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[Post Event] Microsoft Ignite Spotlight on Romania, Conf42 DevSecOps 2022, Connect.IT Sibiu, Big Data Conference, Data Science UA, UTCN

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The last 4 weeks were a joy from the community's point of view. Even if the interaction was mainly online, I had the chance to discover and meet many people at 6 different conferences.

I would like to share a short summary of each event:

Microsoft Ignite Spotlight on Romania (Bucharest, December 8th): The in-person event took place in Bucharest in a fantastic location (Nord Events Center by Globalworth). It gathered Microsoft and Cloud specialist from the local market. During the conference, I had the opportunity to share my experience related to resilience and performance tests on Microsoft Azure using the new Microsoft tools like Azure Chaos and Azure Load Testing.

Conf42 DevSecOps 2022 (online, December 1st): The online conference is focused on DevSecOps aspects related to the cloud and Kubernetes. I was invited by Conf42 team to deliver a session about security tools that need to be used when you build an application on Microsoft Azure. 

Connect.IT Sibiu (Sibiu, November 24th): The event took place at Ramada Hotel Sibiu and was organised by Endava. Laurentiu Spilca delivered a fantastic session about Java and its future. I had the opportunity to talk about Governance and Compliance inside Microsoft Azure and how we can build a PCI-DSS solution using cloud services.

Big Data Conference (online, November 23rd): A conference dedicated to data, big data and data in the cloud. A lot of interesting content was shared during the two days event. One of the most essentialexciting aspects is data security in the cloud. On this topic, I shared how to secure data in Microsoft Azure when you use and consume AI/ML services. Together with attendees, we tried to find responses to the following question: Who owns, who has access and who manages our data.

Data Science UA (online, November 22nd): I was invited by a data science community from UA to speak about Azure Form Recognizer and how it can improve the way how we collect data from documents. The session took 1.5 hours, and I was impressed by the level of online interaction. 

UTCN (Cluj-Napoca, November 14th): I was invited by one of the largest universities from Cluj-Napoca to talk about the cloud and the impact of the cloud on our professional life. 

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