Hugo Barona
Cloud Solution Architect
Dublin, Ireland
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Hugo is a Cloud Solutions Architect and Microsoft Azure enthusiast, specialized in Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Stack, and design and develop Cloud solutions.
He works as an independent contractor, helping customers to migrate existing applications to Azure and deliver Azure cloud-based solutions to enable digital transformation.
Also, he is a tech community contributor and public speaker in local tech communities and conferences.
Hugo is a passionate person for technology, innovation, and new challenges.
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How can developers leverage Microsoft’s Identity Platform, to securely develop applications?
"If data is the new oil, we can see identity as the new pipeline for that oil". Join us to learn more about Microsoft's Identity Platform and how developers can leverage Azure AD to securely develop applications.
Getting started with Azure AI Studio
Dive into the world of AI with Azure AI Studio, a robust platform that simplifies the development, deployment, and management of AI applications. Whether you’re a novice or an experienced developer, this session will guide you through the essentials of Azure AI Studio, showcasing its intuitive interface and powerful tools.
By the end of this session, you’ll understand how to leverage Azure AI Studio to create cutting-edge, market-ready, and responsible AI applications.
Get ready to transform your ideas into reality with the power of Azure AI.
Fabric IQ + Foundry: The Semantic Backbone of Enterprise AI Agents
One of the biggest challenges in enterprise AI is not model capability, but shared understanding. AI agents fail when business definitions, metrics, and context are interpreted differently across systems.
Microsoft Fabric IQ addresses this challenge by providing a unified semantic foundation - defining business entities, relationships, and metrics that can be consistently reused to ground AI agents in a trusted enterprise context.
In this session, we explore how Fabric IQ works and how it integrates with Microsoft Foundry to power reliable, data‑grounded AI agents. You’ll learn how business entities, relationships, and metrics defined once in Fabric IQ can be reused consistently across Power BI, Fabric Data Agents, Copilot experiences, and custom agents built with Foundry.
The session includes a live demo showing how to configure Fabric IQ, connect it to enterprise data, and integrate it with an AI agent—demonstrating how semantic grounding improves reasoning accuracy, reduces hallucinations, and simplifies governance.
This session is ideal for architects, data leaders, and developers building scalable, enterprise‑grade AI agents.
Fabric for Small Teams and Startups: Enterprise Power on a Startup Budget - Fabric Data Days Edition
Discover how small teams and startups can leverage Microsoft Fabric to unify data, analytics, and AI without the complexity of managing multiple tools.
In this session, you learn practical strategies for lightweight adoption, showing how Fabric can streamline workflows, reduce tool sprawl, and accelerate innovation even with limited resources. We’ll explore cost-optimisation techniques that help keep budgets under control, while still unlocking enterprise‑grade capabilities.
Real‑world use cases will demonstrate how founders and lean teams can rapidly prototype solutions and scale their data operations as they grow.
Discover how Fabric empowers you to move fast, stay agile, and punch above your weight in the data‑driven world.
Demystifying Azure Networking
In this lunch-and-learn session, Vaibhav will cover the basics of Azure Networking services including Virtual Networks, VPN gateways, and different load balancing options in Azure. He will talk about what each service does and when should it be used?
Becoming a Certified Azure Developer Associate
Attending this session will provide you with some guidance on determining your certification path and roadmap, beginning your exam prep, learning resources, and an overview of the objectives for the exam AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure, related to the Azure Developer Associate Certification.
Azure Fundamentals Series - Security services, business continuity, governance, and subscriptions
In this session, we will discuss the various security, monitoring, and management services within Azure. We will discuss business continuity and governance within Azure. We will wrap up this series with a review of how Azure subscriptions are categorized.
Azure Fundamentals Series - Core PaaS and Database services
In this session, we will discuss the various platform services within Azure, including App Services, Databases (SQL and no-SQL), Container services, and server-less/microservices.
Azure Fundamentals Series - Core IaaS, storage, and network services
In this session, we will discuss the core compute, storage, and network services within the Azure environment. This will include Virtual Machines, Azure storage, and VNETs.
Azure Fundamentals Series - Cloud concepts and the Azure structure
In this session, we will explore the basic concepts and services that pertain to cloud services and technologies. We will highlight where some of the Azure service relate to these services.
Applying Data Science and Machine Learning using Microsoft .Net
Data Science and Machine learning are not only for python and R developers. If you are a .NET developer and interested in the above topics, don't let your creativity take a hit. Let it flourish by leveraging some of the cool frameworks and libraries developed by the .NET team in the past 1-2 years. In this session, I'll perform exploratory data analysis using Dataframe API followed by prediction using ML.NET time series API.
AI Agents in Action: Enhancing Applications with Azure AI Services
With the rapid advancements in AI technology, AI agents are becoming increasingly integral to our daily lives, enhancing everything from personal assistants to business applications. You might be wondering how to get started making the most of the opportunity this presents in your applications. In this session, we will:
• Give an introduction to AI, generative AI, agents, and assistants to help you cut through the confusion
• Discuss architecture design patterns using Azure services so you know which work best for your scenario
• Do a deep dive on agents and frameworks, and give you inspiration on how agents can enhance your applications and differentiate user experience
We will bring all of these concepts together in a demo of a copilot app for an online store using Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, C#, and Semantic Kernel so that you have the understanding you need to start bringing AI agents into your applications.
Building Intelligent applications with Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Data Platform
In this session, you learn the core concepts of Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Data Platform to enable you to get started building Cloud solutions that leverage Artificial Intelligence and the Data offerings provided by the Data platform. We will finish with a demo showcasing a real-world scenario of using these platforms and services.
