Microsoft Ignite starts November 15th. Register now to attend virtually.
Microsoft Ignite, the annual conference where developers can dive deep with the latest Microsoft technologies including Azure, kicks off November 15th. Generative AI is impacting companies of every size and industry. The first ever OpenAI DevDay Conference on November 6th had great announcements focused on improving performance, expanding the use cases and making generative AI even more accessible to developers. Ignite promises to take it to the next level, with even more announcements, sessions, and hands-on learning opportunities.
Building AI apps requires not just the latest AI services such as Azure OpenAI, but also scalable and secure data services, cloud native container services, and infrastructure. Then there’s also the task of managing your AI workflows and devops. At Ignite, you will be able to go deep with the full stack of Azure services required to build your AI apps and hear from other businesses on their experiences too.
Quick pro tip: This year, we’ve created a label called “born-in-the-cloud” and tagged all the relevant sessions with this label. If you go to the session scheduler and put “born-in-the-cloud” in the search bar, you will be able to see the full list of sessions, discussions, and demoes that we’ve tagged for you. The full list of sessions is available here.
The scheduling for some of the sessions might overlap, but they are all recorded and will be available on-demand. Here are the top keynotes, breakout sessions, and learning opportunities at Microsoft Ignite 2023:
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There are Q&A sessions, hands-on labs, demos and many more learning opportunities at Ignite. You can participate in exciting Cloud Skills Challenges to earn learning badges starting Nov 15th or learn to build a minigame console app with GitHub Copilot. Don't miss the highlight - the Intelligent Apps Cloud Skills Challenge, that offers a captivating learning journey. We've also put together a comprehensive learning collection on "Essentials for building new intelligent apps" to help you kick off your learning journey on Azure.
Across healthcare, financial services, retail, and every vertical, startups are disrupting industries by harnessing the power of generative AI with Azure OpenAI to unlock new customer experiences. AltaML worked with the Government of Alberta to build an AI-powered tool to help firefighting duty officers become more confident in predicting and sustainably managing the risk of wildfires, creating the potential to save up to $3 million in annual operating costs. Commerce.AI delivers up to 50% increase in productivity by unearthing new kinds of customer feedback from unstructured video, audio, and photographic data. Pangaea Data helps improve patient outcomes and reduce costs by enabling early discovery of rare medical conditions. It’s still early days for generative AI and the possibilities are endless as startups use it to create even more compelling use cases that transform the way people live and work.
As we strive to provide best-in-class AI services and a reliable, secure, and scalable cloud-native platform, we also want to partner with you to help you thrive at every stage of your startup’s journey. Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus program, and ISV Success are all designed to help you easily get started, scale your apps, and grow your business by providing credits, community access, technical support, and go-to-market support. We also recently announced a free Azure AI Infrastructure option in our startup program that offers high-end GPU virtual machine clusters for training and deploying LLM and other deep learning models. This option is now available to the Y-combinator startups in private preview. We believe that this will unlock startup-led AI innovation by helping startups quickly prototype and bring their solutions to the market.
This is truly the era of AI and born in the cloud companies are at the forefront of this wave. Join us at Microsoft Ignite 2023 and let’s build the future together!
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