🚀 Wrapped up 2x GitHub Copilot Training day at Auto & General Australia in Brisbane, just before the incoming CycloneAlfred! 🌪️

👥 Engaging over 200+ participants across the organization to explore how GitHubCopilot enhances developer productivity and the coding experience, with an emphasis on SecureCoding and ResponsibleAI.

Together with my Insight teammates, Ahmed & Tay, we covered: ✅ How to draft effective prompts for Copilot ✅ Key features like code completion & Copilot Chat ✅ Best practices for getting the most out of Copilot

Hands-on learning includes:👨‍💻 🔹 Interactive presentations and discussions 🔹 Persona-based labs tailored to different roles 🔹 Practical exercises to seamlessly integrate Copilot into daily development workflows

Looking forward to our 3rd session next week and continuing to supercharge development workflows with GitHub Copilot.

🤞 Fingers crossed for Queensland — stay safe, everyone!

Ready to dive into AI? Join us for a beginner-friendly workshop at Sydney Computing Society (SYNCS) where you'll explore Large Language Models and Azure AI services!

🔎 Learn. Build. Innovate. 📢 Share this with a friend and take your first step into AI! No experience needed - just bring your laptop with VSCode & Node.js installed and get hands-on with AI development! 💡

📅 Thursday, March 13 ⏰ 6 PM – 8 PM 📍 University of Sydney 📍 Boardroom 124, J12 CSB

Sydney Computing Society - SYNCS is the student-run computing society at the University of Sydney - and one of the largest and most active computing societies in all of Australia. SYNCS offers a diverse array of industry, social, and technical opportunities! 👉 Join SYNCS here: https://syncs.org.au/

Delivering AI-Apps-in-a-Day workshop in Adelaide was an incredible experiene with my Insight teammate Sadat last Thursday!

We had the privilege of working with a room full of enthusiastic learners in South Australia, all eager to build enterprise AI applications using Microsoft Azure cloud and AzureAI services. The energy was electric, a full house of engaged minds ready to turn ideas into reality while prioritizing security and ResponsibleAI.

Our sessions covered Azure AI services like AIFoundry, OpenAI Service, AISearch, and ContentSafety, plus Speech, Vision, and Translator. In the hands-on labs, we explored the RAG pattern, data ingestion, embedding creation, and vector search. It was amazing to see everyone successfully build chatbots powered by their own CosmosDB knowledge base, orchestrated with LangChain.

It was fantastic to see attendees take their AI skills to the next level! Can't wait to see what everyone builds next. If you attended, what was your biggest takeaway from the session?

Intelligent App Development with CopilotStack Hackathon – Mission Accomplished! 🚀 Non-stop two-day hackathon at the Microsoft Melbourne office, showcasing accelerated computing from NVIDIA on Azure ! 💡💻

💡 Key Tech Explored 💡 🔹 Copilot Stack architecture and components 🔹 Azure AI Foundry & various AI services (Content Safety, Speech, Vision) 🔹 Azure AI Search, Azure Open AI Service, Agent Service 🔹 NVIDIA NIM on AKS 🔹 NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Azure ML 🔹 NVIDIA DGX Cloud & NGC 🔹 NVIDIA NeMo & CUDA 🔹 NVIDIA A100 GPU on Azure 🔹 Semantic Kernel & Prompty 🔹 AI App Dev Tool Chains

🙌 Can't wait for the next one!

Intelligent App Development with CopilotStack Hackathon – two-day hackathon at the Microsoft Melbourne office, showcasing accelerated computing from NVIDIA on Azure ! 💡💻

Together with 50+ passionate participants, Rakesh, Ross and I explained the concept of Copilot Stack, explored AzureAI and various NVIDIA's AI offerings on Azure to develop intelligent apps. 🔥The energy in room was unmatched, and we couldn't be prouder of the efforts and energy from everyone. Heaps loads of question too! 🙌

🔥 What We Done🔥 ✅ 11x hands-on lab exercises from Spektra Systems ✅ 30-minute NVIDIA presentation by Dimitri​ from NVIDIA ✅ 2x 30-minute presentations for Azure AI Service & NVIDIA ✅ 2x 30-minute NVIDIA AI product demos ✅ 12 hours of non-stop hackathon 👨‍💻👩‍💻 ✅ 114 pages of slides ✅ And a Myth Buster video demonstrating the power of NVIDIA's GPU computing!

From hands-on exercises to deep technical discussions, these two days were fully packed - and everyone gave their best to complete the challenges! 💪✨ A massive shoutout to all the participants for making this event a big success. https://msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=3089583843

Join me for Microsoft Reactor talk: 'Explore Azure AI Foundry and the Dev Toolchain on Azure' on 11th March (Tuesday evening) 🎉

In this online session, we'll explore how to accelerate AI applications from development to production using familiar tools. We will also highlight BestOfAI updates from Ignite 2024 and their impact on AI development.