Building No-Code Enterprise APIs using Azure Cosmos DB and API Management
Depending on the scenarios you are working on, sometimes you need to build simple APIs without creating and managing code solutions while ensuring performant and secure APIs to provide to your internal and external users. In this session, I will show you how to leverage Azure Cosmos DB and API Management to build No-Code enterprise APIs while designing a solution compliant with the five pillars of the well-architected framework.
Build IoT solutions seamlessly by leveraging IoT Central
This session will use a real-world scenario to help attendees to learn how to use IoT Central to build seamlessly their IoT solutions.
Building enterprise BI solutions on Azure
In this session, you will see how you can use Azure Data services to build your enterprise-level business intelligence solutions. You will also have an overview of the different services used and how you can use them in different scenarios.
Build no-code Search solutions with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Cognitive Search
In this session, you learn how to build search capabilities into your apps using Cosmos DB and Azure Cognitive Search with no code required.
Come and build with us a Serverless Event-driven App
This session is meant to provide all details to help the community to build Serverless Event-driven apps on Azure.
Creación de microservicios en Azure con .NET Core y AKS
En esta sesión, tu vas a aprender como crear aplicaciones de microservicios en Azure, utilizando dotnet core y el servizio Azure Kubernetes
Getting started with Cloud-Native development using DAPR
In this session you will learn how to use DAPR to build event-driven, resilient distributed applications, by building microservices using code agnostic of any platform, so you can create Cloud-native applications and run them anywhere you need.
Getting started building Data solutions on Azure
When building data solutions on Azure, it may be challenging to identify the best Data services to use to fit your needs, mainly if you have limited or no experience.
So, in this session, you will have an overview of the Data Services available on Azure and how you can use them in different scenarios. Also, you will see how to build a simple data solution using Azure Data services.
Enrich your Azure Search content with AI and Cognitive Skills
In this session, you will learn how to use Cognitive and Custom Skills to enrich the content you are indexing and delivering to enable seamless Search features in your applications.
Getting started with Cloud-Native development using DAPR
In this session you will learn how to use DAPR to build event-driven, resilient distributed applications, by building microservices using code agnostic of any platform, so you can create Cloud-native applications and run them anywhere you need.
Building microservices and Cloud-native apps using DAPR
In today’s digital era, building microservices and event-driven applications is crucial for creating scalable, robust, and efficient software. These architectures allow for increased agility, flexibility, and resilience, enabling businesses to adapt quickly to changing market dynamics.
However, developing such applications comes with its own set of challenges. These include service discovery, state management, message routing, and handling distributed transactions, among others. These complexities can slow down development and increase the risk of errors.
In this session, we will explore how DAPR can help overcome the common challenges in building microservices and event-driven apps, accelerating development, and reducing time to market.
Building seamless Search capabilities into your apps by leveraging Azure Search
In this session, you will understand how you can leverage the Azure Search service to build seamless Search capabilities into your apps and provide a better user experience to the users using your apps.
Democratizing Machine Learning through AutoML and Azure ML
In this session, you will understand how you can leverage Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) and Azure Machine Learning service, to build your Machine Learning solutions and use them on your applications, without requiring you any Data Science or Machine Learning expertise, while reducing development time and ensuring optimal results with your ML solutions.
Azure Reference Architecture - Event-driven and Event sourcing architectures
This session will discuss how to implement two of the popular architectures being used on Azure. Hugo and João will explain some of the benefits and challenges you may face while using Event-driven and Event Sourcing architectures.
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in the Cloud to empower your business and needs
In the current business landscape, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept but a tangible tool that can drive significant value across various business functions.
However, implementing AI can be complex, involving challenges such as data management, model training, and deployment. This is where the Cloud comes into the picture. Cloud providers offer a comprehensive suite of AI services and tools that simplify the process of building, deploying, and managing AI solutions.
In this session, we will explore how these Cloud’s AI capabilities can be leveraged to address your business needs. We will cover topics such as predictive analytics with Machine Learning, creating intelligent bots with Bot Services available, and extracting insights from text with AI services.
Whether you’re looking to improve customer service, streamline operations, or gain insights from data, Cloud's AI services can provide the solutions you need.
Join us to learn how you can harness the power of AI in the Cloud to drive your business forward."
Leveraging Automated Machine Learning to enable anyone to develop Machine Learning solutions
Nowadays, several business owners know that leveraging Artificial Intelligence capabilities, on their systems and applications, can enable their businesses to achieve better results. But building Artificial Intelligence solutions may be a time-consuming and complex process, so consequently, some of these people give up of building such solutions, since they or their team do not have the expertise and capacity required, or sometimes they end-up paying to third-party companies to build these solutions and as a consequence, they end-up doing a significant investment on building these solutions. Azure Automated Machile Learning is the solution to enable anyone to build the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions at low cost and with the best quality possible.
Cloud Lunch and Learn Weekly Sessions 25 User group Sessionize Event
Future Data Driven Summit 2023 Sessionize Event
Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2023 Sessionize Event
AI DevWorld 2022 Sessionize Event
Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 Sessionize Event
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Global Azure 2022 Sessionize Event
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Festive Tech Calendar 2021 Sessionize Event
Azure Community Conference 2021 Sessionize Event
Gira Online Speaker LATAM 2021-GOLD Edition Sessionize Event
Global AI On Virtual Tour 2021 Sessionize Event
Global Azure 2021 Sessionize Event
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