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!

AI Innovation in Action at Anko Idea Forge's Epic Hackathon Sessions! 🚀Insight Cloud App team is honored to host three engaging sessions with Anko GCC, taking dev team on an action-packed journey into AI development! Together, we explored the power of AzureAI and GitHub Copilot, equipping innovators with the tools to build the next generation of AI-driven applications on Azure.

🔥 Primer Session 1: AI Apps on Azure by Ahmed We kicked things off with a deep dive into Azure's powerful AI ecosystem, exploring how to build GenAI applications. From prompt engineering exercises to demos, participants got their first taste of AI-driven innovation.

⚡ Primer Session 2: Azure AI services & GitHub Copilot by Daniel Taking things to the next level, we explored a number of AzureAI services and LLM techniques like RAG and saw firsthand how GitHub Copilot can supercharge coding - boosting speed, efficiency, and creativity.

🏆 Hackathon & Challenges by Ajay 2-hour live demo on building an AIApp, followed by real-world problem statements featuring six GenAI challenges designed specifically for Anko. Participants will take these challenges home and apply their skills to tackle these AI use cases and drive innovation.

🔜 What's Next: Feedback & Demo Winners will be crowned, 💡solutions will be showcased next week, and we'll witness firsthand how AI is making a real-world impact. With over 60+ super keen participants, the competition is fierce!

This is just the beginning! AI is revolutionizing app development, and with Azure AI & GitHub Copilot, the future of innovation is in our hands. 🤖⚡

Earned my Gold badge at Microsoft SummerBootcamp!🥇 It was an amazing online experience exploring AI and Azure through informative sessions and practical industry use cases.

A huge thanks to Microsoft and the amazing speakers for such an inspiring event! 🙌 Sessions that got me most excited and inspired: 🚀 Boost Developer Productivity with AI 📈 Accelerate Business Growth with AI Apps 🔦 AI Spotlight on ANZ 🏗 AI Ready Infra 🔥 Ignite 2025 Recap

Eager to bring these skills to life through real-world innovation!

🌟 It's not just learning - it's about showcasing your commitment to growth and expertise.

Showcase your achievements by exclusive badges from Microsoft SummerBootcamp! 🌟 It's not just learning - it's about showcasing your commitment to growth and expertise.

Day 1 of the Bootcamp was packed with 5 amazing sessions, and there's still 2 more days of learning ahead! Whether you're starting fresh or catching up, it's not too late to join the online sessions and earn your badge. 🎖

'AI Ready Infrastructure' & 'Boost Developer Productivity with AI' are my two top picks! Check out all the online sessions here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/anzmicrosoftsummerbootcamp/