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Community MVP Personal Development

Callon Campbell awarded 2021-2022 Microsoft MVP in Azure

Callon Campbell [MVP] on July 2, 2021

This month I received an exciting email from Microsoft that I was re-awarded for a fourth year now for the 2021 – 2022 Microsoft Most Valuable (MVP) award in Azure. Receiving the Microsoft MVP award is both a humbling and an exciting experience. It means you’re a member of a select group of experts of just over 3,000 MVPs from around the world, but I like to think of it as doing something I’m passionate about with other like minded individuals, having fun and always having something new to learn and share with the community.

The Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with users and Microsoft. All of us at Microsoft recognize and appreciate Callon’s extraordinary contributions and want to take this opportunity to share our appreciation with you.
The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award Team
Microsoft Corporation

Since becoming a Microsoft MVP, I’ve learned a lot about the community and continued to share my passion, knowledge and experience within the community around Architecture and Development in Azure, Serverless, and DevOps technologies. I also keep a keen eye on what’s happening on the data technologies like Cosmos DB and Azure SQL.

Once again the MVP Summit back in March was virtual due to COVID-19, but with a little luck I’m hoping for an in person experience in 2022. This is an amazing experience to connect with the product teams and MVPs from around the world – even if it was virtually this year.

To wrap up this post I would like to congratulate all the other newly awarded, or renewed Microsoft MVP’s all over the world! You truly are an amazing community and I’m truly humbled and honored to be part of this group.

Enjoy!

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Callon Campbell awarded 2020-2021 Microsoft MVP in Azure

Callon Campbell [MVP] on July 1, 2020

This week I received an exciting email from Microsoft that I was re-awarded for a third year now for the 2020 – 2021 Microsoft Most Valuable (MVP) award in Azure. Receiving the Microsoft MVP award is both a humbling and an exciting experience. It means you’re a member of a select group of experts of just over 2,000 MVPs from around the world, but I like to think of it as doing something I’m passionate about with other like minded individuals, having fun and always having something new to learn and share with the community.

The Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with users and Microsoft. All of us at Microsoft recognize and appreciate Callon’s extraordinary contributions and want to take this opportunity to share our appreciation with you.
The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award Team
Microsoft Corporation

Since becoming a Microsoft MVP, I’ve learned a lot about the community and continued to share my passion, knowledge and experience within the community around Architecture and Development in Azure, DevOps and Serverless technologies. I also keep a keen eye on what’s happening on the data technologies like Cosmos DB and Azure SQL.

I was really looking forward to attending the MVP Summit back in March, but COVID-19 threw a wrench in that plan. Thankfully Microsoft moved the event online and it was still an amazing experience to connect with the product teams and MVPs from around the world – even if it was virtually.

Enjoy!

References

Global Azure Virtual 2020 UK & Ireland

Azure Community Events

Best of Build 2020 |Canada Community Edition | Virtual Event

Callon Campbell [MVP] on June 5, 2020

Did you miss this year’s Microsoft Build 2020 virtual event? Do not worry at all!

Microsoft Canada and our community leaders are getting together to share some of the excitement with you – do join us on June 13th as we plan this Canada wide virtual event – delivered by some of the best we have, from East to the West of Canada!

I’ll be discussing Azure Static Web Apps – go from code to scale in minutes, plus other CI/CD announcements from Build.

Resources

https://lnkd.in/e9JCzFC

Azure Community Events

Speaking at Global Azure Virtual 2020

Callon Campbell [MVP] on April 23, 2020

The Global Azure event has expanded to cover 3 days, April 23-25 and will be an online virtual event due to the Covid-19.

This year I will be speaking at 2 Global Azure Virtual events. The first is with the Global Azure Virtual 2020 UK & Ireland, where I will be contributing a recorded session on Exposing services with Azure API Management. This virtual event will have 50+ sessions with 20 live sessions over the course of the 3 days. The second is with Azure Virtual Community Day – Canada Edition where I will be doing a live stream on Bringing serverless into the Enterprise. This event will have 2 live tracks on Apps + Infrastructure and Data + AI and will have 12 sessions and 2 keynotes.

My first session on Exposing services with Azure API Management is happening on Friday April 24 09:00-10:00 UTC and the link to watch it is https://bit.ly/3aClNGx/.

My second session on Bringing serverless into the Enterprise is happening on Saturday April 25 15:00-16:00 EDT (UTC -4) and the link to watch the live stream is https://aka.ms/AzureCan2020-Track1-Afternoon.

I’m very excited to be speaking at these awesome community events and I really appreciate the opportunity to be part of this global community and share my passion for Azure. So

I hope you will join us on these days these to learn all about Azure from your world community.

Enjoy!

Resources

Azure Virtual Community Day – Canada Edition

Global Azure Virtual 2020

Azure Community Events

Virtual Azure Community Day is today!

Callon Campbell [MVP] on March 31, 2020

Today is Virtual Azure Community Day and if you missed the sessions, they’re available online here https://azureday.community/#schedule. There are a total of 4 tracks offering lots of content.

Where do all the sessions go when events and meetups are being cancelled all over the world? We thought it would be fun to create a platform where we, as a community, can virtually get together and enjoy those sessions you don’t want to miss out on.
Join us for the first ever Virtual Azure Community Day! No stickers or socks, but 8 hours of technical geekery. There’s multiple streams hosted from Belgium, France, The Netherlands and Central and Eastern European countries.

Enjoy!

