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AI & ML

Unlocking AI Innovation: A Conversation with Eric Boyd and Asha Sharma | Studio06

This video explores the current state of AI innovation, highlighting how companies like Mercedes-Benz and Unity are integrating AI into their products to enhance user experiences. The discussion also covers the tools and resources available to developers, including the Azure AI platform, to help them build responsible and scalable AI applications.

Accelerate AI innovation with the marketplace | Studio72

The Microsoft Commercial Marketplace is experiencing unprecedented growth, driven by its commitment to building capabilities and functionality that make it easier for partners to build and deploy their products, including AI applications. The Marketplace provides a self-service platform for customers to discover and deploy solutions, with a range of resources and support available for developers to build and launch their applications quickly and effectively.

Enhancing Coastal Resilience with AI | Studio88

This video showcases how Stantec, in partnership with LTML and Microsoft, is leveraging AI to enhance coastal resilience and flood prediction capabilities. The presenters highlight the benefits of using AI-powered models, including faster processing times, lower costs, and increased accessibility for communities that lack access to traditional supercomputer-based models.

Model innovation & evaluation with model partners Q&A | Studio07

This video discusses the evolution of language models in 2024, the importance of evaluating and observing AI applications, and the challenges of moving AI products from demos to production. The speakers, Jay Alammar and Jason Lopatecki, provide insights on model capabilities, retrieval-augmented generation, and the need for observability and reliable evaluation in enterprise deployments.

Accelerating scientific discovery with Azure Quantum Elements | Studio73

This video showcases how Microsoft's Azure Quantum Elements platform, powered by high-performance computing, AI, and quantum computing, is accelerating scientific discovery in chemistry and material science. The platform's ability to scale, speed up computations, improve accuracy, and provide user-friendly tools like Copilot is enabling researchers to explore vast chemical spaces and discover new materials in a fraction of the time it would traditionally take.

How did we build the Next Generation of AI PCs - Copilot+ PCs? | Studio27

The video showcases the advancements in AI-powered PCs, known as Copilot+ PCs, which leverage neural processing units (NPUs) to enable a new generation of computing experiences. The speaker highlights how these devices can run large language models, perform image generation, and provide a range of studio effects, all while maintaining efficient performance and battery life.

How Microsoft Approaches AI Red Teaming | BRK223

This video discusses Microsoft's approach to AI red teaming, which involves adversarially testing AI systems to identify vulnerabilities and responsible AI harms. The presenters cover the principles, threat spaces, techniques, and tools used by the Microsoft AI Red Team, as well as their efforts to engage with the industry and evolve the practice of AI red teaming.

Transforming the future of startups with Microsoft AI | BRK113

The video showcases how Microsoft is transforming the future of startups by providing them with access to cutting-edge AI tools and resources to streamline the AI development process. The presentation highlights the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, which offers startups access to Azure credits, personalized guidance, and Microsoft AI tools, including Quick Start templates to help them build, ship, and iterate on their ideas.

Empower your organization with production-ready RAG apps on Azure | StudioFP102

This video discusses how Cohere, a company that builds large language models, empowers organizations with production-ready Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications on Azure. The video highlights the key capabilities of RAG, such as search, generation, and multi-hop reasoning, and showcases how enterprises can leverage these tools to build advanced AI-powered applications.

Prepare to master common generative AI use cases with ease | StudioFP113

This video discusses the use of generative AI in various business scenarios, with a focus on Snowflake's Cortex platform and its integration with Azure OpenAI. The presenter showcases a wardrobe recommendation use case, highlighting the ease of building applications that leverage these AI capabilities within the Snowflake ecosystem.

Inside Microsoft AI innovation with Mark Russinovich | BRK256

The video provides an overview of Microsoft's innovations in AI infrastructure, including advancements in compute, networking, storage, and resource management. It also highlights the company's research on model unlearning and the use of AI-powered tools like Copilot to enhance developer productivity.

Top-of-mind on AI with Mark Russinovich | Studio71

In this video, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich discusses the rapid advancements in AI, particularly the impact of ChatGPT, and the efforts made by Microsoft to ensure the safety and security of AI models. He highlights the importance of responsible AI development, including mitigating risks such as prompt injection attacks and maximizing GPU utilization for training and inference.

Bring AI experiences to all your Windows Devices | BRK240

DirectML, a hardware-agnostic DirectX API, enables developers to easily scale AI experiences across the diverse Windows hardware ecosystem, including GPUs, NPUs, and CPUs. The session showcases how DirectML integrates with popular ML frameworks like ONNX Runtime and PyTorch, and introduces the WebNN developer preview, which allows running ML models securely on the web using DirectML's hardware acceleration.

Deploy Hugging Face Models on Azure powered by AMD ROCm software | StudioFP106

This video demonstrates the deployment of Hugging Face models on AMD's ROCm software on the Azure cloud platform. The presenters showcase the ease of use and performance advantages of running various natural language processing and computer vision models, including ResNet, BART, and Whisper, on AMD hardware without any code modifications.

