Azure Hackathon for IaaS

It is our pleasure to invite you to apply for a space on a two day Azure Migration Workshop to be held in the Microsoft Iceland offices, 23rd & 24th January 2018 in co-operation with SoftwareONE. This two day workshop is open to companies that design, build and sell their own software, looking to move it to Microsoft Azure. It will be a practical "hands on" development "hack", in which we will help kick start attendees moving their own software to Azure. In other words, it is not a "hands-on lab" or PowerPoint session – attendees should plan on bringing their software to the workshop and doing the migration during the event. It is particularly focused on companies that want to move their software "as is" up to Azure (sometimes referred to as "lift and shift"), and want to re-create their current environment of hardware or virtual machines in Azure, with all the related network and machine specifications, etc. This workshop will focus on Windows based machines (future workshops will target Linux). A more detailed set of pre-requisites will be sent to successful applicants, but customers will be expected to send either one or two developer / deployment technical people who have a detailed understanding of their software and who know how to configure and deploy it, and will attend the workshop with all the software they plan to actually deploy onto Azure. No detailed knowledge of Azure is assumed, though some supplied pre-reading will help attendees get the most from the two days. If this is something of interest to you and you want to apply, please fill in this form with as much information as possible on your project to enable us ensure it is a good fit, and to let us form the best groups to work together to allow maximum peer to peer learning too. Applications close at 5pm on Wednesday 17th January.