Resources

https://azureday.community/

Azure Community

Azure Spring Clean 2020

Callon Campbell [MVP] on January 27, 2020

As the month of February 2020 is just around the corner, there will be an online community event promoting well managed Azure tenants.

Here is the scheduled list of articles which starts on February 3 2020:

03/02/20	Azure RBAC – Best Practices	Alan Kinane	Azure Foundations
04/02/20	Azure Policy for AKS	Sam Cogan	Azure Policy
05/02/20	Monitoring Containers on Azure with Windows Admin Center	Dave Rendón	Azure Monitor
06/02/20	How to use Tags to organize your Azure resources	Wim Matthyssen	Azure Foundations
07/02/20	Azure Governance – Best Practises	Amine Charot	Azure Foundations
10/02/20	Getting Started with Azure Monitor REST API	Martin Ehrnst	Azure Monitor
11/02/20	Azure Cost Management – Best Practises	Sarah Lean	Azure Cost Management
12/02/20	Protect your network resources with Azure Firewall	Luis Beltran	Azure Security Principles
13/02/20	Monitoring Azure Site Recovery	Karel De Winter	Azure Monitor
14/02/20	Using Azure Advisor to baseline your platform	Sam Hodgkinson	Azure Foundations
17/02/20	Using Azure Resource Graph To Assess Your Azure Environment Quickly & Efficiently	Jack Tracey	Azure Foundations
18/02/20	Azure Monitor – Best Practices for Sanity	Kam Salisbury	Azure Monitor
19/02/20	Azure Storage and Backup Lifecycle Best Practices	Dwayne Natwick	Azure Foundations
20/02/20	How to Use and Monitor Azure Update Management	Vukasin Terzic	Azure Fundamentals
21/02/20	Azure Security: my top 10 best practises to make your tenant secure as possible	Shabaz Darr	Azure Security Principles
24/02/20	Simplify Large Scale Deployments with Azure Blueprints	Isham Mohamed	Azure Foundations
25/02/20	Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) securing Clusters and Applications	Adil Touati	Azure Security Principles
26/02/20	Azure Monitor – Autoscaling Resources Based on Performance	Anthony Mashford	Azure Monitor
27/02/20	How to Avoid a Billing Shock With Azure Serverless Solutions	Stanislav Lebedenko	Azure Cost Management
28/02/20	Securing Your Azure Platform Web Applications	Tidjani Belmansour	Azure Security Principles

Check out https://www.azurespringclean.com for all the details and keep an eye on the Twitter hashtag #AzureSpringClean.

Enjoy!

Resources

https://azurespringclean.com/

Azure Events

Global Azure Bootcamp changes to become Global Azure!

Callon Campbell [MVP] on January 13, 2020

Back at Microsoft Ignite, it was announced that the Global Azure Bootcamp was going to be rebranded to Global Azure and run across 3 days from Thursday April 23 to Saturday April 25.

This is the same great event but only better. Organizers now have the freedom to host one or more events across the 3 days. All around the world user groups and communities want to learn about Azure and Cloud Computing and providing the community flexibility in terms of when they can host an event or how many events is a win.

Global Azure is the biggest community event about the Microsoft Azure platform.
Global Azure

The hashtag remains the same #globalazure, and be sure to checkout the new website at https://globalazure.net and keep an eye out for more details.

Enjoy!

Resources

https://globalazure.net/

https://globalazure.net/Blog/Post/172/Global-Azure-Bootcamp-is-dead-Long-live-Global-Azure/

Azure Community Events

Hack the North Recap (2019)

Callon Campbell [MVP] on September 18, 2019

Last week was Canada’s biggest hackathon called Hack the North, where 1,500 students from all around the world at the University of Waterloo to build something amazing over 36 hours. I had the opportunity to be a mentor and help these smart kids out with their creations.

This is my second hackathon, the first being the UofTHacks VI from earlier in the year. Both are very different from one another but had the same drive and passion from the students and it was amazing to see what they were building.

Here is a gallery of the day.

Hanging out in the mentor hub to share all things Azure, AI, and anything to help with this event.

Just hanging out with the gang. I love events like this!

That’s a wrap. I look forward to my next hackathon in 2020.

Resources

https://hackthenorth.com/

MVP Personal Development

Callon Campbell Awarded 2019-2020 Microsoft MVP in Azure

Callon Campbell [MVP] on July 3, 2019

This week I received notification from Microsoft that I was re-awarded for a second year now the 2019-2020 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in Azure.

Since becoming a Microsoft MVP, I’ve learned a lot about the community and continued to share my passion, knowledge and experience within the community around Architecture and Development in Azure, DevOps and Serverless technologies. I also keep a keen eye on what’s happening on the data technologies like Cosmos DB and Azure SQL.

Receiving the Microsoft MVP award is a humbling and exciting experience and it means you’re a member of this “elite” group of roughly 3000 Microsoft MVPs from around the world.

It is with great honor to receive news today that I received my 2nd year in a row for the Microsoft MVP Award in Azure category. What a pleasure to receive this news on Canada Day! Thank you Microsoft and the community and I look forward to another year of contributions #MVPBuzz pic.twitter.com/Wc7Ujbv57a
— Callon Campbell 🇨🇦 MVP (@flying_maverick) July 2, 2019

Earlier this year I attended my first MVP Global Summit and it was an amazing experience. I got to meet so many people in person that I only knew from online experiences. I also got to meet and interact with the various product teams and provide valuable feedback, and see what’s coming on the roadmap. I’m looking forward to attending next years MVP Global Summit and connecting with fellow MVPs.

Enjoy!

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