Events

October 2024 Events, Training, and Workshops

Jason Berberich

01 Oct 2024 — 5 min read

Welcome to October, friends! It’s a BIG month of free Microsoft learning opportunities for you, but before we get into those, I want to highlight one event from September and two ones coming up in November.

The Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) was held in Stockholm September 24–27 and with it came dozens of updates and announcements for Fabric. This post covers the biggest ones: Building an AI-powered data platform

Looking forward, we have two big conferences happening in November:

Have a great month everyone, and please share this with anyone else you think would find it valuable!

Azure Technical Events

October 2nd: Build Prompt Engineering with Azure OpenAI Service
October 2nd: Build Intelligent Apps with Microsoft's Copilot Stack & Azure OpenAI
October 4th: Use Azure Open AI Like a Pro to Build Powerful AI Applications
October 4th: Lunch & Learn - Code Suggestions with GitHub Copilot in VS Code
October 4th: GitHub Copilot Innovation Workshop
October 7th: DevOps With GitHub
October 7th: Build Intelligent Apps with Microsoft's Copilot Stack & Azure OpenAI
October 9th: GitHub Copilot Innovation Workshop
October 9th: Use Azure Open AI Like a Pro to Build Powerful AI Applications
October 11th: Innovate With AI
October 11th: DevOps With GitHub
October 14th: Build Intelligent Apps with Microsoft's Copilot Stack & Azure OpenAI
October 14th: Cloud Native Applications
October 14th: .NET App Modernization
October 16th: Implement CI/CD with GitHub Actions
October 16th: Azure API Management
October 18th: Build Prompt Engineering with Azure OpenAI Service
October 18th: Generate Code and Images with Azure OpenAI Services
October 18th: Lunch & Learn - Integrate Azure OpenAI into Your App
October 25th: Lunch & Learn - Code Suggestions with GitHub Copilot in VS Code
October 28th: Azure Virtual Machine and Compute
October 30th: Build Intelligent Apps with Microsoft's Copilot Stack & Azure OpenAI

Azure Virtual Training Days

October 10th: Building Generative Apps with Azure OpenAI Service
October 15th & 16th: Accelerate Development using Azure DevOps and GitHub
October 15th & 16th: Azure Fundamentals
October 17th & 18th: Data Fundamentals
October 21st & 22nd: Implementing a Data Lakehouse with Microsoft Fabric
October 23rd & 24th: Migrate and Secure Windows Server and SQL Server Workloads
October 28th: Generative AI Fundamentals
October 29th: Building Generative Apps with Azure OpenAI Service
October 30th: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft Discovery Hour

October 9th: Build Unique GenAI Experiences that Scale
October 22nd: Unlock the Potential of GenAI for your business with Azure AI Platform
October 22nd: Migrate to Innovate—Be AI-Ready, Be Secure
October 22nd: Unify Your Intelligent Data and Analytics Platform
October 24th: Accelerate Developer Productivity with AI
October 28th: Accelerate Your App Migration to Azure

Microsoft Virtual Briefings

October 8th: Advanced Security Operations with Microsoft Sentinel
October 17th: Microsoft Datacenter Tour: Virtual Experience
October 22nd: Prepare to Win the Holiday Season with Microsoft AI
October 22nd: Scaling AI Innovation Through App and Data Modernization
October 22nd: AI for positive change: Tomorrow’s Sustainable planet
October 23rd: Leveraging the Power of Azure OpenAI Services for Competitive Advantage
October 23rd: Copilot for Security
October 24th: Know GitHub Copilot better
October 29th: Choosing the Right GenAI Model for the Job
October 29th: Leveraging the Power of Azure OpenAI Services for Competitive Advantage
October 31st: Explore cutting-edge models: LLMs, SLMs, and more
October 31st: How to Develop LLM services with Azure AI Studio

Microsoft Tech Briefings

October 15th: Securely Migrate and Modernize SQL Servers with Azure
October 17th: Modernize & Enhance Existing Applications with AI
October 22nd: Activate your data for AI innovation with Fabric and Databricks

