Microsoft Reactor

Topic 1: Developer best practices with Security content and SIEM
Security Operations Centers (SOC’s) are usually staffed with security professionals with backgrounds in incident response or forensics, not folks with development or devops backgrounds. Development teams often don’t have full time security folks or have adversarial relationships with security teams. How do we fix this silo problem and help security folks become developers and developers become security folks? In this talk, I discuss adopting each others best practices and building a methodology to help improve security and development practices to secure the code to the cloud. We’ll discuss CI/CD pipelines for SIEM, code scanning, versioning, and deployment best practices that can be applied for developers looking to get into cybersecurity or security practitioners looking to level up their developer skills.

Speaker: Mona Ghadiri
Mona Ghadiri is a Microsoft Security MVP and serves as the Sr. Director of Product Management at BlueVoyant, Microsoft’s #1 security partner. Mona has 10+ years of experience concentrated in Product Management, Process Engineering, and Scrum creating cybersecurity products and Security Operations Center services meant to scale with automation and modern DevSecOps.

Topic 2: Introduction to Lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric
Join this session to learn about Lakehouse architecture in Microsoft Fabric. Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end big data analytics platform that offers many capabilities including data integration, data engineering, data science, data lake, data warehouse, and many more, all in one unified SaaS model.
In this session, you will learn how to create a lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric, load it with sample data using Notebooks/Pipelines, and work with its built-in SQL Endpoint as well as its default Power BI dataset which uses a brand-new storage mode called Direct Lake.

Speaker: Shabnam Watson
Shabnam Watson is a Business Intelligence consultant, speaker, blogger, and Microsoft Data Platform MVP with 20+ years of experience developing Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence solutions. Her work focus within the Microsoft BI Stack has been on Analysis Services, Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, and most recently with Microsoft Fabric.

Topic 3: Mastering Azure Durable Functions: Building Resilient and Scalable Workflows
Unlock the power of Azure Durable Functions and revolutionize your cloud-based workflows. In this engaging presentation, you'll delve into the world of Azure Durable Functions and learn how to create robust, scalable, and efficient workflows. Discover the key concepts, best practices, and real-world use cases that will empower you to design and implement workflows that can handle anything the cloud throws at them. Join us as we demystify the intricacies of Azure Durable Functions and embark on a journey towards creating resilient, event-driven applications that can adapt and scale with ease.

Speaker: Callon Campbell
Callon Campbell is a Cloud Architect, Developer and Microsoft MVP in Azure. With over 20 years of experience, he's been developing enterprise applications for web, desktop, mobile, and cloud-native applications using Microsoft Azure, .NET, ASP.NET, and SQL Server. He's passionate about learning new technologies and sharing his experience with fellow peers in the community. Callon is also the organizer of “Canada’s Technology Triangle .NET User Group” in Kitchener, Ontario. Callon can be reached on Twitter via @Flying_Maverick, and has a blog at https://TheFlyingMaverick.com.

Who is it aimed at?
Developers, Architect, IT professionals