From Chaos to Insights with Azure Content Understanding

What if every call your organisation take could generate actionable insights faster than the call itself? In this session, we’ll explore a real-world business transformation: how one organisation went from auditing less than 10% of calls to achieving 100% coverage, turning compliance from a persistent headache into real-time clarity.

We will also explore how Azure Content Understanding can transform not just audio, but videos, documents, and images into structured, actionable insights almost instantly, enabling smarter, faster decision-making across the organisation, whether it’s a thousand invoices or a 1,000-page contract, and how to unlock actionable insights in minutes.

By the end of this session, you’ll walk away thinking about the endless possibilities of what your organisation could achieve when content truly understands itself.

Refactoring Your Career: From First Commit to Last Pull Request

Just like the code we write, our careers need refactoring. Technology never stands still. Frameworks rise and fall, cloud evolving at this very minute. AI is transforming how we build software, and something else will be next.

The skills that helped you get one job might not be enough for your next one. The challenge (and the opportunity) is learning how to adapt without burning out or feeling left behind.

In this talk, we’ll explore what it means to “refactor your career” so you can thrive no matter what the next tech wave is. Whether you’re looking for your first dev role or have been coding for decades, the principles are the same: embrace change, invest in timeless skills, and leverage emerging tools to your advantage.

The term refactoring was popularised in the 1990s to describe improving code without changing its behaviour. Small, thoughtful improvements keep the system healthy, and the same applies to our careers.

With so many technologies emerging constantly, the key isn’t to learn everything, but to stay open, curious, and adaptable. You’ll learn how newcomers can stand out by building solid problem-solving foundations, how mid-career developers can avoid stagnation by diversifying their skills, and how experienced developers can remain in demand by focusing on leadership, mentoring, and system-level thinking that no tech wave can replace you ever.

Treat your career as a codebase. Review, identify what to keep, what to improve, and what to rewrite. By treating your career like evolving software, you’ll be ready for today’s wave and whatever comes next.

Let’s explore, share, and learn together how to keep our developer careers adaptable, resilient, and in demand from first commit to the last pull request.

Zero to Hero in Azure Bicep

This session aims to show how easy it is to get a good grip on Azure Bicep without prior knowledge. Azure Bicep is the successor of ARM templates and the way forward to deploy resources to Azure. This session is not only for infrastructure developers, any developer who needs to get a good grip of how easily you can add the infrastructure skills will benefit from this.

If you are not new to Bicep, this session will also share some good insights on the best practices to organise and maintain your Bicep to scale.

APIs at Scale with Azure API-Management (API-M)

In the dynamic landscape of modern software development, APIs have emerged as the connective tissue enabling seamless integration and collaboration across diverse applications. As businesses expand and digital ecosystems grow increasingly intricate, managing APIs have becomes a paramount challenge.

Join me as I share my experience in APIs at Scale with Azure API Management (API-M). In this session, I will explore Azure API Management's role in taming the complexities of API management in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. I will share real-world challenges, best practices, and case studies, showcasing how Azure API Management empowers organisations to orchestrate, secure, analyse, and scale APIs effectively.

Whether you're a developer, an architect, a technology enthusiast or a business stakeholder, this session will promise valuable insights into harnessing a solid foundation for successfully adopting Azure API Management (API-M) in your organisation and Integration Platform as a Service iPaaS solutions.

This is the first public delivery of this topic and require 45 minutes slot at minimum.

DevSecOps is not a role! not a title!

Did DevSecOps become another buzzword? Is it a fancy way to say deployments are automated? Do organisations still see DevSecOps as another skill set? Treat DevOps as another speciality, another Silo! Consider DevSecOps as another role or a job title.

The DevSecOps engineer is supposed to be the person who implements all DevOps practices. Why a single specialised role has to do all this? DevOps, in aiming to break the silos between development and operations teams, did we create another silo?

This talk discusses why DevSecOps is not a role or job title. Instead, developers maintain a culture, practice, and constitution for confidently deploying every version on production servers why each one of us developers should be a DevSecOps engineer.

This is a lightning talk, aim for 10-15 minutes highlighting one of the greatest failures in organisations in adopting DevOps practices.