Developer Cloud Summit 2022: Middle East & Africa

Developer Cloud Summit 2022: Middle East & Africa

Microsoft is announcing the Developer Cloud Summit: Middle East and Africa 2022 technical conference scheduled to take place March 30, 2022. At 12 PM – 16:30 PM (GMT+4). The event will bring together speakers from across Microsoft, GitHub and the developer community. Where it will provide deep-dive learning opportunities and hands-on experience on trending and innovative platforms in the cloud.

Developer Cloud Summit

The Developer Cloud Summit topics include Cloud Native futures, AI-based applications, Remote DevOps practices, Rapid Innovation methodology and best practices on modernizing legacy .Net & Java applications with new cloud capabilities. Learn about app migration and modernization, low code apps, coding in the cloud, GitHub Copilot and many more. There will also be a party to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the .Net platform.

Stormy Peters, VP of Communities GitHub will talk about “lessons we learned working with Open Source at Microsoft”. Whilst Jeff Hollan, Director of Product, Azure Apps, Microsoft, will dive into “build scalable apps faster than ever before”. Other speakers include Adir Ron, Cloud Application & Innovation, Middle East & Africa, Microsoft.

Microsoft says that an ecosystem of developers, innovators and open-source communities are teaming up to build together the future of technology in the current Cloud-Native era.

Click to visit the Cloud Summit: Middle East & Africa 2022 technical conference page for more details and to register.

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Azure Student Dev Day, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya

Azure Student Dev Day, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya

The Azure Student Dev Day is a learning event to skill up in Microsoft’s Technologies

Student Dev Day

Microsoft’s Azure Student Dev Days are free interactive workshops hosted by Microsoft student partners for students. It brings the Microsoft Tech community, Microsoft MVPs and experts to the developer day event to skill students in Microsoft technologies. Are you passionate about or want to learn more about Microsoft tech? This is a must attend event.

The event is designed to engage stdents in Azure developer services and latest industry trends. Through sessions and hands-on labs.

Student Dev Day

The Azure Student Dev Day JKUAT Nairobi event invitiation says;

This one day workshop is meant to introduce students to Cloud Computing Azure.

The agenda for the day will revolve around:

Azure for students
Introduction to cloud computing
Azure IoT Hub
Azure Machine learning studio
Serverless Computing (Functions & Logic Apps)

The event is scheduled to take place Saturday February 2nd 2019 at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) Juja, Kiambu County.

Click to Register to participate in the Azure Student Day event.

Microsoft is helping developers build for the intelligent cloud and edge no matter their tools or platforms

Microsoft is helping developers build for the intelligent cloud and edge no matter their tools or platforms

Microsoft is helping developers build for the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge. No matter the kinds of tools and environment they prefer to drive change across organizations and industries.

Developing for the intelligent cloud

At the recent Connect developer event, Microsoft shared on how thy are helping developers build apps for the future. Building apps for the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge no matter the tools they use or the platforms they prefer. In doing this Microsoft believes developers will be able to to drive change across various organizations and industries.

Speaking during the Keynote event, Microsoft EVP of Cloud and Enterprise Scott Guthrie, said ;

“It’s never been a better time to be a developer.
As developers are at the forefront of building the apps driving monumental change across organizations and entire industries.
At Microsoft, we’re laser-focused on delivering tools and services that make developers more productive. Helping developers create in the open, and putting AI into the hands of every developer so they unleash the power of data and re-imagine possibilities that will improve our world.” – Scott Guthrie

Watch and relive the Microsoft Connect(); 2017 keynote event, which had a lots of wowing announcements. 

Today we introduced Visual Studio live share. A real-time collaborative development for code and visual studio. Share Full Context, Collaborative Editing and Collaborative Debugging.

