Talks

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Passwordless deployments to Microsoft Azure with GitHub Actions

Discovering passwords in our codebase is probably one of our worst fears as a developer. But, what if you didn’t need passwords at all? Join Chris, as he explores how you can use OpenID Connect to trust your cloud provider, enabling you to deploy easily, securely and safely.

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October 15, 2022
End-to-end InnerSourcing and Secure Development with GitHub

Many of you may be familiar with GitHub for your own Open Source (OSS) projects. But, did you know that you can run your end-to-end development within your organization using GitHub Enterprise? Join Chris for a whistle-stop tour in the day-in-the-life of a developer with GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Actions and GitHub Advanced Security, showing how you can bring Open Source best practices into your day-to-day work (also known as InnerSource)!

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October 13, 2022
From 'It works on my machine' to 'It was written by a machine' - GitHub Codespaces & Copilot

Being a developer is hard. From knowing the building blocks of programming, through to keeping on top of the latest languages and frameworks. That’s before we even think about running systems in production… But at some point, we’ve all uttered those words ‘It works on my machine’. Or, may have looked up code snippets from our favourite search engine… What if there was a better way for both? In this demo-led session, Chris will introduce GitHub Codespaces and GitHub Copilot, explaining how they can improve your developer experience and make you even more productive!!

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October 10, 2022
From 'It works on my machine' to 'It was written by a machine' - GitHub Codespaces & Copilot

Being a developer is hard. From knowing the building blocks of programming, through to keeping on top of the latest languages and frameworks. That’s before we even think about running systems in production… But at some point, we’ve all uttered those words ‘It works on my machine’. Or, may have looked up code snippets from our favourite search engine… What if there was a better way for both? In this demo-led session, Chris will introduce GitHub Codespaces and GitHub Copilot, explaining how they can improve your developer experience and make you even more productive!!

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September 23, 2022
Git and GitHub for the Data Professional

GitHub is just that tool which developers use on Open Source projects, right? Not quite! You could be using Github in your day-to-day work. Have you thought about storing your SQL scripts, or machine learning workbooks in Git repositories? How about checking the quality of the content that you’ve version controlled? Or thinking about the security of your project? These are all things that GitHub can help with! Join Chris in this session as he provides a holistic overview for data professionals on GitHub, GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Advanced Security.

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September 14, 2022
Using GitHub Actions to Deploy to Azure

You’ve heard of GitHub. You’ve heard of GitHub Actions. You’ve heard of Azure. But how can GitHub Actions help you deploy your workloads to Azure? In this demo-filled, action-packed session, we will Introduce GitHub and GitHub Actions, Cover the fundamentals on what you need to know to build a GitHub Action Workflow, Identify resources that you can use to continue your journey in using GitHub Actions to deploy to Azure

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September 7, 2022
End-to-end InnerSourcing and Secure Development with GitHub

You may be familiar with GitHub for your own Open Source (OSS) projects. But, did you know that you can use those same practices internally for your end-to-end development using GitHub Enterprise? Join Chris for a whistle-stop tour into GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot and how you can bring DevSecOps best practices into your day-to-day work!

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September 1, 2022
DevOps in a Cloud World

Chris joins Mert Yeter on Mert to the future show demonstrating how GitHub has some amazing capabilities beyond repositories! GitHub Projects, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Actions and more! Tune in to find out!

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August 11, 2022
GitHub - More than just a Git repository

Chris is the blogger, podcaster, host and producer of his content platform CloudWithChris.com. He uses GitHub to manage, develop, build and deploy it. In this session, Chris explores how GitHub is more than just a Git repository, and how he uses it for his own work: GitHub Issues / Projects to plan the content (Blog & Podcast) backlog GitHub repositories to version control the website’s source code (and recently open sourced the theme) GitHub Codespaces to make changes to the site from any device GitHub actions to build/deploy the site, and publish podcast mp3 files

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June 7, 2022
Microsoft Build 2022

Come together with peers and experts May 24–26, 2022, for an engaging experience around the latest in innovation and tools that will help you stay informed. New for this year, experience market-specific content and connection opportunities for France, Germany, Japan, Latin America, and the UK. Join April Edwards and I, who will be hosting you!

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May 25, 2022