Innovate with AI: Summer Bootcamp

Nearly every industry is undergoing a collective transformation – discovering entirely new ways of working due to AI advancements. At Ignite in November 2023, we made 100+ news announcements that touch on multiple layers of an AI-forward strategy, from adoption to productivity to security. Join Sarah Carney, Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Commercial at Microsoft Australia & New Zealand as we break down the latest innovations to give you the competitive edge in the era of AI.

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The pace and scale of technological innovation happening today is unprecedented and it breathes optimism into our demanding economy. Those leveraging the Microsoft Cloud — the most trusted, comprehensive, and integrated cloud — are best positioned to take advantage of these advancements. Join us to learn how we can help you leverage generative AI as an accelerant to your transformation.

Three reasons to attend this session:

1. Your employees and customers are demanding (or will very soon demand) AI capabilities in the services you offer.
2. Learn how to build your own copilot solutions using the same stack and AI services Microsoft used to build our own copilots.
3. AI capabilities in the Microsoft Cloud enable everyone to be more productive, more creative, and more efficient than was ever possible.

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Data is the lifeblood of organisations around the world. Over the past few decades, successful businesses have been collecting and storing massive amounts of data from apps, services, IoT sensors and more. Managing and extracting value from data is essential for organisations of all kinds to survive and thrive, but harnessing transformative value from data is extremely challenging. In this session, Prerita Mehta, Azure AI Product Lead, will explore how Microsoft Fabric can tackle these challenges by providing a unified intelligent data foundation for all analytics workloads. You'll discover:

• How to empower every business user
• How AI drives intelligent insights with Copilot and ChatGPT
• How you can get hands on with Microsoft Fabric at your own pace

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As the volume of user- and AI-generated content grows, it’s clear that the flipside to the wonder, potential and opportunity of AI is the potential risk to brands and organisations. We explore how AI can be used responsibly to build trust and ensure fairness in the digital world. Join Microsoft experts as we focus on how you can leverage the Microsoft Copilot platform to build AI responsibly in the Microsoft Azure platform and with the integration of open source models and tools. You'll have the opportunity to learn from real-world examples of successful implementation of Responsible AI practices across a range of industries.

During the session, we’ll explore:

• See the responsible AI principles in practice through live technical demonstrations showcasing the latest capabilities of AI. Through these demonstrations, you will witness first-hand how AI can be leveraged to address complex challenges.
• The AI principles that guide responsible development and deployment.
• How to ensure privacy and data protection in AI applications.
• Building trustworthy, transparent and accountable AI models.

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From Azure AI Studio to new capabilities introduced across the Azure AI Services suite, join us as we break down the latest AI innovations announced at Ignite 2023.

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Apps are the centerpiece of our digital economy. Apps are where the power of AI and data come to life. The time is now for embedding AI into Apps. Learn how AI helps to make truly intelligent apps, with natural language interaction, data-driven, personalised experiences that improve over time, and quickly deliver new features. Take your oganisation on an AI Apps journey to outpace the competition, delight customers, deliver new products, amplify employee capability & scale your business securely.

This session will discuss and inspire infusing AI into your existing apps and building new AI Apps, including:

• Features and functionality of AI services, such as cognitive services, ChatGPT
• Use cases and demos that bring intelligent apps to life
• Real world implications, architectures and performance

Your speakers, Chris Modica, Chief Architect for Digital & App Innovation and Ben Griffin, Global Black Belt for Data & AI, will share what is possible for right now and for your future.

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Discover how to get the most from your applications by using Azure services and tools to build and modernize intelligent, scalable, and resilient apps. Join us at Microsoft Tech Brief: Modernize and Enhance Existing Applications with AI and learn from Microsoft experts as they discuss how updated apps help drive innovation in your organization. Find out how to deploy applications using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and adopt Azure Cosmos DB for global distribution and automatic, instant scalability. You’ll also discover how to build AI-powered applications by using Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Cognitive Services. Plus, learn from other customers who modernized their applications with Azure and get best practices to understand how to do the same for your organization.

• Understand cloud-first architectures and technologies to help build resilient and modern applications.
• Increase support for cloud-first development with the latest features in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Cosmos DB.
• Improve application performance, scalability, and flexibility with Azure-managed services for apps, data, and AI.

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Join us at Microsoft Tech Brief: Build Your Own Copilot with Azure and learn how to use organizational data to help you build copilots and AI-powered intelligent applications to empower employees and transform customer engagement.

You’ll learn key concepts for building copilot applications, like retrieval augmented generation (RAG), vector search and meta-prompting. You'll learn about architecture and the Microsoft Copilot stack. We'll walk through a technical demo to see how to build a customized, scalable, and flexible copilot application based on Azure App Service, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI Service.

• Discover how to build intelligent apps using Azure.
• Learn about intelligent app fundamentals like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vectors and meta-prompts.
• Explore Azure AI services to support building your own copilot, Azure App Service, Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI Service.
• Links to open source resources to try it yourself.

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Join us at Leading the Era of AI, and discover how AI can help you transform your business and gain a competitive edge. Hear from Microsoft and industry leaders about the latest trends and best practices in AI and explore how Microsoft’s approach to AI can empower organisations like yours to confidently drive innovation and generate value. Gain insights from industry experts and thought leaders including Kate Pounder CEO at the Tech Council of Australia and Sarah Carney CTO - Enterprise at Microsoft ANZ in a Harbourside Chat hosted by Steven Worrall, Managing Director at Microsoft ANZ covering key trends in AI including the findings of Australia's Generative AI Opportunity Report. We'll also be joined by John Munnelly Chief Digital Officer at KPMG Australia and Phil Barlow Director Partner Technology & CTO at Microsoft ANZ who'll delve into how organisations can accelerated with AI, using real world scenarios. It is essential for organisations to integrate digital ethics into their strategies as they transform. John Galligan, General Manager of Public Affairs at Microsoft will share how to innovate responsibly with a platform that runs on trust.

During this event, you’ll be able to:

• Get a deeper understanding of the current state of AI and its potential to transform your business.
• Understand the Microsoft portfolio of solutions with built-in AI capabilities and AI services.
• Discover how other business leaders have implemented AI into their digital transformation strategies.
• Learn how you can prepare your organization to be AI ready.

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As organisations look to leverage the opportunities that new innovations in AI bring, understanding the real business impact of these technologies is critical. Getting support from Boards and Executives across an organisation requires a strong business case and core to that is understanding how you think about and then measure success.

In this session we will take a look at:

• The different implementations of AI across a business and what that can mean in terms of business improvements or gains;
• Ways of thinking about the impact of your invesments and how you can identify ways of developing different kinds of metrics to measure success against;
• What you can do to make sure that you realise the maximum return on your investment against those metrics.

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Generative AI is predicted to create as much as $115 billion a year for Australia’s economy by 2030. Join Kate Seward, Corporate Affairs Manager at Microsoft, as she delves into the staggering findings uncovered in ‘Australia’s Generative AI Opportunity Report’ – a collaboration between the Tech Council of Australia and Microsoft. You’ll discover:

• The actions adopters need to take now to embrace the generative AI opportunity.
• The four sectors of the Australian economy that are poised to benefit most, and how.
• The key challenges that must be overcome in order to capture this enormous economic opportunity.

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