Azure Bootcamp 2026

Thank you for attending Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2026 at Welle 7 in Bern! We had a lot of fun and can look back on a successful conference with over 240 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 2026

The whole day our speakers delivered 17 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 and our Gold Sponsor SoftwareOne
0915	⭐ Keynote: Azure Sovereign Architecture 🙂 RENE RAEBER
1010	☕ Coffee Break
1040	⭐ Time Bombs In Entra ID - How Well Are Your Entra ID Apps Managed? 🙂 MARCEL ZEHNER	⭐ From concept to a productive application - How AI can support you 🙂 JANNIK REINHARD	⭐ From SCCM to Azure: Multi-Cloud Server Management with Azure Arc & Defender for Cloud 🙂 ALADIN HODZIC
1135	⭐ Subscription Vending at Scale: Governed Self‑Service on Azure 🙂 GUILLAUME LACAILLE 🙂 SYLVAIN RIQUEN 🙂 JULIEN DUVANEL 🙂 GUILLAUME BEAUD	⭐ Building Secure RAG: Enforcing Data Governance with Azure AI Search and Purview Sensitivity Labels 🙂 MARCO GERBER 🙂 ALAIN SCHNEITER	⭐ AI: The FinOps Folk’s Best Friend and Worst Nightmare 🙂 ROLAND KRUMMENACHER
1220	🍕 Lunch Break
1320	⭐ Terraforming ClickOps – Turning Portals into Pipelines 🙂 CHRISTIAN BAUMGARTNER	⭐ Hybrid AI - Orchestrating Collaboration Between On-Device and Cloud Models 🙂 FILIP W	⭐ Goodbye VPN – Let’s Never Meet Again! Hello Global Secure Access! 🙂 MARCO SCHMIDT
1415	⭐ DevOps in Azure: Why Alert Emails are not a Monitoring Strategy 🙂 ALEXANDER SAMELI 🙂 DANIEL STEINMANN	⭐ 10 reasons why companies fail to adopt generative AI 🙂 DAVID SCHNEIDER	⭐ From Chaos to Control: Streamline Azure Policy Management with EPAC 🙂 PRATHEEP SINNATHURAI
1500	☕ Coffee Break
1530	⭐ Migration of the Observability Platform Across Azure Landing Zones 🙂 ARINDAM MITRA	⭐ From Idea to Product: Early Lessons in AI-Powered Project Orchestration on Azure and Microsoft Teams 🙂 ABDUXUKUR ABDURIXIT 🙂 ANDREAS EPPENBERGER 🙂 DANIEL SANER	⭐ Managing the Entra Firewall: Conditional Access Policies 🙂 FLAVIO MEYER 🙂 MICHELE BLUM
1630	⭐ Closing Note: Can Microsoft Azure save your life? 🙂 GEORG HAUZENBERGER 🙂 MAURO FERRATELLO
1730	🍻 Networking Apéro sponsored by Swisscom

Sponsors #

A big hand to our sponsors who made the event possible in the first place! Many thanks for the support in 2026 ❤️

Impressions of the event #

For some impressions of the 2026 event, check out the images below. Thanks a lot Irene for taking amazing pictures!