The Future of Cloud Native and AI | Studio10

The video discusses the future of cloud-native and AI technologies, focusing on the evolution of Kubernetes, the open-source container orchestration platform. It highlights the efforts to simplify Kubernetes adoption, integrate AI workloads, and enable hybrid cloud deployments using projects like Kaido, which aims to streamline the deployment and management of AI applications on Kubernetes.

Building AI applications that leverage your data in object storage | BRK124

The talk discusses how Azure Blob Storage can be leveraged to build AI applications that leverage data in object storage, particularly for training and fine-tuning models, as well as for building Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. The presenters demonstrate the performance and ease of use of Blob Storage and related services like BlobFuse2 and Premium Blob Storage for these AI workloads.

2024 Imagine Cup World Championship | Studio65

The 2024 Imagine Cup World Championship showcased three impressive student-led startups using cutting-edge AI and technology to tackle global challenges. From an ADHD-focused task management tool to a steel manufacturing optimization system and an AI-powered assistive vision solution, these finalists demonstrated the power of innovation and the transformative potential of their solutions.

Accelerate development and deployment of Gen AI with NVIDIA on Azure | BRKFP296

This video discusses how NVIDIA and Microsoft are collaborating to accelerate the development and deployment of generative AI models using NVIDIA's Inference Microservice (NIMS) on Azure. The presenters demonstrate the performance benefits of NIMS compared to open-source alternatives and showcase how NIMS can be integrated into end-to-end AI pipelines running on Azure services.

Maximize enterprise AI with seamless interoperability | StudioFP130

This video discusses the partnership between Snowflake and Microsoft, focusing on the integration of Snowflake's AI capabilities with Microsoft's AI stack and the new interoperability between Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric OneLake. The video highlights Snowflake's open-source large language model, Snowflake Arctic, and the cost savings and collaboration benefits of the seamless data exchange between the two platforms.

Illuminate the way to enterprise AI copilots with Microsoft and Aisera | StudioFP100

Aisera, a six-year-old startup based in Palo Alto, California, presents its enterprise AI copilot solution that addresses challenges faced by the auto insurance industry in claim processing. The demo showcases Aisera's multi-model capabilities, domain-specific language models, and on-premises deployment options, providing a seamless and secure AI-powered customer experience.

Unleash the superpowers of the AI PC | StudioFP125

This video showcases the capabilities of the AI-powered PC, highlighting its ability to run a comprehensive AI pipeline including retrieval-augmented generation, React reasoning, and multimodal tasks. The presenters emphasize the importance of real-world AI, focusing on efficiency, security, web-readiness, and developer-friendliness, and demonstrate these features through live demos and code examples.

Operationalize AI responsibly with Azure AI Studio | BRK107

This video discusses Microsoft's approach to operationalizing AI responsibly using Azure AI Studio. It covers techniques for identifying and mitigating risks, measuring and monitoring AI system performance, and integrating AI governance and security into enterprise-level data and security management tools.

Multimodel Multimodal and Multiagent innovation with Azure AI | BRK104

The session showcases the latest advancements in Azure AI, including the new GPT-4 model, the Phi 3 family of smaller models, the video translation service, and the Azure AI Studio's capabilities for responsible AI development. The presenter also demonstrates various AI-powered applications and tools, such as a contact center agent copilot, a GitHub Copilot-like code generation agent, and Unity's Muse suite for AI-driven game development.

Integrating Azure AI and Microsoft Fabric for Next-Gen AI Solutions | BRK103

This session explores how to leverage Azure AI and Microsoft Fabric to build next-generation AI solutions. The presenters demonstrate various scenarios and use cases, showcasing how Fabric's data management capabilities and Azure AI's advanced AI features can be combined to empower data professionals and create custom generative AI experiences.

Build an AI-powered content composer in Blazor using OpenAI GPT | ODFP618

This video demonstrates the development of an AI-powered content composer using Blazor and the OpenAI GPT API. The application allows users to generate, preview, and refine content with customizable tone and length, seamlessly integrating the AI capabilities with Syncfusion Blazor components for an efficient content creation experience.

Build your own advanced AI solutions on Azure Databricks | OD541

The video demonstrates how to build advanced AI solutions on Azure Databricks, showcasing the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform's capabilities in integrating generative AI, large language models, and data intelligence to create powerful, cost-effective, and enterprise-ready AI applications. The presentation highlights the key features, such as the Lakehouse architecture, Unity Catalog, and Mosaic AI, that enable developers to design, build, and manage AI-powered applications with complete control, production quality, and lower costs.

A Journey into Open Source Models with HuggingFace & Mistral | OD524

This talk explores the benefits and use cases of open-source models, particularly those from Hugging Face and Mistral, and how they can be leveraged in building generative AI applications using the Azure AI Studio. The speaker discusses the advantages of open-source models, such as their performance, cost-effectiveness, and the active community around them, and demonstrates how to integrate these models into application workflows and deploy them at scale.

