Category: Events

Join me at the European MCT Summit 2025

Tiago Costa / / Events, MCT

I will speak at the European MCT Summit 2025 in Manchester, UK, on January 9th and 10th! This annual gathering is a cornerstone for the Microsoft Certified Trainer community, providing a platform to exchange knowledge, share experiences, and advance our collective impact in the training world.

My session, “Transforming Training with AI,” will delve into how AI is reshaping the way we deliver and experience training. From automating routine tasks to personalizing learning paths, AI is not just a buzzword—it’s a game-changer for trainers and learners alike. I’ll share practical insights, real-world applications, and strategies to harness AI to elevate our training delivery.

The European MCT Summit is always a highlight of the year for its vibrant community, insightful sessions, and opportunities to connect with fellow trainers across Europe and beyond. I’m honored to contribute to this tradition and look forward to engaging with you all.

If you’re planning to attend, let’s connect! Feel free to reach out to discuss the session, share ideas, or say hello. Together, let’s explore the future of training!

📅 Mark your calendar:
📍 Where: Manchester, UK
🗓️ When: January 9–10, 2025
🔗More Information: https://www.mctsummit.co.uk/

Stay tuned for updates and sneak peeks as we approach the event.

Speaking at the European Cloud Summit 2024

Tiago Costa / / Azure, Events, Speaking

Join me at the European Cloud Summit to learn how to use Azure Policy to ensure a well-managed Azure infrastructure.

Tiago Costa speaking at European Cloud Summit

I’m excited to announce that I will speak at the European Cloud Summit, a premier event for cloud professionals and enthusiasts in Europe. The summit will occur from May 14 to 16, 2024, in Wiesbaden, Germany. It will feature over 100 sessions covering various topics related to cloud computing, such as architecture, security, DevOps, AI, IoT, and more. You can find more details and register for the summit at https://cloudsummit.eu/.


In this post, I’ll provide a sneak peek into what you can expect from my session and why Azure Policy is a game-changer for maintaining a robust and compliant Azure infrastructure.
My session is titled “Enforcing Governance and Compliance with Azure Policy: Best Practices for Well-Managed Azure”. In this session, I will explore the role of Azure Policy in ensuring a well-managed Azure infrastructure. Azure Policy enables organizations to enforce governance and compliance requirements by defining and enforcing policy rules across their Azure resources. I will discuss best practices for creating and implementing Azure Policy, including:

  • Setting up policies for resource deployment and management, such as naming conventions, locations, tags, and resource types.
  • Securing resources like encryption, firewall, identity, and access management.
  • Optimizing resource utilization, such as cost management, quota limits, and resource locks.


By the end of the session, attendees will have a deeper understanding of Azure Policy’s benefits and how to use it to enforce governance and compliance in their Azure environment. Whether you are new to Azure Policy or already familiar with it, you will find this session valuable and informative.


Stay tuned for more updates, and mark your calendars for my session. I hope to see you at the European Cloud Summit and share my insights and experiences with Azure Policy. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to contact me at https://www.tiagocosta.com/contact/.

Speaking at Microsoft Build!

Tiago Costa / / Azure, Certification, Events

Microsoft Build (https://mybuild.microsoft.com/) takes place on May 25-27, 2021 in a digital format and this year I’m delivering 2 table talks! After speaking at Microsoft Ignite for 5 editions in-a-row it’s now time to speak at Microsoft Build. Super excited for this and more for having such great co-speakers with me. It’s free, you should register today and RSVP to my 2 sessions and have the chance to interact with all of us. We want to answer your questions live! Yes, it’s going to be live, no recordings here!!!

How to build cloud-native solutions

Cloud-native technologies are used to develop applications built with services packaged in containers, deployed as microservices, and managed on elastic infrastructure through agile processes. Join our Table Topic to learn how Azure helps organizations create cloud native solutions. Our community co-hosts will share samples from their experiences building applications and helping customers build innovative world applications. Unmute yourself, turn your camera on – No presentations here! Be prepared for chat and a fun interactive discussion!

