Date: 19th November 2025Location: VirtualTopic: Building Scalable Voice Solutions with Azure Communication Services (ACS)Speaker: Fabrizio Volpe, Senior Consultant at Exponentially A Warm Welcome to the Community The Welsh Azure User Group wrapped up its final event of 2025 with an engaging virtual session focused on Azure Communication Services (ACS). Hosted by John Lunn and Matthew …
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n 23rd September 2025, the Welsh Azure User Group marked a major milestone—its 5th anniversary—with a vibrant virtual meetup that blended community spirit, technical innovation, and a healthy dose of nostalgia. Hosted by long-time organisers John Lunn and Matthew Fortunka, the event brought together Azure enthusiasts from across the UK to reflect on the journey …
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The Welsh Azure User Group’s August virtual meetup was a whirlwind tour through the future of urban living, enterprise data, and—of course—the ever-popular community quiz. Hosted by the dynamic duo John and Matthew, the event welcomed a global audience (no Welsh passport required!) and kicked off with the usual housekeeping: be courteous, stay on mute, …
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Welcome and Community Spirit This month’s Welsh Azure User Group session opened with a warm welcome from John, who celebrated the group’s nearly five-year journey. He emphasized the importance of community, encouraged idea sharing, and thanked sponsors Servant and Creditsafe for their ongoing support. 1 Mastering Azure Exams: Insights from Jake Walsh & Steve Brown Jake …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG June 2025 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by another two brilliant community speakers, firstly Wolfgang Ofner joined us to talk 'From VM's to Managed DevOps Pools: Navigating Azure DevOps Hosting, then Segnes Schonken came …
A fascinating pattern is emerging in UK enterprise boardrooms: nearly 70% of Fortune 500 companies have integrated Microsoft 365 Copilot into their workflows since 2023, while others are still evaluating their options. With 85% entrusting Microsoft with their integration and innovation decisions. The data reveals compelling insights about where strategic leaders are focusing their digital …
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Imagine a software company with a product loved by many, but built on aging technology held together by patches and prayers. Every new customer demo comes with silent dread: Will the system hold up this time? I’ve met countless ISVs in this exact predicament. They are battling a legacy tech-debt dragon that threatens to scare off customers. Outages, security scares, and …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG May 2025 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by another two brilliant community speakers, firstly Sreekanth Takkalapalli joined us to talk about Azure Security, then Ryan Yates came to discuss the evolution of PS DSC …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG April 2025 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by another two brilliant community speakers, firstly Owain Osbourne-Walsh joined us to talk about Building Self Hosted AI applications on Kubernetes using KAITO, then Colin Chaplin came …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG March 2025 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by another two brilliant community speakers, firstly Turja Chaudhuri joined us to talk Multi Tenant Architectures, then Maik van der Gaag came to discuss Reusable Bicep Modules …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG February 2025 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by another fantastic community speaker and Microsoft Strategic CTO Tim Hinchey on to discuss using Azure AI Foundry for experimentation. Unfortunately Tayyeba couldn't join us tonight but …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG January 2025 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by another fantastic community speakers Marcin Gastol on to discuss Azure Backups and preparing for the worst! Then we had Andrew Brown on where he gave us …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG December 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by a few friends of the User Group, starting with the awesome Mohammed Sajid discussing Entra ID and Global Secure Access and then the brilliant John Kilmister …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG November 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by the awesome Taiob Ali discussing Migrations of SQL servers into Azure. Then friend of WAUG Jake Walsh joined us to discuss Building cloud Centric Networks with …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG October 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by the amazing Alan Cox who discussed Microsoft Multi-Tenant Organisations (MTO): Enhancing Collaboration across Tenants. Then the brilliant Konstantinos Passadis came to discuss and demo Azure AI …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG September 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by yet another two awesome presenters. First up we had Radu Vunvulea on to discuss the AI Architecture in the Cloud, then Carlos Solis Salazar joined us …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG August 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by yet another two awesome presenters. First up we had Deiter Gobeyn with a great talk around Triaging Email with Azure AI Language Services and Logic Apps. …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG July 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by James Reeves to walk through a journey of Rockstar to Rookie tracking the career change of a Heavy Metal Guitarist into that of a Data Analyst. …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG June 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by Harshavardhan Bajoria to discuss building Next Generation AI Infused applications on Azure. Then we had the brilliant Mykola Kolomiiets discussing how to process documents with Azure …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG May 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by Rhydian Jenkins of Creditsafe who gave us a n overview to how Creditsafe have implemented multi cloud governance across their estate, and then Ian Pike of …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG April 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by Jake Walsh who gave us a really insightful and clear introduction to Terraform, and then Narayanan Subramanian came on to take us through a really intricate …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG March 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by Rolf Schutten where we discussed AKS and Azure Draft and the superb Ryan Yates to talk about making Azure Operational Management a Breeze. We also welcomed …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG February 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by Tiago Costa and how the lack of Azure Governance is Disturbing, a candid no holds barred look at all the tools and utilities we should be …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG January 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by Nikos Delis to discuss the Azure Service Bus and then we took a look at the AZ-305 Azure Architect Exam updates with Elkhan Yusubov. Huge thank …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG December2023 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by Samuel Amaugo on to discuss Application Insights in a /NET application for Monitoring and Logging, as well as Steph Locke and Owain Osborne-Walsh on to discuss Azure …
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