Accessibility

How Cephable Applies On-Device AI to Accessibility | Studio69

This video explores how Cephable, a company focused on accessibility, leverages on-device AI and neural processing units (NPUs) to enable a range of intuitive input methods, such as voice, facial expressions, and head movements, for users with various accessibility needs. The presentation highlights the performance benefits of running these AI-powered accessibility features on the NPU, which offloads the processing from the CPU and GPU, allowing users to continue using their devices without compromising overall system performance.

Compute

Unlock efficiencies from silicon to systems on Azure | Studio92

This video highlights Microsoft's efforts to develop custom silicon solutions, including Azure Cobalt and Azure Maya, to improve performance, power efficiency, and scalability for cloud computing and AI workloads. The video discusses the significance of these custom chips for Microsoft and the benefits they can provide to developers, such as 40% better performance and improved power efficiency.

Vision to value - SAS accelerates modernization at scale with Azure | BRK170

This video discusses how Microsoft Azure can help organizations modernize their applications and databases at scale. It covers tools like Azure Migrate, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure Database Migration Service, as well as a case study on Scandinavian Airlines' successful cloud migration journey.

Activate enterprise data in AI-enabled business applications | BRK200

This session explores how enterprise data and knowledge can be leveraged to enhance the capabilities of AI-powered business applications, such as Microsoft Copilot. It showcases how Copilot connectors, Copilot Studio, and Fabric AI skills can be used to integrate and utilize diverse data sources, including unstructured and external knowledge, to provide contextual and actionable insights for users.

RAG at scale: production-ready GenAI apps with Azure AI Search | BRK108

The session discusses scaling the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern using Azure AI Search. It covers techniques for handling larger data volumes, more sophisticated workflows, and integrating diverse data sources, as well as optimizing retrieval quality at scale.

Building applications at hyper scale with the latest Azure innovations | BRK129

This session discusses Azure's latest innovations in virtual machines, including the new Cobalt 100 ARM-based VMs, as well as advances in virtual machine scale sets and the new Azure Compute Fleet service for deploying and managing large-scale compute infrastructure. The presenters showcase the performance and cost-efficiency of these new offerings and demonstrate how developers can leverage them to build and scale their applications.

Imagine a new era of digitalization in manufacturing with NVIDIA | StudioFP112

The video showcases a collaboration between Microsoft and NVIDIA to revolutionize the manufacturing industry through the use of digital twins, open standards like OpenUSD, and cloud-based technologies. The partnership aims to bridge the gap between simulation and reality, enabling remote monitoring, optimization, and predictive maintenance of industrial processes, ultimately driving efficiency and cost savings in the $46 trillion manufacturing sector.

Simplifying Kubernetes deployment with Terraform for OpenAI | ODFP635

This presentation discusses how to simplify Kubernetes deployments using Terraform, with a focus on integrating HashiCorp products like Vault to address security challenges. It showcases a demo of deploying an AKS cluster, Helm charts, and Vault to manage certificates and secrets, providing a streamlined approach to building and securing cloud-native applications.

Databases

The power of AI and Copilot for Azure Databases | BRK171

This video presents Microsoft's vision for incorporating AI capabilities into their Azure database services, including features like vector search, RAG design patterns, and Copilot-powered productivity enhancements. The speakers showcase how these new AI-powered capabilities can enable developers to build more intelligent and interactive applications that leverage the power of enterprise data stored in Azure databases.

The mechanics of integrating AI and vector search into Azure Database for PostgreSQL | Studio31

This video explores the integration of AI and vector search capabilities into Azure Database for PostgreSQL, highlighting how developers can leverage Postgres's native support for extensions and the Azure AI extension to build AI-powered applications. The video demonstrates various use cases, such as similarity search, sentiment analysis, and language model-driven chatbots, all powered by the combination of Postgres and Azure AI services.

Scalable RAG with Azure Cosmos DB and DiskANN | Studio15

This video showcases the new scalable vector database capabilities in Azure Cosmos DB, including the integration of the DiskANN index for efficient vector search at scale. The presentation highlights the advantages of storing data and vectors together in Cosmos DB, enabling seamless synchronization and powerful query capabilities.

Unify your data with OneLake and Microsoft Fabric | BRK169

The video showcases the capabilities of Microsoft Fabric's 'OneLake' service, which aims to provide a unified data platform that simplifies data management, integration, and analytics across different data sources and formats. The presenters demonstrate how OneLake can seamlessly integrate with various data sources, enable cross-cloud and on-premises data access, and provide advanced data warehousing and analytics capabilities powered by AI-driven features like co-pilot.

Discover Oracle Database@Azure a new opportunity for developers | BRKFP297

This video showcases the new Oracle Database@Azure offering, which simplifies the development of modern applications by providing a fully managed, converged database service. It demonstrates how developers can leverage the power of Oracle's database capabilities and Azure's cloud services to build innovative solutions, such as a movie streaming platform with personalized features, without worrying about database management.

