Kevin Chant

Kevin Chant

Senior Database Architect

Senior Database Architect originally from the UK and now living in the Netherlands.

Many years experience in the IT sector, and has supported databases for companies in the top 10 of the fortune 500 list.

In addition to a lot of SQL Server experience also has a fair few Microsoft Certifications, and was probably the last ever person in the world to gain the MCSD Azure Architect certification.

Real life experience with SQL Server and Azure Devops. Currently SQL Server product Owner of around 1,900 instances. In addition, done various things for the Data Platform Community. With the last being one of the organizers of the online DataWeekender conference.

Session : Battle tested project planning with Azure Devops boards

Organising your project may be one of the most important things about your project.

Azure boards within Azure DevOps give you the capability to organise your project and analyse the it’s progress.

Within this session we’ll show you how to design your own dashboard, the do and don’ts, go into analytics and use extensions such as sprint goals.

We will also show you how to align with roadmaps to get the timeline, planning and portfolio right and discuss migrations strategies from other board apps (rip that band aid off).

Do you want your manager to stop bugging you about your project’s progress, come to this session? Which is being co-presented by an MVP and somebody who is a Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert.

Keynote Speakers

Janakiram MSV

Principal Analyst, Janakiram & Associates, Microsoft MVP and Microsoft RD

Scott Hanselman

Partner Program Manager , Microsoft

Speakers

Abdul Majed Raja RS

Senior Analyst , Atlassian

Abhilash Ashok

Solutions Architect - AR/VR, Cyient

Abhishek Narain

Senior Program Manager - Azure Data, Microsoft

Aditee Rele

Director - Cloud solutions and Tech Strategy - ISV & Services Partners, Microsoft India

Adrienne Tacke

Senior Developer Advocate, MongoDB

Alex Thissen

Cloud Architect, Microsoft MVP

Amit Malik

Director of Technology @ Spektra Systems

Anchal Bhandari

IoT Presales Specialist, Technical Speaker

Animesh Bansriyar

Principal Solutions Architect, Elastic

Aravind Putrevu

Developer Advocate - India & ASEAN, Elastic

Bhavana Sanagapalli

Software Engineer - Microsoft

Cecil Phillip

Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

Daron Yöndem

Microsoft MVP & RD

Davide Mauri

Senior Program Manager - Microsoft

Dhananjay Kumar

Microsoft MVP, GDE, Founder - ng-India, Works at MongoDB

Dinesh Kumar

Product Manager, Reports & Analytics Squad - Kissflow Inc

Dushyant Priyadarshee

Senior Specialist Platform Engineer, NewDay

Edwin van Wijk

Principal Software Architect at Info Support, Microsoft MVP

Eldert Grootenboer

Cloud Solution Architect, Azure MVP

Erwin Staal

Azure Architect & DevOps Consultant, 4DotNet

Facundo Giuliani

Full Stack Developer - MultiTracks.com, GitKraken Ambassador

Glenn Colpaert

Azure MVP, CTO at Zure Belgium

Gnana Lakshmi T C

Product Manager, Emerging Technologies at WileyNXT, Advisor at TrustIn

Ilyas F

IoT Evangelist at ABB, Microsoft MVP

James Montemagno

Principal Program Manager, Mobile Developer Tools - Microsoft

James Newton-King

Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft, Author - Json.NET

Janakiram MSV

Principal Analyst, Janakiram & Associates, Microsoft MVP and Microsoft RD

Jasjit Chopra

CEO - Penthara Technologies, Microsoft MVP

Javier Villegas

IT Director - MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, Microsoft MVP

Jon Galloway

Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Kanika Pasrija

Software Developer - GitHub

Karthikeyan VK

VP-Engineering - Botcode Technologies, Cloud-Native Architect, Microsoft MVP

Kasam Shaikh

Cloud Solution Architect - Capgemini

Keshav Jain

Technology Consultant - DXC

Kumar Subramanian

Global Program Manager, ABB

Lars Klint

Training Architect - Community Content at A Cloud Guru, Microsoft MVP

Liji Thomas

Manager, Modern Application Development - Valorem Reply

Maddy Leger

Program Manager II, Microsoft Mobile Dev Tools (Xamarin) - Microsoft

Maheshkumar

Partner Technical Strategist , Microsoft

Manish Sharma

Sr. Technical Program Manager - Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft

Mayur Tendulkar

Senior Customer Engineer, Azure FastTrack - Microsoft India

Mithun Shanbhag

C.E.O - Skewed Ventures

Mohamed Radwan

Principal DevOps consultant , Avanade/Accenture (UK)

Murali Guggilam

Principal Engineering Manager - Microsoft

Mustafa Toroman

Solution Architect, Azure MVP

Nandeesh Swami

Azure Rapid Response - Microsoft

Neependra Khare

Founder at CloudYuga, CNCF Ambassador, Corporate Trainer on Container Technologies

Niloshima Srivastava

Lead SDE3 - DCI, Certified Cloud Architect - Azure & AWS

Nishu Goel

Engineer@TheDataworks, Microsoft MVP, Google Developer Expert

Prashant G Bhoyar

Microsoft AI MVP, Solution Architect - Withum

Priyansha Mishra

Partner Technology Strategist, Microsoft

Rahul Rai

Engineering Manager - Zip Co

Rahul Sahay

Technical Fellow, Kongsberg Digital

Ravikanth Chaganti

Cloud and Infrastructure Technologist, Author, Microsoft MVP

Ravindra Ramnani

Senior Solutions Architect, Elastic

Reenu Saluja

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Rob Richardson

Enterprise Architect, Microsoft MVP

Ron Dagdag

Lead Software Engineer at Spacee

Sagar Sharma

Azure Solution Architect, Codit

Sandeep Alur

Director – Microsoft Technology Center, Microsoft India

Sander Molenkamp

Principal Cloud Architect at Info Support, Microsoft MVP

Satish Agarwal

Software Engineer - Microsoft

Scott Graffius

Founder & CEO Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions

Scott Hanselman

Partner Program Manager , Microsoft

Shailendra Chauhan

Microsoft MVP, Founder & CEO at DotNetTricks

Tarun Pabbi

Author, Cloud Architect

Tiago Costa

Cloud Architect and Advisor

Usha Narayanabhatta

Senior Product Manager - GitHub

Venkat Subramaniam

Founder at Agile Developer Inc, Award Winning Author, Instructional professor at the University of Houston

Venkatarangan Thirumalai

Entrepreneur, Microsoft Regional Director, and Public Speaker

Vinci Rufus

Sr. Director Technology - Publicis Sapient

Viswanatha Swamy

Associate Architect - AIS
How may I help you?
chat icon

May I Help you ?

minimize
Clear or Refresh