Future Ready Applications Summit | Microsoft Azure

Overview

The Future Ready Applications Summit is designed for CXOs, technical and business decision makers, architects, developers and IT professionals looking to leverage Microsoft Azure to supercharge innovation through applications, deliver superior customer experiences and build additional revenue streams with new business models.

If you are an IT professional, developer or architect, join us on Thursday, 29th September, 10:00 am onwards for technical masterclasses on containers, microservices, serverless architectures, PaaS, integration services, hybrid and multi-cloud app platforms, Visual Studio, DevOps and DevSecOps with GitHub and low code/no code on Azure.

If you are a CXO, business or IT decision maker, engineering or app head or an architect, join us on Thursday 29th September, 5:00 pm onwards to hear from your peers and experts on how they are innovating across industries. The evening sessions will feature panel discussions, success stories from your peers, industry specific architecture based demonstrations and best practices from Microsoft Technology Center followed by a solutions showcase by Microsoft partners.

What to expect

Choose from a wide rage of topics from across technical masterclasses and industry sessions that cater to your learning needs and job role.

Gain insights from customer use cases, step-by-step demonstrations and architectural best practices.

Take the free Cloud Skills Challenge to build your app and data skills on Azure. Sign up and complete this challenge to participate in the Future Ready Applications Summit's Apps of the Future Hackathon on Sep 24th. Stay tuned for more updates.

Participate in the in-person hackathon in NCR, Pune, Chennai, Kochi, Bengaluru and Hyderabad on September 24th and build fintech, sustainability and retail apps on the Azure App Innovation stack. Loads of digital badges and SWAG to be won. Winners across each city get cash prizes!

Key Takeaways

Different approaches for building highly secure, resilient applications optimized for cloud scale and performance.
Overcoming agility challenges associated with legacy applications with best practices for app estate modernization.
Increasing productivity and agility with the 5 R approach for your app estate - rehost, refactor, rearchitect, rebuild, replace.
Acceleration of developer velocity across the software development lifecycle with the best-in-class dev tools.
Improving efficiency of line of business operations by democratizing app development with low code/no code.
Scaling performance, improving application throughput and latency with distributed caching and fully managed databases.
Pushing the boundaries of innovation across datacenters, edge, and multi-cloud with Azure hybrid applications.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

Technical sessions and keynotes

2

keynotes

18

tech
masterclasses

5

industries

6

customer panel
discussions

4

customer spotlight
sessions

5

partner solutions
demonstrations

5

industry solutions
demonstrations

Technical Sessions

Containers & Serverless

PaaS and Integration Services

.NET, Java and open source

Managed databases and Redis Cache

Developer tools

Low code no code

Hybrid app dev platforms

Mixed reality and metaverse

Featured Industries

Startups

Banking and
Financial Services

IT/ITeS

Manufacturing

Healthcare

Agenda

Timezone is as per Indian Standard Time (IST)

10:00 - 10:20

Technology Keynote: Is there a Future Ready Cloud?

Join Scott Hanselman for this technical and philosophical discussion about hardware, abstractions, virtual machines, storage, platform as a service and software as a service. Let's move from the bare metal all the way to serveless on azure. Is there such a thing as a future ready cloud? Are your applications ready for the future? Let's find out together!

Scott Hanselman, Partner, Program Management, Microsoft

10:20 - 14:00

Tech Masterclasses

Innovate with cloud native apps | Modernize with PaaS | Developer velocity | Build immersive experiences

14:00 - 17:00

Break

17:00 - 17:30

Industry Keynote: Unleashing Innovation on Cloud across Industries

Join Anant and Charu in a fireside chat as they discuss the collective opportunity for a digital India and the need for accelerated cloud adoption for innovation in India and the world. They will also cover digital acceleration efforts, their implementation at scale, what's driving enterprises - both big and small - to embrace innovation with remarkable speed and scale and the need for organizations to consider driving agility in software delivery power innovation from the grassroots.

