December 2024 Events, Training, and Workshops
Welcome to December! Microsoft Ignite wrapped up a couple of weeks ago with a ton of announcements, and .NET 9 was released at .NET Conf the week before that.
With holidays, this month’s event schedule is abbreviated, so make sure to get your learning in early!
Azure Technical Events
- December 2nd — GitHub Copilot Innovation Workshop
- December 4th — Use Your Own Data and Explore Content Filter with Azure OpenAI Services
- December 4th — Analytics In MIDP With Microsoft Fabric
- December 6th — Implement CI/CD with GitHub Actions
- December 6th — Lunch & Learn - Integrate Azure OpenAI Into Your App
- December 9th — Develop Generative AI Solutions with Azure OpenAI Service
- December 11th — Cloud Scale Analytics with Microsoft Fabric
- December 13th — Azure Red Hat OpenShift Workshop
- December 13th — Lunch & Learn - Code Suggestions with GitHub Copilot in VS Code
- December 16th — Azure API Management
- December 18th — Building a Resilient IaaS Architecture
- December 20th — Build Intelligent Apps with Microsoft's Copilot Stack & Azure OpenAI
- December 20th — Lunch & Learn - Get started with Azure OpenAI Service
Azure Virtual Training Days
- December 3rd — AI Fundamentals
- December 4th — Building Generative Apps with Azure OpenAI Service
- December 5th — Azure Fundamentals
- December 9th — Optimization
- December 9th — Accelerate Development using Azure DevOps and GitHub
- December 11th — Data Fundamentals
- December 12th — Migrate and Secure Windows Server and SQL Server Workloads
- December 16th — Building Generative Apps with Azure OpenAI Service
- December 16th — Implement a Lakehouse with Microsoft Fabric
- December 17th — Azure Fundamentals
- December 18th — Azure Fundamentals
- December 19th — AI Fundamentals
Microsoft Discovery Hour
- December 3rd — Unify Your intelligent Data and Analytics Platform
- December 18th — Accelerate Business Growth with an AI Application Platform
Microsoft Virtual Briefings
- December 3rd — Master Data Governance with Microsoft Purview
- December 3rd — Scaling AI Innovation Through App and Data Modernization
- December 4th — Adoption and Prompt Engineering for Microsoft 365 Copilot
- December 4th — We wish your AI solution to Be Well, - Well Architected. Sharing the best practices and guidance for AI on Azure
- December 5th — Microsoft Datacenter Tour: Virtual Experience
- December 5th — Boost Manufacturing Frontline Workers Productivity with AI
- December 10th — Navigating the Future of Work with Microsoft 365 Copilot
- December 10th — Azure Model as a Service to transform your business and enhance your customers’ experience
- December 11th — Protect your data estate - an E2E Data Security story
- December 11th — Prepare your data for AI innovation: Introducing Microsoft Fabric
- December 11th — Enhancing Microsoft 365 Copilot with Custom Connectors and Plugins: An Introduction to Copilot Studio
- December 12th — Zero Trust in Practice with Microsoft Entra and Intune
- December 12th — Streamlining Development with Azure DevBox and MultiAgent Integration
- December 12th — Unlocking Innovation with Azure AI Foundry
- December 12th — Unlocking AI Potential in Public Finance
- December 17th — Prepare your data for AI innovation: Introducing Microsoft Fabric
- December 17th — Leveraging the Power of Azure OpenAI Services for Competitive Advantage
Microsoft Reactor
- December 2nd — Deep Dive into inner workings of AI Agent frameworks
- December 2nd — Unlocking Multilingual Mastery: Dive into Co-op Translator with Azure!
- December 3rd — Automating HPC Workloads with Azure Batch and .NET
- December 3rd — Getting to know SQL database in Fabric
- December 3rd — AI Governance in Microsoft: Policy & Implementation
- December 3rd — GitHub Copilot Adventures with Byansi Anthony
- December 3rd — What’s new and improved in C# 13
- December 3rd — Entity extraction with OpenAI + Structured Outputs
- December 3rd — Microsoft Fabric – Database Mirroring – What’s New and Roadmap
- December 4th — Automate Your Business: AI Agents with Azure AI Studio & OpenAI
- December 4th — Integrations: Dataflows, notebooks, and reports
- December 4th — Decrease secret leaks with GitHub Advanced Security secret scanning
- December 4th — Storing chat history in Azure Cosmos DB
- December 4th — Go To Market Blueprint for Startups
- December 4th — Building Multi AI Agent Systems
- December 5th — Supercharge Your AI Projects with the Semantic Kernel SDK
- December 5th — Build a multi-tasking assistant with Azure OpenAI
- December 5th — Building declarative agents with the Teams Toolkit
- December 5th — Vision to Visualisation: Using GitHub Copilot for Azure, Python, and Diagrams
- December 5th — Using AI and SQL's vector functionality with SQL database in Fabric
- December 5th — What is GenAIOps and how it can help you build better genAI apps
- December 5th — Scaling & Securing AI Workloads with GenAI Gateway Capabilities: Azure API Management
- December 5th — Cautionary Tales: Everything You Need to Know About Security for Copilot
- December 6th — Build & Deploy App (Web-Worker Arch) Multiple Azure Services
- December 6th — GitHub Copilot for Azure
- December 9th — Cloud & Data Center Optimization: Sustainable FinOps and AI for Climate Action
- December 9th — Master Stocks Using AI and Proven Strategies with Ryan Metcalf
- December 9th — KPMG & GitHub Partner for Auto-Fix with Copilot to Remediate Vulnerabilities at Scale
- December 10th — Using GraphQL and application development with SQL database in Fabric
- December 10th — .Net and AI
- December 10th — Fine-Tuning the GPT model series for Agent Applications w/ W&B + Azure OpenAI Service
- December 10th — Performance tuning for Azure Cosmos DB
- December 10th — Data Platform Announcements during Ignite 2024
- December 10th — Upgrade Pathways to Data Factory in Fabric
- December 11th — Orchestrating Awesome! The Unfair Copilot
- December 11th — GitHub Copilot Study Guide Series 4: Prompt Engineering 300
- December 11th — Application Lifecycle Management with SQL database in Fabric
- December 12th — Tiny But Mighty: Unleashing the Power of Small Language Models
- December 12th — Building AI Solutions with Azure OpenAI in .NET/C#
- December 12th — Developer-centric query and performance monitoring
- December 12th — Stateful Back-For-Front (BFF)
- December 12th — Finetuning & Customizing your Generative AI Apps
- December 12th — Optimizing Power BI: Level Up with Visual Calculations
- December 16th — Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service: Modern App Management
- December 17th — Streamlining .NET Development with .NET Aspire
- December 18th — How code scanning in GitHub Advanced Security burns down security debt
- December 18th — From Zero to Hero with Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric