Global Azure 2020 Virtual – 25th April 2020

Since Global Azure 2020 was postponed due to COVID-19, Global Azure Virtual 2020 took place online on April 23-24-25. Tech-Spark is proud to have supported this initiative; two of its speakers hosted their own session on Saturday 25th: Ralph Attard – Exploring the Cosmos DB @ 11am-noon – Download Slides Dennes Torres – Data Factory and Power BI: […]

Microservices Workshop with Azure Kubernetes – 18th January 2020

Tech-Spark presented its first event for 2000, from zero to hero: Microservices Workshop with Azure Kubernetes. The below Microsoft employees facilitated this workshop: Nikolaos Antoniou – Technology Solutions Professional Vaggelis Kappas – Sr. Specialist Azure Infrastructure Konstantinos Pantos – Cloud Solutions Architect This hands-on workshop was designed for people wanting to learn Kubernetes from the basics to deploying a […]

The Elastic Stack: Exploring Search, Observability and Security Analytics – 26th November 2019

Tech-Spark presented a technical session on The Elastic Stack: Exploring Search, Observability and Security Analytics by James Spiteri – Solutions Architect and Cyber Security Specialist Global Solutions Lead at Elastic. See the vision behind changes coming to Elastic products, from new features and solutions to what’s to come after joining forces with endpoint security company Endgame. […]

Micro Services & The Business Implications – 12th November 2019

Tech-Spark presented a session discussing Micro Services and the Business Implications by Jonathan Gauci – Senior Vice President of Engineering at Gaming Innovation Group. A hands-on demonstration was performed by Christopher Demicoli and Shaun Tabone – Enterprise Architects at Gaming Innovation Group. In a world wide web of constantly changing regulations and a global competitive landscape, where […]

Build a Modern Web Application on AWS – 28th October 2019

We’re proud of our Tech-Spark event titled ‘Build a Modern Web Application on AWS’ held in collaboration with ICE Malta on Monday 28th of October 2019 at 6.00PM. During the event, one of ICE Malta’s AWS Instructor Champions, Patrick Camilleri, gave an impressive technical presentation followed by an engaging demo session where attendees learned the […]

Global Azure Bootcamp – 27th April 2019

A full day event on Azure by Jonathan Vella, Jonas van der Biest, Ralph Attard, and Clive Ciappara. #IaaS, #CognitiveServices, #CosmosDB, #IoTEdge Tech-Spark’s annual Global Azure Bootcamp for an agenda that did not disappoint: 09:00 – Introduction and setting up 09:30 – Azure IaaS: Building a Resilient Infra by Jonathan Vella (Partner Technology Strategist @ Microsoft) 10:30 – Azure […]

Running a Private Ethereum Blockchain – 21st February 2019

Tech-Spark first event of 2019: Running a Private Ethereum Blockchain, a technical session intended for developers, delivered by Mr Alex Zammit, Software Development Consultant at WinDeveloper Software Ltd. Agenda Introduction to Ethereum and Development environments Geth Creating an Ethereum Blockchain Nodes Deploying Contracts Event sponsored by Microsoft and Hotel Santana.

SQL Server on Linux – 11th December 2018

SQL Server on Linux

Tech-Spark’s end of year event at MIC Malta by Ralph Attard an MCT and MCSE in Data Management and Analytics. A technical presentation about running MS SQL Server 2017 on Linux. We started off by using containers and proceed in looking at High Availability and Data Protection using Fail over clusters, Availability Groups, Pacemaker, read-scale, and cross-platform […]

Blockchain In Action – 13th September 2018

Blockchain In Action by Paul Aquilina, Consultant at Malta Information Technology Agency. This session was intended for beginners who have read about and maybe attended talks about Blockchain and while intrigued by the technology, however have not so far had the opportunity to actually see a Blockchain in action. With evolving technologies, concepts and frameworks, Blockchain is […]

Cyber Security vNext – 21st June 2018

Cyber Security vNext: We can deliver security from the cloud, without the need to move assets by Yoad M. Dvir, Global Black Belt PreSales Manager at Microsoft, Cyber & Cloud Evangelist. Agenda Detect & respond approach: A look at the Threat Management Industry and market background Insights from a Cyber Security PoV. Bad Rabbit / WannaCry […]