World Tour 2025 announcement

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+    twitter: Pulumi’s 2025 World Tour is here! 🌍 Join Joe Duffy in cities worldwide to discuss best practices lessons learned & shape the future of infrastructure platforms 🚀 
+    linkedin: Pulumi’s 2025 World Tour is an opportunity to meet Joe Duffy, an industry leader in cloud infrastructure, and gain insights into best practices, lessons learned, and how leading companies like BMW, Snowflake, and NVIDIA are building scalable, secure platforms. This tour is about exchanging ideas, learning from real-world experiences, and shaping the future of cloud infrastructure and platform engineering practices together.  Engage with Joe and the Pulumi community at meetups across five continents and be part of the conversation driving innovation.
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+Pulumi founder and CEO Joe Duffy, an industry leader in cloud infrastructure, is embarking on a global tour in 2025, bringing deep insights, best practices, and lessons learned to the Pulumi community and customers. The focus is on **building scalable, secure, and developer-friendly infrastructure platforms together** while learning from real-world experiences.
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+## A Community-Driven Approach to Infrastructure
+
+At Pulumi, we know that **innovation thrives on collaboration**. Our community of engineers, platform teams, and developers drive the evolution of infrastructure practices. Throughout his journey, Joe will not only share lessons learned from working with leading organizations like **BMW**, **Snowflake**, and **NVIDIA**, but also actively listen to the challenges and feedback from Pulumi users worldwide.
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+Together, we'll discuss key themes that matter most to the community:
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+- **Codifying cloud practices** to improve consistency and repeatability.
+- **Empowering developers with self-service** to accelerate innovation.
+- **Embedding security, compliance, and cost efficiency** into platforms.
+- **Managing growing workloads and evolving demands** with agility.
+- **Navigating the AI revolution**, which has dramatically increased the need for scalable infrastructure.
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+## Meeting the Community Where They Are
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+Pulumi is committed to **meeting developers, infrastructure teams, and platform teams where they are**, whether in their cloud journey or in their city. This tour is not just about sharing insights—it's about listening, understanding, and co-creating better solutions for the community.
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+Feedback from the community and customers directly influences Pulumi's product innovations. Every meeting, discussion, and shared experience helps refine our roadmap for building **better infrastructure platforms together**.
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+## A Global Exchange: Connecting Across Five Continents
+
+Joe Duffy's World Tour spans **five continents**, bringing together **users, customers, and industry leaders** to enrich the conversation around modern infrastructure as code, platform engineering, and cloud security.
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+Joe will also launch the **Pulumi User Group (PUG) meetups** in **Tel Aviv**, **Chicago**, **São Paulo**, and **Detroit**, meeting with developers, platform engineers, and engineering leaders to discuss shared challenges and ideas for the future.
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+Join us in one of the following cities:
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+| Location          | Meetup Group    | Date               | Register to attend|
+| ----------------- | --------  | ------------------ | ---------------   |
+| Materialize Office - NY, US | [NYC PUG](https://www.meetup.com/new-york-pulumi-user-group/)   | February, 12, 2025 | [RSVP here](https://info.pulumi.com/pug-meetup/nyc)         |
+| London, UK | [London PUG](https://www.meetup.com/london-pulumi-user-group/)   | April, 29, 2025 | *coming soon*            |
+| Tel Aviv, IL | [Tel Aviv PUG](https://www.meetup.com/tel-aviv-pulumi-user-group/)  | May, 28, 2025 | *coming soon*            |
+| Sydney, AU | [Australia PUG](https://www.meetup.com/australia-pulumi-user-group/)  | June, 4, 2025 | *coming soon*            |
+| Chicago, US | [Chicago PUG](https://www.meetup.com/chicago-pulumi-user-group/)  | July, 9, 2025 | *coming soon*            |
+| São Paulo, BR | [São Paulo PUG](https://www.meetup.com/sao-paulo-pulumi-user-group/)  | August, 13, 2025 | *coming soon*      |
+| Detroit, US | [Detroit PUG](https://www.meetup.com/detroit-pulumi-user-group/)  | October, 2025 | *coming soon*            |
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+## Be Part of the Conversation
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+Joe's first stop on the tour is **New York City on February 12, 2025**. If you're in the area, join us for an evening of technical discussions with Joe Duffy, and Materialize's technical staff, Parker Timmerman, who will take you through technical deep dives, real-world lessons learned, and open discussions on modern infrastructure platforms. Don't miss out on the chance to learn, network, and have your questions answered.
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+Joe won't be stopping in your city? Join one of our virtual workshops to learn and stay ahead with the latest in infrastructure and Platform Engineering innovations, using Pulumi.
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+[Explore Pulumi ➡️](https://www.pulumi.com/docs/iac/)