Microsoft Reactor

October 1st: Demo Bytes: End-to-End AI application deployments with GitHub Copilot
October 1st: Copilot in Microsoft Fabric Copilot in Microsoft Fabric
October 2nd: Learn Live: Get Started Incorporating AI into Your .NET Applications and Service
October 2nd: Ask an Azure Security SME Network Security and the Security Unified Portal
October 3rd: Demo Bytes: Extending GitHub Copilot to chat with your Postgres Database
October 3rd: How to get the best out of Make Azure AI Real
October 3rd: Copilot Learning Hub: The Future of AI
October 3rd: Data Security 101
October 4th: Build Intelligent Apps: Integrate Azure AI with AKS
October 7th: Demo Bytes: Architecting a Unified AI Stack: Secure, Responsible, and Scalable
October 8th: Building with GenAI in Microsoft Fabric
October 8th: Build powerful READMEs with Markdown
October 8th: Demo Bytes: 10x Developer with GitHub Copilot
October 8th: Enhancing GenAI Solutions with RAG Pattern and Azure Cosmos DB
October 8th: Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search (Python) with Samuel Bamgbola
October 9th: .NET Microservices in Azure Container Apps
October 9th: Top 3 Must-Have Custom Visuals in Power BI
October 9th: Learn Live: Modernize Your Apps Using GenAI Without Rewriting the Code
October 9th: Apply Zero Trust principles to an Azure Virtual WAN
October 10th: Add Human Tasks to Microservices Orchestrations
October 10th: Demo Bytes: Building and Running Intelligent Spring Apps on Azure Container Apps
October 14th: Exploring Azure Identity, Access and Security
October 14th: Demo Bytes: Ingest your own Content using Azure Functions OpenAI Triggers & Bindings
October 15th: Azure Logic Apps in use - Business Implementation
October 15th: Create a website using GitHub Copilot
October 15th: Demo Bytes: GenAI Gateway Capabilities in Azure API Management
October 15th: Powering AI in real-time and at scale with Real-Time Intelligence
October 15th: GitHub Copilot Adventures with Moses Mtengo
October 16th: Empowering Business Processes with Copilot: Power Automate
October 16th: Apply Zero Trust principles to IaaS applications in Amazon Web Services
October 16th: Ask an Azure AI SME
October 17th: Microsoft Fabric - Latest Updates and AMA
October 17th: Demo Bytes: Elevate Policy Authoring Experience in API Management
October 17th: Working with Agents and Multi-agents using Azure OpenAI
October 18th: LLM Application Security and Performance LLM Application Security and Performance
October 21st: Fabric Data Security
October 22nd: Deep Dive into Azure AI Studio and Advanced Prompt Engineering
October 22nd: Automate your repository using GitHub Actions
October 22nd: GitHub Copilot Adventures with Byansi Anthony
October 23rd: Building Generative AI apps with .NET and Semantic Kernel
October 23rd: Supercharge Kubernetes Debugging with k8sGPT
October 23rd: GitHub Copilot Adventures with Olivia Oputa
October 23rd: Overview – Apply Zero Trust principles to Azure IaaS
October 23rd: Introduction to Autonomous Agents using Microsoft AutoGen
October 24th: What is GenAIOps and how it can help you build better genAI apps
October 24th: GitHub Copilot Adventures with Bunmi Akinremi
October 24th: The Benefits of Getting Certified in DP-600
October 25th: Automate Infra Provisioning with Azure Verified Modules
October 28th: Serverless AI Chat with RAG using LangChain.js with Devansu Yadav
October 29th: Building Responsible GAI Solutions with Azure OpenAI, DALLE
October 29th: Microsoft Game Dev Summit
October 29th: Building AI Applications with Azure SQL DB and Microsoft Fabric
October 29th: How to prepare to pass the Microsoft Fabric DP-600 exam
October 29th: Building a LLM Judge with Weights & Biases
October 29th: Tips & tricks for Microsoft Fabric DP-600 exam day
October 30th: Petoi Robot Dog and Azure AI Model Inference API Integration
October 30th: Strategic Partnerships with Tech Companies for Scaling Accessibility
October 30th: The Reliable Web App Pattern for Java with Enhanced Security and Scalability on Azure
October 31st: Build AI-powered business insights with Azure Cosmos DB mirroring in Microsoft Fabric