Tech Events in Tampere

Welcome to Azure and Friends May meetup hosted by Monad.

Save the date and join us to spend some time with likeminded people and to listen interesting presentations about Azure.

Event will be held in English.

We have a no-show policy:
In accordance with our code-of-conduct, if you are not able to participate and do not cancel, you will not be allowed to participate in upcoming events for the next six months.

Waitlisting: If the event is full, please join the waitlist as seats usually free up closer to the event date. Organizers will also remind attendees to review their RSVP status couple days before event.

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Event agenda:

16:45-17:20 - Doors open & Food
17:20-17:30 - Azure and Friends Intro
17:30-17:40 - Welcome words by Monad

17:40-18:20 - Azure / On-Prem hybrid integration architecture by Markus Latvala (Monad)

18:20-18:30 - Break

18:30-19:10 - Pulumi ❤️ Azure by Tuomas Peltola & Karl Jurvanen (Monad)

19:10-21.00 --> Networking

Welcome to AWS User Group Tampere's May 2026 meetup. The event is kindly hosted and sponsored by Gofore.

Food and drinks are be provided by Gofore and the sauna is available for use after the program ends.

** Agenda **

17:00 - Doors open and food is served

17:30 - Program starts

• Welcome and Upcoming Events – User group crew
• Host Company Welcome – Gofore
• Working on a Open Source AWS CDK Project – Lessons Learned - Jari Voutilainen, Technical Project Manager (Gofore)
• From Fragile to Flexible: Migrating to AWS Account Factory for Terraform - Ari Luokkala & Markus Toivakka - SOK
  (More details of the session and presenters below.)

Afterwards – Possibility to use the sauna facilities (bring your own bathing suit + towel) or just hang around in the Meetup space.

From Fragile to Flexible: Migrating to AWS Account Factory for Terraform
Managing hundreds of AWS accounts is no small task—especially when the tooling behind it is brittle and officially unsupported. In this session, you’ll hear how SOK AWS Platform team is migrating from an aging deployment platform to AWS Account Factory for Terraform (AFT), the modern, officially supported way to manage AWS accounts at scale.

Session will cover the journey of importing existing accounts from CloudFormation into Terraform, lessons learned along the way, and how AFT helps to improve consistency, automation, and long-term maintainability. You'll walk away with practical insights into AFT, migration patterns, and pitfalls to avoid.

Ari Luokkala
Ari is a Principal Cloud Engineer at SOK, based in Helsinki. He works in the SOK AWS Platform team, where they focus on platform development and collaborate closely with development teams.
He’s passionate about cloud technology, driven by curiosity, and a strong believer in continuous learning. Outside of work, you'll most often find him enjoying sports or fishing.

Markus Toivakka
Markus is a hands-on Cloud Architect at the SOK AWS Platform Team. Once a strong advocate of CloudFormation over Terraform (those days are gone), he since has gathered plenty of experience from managing multi-account AWS environments that he’s excited to share.

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Gear – If you want to use the sauna, please bring your own bathing suit and towel.

Meetup – The meetup takes place at Gofore's Tampere office. There will be someone to greet you at the door when the event start and a sign with a phone number for latecomers.

Language – As always, we'll have the event in English to cater to a larger audience.

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As the event space can only host a limited number of meetup-goers, please remember to update your RSVP in case you can't make it to the event.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MEETUP IS ON WEDNESDAY!

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## Local Sponsors
Big thanks to Seravo for refreshments and the venue for our WordPress Meetup. Your support makes this event possible!

## Arriving instructions:
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The meetup starts at 17:00, see you @ Seravo!

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## About the meetup
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If you have ideas for upcoming meetups, feel free to leave a comment here or contact the organizers on the #meetups-tampere channel on Slack.

## Slack
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## Sponsorship
Our meetups are run by volunteers and could always use some support from the professional community for example with venue and snacks. If your company is interested in sponsoring an upcoming meetup or hearing more about it, leave a message on the #meetups-tampere channel on Slack or contact us directly through our meetup page!

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Hey there!
Come join us at the GDG Tampere meetup where you can catch up with friends, chill out, and network with awesome people. We’ve got some cool talks lined up on AI and AI-assisted coding! There will be opportunity to enjoy snacks and drinks, allowing you to mingle and share ideas with like-minded individuals. Towards the end of our event, there is possibility to try out sauna!

We’re particularly excited to create a productive and enjoyable environment, upholding a respectful and inclusive atmosphere for everyone, in line with our community values. Check out our Code of Conduct for more information on keeping our meetup welcoming for all participants.

Schedule:

17:00 Doors open
17:15 Welcome words by organizers
17:20 I vibe coded a circuit board - AI Enhanced Learning / Jari Timonen
17:50 Slow the **** down / Pekka Kokkonen
18:20 TBD
19:00 Free mingling
21:00 Venue closes

This event is proudly sponsored by Gofore and Reaktor

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Speakers
Jari Timonen - Codento (Lead Cloud Architect)
Aki Ristkari - Reaktor (Lead Cloud Architect)
Pekka Kokkonen - Gofore (Technical Lead)

Hosted By
Aki Ristkari, Lead Cloud Architect, Reaktor
Otto Salminen, Software Architect, Gofore
Jari Timonen, Lead Cloud Architect, Codento

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Partners

Reaktor (https://reaktor.com)
Codento (https://codento.com)
Gofore (https://gofore.com)