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Each abstract is ready to paste into your programme. Lengths are flexible from 30 to 60 minutes.

The Agentic Shift

Talk with live demo · Engineering leaders and senior developers · Given at Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026

Everyone has heard of vibe coding. Some teams are doing it, some are funding it, and most are somewhere between excited and quietly terrified. This talk argues that vibe coding is the symptom, and the real shift is agentic engineering: autonomous agents working as first-class members of the team. Starting from a live demo, we look at independent data on the gap between AI adoption and trust, why one agent on one platform beats five tools across three clouds, and a practical 90-day starting point for engineering teams.

One File to Forty: Modernizing a Legacy App with Agentic DevOps

Live demo · Developers, architects and platform teams · Given at Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026

A live, on-stage modernization of a real legacy .NET 6 app running on Windows Server, IIS and licensed SQL Server, complete with a genuine SQL injection vulnerability. An AI agent reads the codebase, drafts a modernization spec with a security section, and waits for human approval before it touches anything. Then it executes: characterization tests first, containerization, a CI/CD pipeline with blocking security gates, and a re-platform to PostgreSQL. Along the way, the five failure patterns that burn the most engineering time with agents, and the harness that stops each one.

Workshop: A Hands-On Introduction to Microsoft Foundry

Hands-on workshop, about 60 minutes · Developers and platform engineers new to Foundry · Open source (MIT)

Deploy a Microsoft Foundry environment with Bicep, build a versioned agent in Python, then gate it with an evaluation before it ships. Attendees leave with a working environment and an open-source repo they can reuse with their own teams. Bring a laptop and an Azure subscription; Windows users should use WSL2. Workshop code on GitHub.

Other topics

• Running AI agents on Azure in production: evaluation gates, identity, cost and observability
• Azure operations and governance for AI platforms: landing zones, policy and drift
• Agentic DevOps with GitHub Copilot, the coding agent and Actions
• Building a local tech community from nothing (Cloud Native Calgary)

Speaker kit

Bio and headshot

Short bio (about 50 words)

Kevin Evans is the founder of Code To Cloud, a Microsoft MVP for Azure and a CNCF Ambassador. With the Code To Cloud team he builds Azure platforms for enterprise and mid-market teams, from developer platforms to AI agents in production. He leads Cloud Native Calgary, hosts the Code To Cloud podcast and is based in the Calgary area, Alberta.

Long bio (about 110 words)

Kevin Evans is the founder of Code To Cloud, whose team builds Azure platforms for enterprise and mid-market teams, from developer platforms to AI agents in production on Azure and GitHub, with the governance, CI/CD and engineering harness that separate an impressive demo from something you'd trust in production. He spent nearly five years at Microsoft, most recently as a Senior Solutions Engineer. He is a Microsoft MVP for Azure and a CNCF Ambassador, and built Calgary's cloud-native community from the ground up. He hosts the Code To Cloud podcast, with guests including Gene Kim, Solomon Hykes and Bret Fisher, and wrote the O'Reilly course "Becoming a Cloud Solutions Architect". He is based in the Calgary area, Alberta.

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