Design and build multi-tenant SaaS apps at scale with Azure Cosmos DB | BRK161

This talk covers the design principles and best practices for building multi-tenant SaaS applications at scale using Azure Cosmos DB. The speakers discuss techniques for tenant isolation, partitioning strategies, cost optimization, and ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for production workloads.

Optimize Microsoft SQL Server with Datadog's database monitoring | ODFP632

The video discusses how Datadog's database monitoring (DBM) can optimize Microsoft SQL Server performance by providing visibility into SQL queries, execution plans, and resource usage. Datadog's unified observability platform integrates with various Azure services, allowing teams to have a single source of truth for troubleshooting and resolving issues across their complex, modern software applications.

Developer Experience

Create a fully functional support bot in less than 10 minutes

This video demonstrates how to create a fully functional support chatbot in less than 10 minutes using Copilot Studio, a low-code platform. The chatbot is customized to handle customer inquiries, escalate issues to a customer service team, and provide relevant information from external sources, all while using natural language processing and adaptive cards for a seamless user experience.

Optimize Azure Infrastructure as Code Deployments with VS Code

This video provides a comprehensive overview of optimizing Azure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments using Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and the Bicep language. It covers the key aspects of the IaC development lifecycle, including the creation process, deployment strategies, and continuous maintenance using deployment stacks.

Confidently iterate on GenAI applications with Weave | ODFP665

The talk explores the challenges of using large language models (LLMs) in production applications and presents Weave, a tool from Weights & Biases that helps developers iterate confidently on their GenAI applications. The speaker demonstrates how Weave's data-centric approach and automatic capture of information enable developers to understand and debug LLM-based systems, leading to improved reliability and trustworthiness.

Building Impactful AI Products for the Masses: A Q&A Session with startup founder | Studio05

This session explores the opportunities and challenges of building impactful AI products for the masses. The discussion covers the founder's journey in launching Cassidy AI, a platform that empowers non-technical users to leverage the power of AI in their workflows, and the importance of focusing on real-world problems rather than chasing AI hype.

Golden path with GitHub Actions

The presentation discusses the concept of a 'golden path' in software development, which refers to a standardized and streamlined process for deploying new services or resources. The speaker demonstrates how GitHub Actions can be used to implement a robust and modular deployment workflow that ensures quality, security, and scalability.

AI-Powered Personalized Learning

The video discusses the use of AI-powered personalized learning, covering three key pillars: leveraging assistive technologies to enhance learning, building custom learning paths using generative AI, and empowering caregivers to navigate the individualized education plan (IEP) process with the help of generative models. The speaker, Noel Russell, shares her personal experiences as a mother of six and a technologist, demonstrating how AI can be harnessed to improve educational outcomes for diverse learners.

Extend your Copilot with plugins using Copilot Studio

The video covers how to extend Microsoft Copilot using Copilot Studio, a platform that allows developers to integrate their own models, data sources, and functionality into the Copilot experience. The presentation demonstrates the ease of creating a custom Copilot application, connecting to various data sources, and building conversational actions and integrations with external systems like ServiceNow.

Extend your Copilot with plugins using Copilot Studio

This video demonstrates how to extend Microsoft Copilot, a generative AI assistant, using Copilot Studio. It showcases the process of creating a custom Copilot, integrating data sources, defining topics and actions, and deploying the Copilot to Microsoft Teams, as well as the ability to extend the existing Microsoft 365 Copilot with plugins and connectors.

MSLearn Placeholder Why earn a Microsoft Certification | Studio78

This video discusses the importance of Microsoft certifications in the changing landscape of technology, particularly in the field of AI. The speakers emphasize the benefits of earning certifications, including increased credibility, career development opportunities, and visibility to potential employers.

Power your AI transformation with Microsoft Learn | Studio74

This video explores how Microsoft is addressing the growing need for AI skills and upskilling across organizations. It highlights the importance of a strategic framework for AI education, the need to skill everyone from the boardroom to the mailroom, and Microsoft's own experience as a customer in this AI transformation journey.

Get Plans for your journey with Microsoft Learn | Studio75

Microsoft Learn introduces a new feature called 'Plans' that helps learners and organizations acquire and build high-demand skills. The plans provide clear learning outcomes, curated content milestones, and tracking capabilities for team leaders to support their team's upskilling journey.

Continue your learning journey with Microsoft Learn | Studio76

Microsoft Learn, the comprehensive training and learning platform from Microsoft, offers a wealth of resources and opportunities for developers and professionals to enhance their skills, particularly in the realm of AI and cloud technologies. The platform provides a range of self-paced courses, instructor-led training, certifications, and interactive challenges, empowering individuals and organizations to stay ahead of the curve and effectively navigate the evolving technological landscape.

