WiredCanuck
Speaking
Practical Azure infrastructure sessions with live demos, for ITPros and the people who lead them. In English or French, in person or virtual.
Talks I give
Every session can be tailored to your audience's level and the time you have. Full abstracts are on Sessionize and run.events.
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A field guide to Azure SRE Agent
Breakout or half-day workshopA demo-driven guide for teams running production Azure workloads: which signals to connect first, how to scope what the agent can touch, and when to choose Review or Autonomous mode. Attendees leave with an onboarding checklist and a response-plan template.
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Operate and govern AI agents on Azure
BreakoutRunning AI agents in production across Azure OpenAI, AI Search and Microsoft Foundry, with identity, safety, observability, troubleshooting, performance and cost all covered through demos.
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AI-powered infra: from detection to auto-fix with Azure Copilot
BreakoutHow Azure Copilot and agentic AI analyse an environment, flag risks and trigger fixes before problems reach production, including the orchestration engine and VS Code workflows.
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Improving ops with Copilot in Azure and GitHub Copilot
Breakout or hands-onPractical scenarios for using Copilot in Azure to review logs and improve resilience, and GitHub Copilot to tighten build and deployment workflows.
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Azure, hybrid cloud and AI in practice
Full-day tutorialThe modern infrastructure operator's day: recent Azure infrastructure capabilities, networking, governance and hybrid management, and where copilots and agent-based operations cut toil.
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Sovereign cloud mythbusters
BreakoutData residency, sovereignty and control in Azure: which claims hold up, which don't, and how to prove it with live demos. Coming to Microsoft Ignite 2026.
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Connecting the clouds? Move on from the legacy mindset
BreakoutBuilding resilient infrastructure anywhere: networking, name resolution and secure remote access across edge, hybrid and multi-cloud.
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Improve your on-prem management with cloud services
BreakoutUsing Azure Arc, Azure Update Manager and Azure Monitor to monitor, secure, reach and protect the servers you still run on-premises.
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From stage fright to stage presence
Breakout or workshopPractical techniques for confident technical speaking: movement, engaging the room and vocal delivery, drawn from more than 20 years of conference presenting.
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