65 posts tagged with "ai"

Unlock the power of GenAI and accelerate AI apps from development to production using familiar tools. This session explores how Azure AI Foundry and related dev toolchain streamline the development and operationalization of AI apps.

You'll be guided through AI app development lifecycle (from ideation to production) covering key techniques in prompt engineering, coding, evaluation, monitoring, and deployment. Discover how tools like Azure AI Foundry, AZD CLI, AI Toolkit for VS Code, and Prompty enable seamless development, deployment and management.

Whether you're a developer, AI engineer, or IT leader, you'll gain practical knowledge to build and scale AI applications efficiently. Get ready to build your AI projects with ease on Azure!

AI App in a Day @ Microsoft Sydney Office ! 🤖 Fantastic day at Room Gaba and Magari on Level 27, exploring AI on Microsoft Azure with an incredible group of engaged participants alongside my Insight colleague, Sadat on Monday!

We dove deep into PromptEngineering, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and exploring powerful services on Azure to build AIApp like: ✅ Azure OpenAI Service ✅ CosmosDB for MongoDB ✅ GPT and Embedding Models ✅ LangChain ✅ AzureAIFoundry ✅ Azure AISearch ✅ Azure ContentSafety ✅ DocumentIntelligence Service

✨The discussions were insightful, the hands-on experience was valuable, and the views from Level 27? Simply stunning! 🌆

💡A big thank you to everyone who joined and contributed to the learning experience. AI is evolving fast, and it's exciting to see the energy around building real-world AI solutions! 🚀

👏 Huge thanks for your support and organizing the event, Jeanne, Peachy, Michelle & Ross!

FIRST Robotics Competition Southern Cross Regional today - my very first time volunteering at FRC! It's the second day of the REEFSCAPE season at Penrith Valley Regional Sports Centre, and I'm already in awe of the ⚡ energy, 🔧 innovation, and 🤝 teamwork on display.

FRC is the ultimate sport for the mind ✨, where 40+ high school student teams take on real-world engineering challenges, designing and building industrial-sized robots from a kit of parts to compete in an intense, fast-paced game. But beyond the robots, it's about creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork, all guided by the spirit of GraciousProfessionalism.

This year's challenge, REEFSCAPE 🌊, is all about using engineering to strengthen one of the ocean's most diverse habitats. It's inspiring to see young minds tackling big problems and shaping the future of STEM.

It was a great pleasure to reconnect with old friends (Garry & Jack), see familiar faces, and make new connections! Exciting to witness teams like 'AI3' showcasing their AI-powered robot, an incredible display of innovation! 🤩🤖

A huge congratulations to Melinda for the 'Woodie Flowers Finalist Award' and to Mark for being 'Volunteer of the Year'! The awards are the perfect recognition of your dedication and countless contributions over so many years. 👏🎉

It's been a long day from 7 AM to 6:30 PM ⏳, but I've gained a whole new appreciation for the impact of FIRST empowering students and fostering a strong STEM community. Excited for the final day of the competition tomorrow! 🚀

🚀 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.' 🙌