Azure and Friends

🎉 A Huge Thank You to Our Amazing Community! 🎉 As 2024 comes to a close, we at Azure & Friends want to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has supported us this year. Whether you joined us at an event, contributed as a speaker, or helped spread the word about our community or meetups – you are what makes this community so special. 💙 This year has been incredible: ✅ 20 meetups packed with insightful discussions and learning opportunities ✅ 891 participants who brought energy and curiosity to every session ✅ 37 distinct speakers who generously shared their time, expertise, and passion To all our hosts and speakers, thank you for making each event possible. Your dedication to sharing knowledge has inspired so many in our community. Looking ahead, we're excited to continue in 2025 – and we might have a few surprises up our sleeve for the coming year! 😉 Here’s to another year of learning, networking, and growing together. Stay tuned, and let’s make 2025 even better! 🎆 #azureandfriends #community #communityrocks #microsoft #azure #meetups

Yes, we're continuing next year. 🎆 We are excited to announce that first #meetup of 2025 is going to happen 23rd of January and will be hosted by CGI! 🚀 Mark the date in your calendar already so you don't miss it. RSVP will open 9th of January. 😎 Link in the comments as usual. 😊 #azureandfriends #cgi #community #microsoft #azure #communityrocks

Yes, we're continuing next year. 🎆 We are excited to announce that first #meetup of 2025 is going to happen 23rd of January and will be hosted by CGI! 🚀 Mark the date in your calendar already so you don't miss it. RSVP will open 9th of January. 😎 Link in the comments as usual. 😊 #azureandfriends #cgi #community #microsoft #azure #communityrocks

Currently we have Anssi Pannula on stage telling us about Cloud Native Applications with DAPR and Azure Container Apps! Good stuff! 😎 #azureandfriends #meetup #azure #dapr #containerapps #communityrocks

Our last meetup in Helsinki this year ongoing at Cloud1 Oy. Welcome words done by Azure & Friends crew as well as by Jouni Heikniemi on Cloud1’s behalf. 🌥️ Currently we have Atte Sukari on-stage remotely after which Anssi Pannula will also be presenting. 🚀 #azureandfriends #meetup #communityrocks

🌟 Azure and Friends TAMPERE Meetup Year is a Wrap 🌟 A huge thank you to everyone from the community who joined us yesterday at Vincit’s new office. Special appreciation goes to our speakers, Timo H. (Vincit) and Aapo Koski (61N), for their talks and valuable insights that sparked plenty of great discussions. As we look ahead to 2025, we’re excited to keep growing the Tampere community with more meetups and opportunities to connect. Stay tuned for what’s to come – let’s make amazing things happen together! 🚀

Good food in good company. 🍽️ Teemu Tapanila, Tommi Hovi, Sebastian Donner, Yuri Barseghyan, Jukka Loikkanen, Henri Hietala and Krzysztof Górecki gathered to plan some new things for the future. 🚀 Join Azure & Friends WhatsApp community through the link in the comments! #azureandfriends #community #food #communityrocks

🚀 Tomorrow will be the last Azure and Friends TAMPERE meetup of the year, hosted by Vincit in their brand-new Tampere office! 🎉 This time, we’re excited to have Timo H. from Vincit and Aapo Koski from 61N sharing their insights with us. Two great talks, one incredible evening of learning, networking, and fun! 🙌 #azureandfriends #meetup #community #tampere #vincit #learningtogether

This Thursday we'll have the last event of the year hosted by Cloud1 Oy right at the heart of Helsinki. Cloud1's own Atte Sukari will be there to tells us about 'Serving Delta Lake via API'. Be sure to be there! 🚀 #azureandfriends #meetup #community #api #cloud1 #communityrocks

Next week we'll have your last event of the year hosted by Cloud1 Oy at the center of Helsinki! 🎅 Cloud Architect Anssi Pannula from Nortal joins us as a speaker to deliver his session about 'Cloud native applications with Dapr and Azure Container Apps'! See you there! 🎄 #meetup #community #cloud1 #azureandfriends #developers