Azure Bootcamp 2025

Thank you for attending Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2025 at Welle 7 in Bern! We had a lot of fun and can look back on a successful conference with over 220 participants and speakers! 😃

Community #

As you know, #Azure Bootcamp Switzerland is a 100% #community non-profit conference. Any positive financial balance will be invested into future events or donated to our charity partner organisations.

Speakers and agenda #

Many thanks to all of speakers for the support! Your the best! 🙏

Overview of all speakers at Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2025

The whole day our speakers delivered 18 sessions in total in three different tracks. Check out the Azure Zürich Speakerdeck for the session slides.

Time	Room 3.54	Room 3.53	Room 3.14
0800	⏰ Check-in & Coffee
0900	⭐ Welcome Note with the organizers
0915	⭐ Keynote: Transforming DevOps with Azure: Platform Engineering for the Digital Age 🙂 ROMANO ROTH
1010	☕ Coffee Break
1040	⭐ It takes more than a prompt - implemeting GenAI for insurance 🙂 GAETAN HERVE 🙂 YACINE OULD BOUKHITINE	⭐ Building and Operating a Productive AI Application for Swiss Government on Azure 🙂 TOBIAS KLUGE	⭐ True Tales of Cloud Modernisation: From Legacy to Serverless 🙂 ADRIAN PRITCHARD
1135	⭐ Azure OpenAI Unplugged: Real-World Lessons from My Latest GenAI Project 🙂 DIETER GOBEYN	⭐ Azure Emergency Response Environments - Be Ready When It Matters Most 🙂 FLORIAN STÖCKL	⭐ Full Steam Ahead: Engineering a Modern Data Platform at Rhaetian Railway 🙂 SIMON SCHWAB 🙂 LUKAS HEUSSER
1220	🍕 Lunch Break
1320	⭐ Enhancing Legal Document Analysis with Reflection Agents, Semantic Kernel, and Azure AI Search 🙂 CÉDRIC MENDELIN	⭐ Stay safe! – Mastering Network Security on Azure 🙂 STEFAN RAPP	⭐ Level up your Cost Observability with the new FinOps standard FOCUS and Microsoft Fabric 🙂 ALEXANDRE PARÈS
1415	⭐ Migrate to Modernize - A journey from VMware On-Prem to Azure Native Services 🙂 FABRICE KREBS 🙂 ANDRÉ PEREIRA	⭐ Building a Cloud Centric Network with Azure Virtual WAN 🙂 JAKE WALSH	⭐ Platform Engineering with Terraform, Crossplane and Port 🙂 ARINDAM MITRA
1500	☕ Coffee Break
1530	⭐ From Copilot to Autopilot – How AI Coding Tools Are Transforming the Developer Role 🙂 DANIEL SOGL	⭐ DNS in hybrid cloud environments - can it be that hard? 🙂 MARCEL ZEHNER	⭐ Make Microsoft Defender XDR Work for You: Mastering Automatic Attack Disruption 🙂 ALAIN SCHNEITER 🙂 MICHAEL RÜEFLI
1630	⭐ Closing Note: The AI Evolution: How Emerging AI Trends are Transforming the Cloud Services 🙂 MARC STAMPFLI
1730	🍻 Networking Apéro sponsored by isolutions

Sponsors #

A big hand to our sponsors who made the event possible in the first place! Many thanks for the support in 2025 ❤️

Impressions of the event #

For some impressions of the 2025 event, check out the images below. Thanks a lot Irene for taking amazing pictures!