About AI Burst
The aim of AI Burst is to host a full days of AI related sessions in one single session room. Presenting are Microsoft community and industry leaders and provides real-world content for developers wanting to explore artificial intelligence and machine learning. The focus will be on developing AI and ML applications and real-world solutions. All sessions are presented in English.
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Event organizers are Alan Smith, Peter Örneholm & Henk Boelman.
Speaker Details
Our speakers are leaders in industry and the international development community.
Henk Boelman
Cloud Advocate at Microsoft
Henk is a Cloud Advocate specializing in Artificial intelligence and Azure with a background in application development. He is currently part of the regional cloud advocate team in the Netherlands. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Microsoft AI MVP and worked as a software developer and architect building lots of AI powered platforms on Azure.
He loves to share his knowledge about topics such as DevOps, Azure and Artificial Intelligence by providing training courses and he is a regular speaker at user groups and international conferences.
Unlocking the Potential of AI
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the world we live in, and Microsoft is at the forefront of this exciting revolution. Join us for a session where we'll explore the latest innovation from Microsoft and GitHub on AI.
Let's explore the latest technologies, including Azure OpenAI, Neural voice, and GitHub Co-pilot. With Co-pilot, an AI-powered coding assistant that suggests code snippets based on project context, developers can boost productivity. We'll also discuss the importance of developing AI in a way that benefits society as a whole.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn and discover how you can leverage AI to drive innovation in your own organization.
Tess Ferrandez
Microsoft Sweden
Tess is a developer/data scientist working at Microsoft. Over the past 20 years she has worked with .net debugging, developed a large number of mobile apps. She currently works on data science, machine learning, and other Azure related projects with some of the largest companies around the world.
You can find her on twitter at @TessFerrandez
Deep Learning: From Vision to Reality
How do you implement an application that can pick out the interesting parts of a soccer game?
What do you do when you don't have enough data, or when the data is too specific?
How do you know that you are actually solving the problem, or even the right problem?
We will look at a deep learning project from start to finish, look at how to program and train a neural network and gradually refine it using some tips and tricks that you can steal for your future deep learning projects.
Goran Vuksic
Pandora
Goran is Microsoft AI MVP, he works as an Engineering manager for Pandora, he has over 20 years of work experience in IT and wide knowledge of various technologies and programming languages. Goran is a tech enthusiast, he writes technical blog posts and likes to share his wide knowledge at different conferences, workshops, and talks.
Gaze Estimation Possibilities in Retail
Gaze estimation is the process of detecting where a person is looking. With the use of AI, we can get pretty accurate estimates nowadays, and in this session, you will hear about some possibilities on how gaze estimation can be used in the retail industry. You will also see a demo on how to use AI on the Edge, how to get your data to the Azure cloud, and how to analyse it.
Alan Smith
Active Solution
Alan Smith is a Microsoft Azure developer, trainer, mentor and evangelist at Active Solution in Stockholm. He has a strong hands-on philosophy and focuses on embracing the power and flexibility of cloud computing to deliver engaging and exciting demos and training courses.
Alan has held the MVP title since 2005 and is currently an MVP for AI. He is in the organization team for the CloudBurst and AI Burst conferences and is a regular presenter at conferences around Europe.
Building an Image Similarity Search using Spotify Annoy, PyTorch and Azure Machine Learning
Spotify Annoy (approximate nearest neighbor Oh Yeah!) is an open-source algorithm used by Spotify for identifying similar sounding songs for recommendations to users. Spotify Annoy can also be used to create a search index for similar images, which has many real-world implementations including recommending products in on-line stores. Azure Machine Learning provides a fully-featured platform allowing data scientists, developers and teams to collaborate in the rapid development and deployment of machine learning solutions.
In this demo intensive session Alan will run through the process of creating an image similarity search API hosted in Azure ML. Starting with the creation of an image dataset he will create an Azure ML experiment to use a pre-trained PyTorch model to create an approximate nearest neighbor index using Spotify Annoy. He will then create an endpoint in Azure ML that return images that are similar to a target image. Throughout the process he will explain the theory of using PyTorch and Spotify Annoy and how the features of Azure ML Studio can be leveraged for the rapid cloud-based development of machine learning solutions.
Peter Örneholm
Active Solution
Peter Örneholm is a IT-consultant and Microsoft Azure MVP who loves to explore life. Using the power of Azure is his passion. Peter has over 10 years of experience in Microsoft related technologies and currently works as an IT consultant at Active Solution in Stockholm helping companies achieve more using modern web and cloud technologies.
Live Coding using GPT-4
Have you ever wondered how to use the power of Azure and GPT4 to create stunning web applications?
In this session, Peter Örneholm, a Microsoft AI MVP and IT consultant at Active Solution, will show you how to leverage Azure services and GPT4 to build a web app that can generate content, answer questions, and interact with users. Peter will also share his tips and tricks for working with GPT4 and Azure, as well as some of the challenges and opportunities that come with using these technologies.
Mohammed Osman
Senior Software Consultant - Billo
Mohammed Osman is a senior software engineer who started coding at the age of 13. Mohammed worked in various industries, including telecommunication, accounting, banking, health, and assurance. Mohammed's core skillset is a .NET ecosystem with a strong focus on C#, Azure, and Data Science. Mohammed also enjoys the soft side of software engineering and leads scrum teams. Mohammed runs a blog with the message "Making your code smart and your career smarter." He shares tips and techniques to improve your code and valuable career pieces of advice in his blog. Mohammed Osman is a Pluralsight Author, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and Writer.
Azure Cognitive Services - Identifies Important Data in a Context
In this session, you'll learn how to use Named Entity Recognition (NER) to analyze job descriptions to identify the different skills needed for a large pool of jobs. You'll also learn how to make the identification better using custom entity training.
Event Schedule - All times Central Europian Time (CET)
A full day packed with great sessions!
Introduction to AI Burst
Henk Boelman - Unlocking the Potential of AI
Tess Ferrandez - Deep Learning: From Vision to Reality
Goran Vuksic - Gaze Estimation Possibilities in Retail
Lunch
Alan Smith - Building an Image Similarity Search using Spotify Annoy, PyTorch and Azure Machine Learning
Mohammed Osman - Azure Cognitive Services - Identifies Important Data in a Context
Peter Örneholm - Live Coding using GPT-4
Speakers Pannel - Ask the speakers, and GPT4, anything about AI!
Wrap-up, Retro, Final Q & A
Location
AI Burst 2023 will be hosted at Reactor Stockholm.
Location Details
Sponsors
Hosting a conference with leading international presenters and keeping attendance free would not be possible without the dedication and hard work of the presenters, organizers, and financial contributions from organizations. The conference would not be possible without the following invaluable organizations for helping with financial support and logistics.
We would be keen to hear from other companies and organizations that would be willing to sponsor Stockholm Azure Meetups.
F.A.Q
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How can I contact the speakers?
AI Burst is a community event, and we encourage the speakers to interact with the attendees. There will be comminication channels to chat with the presenters.
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How can my company sponsor the event?
AI Burst is funded by the Stockholm Azure Meetups group, sponsoring these groups enables us to deliver various community events throughout the year, including AI Burst, CloudBurst and evening events at locations in the city center. Please contact Peter, Alan, Henk or Willem if think your company could help fund these events.
Contact Us
Feel free to sign up for Stockholm Azure Meetup or contact the organizers.
Code of Conduct
Our conference is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks, workshops, parties, Twitter and other online media. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference without at the discretion of the conference organisers.