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Empowering Education: Maximising cloud potential with OCRE and Azure

Microsoft Teams

16th July 2025 | 14:00 – 15:00

Education

Join us on Wednesday 16th July 2025 for the second edition of our latest Empowering Education webinar series! Hear from our specialists on how OCRE, coupled with Azure, leads to innovation.

Since January 2021, with a renewal in January 2025, Phoenix Software has been the number one Service Provider of Microsoft Azure cloud services to research institutions, universities, and NREN members in the UK, through the OCRE framework. 

OCRE enables organisations like yours to scale, collaborate, and improve compliance while minimising cost and complexity.

In the webinar, we’ll cover…

  • Introduction
  • What is OCRE?
  • How OCRE and Azure transform educational institutes
  • Q&A: Get your questions answered by specialists

Your hosts…

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Jamie Shand

Azure Solutions Lead, Phoenix Software

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Kirsty Bedingham

Microsoft Licensing Team Leader, Phoenix Software

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Mark McManus

Azure Cloud Lead, Microsoft

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