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Tagline: A leader of cutting-edge technology teams

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Steph Locke is a seasoned leader in digital transformation and AI, with extensive experience in building high-performing teams and driving impactful change. With …

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Ten years ago, I began advocating for DataOps, a framework designed to improve collaboration, efficiency, and agility in data management. The industry was still grappling with fragmented workflows, slow delivery cycles, and a disconnect between data teams and business needs. Fast …

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Azure Functions are great for a wide range of scenarios, including working with data on a transactional or event-driven basis. In this session, we’ll look at how you can interact with Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Event Hubs, and more so you can see how you can take a lightweight …

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Too often, we chuck talented technologists into a promotion to the role of team lead or manager without any training or support. This can lead to a shaky foundation in their management style, many new managers quitting to go back to tech, and people being mis-handled as managers …

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Between spending hours (or days!) making sure you can code and test locally and the difficulties of keeping remote environments up to date, sometimes we find ourselves falling back on “It works on my machine!”. Getting rid of the difficulties in making new development …

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Join Steph and Chris as they run through Microsoft’s transformation from shipping boxed products to always-on online services. Developer Velocity is a critical part of that journey to ensure the teams can keep delivering value to their end-users at scale. In this session, …

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With more than a decade of organisations running large data & analytics workloads in the cloud, Microsoft have extended their architecture framework to provide best practices and guidance for businesses. In this session, we’ll introduce the Well Architected Framework, go into …