One pager showing the local partners here in Quebec city.

On Saturday April, 21st 2018 was the 6th edition of the Global Azure Bootcamp: https://global.azurebootcamp.net/ all around the world hosted by 284 locations (in its first edition in 2013, it was just 90 locations).
In Quebec city it was our 4th edition and we got ~200 people. We were lucky despite the sunny day we got, actually the first spring day there, to have such interest from our attendees.

Logo of the Global Azure Bootcamp 2018.

This year was my first year as co-organizer and speaker, I really appreciated the experience. I would like to share with you our recipe here in Quebec city regarding how we made this possible. It’s basically a mix of:

The other recipe we have is having great contents delivered by great speakers! 3 Keynotes, 9 breakout sessions split in 3 rooms and 2 kiosks.

Here is the agenda we got:

What was new this year was having at 12-1pm and 4-5pm two kiosks:

Picture of the MVP’s booth where we could see local MVPs talking with participants during a break.

Picture of the MVP’s booth where we could see local MVPs talking with participants during a break.

Picture of someone at the CGI’s booth wearing the Hololens.

Picture of the CGI’s booth where they show cased Azure services with IoT, Cognitive services, Hololens, etc.

Regarding the opening Keynote I co-delivered with Adrian Todorov, we did an interesting exercise to show 2 demos (Azure DevOps project + AKS) within the 1h15min slot we had in front of ~200 people. Here are some photos and here is the document of our presentation:

Picture of me on the stage illustrating the statement from Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella about “Microsoft loves Linux”.

Picture of Adrian on the stage talking about the difference between VMs and containers.

Picture of Adrian on the stage doing a demo of AKS from within the Azure Cloud Shell.

Picture of me on the stage showing the 4 pillars of Microsoft’s approach with Open Source: Enable, Integrate, Release and Contribute.

Picture of me on the stage showing the Azure DevOps project from within the Azure portal.

Again, a really great GABC 2018 edition which couldn’t be a success without all the people, customers, partners and local communities mentioned in this blog article.

See you next year for sure! ;)