What's New with GitHub | Studio87

The video discusses the latest updates and features of GitHub, including the GitHub Copilot extensions that allow developers to integrate various tools and services into their coding workflow. The video highlights the benefits of these extensions, such as the ability to access relevant information and data directly within the coding environment, and the opportunities for developers to create their own custom extensions.

Microsoft Surface Innovation | Studio67

The video showcases the latest Surface devices from Microsoft, including the Surface Laptop and Surface Pro with enhanced performance, battery life, and inclusive design features. Developers are encouraged to explore the powerful AI capabilities and sustainable design of these new Surface Copilot plus PCs, which are now available for pre-order and will ship in three weeks.

Cloud Cultures: When tech and tradition combine | Studio70

This video explores the intersection of technology and cultural heritage, highlighting how Azure customers around the world are using cloud technologies to reinvent their businesses while staying true to their cultural roots. The series, titled 'Cloud Cultures,' features stories from Mexico, Malaysia, Japan, and the Rust Belt in the United States, showcasing how technology is creating new career paths and impacting local communities.

How Microsoft Applied Skills can boost your career | Studio77

Microsoft's Applied Skills program offers verifiable credentials that validate real-world skills, empowering individuals to showcase their expertise and organizations to identify the right talent for critical projects, particularly in the field of AI. The program's flexible and accessible approach to skill development and assessment is driving positive feedback from both learners and organizational leaders, highlighting its potential to boost careers and accelerate innovation.

The mechanics of extending Copilot for Sales with your external data | Studio30

This video demonstrates how to extend the Copilot for Sales feature in Microsoft 365 by integrating custom data from a line of business application. It showcases the process of creating a Copilot Studio extension, configuring APIs, and testing the integration to enhance the sales workflow with additional insights and capabilities.

Build identity into your apps within minutes! | Studio23

This video discusses how Microsoft's Entra ID platform aims to simplify the integration of identity management into applications, making it a developer-friendly and secure process that can be accomplished in minutes. The video highlights the platform's focus on providing a unified experience across different use cases and development environments, enabling developers to easily add authentication and authorization to their apps without getting bogged down in the complexities of identity management.

All about AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code | Studio19

The AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is a powerful tool that allows developers to run and fine-tune small AI models locally, addressing common challenges such as the need for offline capabilities, accurate results, and cost-effective solutions. The toolkit provides a playground for experimenting with different models, evaluation tools for measuring performance, and the ability to fine-tune models using local resources or Azure Container Apps.

Interview on MBS | Studio66

This video showcases the innovative projects of student startups from the Imagine Cup competition, highlighting their use of AI and technology to address real-world problems in education, legal systems, and digital accessibility. The speakers discuss the rapid advancements in generative AI, the challenges of designing user experiences for underserved communities, and the importance of considering non-generative AI solutions that can drive productivity and equity.

What's new for Developers on Windows to enhance Developer Productivity | Studio26

This video highlights the latest developer tools and features introduced by Microsoft's Windows Developer Experiences team, including Terminal, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Dev Home, Dev Drive, and PowerToys. The team emphasizes the open-source nature of these tools and their commitment to community feedback and collaboration, fostering a developer-centric ecosystem on the Windows platform.

GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Copilot: Working together to make security | Studio24

This video discusses how GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Copilot work together to enhance security for developers. It showcases how Copilot can help detect and remediate security vulnerabilities, such as SQL injections and exposed secrets, directly within the pull request workflow, making it easier for developers to address security issues without being security experts.

Power Control and Security: Limitless with Microsoft Copilot Studio | Studio21

This video showcases the latest advancements in Microsoft Copilot Studio, a powerful platform for building and customizing conversational AI experiences. The video highlights the platform's focus on security, responsible AI practices, and seamless integration with Microsoft Graph connectors, empowering developers and non-technical users to create secure and tailored conversational experiences.

Why Windows is the best place for AI development | Studio28

The video discusses why Windows is the best platform for AI development, highlighting the newly introduced Windows Copilot Runtime, which provides developers with a comprehensive set of tools and APIs to build and integrate AI experiences into their applications. The video also emphasizes the benefits of native support for PyTorch models and the integration of DirectML, enabling web developers to leverage the hardware capabilities of Windows devices for their AI-powered web applications.

The mechanics of Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric | Studio29

The video showcases the mechanics of real-time intelligence in Microsoft Fabric, demonstrating how it integrates and processes data from various sources, such as IoT sensors, databases, and cloud storage, to enable real-time decision-making and automation. The video highlights the use of tools like Copilot, the Real-Time Hub, and Power Automate to streamline the process of ingesting, analyzing, and acting on real-time data for improved business operations.

Troubleshooting with Copilot in Azure | Studio11

Copilot, an AI-powered assistant integrated into the Azure portal, can help developers troubleshoot, optimize, and proactively manage their Azure resources. The new Copilot features include guided troubleshooting, summarization of diagnostic information, and recommendations for improving application health and performance.

