While AI has its own specificities, managing AI apps is not much different than any other app running on Azure. In this session you will learn the traditional components of AI enabled applications, how its infrastructure is composed and how IT/Ops team need to be prepared to run and manage these apps. We'll look into networking, monitoring, Identity and governance for Azure AI services, AI Foundry, and Azure Machine Learning. This session will provide you with the knowledge to go out and start managing it!

AI models and machine learning sound very complex (and they are). Managing them doesn't have to be, though. Just like any other app on Microsoft Azure, AI uses compute, storage, and networking resources. In this session we will look at how to manage AI-enabled apps from the standpoint of an IT/Ops person. We will cover (with demos) how to manage authentication and authorization, networking, monitoring and more. If your company is looking to use AI, this session will help you achieve successful implementation!

As an IT Pro, you are most likely managing AI services for your company and users. However, AI can also help you in your day-to-day activities. In this session we will cover how multiple Copilots (such as Copilot in Azure, AI Shell, GitHub Copilot, etc.) can help you on daily IT/Ops related activities. Be it in creating better PowerShell or AzCLI scripts, helping you troubleshoot Azure services in the Azure Portal, or even creating entirely new PowerShell modules, we will cover real case scenarios (and pitfalls to avoid) that will boost your IT capabilities!

You have been managing Virtual Machines forever, and now developers are deploying applications in containers. What are containers? Do I manage containers like VMs? How does Kubernetes compare to any other management solution I have today? These are all questions we will answer in this session. We will explore the basics of how containers and Kubernetes work from the standpoint of an IT/Ops professional. We will show demos on how to get started with Azure Kubernetes Services, what traditional (real-life) deployments look like, how AKS connects to other Azure services, and more. If you are an ITPro who is being asked to manage Kubernetes on Azure, this session is for you!