Ritesh Modi - Azure for Architects

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Ritesh Modi is an ex-Microsoft Senior Technology Evangelist. He is Microsoft Regional Director as well as Regional lead for Microsoft Certified Trainers.

He is an architect, a senior evangelist, cloud architect, published author, speaker, and a known leader for his contributions towards blockchain, Ethereum, data centers, Azure, bots, cognitive services, DevOps, artificial intelligence, and automation. He is the author of five books.

He has spoken at more than 15 conferences including TechEd and PowerShell Asia, and is a published author for MSDN magazine. He has more than a decade of experience in building and deploying enterprise solutions for customers. He has more than 25 technical certifications.

Kasam Shaikh, a Microsoft Azure enthusiast, is a seasoned professional with a can-do attitude and 10 years of industry experience working as a cloud architect with one of the leading IT companies in Mumbai, India. He is a certified Azure architect, recognized as an MVP by a leading online community, as well as a global AI speaker, and has authored books on Azure Cognitive, Azure Bots, and Microsoft Bot frameworks. He is head of the Azure India (az-INDIA) community, the fastest growing online community for learning Azure.

Alexey Bokov is experienced cloud architect, worked for Microsoft as Azure Technical Evangelist and Senior Engineer since 2011 helping software developers all around the world to develop applications based on Azure platform. Main area of interests is security in cloud and especially security and data protection for containerized applications.

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