AI App Platform: Elevating the Dev Experience | Studio12

This video discusses Microsoft's AI App Platform, which aims to elevate the developer experience by providing a comprehensive set of tools and services to build scalable, production-ready AI applications. The platform focuses on integrating AI capabilities seamlessly into the developer's existing workflow, reducing friction and enabling faster development of secure and enterprise-ready intelligent applications.

Real-time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric | Studio13

Microsoft Fabric is a comprehensive data analytics platform that now includes real-time intelligence capabilities, allowing users to ingest, analyze, and act on high-granular real-time data. The new Real-Time Hub in Fabric provides a centralized hub to discover, manage, and leverage real-time data across the organization, empowering businesses to make instant, data-driven decisions.

Harness Microsoft Copilot in Azure for Azure SQL Database | Studio14

This video showcases the new Microsoft Copilot in Azure feature, which allows developers, database administrators, and Azure users to leverage natural language prompts to perform various database management tasks, such as identifying performance issues, optimizing queries, and generating SQL queries. The presenter demonstrates the capabilities of Copilot in Azure, highlighting its ability to provide detailed insights, troubleshooting recommendations, and even generate SQL queries based on natural language prompts.

Building Careers in AI | Studio08

This video discusses the challenges and opportunities in building careers in AI, particularly from the perspectives of a product manager and a developer advocate. The speakers highlight the importance of continuous learning, embracing discomfort, and building strong relationships with both mentors and those you can teach, as key principles for success in the rapidly evolving field of AI.

Build apps from the cloud | Studio16

Microsoft Dev Box offers cloud-based, customizable developer workstations that enable teams to quickly set up consistent development environments, increasing productivity and collaboration. The session will showcase the platform's capabilities, including integration with Visual Studio, team-level customization, and enterprise-grade controls, empowering developers to build applications from the cloud.

How can AI supercharge your API workflows? | StudioFP134

This video explores how Postman, an API platform, is leveraging AI to enhance API workflows. The key benefits highlighted include AI-powered API testing, documentation, debugging, and data visualization, all aimed at empowering developers to streamline their API development and management processes.

The mechanics of building and extending Microsoft Copilot | Studio02

The video demonstrates how to extend Microsoft Copilot, a large language model integrated with the Microsoft Graph, by creating custom Copilots, plugins, and connectors. It showcases the flexibility of Copilot in accessing and integrating external data sources to provide tailored assistance within Microsoft 365 applications.

The mechanics of how Copilot for Microsoft 365 works - the latest updates and | Studio03

The video explores the mechanics of how Copilot for Microsoft 365 works, including the role of large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and the integration with Microsoft Graph data. It also highlights the ability to build custom Copilot experiences using extensions, allowing users to tailor the AI assistant to their specific needs and data sources.

Build AI-powered apps on the platform that runs Microsoft Teams and tour the | Studio04

Azure Communication Services is a communication platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) that enables developers to integrate rich communication capabilities, such as chat, email, and voice/video, into their applications. The video demonstrates the capabilities of Azure Communication Services, including click-to-call functionality, call diagnostics, and integration with AI-powered tools like Copilot, providing developers with a powerful set of tools to build engaging, customized communication experiences for their users.

Build a RAG app in minutes using Langflow OpenAI and Azure | StudioFP101

This video demonstrates how developers can build Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications using Langflow, a visual tool for building AI flows, and deploy them to Azure. The speaker showcases how Langflow can be integrated with a Python Flask application to create an intelligent chatbot that combines language model capabilities with data from a private database, providing accurate and cost-effective responses.

A conversation with Charles Lamanna on building custom copilots with Microsoft | Studio20

This video discusses Microsoft's vision for building custom copilots using Copilot Studio, a platform that allows users to create their own AI-powered assistants. The conversation covers the capabilities of these 'agents' that can be disconnected from chat-based experiences and run in the background, as well as the security and robustness features of the platform.

Optimizing the Microsoft developer experience with Docker | BRKFP295

This video showcases the collaborative efforts between Microsoft and Docker to optimize the developer experience, including integrations with Azure, GitHub, and Visual Studio Code. It highlights features like Docker Desktop on Windows on ARM, Docker Build Cloud, and Docker Scout security tool, which aim to accelerate the development lifecycle and improve efficiency and security for developers.

Deepen strategic enterprise collaboration with Mural and Microsoft | StudioFP105

Mural, the leading enterprise visual work platform, has partnered with Microsoft to provide seamless integrations across the Microsoft ecosystem, enabling enterprises to deepen strategic collaboration and unlock their potential. The integration of Mural with Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, and Microsoft Copilot allows for a more streamlined and efficient workflow, empowering teams to work together more effectively.

Extend and enhance your analytics applications with Microsoft Fabric | BRK162

This video introduces Microsoft Fabric's new workload development kit, which allows ISVs to build custom applications that integrate seamlessly with Fabric's platform and data capabilities. The presentation highlights several partner workloads, including decision intelligence, geospatial analytics, data quality, and master data management, that are coming to Fabric through this new development framework.

