Global Azure 2025 - Mumbai & May #mumtechup - DevOps & AI Agents + GraphRAG workhops
Hey DevOps enthusiasts and Azure aficionados! Get ready to supercharge your skills at the Global Azure Bootcamp 2025 - Mumbai edition #gab25mum in May! We are also co-hosting May #mumtechup with #DevOps theme. Join us for an exhilarating day of DevOps discovery, where you'll also dive into the world of Azure with fellow Mumbai techies. This isn't your average sit-and-nod event; it's a #mumtechup party where learning meets fun!
Mark your calendars for May 10th, because we are hosting a jam-packed session that you won't want to miss. We're gathering at the vibrant Microsoft space in Kalina, Santacruz East, where the only thing hotter than the Mumbai sun will be the Azure tips and tricks you'll pick up. Bring your energy, bring your questions, and let's make this bootcamp the talk of the tech town! 🚀🎉
Grateful to Coderabbit for sponsoring F&B 🙏
Agenda:
Session #1: 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm [Global Azure]
Talk: Hallucination by Design: How Embedding Models Misunderstand Language [Live Remote]
Ever wondered why AI confidently gives the wrong answers? Join me to discover how embedding models—the backbone of modern AI systems—fundamentally misunderstand human language. I'll reveal shocking test results where models think "take medication" and "don't take medication" are nearly identical, confuse 5% with 95%, and can't tell the difference between "before" and "after" in critical instructions. These aren't minor glitches—they're design limitations causing real-world failures in healthcare, finance, and legal systems. Learn the patterns behind these hallucinations and practical techniques to make your AI systems more reliable. If you're building with embeddings, you can't afford to miss this
Speaker: Ritesh Modi
Bio: Principal AI Engineer at Microsoft
Session #2: 3.00 pm - 3.45 pm [Global Azure]
Talk: No More Overprivileged SPs: Automating Azure IaC Permissions with MPF
In this session, we explore the capabilities of the Minimum Permissions Finder (github.com/Azure/mpf) utility. This open-source tool helps identify the least privilege permissions required for successful ARM, Bicep, or Terraform deployments, enabling secure and compliant infrastructure provisioning.
In this talk, we’ll cover:
* Why Least Privilege Matters: Understand the security and compliance implications of over-privileged service principals and how enforcing minimum permissions mitigates risks.
* MPF Overview: Get a high-level understanding of how the tool works, including the iterative permission discovery mechanism.
* Live Demo
* Integration and Best Practices: Learn how to embed MPF into your existing IaC deployment process
Whether you’re building secure deployment pipelines or tightening cloud governance, this talk will equip you with practical tools and insights to reduce your permission footprint without breaking your deployments.
Speaker: Maninderjit Bindra
Bio: Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Session #3: 4.10 pm - 4.55 pm [Bridge session Global Azure + Devops]
Talk: . NET Aspire in Action: Boosting Developer Productivity for Distributed Systems
This session dives into .NET Aspire, the cloud-ready stack designed to simplify the development of distributed backends. Using Visage, an open-source event management platform, attendees will learn how .NET Aspire accelerates the local development loop for core developers working with multiple services, APIs, and even Node.js or Python components.
Key takeaways include leveraging .NET Aspire for faster inner-loop iterations, gaining unified observability with the Aspire Dashboard, and simplifying service-to-service communication and dependency management. The talk will also touch upon implementing robust IAM, drawing from experience with Visage shared at FOSSAsia 2025. Furthermore, see how tools like Coderabbit can be integrated into the .NET Aspire development lifecycle for AI-assisted code reviews, helping teams maintain high-quality code and iterate faster on complex, distributed systems. Attendees will leave with practical knowledge to reduce boilerplate and ship applications more efficiently.
Speaker: Augustine Correa
Bio: Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies and AI Platform
Session #3: 5.00 pm - 5.20 pm [DevOps]
Talk: KEDA Custom Scalers: Bridging the Gap Between Kubernetes and Your Business Metrics
Kubernetes excels at scaling based on system metrics like CPU and memory, but what about scaling on metrics that truly matter to your business? This session demonstrates how KEDA custom scalers enable you to autoscale Kubernetes workloads based on business-specific triggers.
Speaker: Jeremy Henriques
Bio: Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Upstox
Session #3: 5.20 pm - 5.45 pm [DevOps]
Finale: The Calm After the Storm: Recovery Planning
Speaker: Avani Singhal
Bio: Principal Engineer @ BookMyShow
Global AI Bootcamp 2025 - Mumbai Part Deux
Due to overwhelming demand, we are excited to announce a special edition of the Global AI Bootcamp workshops! This event will bring back the most sought-after sessions from the March event, offering attendees another opportunity to engage with cutting-edge AI concepts, hands-on learning, and expert-led discussions.
Join us as we redo the workshops, refining and expanding upon key topics to ensure an even more impactful experience. This event is designed to deepen your understanding and practical skills in AI. Bring your working laptop, ideas & enthusiasm; we will provide internet, food and the Azure credits to power your AI journey. Oh, perhaps they may be swag too 😉
1.30 pm - 3.00 pm Workshop 1: Building a RAG with PostgreSQL
Explore leveraging intelligent functionalities within a managed PostgreSQL service on Azure. This guide covers environment setup, data introduction, and the application of AI-powered features to improve your solutions.
3.30 pm - 5.00 pm Workshop 2: Build your first AI Agent Service
Dive into the world of intelligent conversational agents with Azure AI Agent Service, a seamless blend of service and SDK that simplifies the development of robust AI-driven solutions. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to create a powerful agent capable of answering sales-related queries, performing data analysis, generating visualizations, and integrating external data sources to deliver enhanced business insights.
Instructor & proctor: Augustine Correa
Bio: Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies and AI Platform
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