📅 Wednesday, May 26
⏰ 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM WET
🔗 https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/7f39ca5d-eaa1-4271-b645-c3fae76e90f4?source=sessions

How the community and certifications can help you achieve more

There are lots of resources you can tap into to help you with your professional development. Connect with the community and our experts to explore resources available to you from content, to community to certifications. Unmute yourself, turn your camera on – No presentations here! Be prepared for chat and a fun interactive discussion!

📅 Tuesday, May 25
⏰ 9:30 PM – 10:00 PM WET
🔗 https://mybuild.microsoft.com/sessions/9d3582b7-4169-4b80-84fa-367dccad3d41?source=sessions

Join us online, have fun and happy learning! We I really believe that next year’s event we can all be in-person toghether! I will be there!!! For now, I just leave here some memories of past Microsoft Conferences. I miss you all!!!

Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit – 16 July

Tiago Costa / / Azure, Events

 

The Microsoft European Virtual Open Source Summit is coming in a few days. If you haven’t registered yet now is your chance!!!

Make sure you don’t miss this unique digital event, designed to celebrate communities, entrepreneurs and developers coming together to build the future of open source technologies in the cloud.

The event will consist into 4 parallel tracks: Azure Infra & Ops, Innovation, Data & AI, and Developer.

This year event will have amazing Speakers. I would like to highlight:

  • Erica Brescia, COO at GitHub
  • Scott Hanselman, Partner Program Manager at Microsoft
  • Thomas Maurer, Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft
  • Brendan Burns, CVP AZURE COMPUTE OSS CLOUD at Microsoft
  • Abel Wang, Principal Cloud Advocate and DevOps Lead at Microsoft

 

Block your agenda NOW. I will not miss this opportunity and will be watching! Join me and have fun day learning new technologies.

Each track will be packed with expert guest speakers who’ll be deep diving into a wide variety of topics, from chaos engineering and serverless architecture to multicloud app development.

You can check the full agenda at: https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/techwiese/events/microsoft-european-virtual-open-source-summit.aspx

“See you” there?

One Week – Speaking in 3 different continents!

Tiago Costa / / Events, Speaking

COVID-19 aside and this has been amazing times! I’m doing all my work remotely, customers are happy and see no difference, but I have to confess that I kind of miss the airport life. I very fortunately to work in the IT industry and even more working on Microsoft Azure that allows me to do amazing work remotely and deliver my classes via Teams or even using Webex like this week… That is the bad part of this week, I really don’t like webex (yes I have used lower case…). That interface seems from the 90”…. Let’s get back to the topic here.

This past week I had the amazing opportunity to speak to 3 different countries each one in a different continent:

  • Nigeria, Africa
  • Germany, Europe
  • Bangladesh, Asia

Remote allows us to do this kind of deliveries and impact people lives. I couldn’t have done something like this with in-person events, just too expensive to travel to all this places and more 1 week of work that I could do. This is why I started this article writing that this pandemic has been teaching us some important lessons. We can do more than what we were doing in the past. I also love the feedback that I’m getting from attendees saying that these events are super inclusive because you just need an Internet connection and you get access to the content. Like always I loved to interact with different persons from different cultures. It’s always amazing to understand how the world works across the globe! #WeCanDoMore

Here is some links and information about the sessions I delivered.

Learn Azure By Moonlight at Microsoft Teams – https://rdre.me/AzureMoonlightSeries

Nigeria – May 3, 2020 – 6:30 PM (GMT +1)
Session 1: Azure Web Apps

Azure Cologne Meetup at Virtual – https://www.meetup.com/Azure-Cologne-Meetup/events/269934650/

Virtual – May 7, 2020 – 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM GMT+2
Session : Top 10 features of Azure Web Apps!

Bangladesh IT Community at Virtual – https://www.facebook.com/604241342952709/videos/926751294437116/
Virtual – May 8, 2020 – 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM GMT+2
Discussion about – Global Software Engineering Jobs after COVID-19 and Microsoft Azure.

Happy to speak more to other countries that want an awesome session about Azure! If you run a usergroup/community and your audience wants to know more about Azure, just ping me and I’m happy to accommodate you in my busy schedule.

You can keep up with all my speaking engagements at https://www.tiagocosta.com/speaking/