Hello Azure Qatar Community,

We invite you to an engaging session on Azure Functions, where we’ll explore how you can accelerate innovation with serverless computing, simplify application development through seamless integration across Azure services and AI workloads, and build scalable, event-driven solutions in the cloud.

📌 Building Intelligent, Event-Driven Apps with Azure Functions
🗓 Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
🕠 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Microsoft Qatar, 27th Floor, Lusail Burj Al Fardan Tower

👨‍💻 Speaker: Sarmad Raza – Cloud Solution Architect for AI & Apps at Microsoft, based in Doha.
With extensive experience in cloud solution architecture and a strong focus on Azure technologies, Sarmad works with organizations across sectors such as education, transport, health, and tourism to design and implement scalable, secure, and cloud-native solutions. Passionate about enabling innovation through cloud technologies, he simplifies complex concepts and helps teams turn ideas into intelligent, production-ready solutions using Azure.

What you’ll discover

✔ What Azure Functions are and how they enable flexible, event-driven architectures
✔ How serverless development helps reduce complexity, cost, and time-to-market
✔ Real-world examples of how Azure Functions can power modern applications
✔ How to connect Azure Functions with other Azure services and AI workloads for enhanced capabilities
✔ A walkthrough of developing and deploying Azure Functions in Visual Studio Code
✔ A live demo featuring best practices, useful tips, and patterns to get started

💡 Perfect for: Developers, architects, and cloud enthusiasts looking to understand how Azure Functions can simplify development, improve scalability, and enable intelligent cloud solutions.

👉 Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Azure Functions can bring agility, scalability, and intelligence to your cloud applications.