşegül Yönet
	What's New in Visual Studio 2019: Join Scott Hanselman in a tour through some of the new capabilities in Visual Studio 2019 - including improved Git workflows, automated CI/CD to Azure using GitHub Actions, and .NET Core debugging on Linux! Scott Hanselman
	When Real-Time Insights are Critical, Bring AI Capabilities to Your Network Edge: Join Cellnex Telecom and Lenovo to explore how intelligence at the edge complements the intelligence in your data center to enable real-time decision making. Lenovo's PC, mobile, and data center solutions combine to deliver our edge-computing portfolio with a ‘fit anywhere' form factor, tamper-proof security, built in AI, and zero-touch manageability. Charles Ferland, Oscar Pallarols
	Windows Virtual Desktop: Simplifying image and application management: In this session learn about some of the existing and modern image management solutions, as well as understanding MSIX App Attach, the future of application delivery. Stefan Georgiev, Thomas Hickling

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