Helping (other) Student’s exchange France-Ukraine on ALM-VSTS-Azure

In 2016, I got asked to present Best Practices on ALM/DevOps with Azure to a Ukrainian university.
This year, from Poland/Warsaw I gave another talk via Skype to 18 students for over an 90 minutes.

Because the Ukrainian students are also studying French, I had to give the talk entirely in French, which was easy as it is my native tong !

https://twitter.com/LeontievIhor/status/923235782801936384

The slides are available here :

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AvT9OZrSFxhZxHD4vZ2LVqxP5fnf

[DevOps - Azure] Live Webcast–for international students

Great to have the opportunity to train during evening classes. I was live from Poland – Warsaw, with about 18 students on Azure DevOps. Many questions. Hope to see them loving Azure and VSTS soon !

Making Industrial IoT move in France with OPC UA Standards

I had the opportunity to work with the OPC Foundation with Thomas Burke, president of OPC Foundation worldwide, very open minded and accessible to talk on various topics.

We organized an OPC Convention in France (free event), in the Headquarter of Schneider Electric (an OPC member, where Jim Luth, Schneider-Electric, is Chief Technology Officer). The “hive” has reached its full capacity, with head of Industry4.0 from SAP, Renault and Schneider. With other VIP and CTO interested in security, blockchain, …

Behind this OPC convention, we had the opportunity to present our vision on stage (along with the head of SAP for Industry4.0, head of Schneider Electric for Industry4.0, head of Renault for Industry of the Future, creator of OpenOPCUA, the creator OPC UA nodeJS and book author, …).
During the convention, many insights of Industrial IoT got presented worldwide, concrete feedback of the massive Industrial project with Renault and OPC UA as key to its strategy, … The problem is that, now we see that France are so much behind Germany, and even behind China that has an innovative strategy enforced by the government on their Industrial products/goods and manufacturing processes !!
(report in French here)

Wake-up France !! Industrial IoT is a reality, when you’ll realize that, it’ll be too late ! I also presented the work we done for Renault regarding security and Blockchain (ePassport).

Finally, we got the chance to make thing move in France, with Thomas Burke (on the very right hand-side proposing great ideas). We’ve got a plan with few elements and let’s hope I’ll gather enough people and companies (and budget !!) to make things move nationwide : I might be Microsoft Regional Director and Azure MVP, which gives me access to those VIP people worldwide on one side, and on NDA roadmap for the next few years on the other hand, but if all the promises made to me are not in place rapidly, we could wait an extra 2 or 3 years to make things emerge into industrial reality…

Let’s hope France will not be “Industry of the Past !“ if the Government and other major actors are not moving fast enough !
OPC UA is totally independent from Microsoft ; but because Microsoft works on Industry4.0 and Industrial IoT connected to Azure Cloud, with Microsoft France, we are trying to join our forces with Microsoft Germany and Microsoft Corp.
And by that time, France we will be the bottom rank : It’s an industrial competition, we have to be proactive and move fast !!

Windows Subsystem for Linux, Step-by-step install and advanced usage for Azure : Article on Programmez!

You want to know more about WSL ?

We wrote an article for a detailed Step-by-step install with advices, and advanced usage in the context of Azure.

It’s on Programmez! number 212.

https://www.programmez.com/magazine/article/windows-subsystem-linux-wsl-loutil-astucieux-pour-integrer-linux-windows

Providing a Blockchain session to Top leaders worldwide during Microsoft ENVISION in Orlando !

So glad to have been selected to provide a session on Blockchain with Connected Cars and Insurance, at the Microsoft ENVISION event in Orlando. I was lucky enough to have been invited as a guest, as part of my Regional Director’s Role. Otherwise it would have cost a fortune !

ENVISION is a Great event where Microsoft invites on stage for instance Michelle OBAMA, which was just an EXCELLENT and Historical moment for me. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/envision 

ENVISION is less than 5 000 VIP attending the event (as opposed to 25 000 people for the INGNITE that happens simultaneously).

 

Final preparation in the morning before I jump in ; notice the healthy food !!
(to be honest, I’m the kind of “work hard, play hard” !! and we did party all night long, and I missed the VIP breakfast that Microsoft has prepared for us at the Hilton !).

 

Please join my session CC198, on Wednesday, September 27, 2017,
called "Blockchain is now a reality, let's discuss", room Red-04

Lovely and magic ! 

AzureDay : Industry 4.0 and GDPR

I am glad to have been chosen to present in front of an expert audience coming from many countries across Central East Europe and else (Sweeden, Poland, France, Russia, Ukraine, …). My two new topics:

• Industry 4.0 and OPC-UA 
• the new GDPR : How to prevent paying 20 millions Euros of fine ?
  
• https://azureday.net/schedule 

My Slides are available on my Slideshare

https://fr.slideshare.net/VincentThavonekham/industry40-iot-vincent-thavonekham-azure-day-ukraine


https://fr.slideshare.net/VincentThavonekham/azure-day-2017-why-gdpr-rmatters-even-outside-eu

Active work in French paper about Agile IoT Best Practices

I joined the Agile IoT foundation, and I am an active contributor of an Agile IoT framework, based on my diverse experience on Azure IoT.

http://www.agileiot.org

https://twitter.com/agileiotdotorg/status/867485418241105921

In 2017, this framework has proven to be mature and it has officially integrated the Open Source Eclipse foundation ! https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.duttile