XXL 2025
Apenheul, Apeldoorn
On 9 December 2025 the second APE XXL took place in Apenheul. A day of Azure platform engineering — from Bicep extensions and KQL detection to AI agents, sovereign cloud, and a full-day workshop on cloud-native platforms. Here are the eleven sessions and the people who delivered them.
Sessions
- Build a cloud native engineering platform in a day — Geert van der Cruijsen & Chris van Sluijsveld (workshop)
- Bicep, but Your Way: Build Your Own Extension — Maik van der Gaag
- Monkey See, Monkey Detect — Gianni Castaldi
- What’s the point of going to the edge? — Freek ten Broek
- Bringing AI Agents to Life with Azure AI Foundry — Henk Boelman
- AI Is Easy — until you add people — Marin Niehues
- Storm-1811 — Russian nation-sponsored attack in real-time — Derk van der Woude
- Battling the Assumptions: How what you think you know about Azure Networking is a lie — Marc Dekeyser
- CSPM als de lijm tussen cloud en security — Rhesa Baar
- Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) — Roelant Dieben
- Azure sovereign landscape — Dylan de Jong & Yannick de Koeijer
Speakers
Maik van der Gaag · Henk Boelman · Roelant Dieben · Marin Niehues · Gianni Castaldi · Rhesa Baar · Dylan de Jong · Geert van der Cruijsen · Freek ten Broek · Yannick de Koeijer · Derk van der Woude · Chris van Sluijsveld · Marc Dekeyser
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