Tech Events at Morson Edge, Manchester

with Dieter Gobeyn (Speaker, ) · Jaseetha Satkurunathan (Speaker, )

Two talks on what cloud and AI work costs once it is actually running. Dieter Gobeyn asks what an agent actually costs: token economics in Microsoft Foundry, designing for cost control before you ship, and when not to build an agent at all. Jaseetha Satkurunathan covers multi-tenant Kubernetes - keeping customers isolated on a shared cluster instead of standing up one cluster per customer. Hosted by the Northern Azure User Group at Morson Edge in the Bonded Warehouse. The published agenda lists different talk titles from the speaker billing, so check the page nearer the date. Why go: both talks are about the bill and the blast radius rather than the demo, which is the part most Azure content skips. Best for platform engineers, architects and anyone who owns a cloud budget.

Two sessions on building with AI on Microsoft's stack: one on Azure AI Foundry, one on making enterprise file data usable by agents without copying it. Shubhangi Goyal, Microsoft MVP and data and AI lead, covers building, customising and deploying AI applications in Foundry: prompt engineering, context management, evaluation and deployment, with an architecture walkthrough of a contextual copilot. Kirk Ryan, founder of KDBL and formerly a global principal technologist at NetApp, argues for a context lake over a data lake: zero-copy indexing across SMB, NFS, S3 and Microsoft 365, permissions enforced at query time, hybrid retrieval and MCP, plus a list of what didn't work. Doors at 18:00 at Morson Edge, Bonded Warehouse, 18 Lower Byrom Street; talks at 18:30 and 19:45, with food in between. Free. Why go: two technically dense talks, one of them candid about its failures. Best for Azure engineers and architects wiring AI into enterprise data.

The Northern Azure community meets at Morson Edge for talks on running Azure workloads properly — architecture, cost and the operational detail that rarely makes the keynote.