Helping developers build for the intelligent cloud 

How is Microsoft helping developers build for the intelligent cloud? Microsoft showed their continuous commitment to open source and other communities by introducing new tools. Tools to make it easy for developers to create the next generation of intelligent applications. They also want to put AI in the hands of every developer with the tools and platforms they are most familiar with. Some of the innovations include new solutions such as; 

  •  Azure Databricks 
    Azure Databricks is a fast, easy and collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics platform that delivers one-click setup, streamlined workflows and an interactive workspace. Native integration with Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Storage, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Active Directory and Power BI simplifies the creation of modern data warehouses that enable organizations to provide self-service analytics and machine learning over all data with enterprise-grade performance and governance. 
  • Microsoft joins MariaDB Foundation 
    Microsoft joins MariaDB Foundation as a platinum member and announces the upcoming preview of Azure Database for MariaDB for a fully managed MariaDB service in the cloud.
  • Azure Cosmos DB with Apache® Cassandra API 
    The preview expands on the multimodel capabilities of Azure Cosmos DB to offer Cassandra as a service over turnkey global distribution, multiple consistency levels and industry-leading SLAs.
  • Visual Studio App Center 
    A new cloud service for developers to ship higher-quality applications more frequently. Objective-C, Swift, Android Java, Xamarin and React Native developers can use App Center to increase productivity and accelerate application lifecycle, freeing them to spend more time on new features and better user experiences 
  • GitHub Partnership on GVFS 
    Microsoft and GitHub will further their open source partnership to extend GVFS support to GitHub. GVFS is an open source extension to the Git version control system developed by Microsoft to support the world’s largest repositories. 
  • Visual Studio Live Share 
    Unique new capability for developers to collaborate in a seamless and secure way with full project context. With this preview, developers can share projects with teammates, or other developers, to edit and debug the same code in their personalized editor or IDE 
  • Visual Studio Connected Environment for Azure Container Service (AKS) 
  • Azure DevOps Projects 
  • Visual Studio Tools for AI 
  • Azure IoT Edge 

With these new tools Microsoft wants to prepare developers for the future. Read more on the announcements. Check out what people are saying about the new innovations using the hashtag #MSFTConnect. What do you think about the new tools? 

 

Microsoft Tech Summit 2018 Africa event to take place in Cape Town, South Africa

Microsoft Tech Summit 2018 Africa event to take place in Cape Town, South Africa

Microsoft Tech Summit 2018 the premier event for It professionals and developers is coming to Cape Town, South Africa 

Tech Summit 2018

Microsoft’s premier event for IT professionals and developers is coming to Cape Town, South Africa in 2018. The mostly technical learning event usually features more than 45 technical training sessions. Topics will range from Microsoft Azure, the hybrid platform including security, networking, data, storage, identity, mobile, cloud infrastructure, management, app platform, Office 365, Windows 10 and productivity. 

Tech Summit is a free two day technical training event for IT professionals and developers with experts who build the cloud services across Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Windows 10. The event will take place February 13- 14th 2018. Registration is currently scheduled to start from November 15th 2017. 

There’ll be opportunities to speak to the experts and receive hands on help. You’ll also have the opportunity to trial and test some of these solutions at the Hands-on Labs. There’ll also be various sessions to shop during the 2 day events.

Last years event took place in Johannesburg and it was such a great time. Speaker details and sessions aren’t out yet. Do check back as we will have the updated information once released.

Interested in attending Microsoft Tech Summit 2018 Cape Town? Save the date and register when it opens.  Also follow Microsoft Tech Summit events on social platforms with the hashtag #MSTechSummit and #TechSummitSA . Tell us what you’ll be expecting and hoping to experience if you are headed there.   

 

Update: 

Registration is opened. 

#MSBuild 2017 Day 3 Keynote Event and developer sessions. Microsoft Graph, Holograms, Robots and more

#MSBuild 2017 Day 3 Keynote Event and developer sessions. Microsoft Graph, Holograms, Robots and more

Day 3 Keynote is here! Watch and follow Microsoft’s Developer Conference Build 2017 live.

day 3

Day 1 was Amazing. Intelligent clouds and AI were everywhere in all conversations. Day 2 blew people off their minds with some interesting features and announcements.

Today will feature a lot of technical deep dive sessions. There’ll be an online keynote event with John Shewchuk and Steven Guggenheimer. Event 06:40 PT. Time variation will mean 1330 GMT, 1430 WAT if you are in Lagos, 1630 EAT if you are in Nairobi and
1503 SAST if you are in Johannesburg.

Join us and follow for todays event. We’ll have announcements and more on the page.

Day 3 Keynote Live stream.