What’s new in C# 13 | BRK186

The video showcases new features in C# 13, including improvements to collection expressions, the introduction of field access in auto properties, and the addition of extension types that allow for extending existing types with new functionality. The presenters discuss the rationale behind these features and how they aim to address common pain points in C# development.

Running .NET on the NES | BRK252

The speaker, Jonathan Peppers, an engineer on .NET for Android and .NET MAUI, presents his work on running .NET on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). He demonstrates a .NET project template that can build NES games, providing insights into the NES binary format, the assembly code generation process, and the challenges involved in this unique endeavor.

Integrating your bots and Copilot experiences natively into SharePoint and Viva | BRK144

This video showcases the integration of Copilot experiences into SharePoint and Viva Connections. It demonstrates how users can easily create and customize Copilot assistants within SharePoint sites, and how these Copilots can be extended and published to Viva Connections for seamless access by frontline workers.

Extending GitHub Copilot | BRK149

The video showcases the new GitHub Copilot Extensions, which allow developers to build custom AI-powered integrations that can be accessed through natural language chat within the Copilot experience. The speakers demonstrate how these extensions can enhance developer productivity, provide expert guidance, and enable seamless workflows across various tools and services.

Start building your next app now with MongoDB Provider for EF Core | StudioFP117

This video showcases the new MongoDB Provider for EF Core, which allows C# developers to easily integrate MongoDB into their applications without having to learn a new data access API. The video highlights the simplicity of using the provider, which provides a familiar EF Core-like experience, and the additional benefits such as automatic conversion of MongoDB's ObjectId type to a string.

How to create superior experiences with WinUI and WPF | BRK244

This session demonstrates how to create superior experiences with WinUI and WPF by leveraging the Fluent Design System, modern APIs, and performance optimizations. The speakers showcase how to modernize the look and feel of a WPF app, integrate with Windows features like the notification center and share sheet, and optimize performance through ahead-of-time compilation and trimming.

Windows Subsystem for Linux Your enterprise ready multitool | BRK246

The video discusses the latest improvements to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), including memory and storage optimizations, networking enhancements, and security features such as integration with Microsoft Defender Endpoint, Microsoft Entra ID, and Microsoft Intune. The presenters also showcase new Windows integrations, including a WSL Settings app, integration with the Dev Home application, and the ability to run AI-powered developer workflows directly on WSL.

Extending Copilot for Sales with Microsoft Copilot Studio | BRK207

This video presents an overview of Microsoft Copilot Studio, which enables partners and customers to extend the capabilities of Copilot for Sales by integrating their own data sources and applications. Several partner integrations are showcased, demonstrating how Copilot for Sales can be enriched with insights from various sales tools to empower sales teams in their daily workflows.

Introducing API for GraphQL and User Data Functions in Microsoft Fabric | BRK164

The video introduces two new features in Microsoft Fabric: the API for GraphQL and User Data Functions. The API for GraphQL allows developers to create a single, intelligent endpoint to fetch data from various data sources, while User Data Functions enable the integration of custom business logic within the Fabric ecosystem.

Transforming the most valuable industry workflows with Copilot | BRK152

This video showcases how Copilot, Microsoft's AI-powered platform, can transform industry-specific workflows across various sectors like professional services, finance, insurance, and manufacturing. The presenters demonstrate how Copilot's extensibility allows customers and partners to unlock significant business value by automating routine tasks, generating insights, and streamlining collaboration within familiar tools like Microsoft Teams and Outlook.

Leverage Azure Testing Services to build high quality applications | BRK183

The video discusses how Azure Testing Services can help developers build high-quality applications by enabling scalable end-to-end testing of web apps using Microsoft Playwright Testing and high-scale load testing with Azure Load Testing. The video also demonstrates how these services can be seamlessly integrated into developer workflows to ensure continuous validation of applications.

Infusing your .NET Apps with AI: Practical Tools and Techniques | BRK187

This session demonstrates how to infuse .NET applications with AI capabilities using tools and techniques like Semantic Kernel, Aspire, and Azure services. It covers practical examples of building AI-powered applications, deploying them to the cloud, and monitoring their performance using open standards and observability features.

Building Copilots - key lessons and best practices | BRK145

The video discusses key lessons and best practices for building effective AI-powered copilots, focusing on the importance of embracing experimentation, investing in comprehensive evaluation data, and measures, monitoring, and tuning for quality, latency, and cost in production. The presenters provide a detailed overview of an AI agent architecture and demonstrate how Azure AI Studio can be leveraged to build, test, and deploy custom copilots.

