You may come across me speaking at different conferences around Europe and North America. I am CNCF Ambassador, a Kubernetes release team member and WG – Device Management team member, a published author of 4 techbooks – Kubernetes and cloud computing and a former Microsoft product mamager.
During the past years, I collaborated closely with customers to advocate for Microsoft and Open Source technologies, offering expert guidance and sharing best practices as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Here are Mélony’s Public Speaking sessions :

Invite me to present in a public event, please reach out to me via Contact me page.
Here are the events for your references:
Public Events in 2022
One Dev questions :
Microsoft Build 2022 – from Microsoft Developer – Securing Azure-Arc Enabled Data Services | OD127
In this session, we’ll have an overview of Azure-arc enabled Data services security, then dive into authentication, and authorization for Azure Arc-enabled data services. This will include how to secure your data controller and data services, and how to enable and use Active Directory authentication with SQL Managed Instance.
Upcoming Microsoft Developer channel – Serverless with Azure functions series. Stay tuned !
An introduction by Microsoft to the new SQL Server 2022 backup and restore options
Pure Storage Webinar here
In this webinar Microsoft PM Melony Qin, explains and demonstrates the new S3 object store features for SQL Server 2022; giving you insight into its capabilities for not only backup and restore, but how you can take advantage of this connection for analytics as well. This webinar first aired on February 8, 2022
Public Events in 2021
Data Expose Live – SQL Server 2022 ( from 40″16′ – 48 )
In this episode of Data Exposed Live, join Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward from the SQL Server Live conference in Orlando, Florida get a tour of new capabilities from the latest release of SQL Server: SQL Server 2022. Bob will bring in rock stars from the engineering team including David Pless, Joe Sack, Melony Qin, Mine Tokus, and Pedro Lopes to showcase some of these new features :
Public events prior to 2021
Data Platform Virtual Summit (DPS ) 2020 Virtual Delivery for the session: administrating Big Data Clusters
Other events :
- SQL Bits 2020 – October 2020 Virtual Conference for the session: SQL Server Big Data Clusters Administration guides
- Beltech 2020 – June 2020, The Waterfront Hall, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Microsoft Azure Training Day: Azure Modernising Web Applications and Data – UK Tour 2020 – March 2020, Microsoft Reactor, London, United Kingdom
- Microsoft Azure Training Day: Modernising Web Applications and Data – Jan 2020, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
- Microsoft Azure Training Day: Modernising Web Applications and Data – Nov 2019, Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Microsoft Azure Training Day: Modernising Web Applications and Data – Nov 2019, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Microsoft Azure Training Day: Modernizing Web Applications and Data – Oct 2019, Microsoft Store, London, United Kingdom
- Hopperx1 – June 2019, London, United Kingdom
Throughout 2019 – 2020 Melony’s also coaching in Microsoft Open Hack events for various topics :
- Open Hack DevOps
- Open Hack Containers 2.0
- Open Hack NoSQL App Modernisation – Cosmos DB
Please check the following page to know more about open hack events here.
Here are the events for your references:
As Open Hack DevOps Coach
• April 2019 London, the UK
• Sep 2019 Las Vegas, USA
Proctor in Open Hack Containers 2.0
• Oct 2019, Munich, Germany
As Open Hack NoSQL App Modernisation Coach
• Feb 2020, Seattle, USA













