

About us
Welcome to the Yorkshire Azure User Group, A home for Azure in Yorkshire!
From York to Leeds with a pit spot in Sheffield, we host monthly community meetups across the region of Yorkshire! Each month we are joined by speakers of different seniorities and backgrounds who not only talk about different domains in Azure, but also broader topics in the field of information technology. Our group mission is to celebrate Microsoft Azure in Yorkshire and Northern tech communities, so come along and join us!
You can also find us on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yorkshireazureusergroup
Upcoming events
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- Network event

Northern DevOps & Platform Conf
CGI Leeds, 1 Whitehall Quay, Leeds, LS1 4HR, Leeds, GB18 attendees from 2 groupsAfter 4 years of wanting to do it, join Yorkshire DevOps and Yorkshire Azure User Group (YAG) for the Northern DevOps & Platform Conference hosted in partnership with CGI on May 19th.
FIND THE FULL AGENDA AND MORE INFO HERE
Food, drink and CAKE will be provided.
Speakers and Sessions:
- Matthew Skelton, Founder & CEO/CTO, Conflux
Opening Keynote: Team Topologies as the Infrastructure for Agency with AI - Darren Hull, Senior Lead Architect, Skipton Building Society
TBC - Alexandra Helen Moore, DevOps Strategic Advisor, CGI
Enterprise DevOps - Luke Smith, Principal Solutions Architect, Optum UK (EMIS Health)
Augmenting the SDLC with AI - Panel: Future of DevOps, Platform and AI
- Tom Black, Principal Engineer, Skipton Building Society
- Christina Howell, Fractional CTO & CAIO, Independent
- Jonny Brodie, Senior Platform / Cloud Security Engineer, Trustpilot
TBC - Andy Blagnys, Senior Architect, Axiologik
Mandated Pipelines and the Architecture Glue We Pretend Exists - Brian Walker, Technical Specialist, HSBC
Types of Indexes in Databases - Vernon Richards, Senior Engineering Manager, Phrase
Your Pipeline Wasn't Built For This - Andy Burgin, Principal Platform Engineer, Independent
From DevOps to Platform Engineering — A Journey of Noise and Confusion
Lightening Talks:
- David Sugden, Axiologik — The Complexity Paradox
- Holly Jukes, Lloyds Banking Group — Stop Building. Start Deciding.
- Adam King, Digital Endeavours — From Alpha to Handover: Shipping Government Platform Infrastructure
- Additional speakers TBC
Tickets:
- Community tickets: £60 (50% off)
- Register before 30th April to receive a special edition conference T-shirt
If your organisation can fund your place, please select an organisation-funded ticket to help keep our event accessible and able to give free tickets to those who need it.
If you need support to attend or for any other enquires, email ethan.sumner@communitystack.io for a free ticket.
We'd like to thank CGI as headline sponsors, Conflux, Overmind & ADA Meher as platinum sponsors as well as Digital Endeavours & Dash0
6 attendees from this group - Matthew Skelton, Founder & CEO/CTO, Conflux
Past events
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