Agenda

Esther Barthel

Solutions Architect at cognition IT

Esther Barthel has worked in different roles and functions as an IT consultant after she finished her Master’s degree in Computer Science in 1997. She soon discovered that End User Computing combined servers, desktops, and user experience technologies into one and specialized in virtualization solutions, like Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops. Esther works as a Solutions Architect at cognition IT, where she combines her passion for designing and implementing Citrix solutions with her newfound love for DevOps automation, using PowerShell, REST APIs and JSON payloads to automate both on-premises and Cloud Infrastructure as Code solutions. Ever since she hosted introduction days for technical female student candidates Esther has shared her passion and knowledge for IT. She also is a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion as one of the founders of the CUGC Women in Tech mentorship program. In addition to her Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award, Esther is also awarded as a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and VMware vExpert EUC.

Wesley Haakman

Lead Azure Architect at Intercept

I currently work as a Lead Azure Architect at Intercept. A company in the Netherlands, completely focused on Microsoft Azure. When I got into IT (about 15 years ago) I started out with managing small to medium Linux based environments (hooray for the Open Source presence on Azure), but eventually reality caught up and we migrated to the Microsoft platform. Starting with Windows 2003. After a year of adapting and improving I got the hang of it. Somewhere in between I got my bachelor degree in Business IT & Management by studying after work.

Barbara Forbes

Azure Technical lead | OGD ict-diensten || Microsoft Azure MVP ||

Barbara works as the Azure technical lead for OGD in the Netherlands. She is a Microsoft MVP Azure, MCT and GitHub Star. Her focus is on Azure and automation in a very broad way. Think Serverless, Azure DevOps, PowerShell, GitHub and Infrastructure as Code. She loves teaching in an approachable way. She regularly writes posts for her blog https://4bes.nl and speaks at conferences and user groups. She helps grow the community as co-owner of the Dutch DevOps & GitHub community (DDOG), as well as co-hosting the Dutch PowerShell User Group (DUPSUG).

Daniel Paulus

Principal Consultant at Bryte Blue and Microsoft Azure MVP

Daniel is a serial conference organiser and meetup runner. As a principal consultant at Bryte Blue, a Microsoft Azure focussed, consultancy company and a Microsoft Azure MVP. He is helping companies succeed with Cloud Native technologies and DevOps practices.

Ronald Barendse

Developer at Umbraco HQ (Core CMS and Commercial Packages teams)

Although Ronald just joined Umbraco HQ this year as part of the Core CMS and Commercial Packages teams, he brings in more than 10 years of agency experience, with the last 4 years using Umbraco to implement websites/applications on an almost daily basis.

Satya Nadella

Chairman and CEO at Microsoft

Scott Guthrie

Executive Vice President at Microsoft

Rayta van Rijswijk

Engineering Manager at XPAY GROUP

Barbara Forbes

Azure Technical lead | OGD ict-diensten || Microsoft Azure MVP ||

Barbara works as the Azure technical lead for OGD in the Netherlands. She is a Microsoft MVP Azure, MCT and GitHub Star. Her focus is on Azure and automation in a very broad way. Think Serverless, Azure DevOps, PowerShell, GitHub and Infrastructure as Code. She loves teaching in an approachable way. She regularly writes posts for her blog https://4bes.nl and speaks at conferences and user groups. She helps grow the community as co-owner of the Dutch DevOps & GitHub community (DDOG), as well as co-hosting the Dutch PowerShell User Group (DUPSUG).

René Moddejongen

Business Lead, Open Source & Developer Audience at Microsoft Western Europe at Microsoft

Sjoukje Zaal

Microsoft RD and MVP

Marcel de Vries

CTO Xpirit

The past years we have been involved in many so-called cloud transformation projects. Many of those projects had big issues, and we learned a ton of things how not to do the transition! Think about things that will cause problems like: A cloud Competence Center, A Cloud Platform team, Asking the operations team how to move to the cloud, etc. These are common mistakes made every day that prevent you from gaining traction and speed. You might succeed, but you will go through a lot of pain and suffering. In this session, I will share an approach that we build based on our mistakes and learnings that will help you move to the cloud at speed. I will share the organizational, human an cultural side of things, a strategy on how to onboard teams and how to avoid common mistakes that are even promoted as best practices by high paid cloud consultants! I will also cover some technical details like setting up subscriptions, permissions and tools in the right way, so it won’t hurt you after your 10th team is onboarding! This session is all about what we learned and how you can avoid these issues yourself.