Azure Thursday
This is a group for all developers, consultants, architects and IT professionals who want to dive into for them unknown topics related to Azure. Azure Thursday are happening every first Thursday of the month and the format will be different every evening. From hand-on workshops to technical talks.
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Sessions
18:45
3 July 2025
UTC+01:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Maximizing development team success with effective platform engineering techniques
Meetup July 2025
Are your development teams tired of requesting resources through tickets that take max 5 business days to complete? Imagine empowering them to provision resources instantly, boosting productivity and focus while maintaining architectural integrity, compliance, and security.<br/><br/>By implementing strategic methods and Microsoft Architecture patterns using Terraform and GO, development teams can deploy application infrastructure on-demand with minimal configuration on Azure. This allows your development teams with any level of skill to set up well designed infrastructure 70% faster themselves.<br/><br/>Join this session as we go on an adventure transforming platform engineering into a powerful tool for empowering development teams.<br/>
 
Floris van den Hoogen
Floris van den Hoogen
Platform engineer at Sopra Steria
 
19:20
3 July 2025
UTC+01:00 Europe/Amsterdam
How not to build a data platform
Meetup July 2025
Building a data platform is not just about technology; it’s about adoption. In this session, I’ll share the hard-learned lessons from a failed data platform initiative, where the lack of engagement with business end-users led to its downfall. You’ll learn why selling the value of the platform to stakeholders is critical and how aligning with business needs can transform failure into success. Walk away with actionable insights and strategies to ensure your data platform becomes a cornerstone of business decision-making, not a forgotten project.
 
Danny Kruge
Danny Kruge
Mission Critical Engineer at Schuberg Philis 🦸‍♂️ Azure Heroes and ☁️AZug NL Organizer
 
20:00
3 July 2025
UTC+01:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Exploiting Azure: from anonymous user to Global admin in 45 minutes
Meetup July 2025
During this live demo session we will explore a new PowerShell pentesting tool known as Project Blackcat. Using this tool we can use various attack vectors to compromise resource access and gain access to both Microsoft Azure and Entra. We will end the session on how detect these attack vectors using Microsoft Sentinel.
 
Rogier Dijkman
Rogier Dijkman
Microsoft Security MVP | Azure | Sentinel | GitHub
 
Organizers
Azure Thursday is a non-profit organization based in The Netherlands that organizes and empowers community events to share knowledge around the world. Striving to include everyone, by making our events inclusive and accessible.
Luuk Mager
Luuk Mager
Cloud Solution Architect @ Heroes
Jorrit Meijer
Jorrit Meijer
Cloud Solution Architect
Roelant Dieben
Roelant Dieben
Cloud & AI architect @ Sopra Steria
Esther Barthel
Esther Barthel
Solutions Architect @ Cognition IT
Stuart van der Lee
Stuart van der Lee
Cloud & DevOps Expert
André van den Berg
André van den Berg
Consultant @ Rubicon Cloud Advisor