Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) and former Microsoft Student Ambassadors such as Elton Bordim, Osanam Giordane, Claudio Raposo, Milena Sousa, Johnson de Souza Cruz, Renicius Fostaini organized a large event focused on Microsoft technologies. They collaborated with 7 MVPs and Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT) as well as well-known technical experts like Marcelo Pacifico, Eduardo Popovici to conduct 6 workshops as part of the Anchieta University IT-Week, in Brazil.

Some Brazilian MVPs kept a strong connection with their university after they graduated and left the Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador program. Now, as part of the MVP Award community they have made strong connections with community leaders and technical experts that allowed them to successfully host a big Microsoft AI and Infra- focused conference as part of the Anchieta University IT-Week. 

As recently graduated IT-Engineering students, they best know the content and learning materials that can help students to develop skills that will set them for success. They worked with several university professors to set 6 hands-on-lab workshops, focused on Microsoft AI, Function App, Cloud Infrastructure, HCI and DevOps that can serve to participants as a foundation for further Microsoft deep learning. A great connections they made during the short period of time where they have been part of the MVP Award program, could have a brilliant group of MVPs and MCTs as workshop instructors. 

This is the first time that Anchieta University has offered such a compelling set of technical sessions focusing on Microsoft technologies during the IT-Week, that counted with the participation of 2,000 students at this year’s edition. 

MVP Johnson de Souza Cruz and MCT Marcelo Pacífico conducted a laboratory of excellence in artificial intelligence, offering a hands-on immersion with Microsoft Copilot. On the first day, there was even overcrowding, everyone wanted to be in this room. MVP Cláudio Raposo conducted the Function App lab, providing an incredible hands-on immersion during the workshop. Lucas Sousa brought the integration with OpenAI on Azure to boost productivity in modern systems. MCT Eduardo R. Sant’Ana Popovici and MVP Elton Bordim presented on modern infrastructure solutions and conducted laboratories focused on Active Directory, Security and Management with Azure Arc. João Ullmann, brought a great presentation on hyperconverged infrastructure, which excited the class. The event concluded with an in-depth look at Azure Arc. 

Microsoft had a strong presence at Anchieta University IT-Week that brought a great opportunity for students to gain knowledge, connect with Microsoft community groups and the Microsoft Reactor and discover Microsoft Learn as their main learning platform. Participants had the chance to see former Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors in action and learn more about how to apply to become one of them.  

This event set the tone for a further ongoing collaboration with the Anchieta University and maybe other institutions, connecting them with Microsoft community groups, the Microsoft Reactor as well as inspiring fresh students to join the Microsoft Student Ambassador Program. 

”Thank you for the event! Amazing job, I wanted to help more with that. Let’s work to be able to do this more often.” – Pablo Lopes, Microsoft Cloud Advocate. 

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