Anant Maheshwari, CVP & President, Microsoft India
Charumathy Srinivasan, VP Engineering, Microsoft India

17:30 - 20:00

Industry Tracks

Banking and Financial Services | Startups, Soonicorns and Unicorns | IT/ITeS | Manufacturing

17:30 - 20:00

Partner Solutions Demonstrations

Azure CDN by Edgio | Refract by Fosfor | Amaze by Hexaware | HyperExecute by LambdaTest | CloudPilot by UnifyCloud

17:30 - 20:00

Industry Solutions Demonstrations

Factories of the Future | Banks of the future | Education of the future | Retail of the future | Healthcare of the future

Tech Masterclasses

Timezone is as per Indian Standard Time (IST)

10:20 - 14:00

Innovate, deploy and operate Kubernetes seamlessly with Azure Kubernetes Service

Kubernetes has disrupted the IT industry considerably and Azure Kubernetes Service has been helping numerous customers adopt containers, and get the benefits of containers and Kubernetes orchestration significantly. In case you have not considered Kubernetes, or for that matter AKS, you are surely missing out on a lot! Join our expert, Yusuf Rangwala, on this tour of Azure Kubernetes Service, its features, and how you can accelerate your transformation and innovation journey.

Yusuf Rangwala, Principal Solutions Specialist, Global Black Belt, Microsoft

Build enterprise grade apps with Azure RedHat OpenShift

With constrained resources and scarce skilled talent slowing down digital transformation, businesses are looking to run containers in the cloud. This session details how Azure Redhat OpenShift lets you gain all the benefits of a container platform without the need to deploy and manage environments – changing focus from infrastructure management to application development that results in meaningful business outcomes.

Jaideep John, Principal Solutions Specialist, Global Black Belt, Microsoft

Speed up applications with Azure Cache for Redis

Join this session to learn how developers can speed up applications by leveraging Azure Cache for Redis. We'll also walkthrough developer scenarios and enterprise features which can quickly integrate with Redis on Azure as well. We'll also showcase demos on these capabilities.

SatheeshKumar Manoharan, Senior Customer Engineer, FastTrack for Azure, Microsoft
Romaan Shair, FastTrack Customer Engineer for Azure, Microsoft

Innovate faster and more securely with managed databases on Azure

Go faster with NoSQL(CosmosDB) using integrated cache and do analytics with CosmosDB without ETL. Learn how to scale your database with ease on Azure.

Karishma Khubchandani, Global Black Belt NoSQL/Data and AI Specialist, Microsoft
Brian McKerr, Global Black Belt, Technical Specialist OSS Databases, Microsoft

Industry Tracks

Timezone is as per Indian Standard Time (IST)

17:30 - 20:00

Roundtable: Unlocking new business opportunities in BFSI with modern applications

India’s banking and financial services is undergoing rapid expansion, thanks to policy support, wide digital adoption and business innovation. Modernizing the business entails modernizing applications to deliver consistent and adaptive user experiences, scaling to support growth and staying resilient. The diversified nature of the industry (retail, SMB, corporate, rural) is poised to benefit and transform by leveraging the modern application platform that has differentiating capabilities such as modularity, loosely-coupled/interoperability, intelligent and adaptive. The panel discussion will explore the complex needs, challenges and aspirations of India’s BFSI Industry and the unique role that modern applications can play in the industry’s transformation journey.

Mehekka Oberoi, Director, Corporate Strategy, IIFL
Mohit Gopal, COO, PayU
Moderator: Vijayant Rai, Country Head, BFSI, Microsoft

Partner Solutions Demonstrations

Timezone is as per Indian Standard Time (IST)

17:30 - 20:00

Azure CDN by Edgio

As we move to a mobile-first world, it’s critical that content delivery have the capacity, scale, and security to reliably deliver web applications, data, and content at the fastest speeds with the highest quality of experience. Join this session for an overview of Azure CDN by Edgio that offers complete online application optimization and security to help your business protect its assets and grow safely with the highest levels of performance, reliability, security, and scale - unmatched by other providers.

Van Balasundaram, Senior Solutions Architect, Azure CDN by Edgio

Industry Solutions Demonstrations

Timezone is as per Indian Standard Time (IST)

17:30 - 20:00

Factories of the Future

During this session, we’ll walk you through how manufacturing industries are looking to leverage modern data driven applications with inbuilt AI and IoT capabilities to gain insights in real time across the top floor and shop floor to help drive business growth with the right decisions at the right time.

Bishnu Agrawal, Technical Architect, Microsoft Technology Center, Microsoft