💡 Learn how AzureAIFoundry streamline AI app development 🛠 Dive into the AI app lifecycle – from ideation to production 📌 Key techniques in prompt engineering, coding, evaluation, monitoring, and deployment 🚀 Discover powerful tools like AZD CLI, AI Toolkit for VSCode, and Prompty

Whether you're a developer, AI engineer, or IT professional, this session will equip you with practical knowledge to build and scale AI applications efficiently.

📅 Date: March 11 (Tuesday) ⏰ Time: 6:00 pm AEDT (Sydney, Australia) 📍 Where: Online

Register now:

• Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/microsoft-reactor-sydney/events/306210978/
• Reactor Events: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reactor/events/25125/

Let's build AI-powered apps with ease on Azure! 🚀✨

Lucky to get #1 🎖️ on Microsoft Azure Collectives Monthly Leaderboard on StackOverflow ! 🚀 And #3 overall weekly contributor last week! 🎉

I've been diving deep into answering questions, sharing knowledge, and - let's be honest - chasing bounties 💰 (SUPER FUN). Lucky enough to strike 3 BIG bounties in a row: AI Speech service, Python FunctionApp & webjob. And now I feel like a bounty hunter … just like Mandalorian 😎

If you're wondering how come my account is only 5 months old … Well, like many of us on the internet, I was taking but not giving. But that changes now. ✨

More than the rankings, I enjoyed the process of learning, problem-solving, and helping the community tackle real-world development challenges. A big shoutout to everyone contributing and making the dev community stronger every day! 🚀 'This is the way.' 🙌

Being part of the Microsoft Innovation Hub tour in North Sydney with MVPs & RDs tonight was an incredible and inspiring experience! 💡 This hub is a dynamic space showcasing game-changing AI and technology in action.

The presentation on agentic AI were truly fascinating. 🤖 My inner tech geek especially liked the deep dives into SemanticKernel, AutoGen, Magentic-One, and AzureAIFoundry. The demo on medical research using GraphRAG 🔍 is a brilliant example of AI driving real-world impact!

The InnovationHub tour was also eye-opening, featuring innovations across industries: 🏥 Smart hospital bed that monitors patient vitals, enhanced with HoloLens-powered medical visualizations for teaching 🛍️ AI-driven retail solutions tracking stock levels and providing staff with instant insights 📚 Personalized learning AI app designed to help students focus and tailor their education 👀 Accessibility tool using eye-tracking to control computer actions

The future of AI is exciting, transformative, and full of endless possibilities! 🚀 Can't wait to see how these innovations shape the world! ✨

Our 1st in-person & online GitHub Copilot workshop of 2025 was a big success! 🎉 Over 100 participants from Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane joined us to learn, explore, and share how GitHubCopilot can elevate our development experience.

💡 The story I shared during the Copilot presentation, reflecting on my 20 years as a coder. If I have 500 lines of legacy code to rewrite for a migration project:

🔹 20 years ago (when I was young and naive 😎), I would've started typing away ⌨️ - taking days to complete. 🔹10 years ago (when I was young but no longer naive 🤔), I would've googled tools 🔍 to do migration. 🔹Now (when I'm neither young nor naive! 😅), I definitely ask GitHub Copilot to have a go first. ⏳ 15 seconds later, it generated working migrated code in another language & just one minor bug found in testing! ✅

After a full day of workshops, labs, presentations, and hackathons, we wrapped up with drinks 🍹 and great conversations. To top it off, I even scored a free mini gin bottle - winner! (I will drink responsibly).

🙌 Huge thanks to everyone who joined and made it an awesome day. Cheers to more opportunities to learn and use AI to make our developer lives more fun and productive!

Be a volunteer at FIRSTRobotics Competition's Southern Cross Regional like me in March 2025, together we will bring this epic event to life! 🤖 If you think robots and AI might take over the world, this might just be ground zero! ⚡

No experience? No problem! There's a role for everyone, and trust me - you'll find something you love. Lucky me, I got assigned to Field Reset role for my first time at the event ! 🚀 Can't wait to be in the middle of the action, helping teams compete at their best.

🔥 Curious? Check out the video from earlier season below, get involved, and join us! Let's make this an unforgettable experience for these incredible teams.

FRC Southern Cross Regional (Reefscape Season) 📅 March 7 (Fri) to March 9 (Sunday), 2025 📍 Penrith Valley Regional Sports Centre, NSW Australia

Good luck and see you at the competition! 🎊 🔗 Game & Session info: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/game-and-season 🔗 Register as a volunteer: https://www.firstinspires.org/ways-to-help/volunteer

Thank you Will & Daniela for organizing and running the awesome events for us!