What the Hack (WTH): Building AI Apps with OpenAI and the Azure Ecosystem

Overview

This hands-on set of challenges will provide participants with experience on how to integrate the Azure OpenAI offering with Microsoft Azure platform services. 

This Hack consists of ten challenges and is meant to be self-paced, so anyone can complete the material independently. If you have limited to no experience with Machine Learning or have only briefly experimented with OpenAI, you may want to complete our What the Hack (WTH): Azure OpenAI Fundamentals (eventbuilder.com) prior to this event, so you will be ready to go! 

Format

This challenge-based hack will get you working with Azure OpenAI in no time!  But, unlike other WTH events that require you to focus your time over a solid 2-3 days, this hack event will have a longer, self-paced format over 2 weeks. This will allow you to dive into each challenge at your own pace. You'll be assigned a virtual working group, where you can collaborate on possible solutions to each of the presented challenges. You'll also have access to Microsoft subject matter experts (SMEs) during core business hours to get your questions answered.

The event will be managed through Microsoft Teams, where your assigned working group will have it's own channel. We will kick off the event with this EventBuilder session (a Teams call) and will explain how the two-week period will run. You can work through the challenges over the two-week period. During the second week, we'll present a series of lunch & learn calls to have our SMEs share how the met each challenge, followed by general discussion and Q&A. These sessions will help you better understand implementation options and when to use certain methods or architectures.

Learning Objectives 

The objective of the hack is to make participants aware and comfortable with the different strategies and scenarios for integrating the Azure OpenAI service with Azure Platform products including but not limited to Azure Cognitive Services, Partner offerings on Microsoft and Open-Source projects. 

Participants will learn how to: 

• Select different architectures to implement OpenAI solutions on Azure based on the scenarios
• Understand when to use OpenAI products and when to leverage Cognitive Services or other solutions
• Provision and configure Azure OpenAI resources
• Understand the different libraries, frameworks, capabilities and tools available to implement intelligent AI apps
• Implement Q&A virtual assistants using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures powered by vector stores, full text search and hybrid search
• Understand techniques and options available on Azure for processing and storing data used for implementing RAG architectures
• Secure access to Azure OpenAI Resources
• Integrate Azure Private Virtual Networks with Azure OpenAI
• Perform capacity planning and quota enforcement for OpenAI resources
• Manage availability, business continuity and disaster recovery
• Implement solutions for batch and near real-time use cases

Prerequisites

Be prepared by working through these prerequisites prior to the event:

• Azure subscription - Estimated spend may be around $10
• Access to Azure OpenAI - Allow 1-2 weeks for approval
  Possible causes for a denied application: 
   1) You are not an approved enterprise customer. Learn more here.
   2) Application submitted with personal email (Example: @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, etc.)
• Jupyter Notebook editor - We recommend Visual Studio Code or Azure Machine Learning Studio
  If using Visual Studio Code, we also recommend installing Anaconda OR Miniconda for project environment management
• Python (version 3.7.1 or later), plus the package installer pip
• Node (version 16.20.x) - NPM will be included
• Azure Function Core Tools (version 4)

Notes

• Please use your company email address when registering. Personal email addresses (outlook.com, gmail.com, yahoo.com, hotmail.com, etc.) will not be approved.
• Registering for this EventBuilder kickoff call will register you for the free 2-week, virtual hack event. (See the Format section above for additional information.)
• This hack event is intended for Microsoft Partners in Americas time zones.
• The event is limited to 200 remote partner attendees with a maximum of five (5) attendees per company. 
  (We reserve the right to allow additional attendees per company, if overall event capacity remains.)

 

Register here