Deploy test and run apps with Azure Deployment Environments | BRK190

Azure Deployment Environments empowers enterprise developers to quickly and easily self-serve the application infrastructure required to deploy and test their applications, while platform engineers can securely provide curated project-specific templates and enforce enterprise governance and security policies. The service transforms developer workflows, enabling them to stay in their flow and focus on writing high-quality code, while platform engineers gain visibility and control over the environments provisioned across the organization.

Accelerate DevOps & Incident Management workflows with Microsoft Teams | BRK193

This video discusses how Microsoft Teams can help accelerate DevOps and incident management workflows. The presentation covers features like compact mode, keyboard shortcuts, intelligent recap, Copilot, and integrations with developer tools that can improve personal productivity and group collaboration for software developers.

Advanced RAG with Azure AI Search - top questions answered | BRK100

This presentation provides an overview of Azure AI Search and its capabilities for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) use cases. It covers topics such as cost and scale optimization, accuracy and relevance improvements, and data ingestion and integration, as well as a live demo of a healthcare chatbot application built using Azure AI Search.

Revamping the Document Automation Workflow with Generative AI | BRK109

This talk explores how generative AI is transforming document processing workflows, including the use of Azure OpenAI models for robotic process automation (RPA) and document understanding. The speakers demonstrate how custom generative AI models can simplify document extraction tasks and integrate with RPA systems, while also highlighting PwC's use of Azure Document Intelligence for their own document processing needs.

Zero to Hero - Develop your first app with Local LLMs on Windows | BRK142

This video demonstrates how to develop your first AI app using local language models on Windows. It covers two approaches - using the AI Toolkit in Visual Studio Code to fine-tune a small language model, and using the ONNX runtime to build a PDF query tool that leverages retrieval-augmented generation.

Unleash the Potential of APIs with Azure API Management | BRK132

Azure API Management enables organizations to efficiently publish, secure, and transform APIs, with over 50 built-in policies. The new GenAI capabilities in Azure API Management provide features like token tracking, load balancing, and semantic caching to help customers leverage AI-powered services like Azure OpenAI while managing costs and compliance.

Using AI with App Service to deploy differentiated web apps and APIs | BRK125

The presentation covers the use of AI with Azure App Service to deploy differentiated web apps and APIs. It demonstrates how to integrate generative AI capabilities, perform load testing and automatic scaling, and leverage observability tools and partner integrations to enhance the development and deployment of web applications.

Gaming Industry use cases for Azure & AI | BRK253

This presentation provides an overview of Microsoft Azure's gaming industry use cases, covering remote game development, game server hosting, AI-powered features, and game analytics. The speakers showcase Azure's end-to-end vision for simplifying game development by leveraging a range of Azure services and demonstrating real-world use cases from major game studios.

Elevate enterprise DX with AI-powered and secure API collaboration | StudioFP108

Postman, an API platform, empowers enterprises to build, document, and test APIs securely and collaboratively with the introduction of Postman Vault for managing API secrets and Postbot, an AI assistant that boosts developer productivity by generating tests, documentation, and visualizing API responses.

Create a custom GPT with Blazor and .Net Maui Hybrid app | StudioFP104

This video demonstrates how to create a custom GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) using Blazor and .NET MAUI, a hybrid app framework. The presenter showcases the development of a Blazor server application that integrates with OpenAI's API to build a custom chatbot, and then seamlessly deploys it as a .NET MAUI hybrid app, allowing for cross-platform compatibility across web, Android, and iOS platforms.

Enhancing VS Code extensions with GitHub Copilot | BRK195

The video demonstrates how to enhance Visual Studio Code extensions with GitHub Copilot, including using the Copilot chat feature to provide custom functionality and context-aware responses. The presenters showcase examples of integrating Copilot with extensions for MongoDB and Stripe, highlighting the extensibility and power of the Copilot platform.

Practicalities of Fine-Tuning Llama 2 with AI Studio | BRK112

This video discusses the practicalities of fine-tuning the LLaMA 2 model using AI Studio, including the benefits of fine-tuning, the challenges involved, and a novel approach called RAFT that addresses some of these challenges. The presenters demonstrate how to fine-tune LLaMA 2 using AI Studio and share insights on hyperparameter tuning and cost-effective deployment.

Practical End-to-End AI Development using Prompty and AI Studio | BRK114

The video demonstrates the use of Prompty, a specification and tooling for end-to-end AI development, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and the creation of a multi-agent writing application. The presenters showcase Prompty's integration with Visual Studio Code, Langchain, and Semantic Kernel, highlighting its ease of use and flexibility for developers.

Deliver In-flight stream processing with Apache Flink on Azure | StudioFP123

This video showcases how to leverage Apache Flink on Azure to perform real-time stream processing and address customer service issues in an e-commerce scenario. The demonstration highlights the ease of masking sensitive data, integrating custom business logic, and identifying problematic product sizes to resolve the customer service problem.

Boosting developer productivity with an AI-powered developer portal | StudioFP141

The video showcases an AI-powered developer portal from HashiCorp that boosts productivity by providing step-by-step guidance and code samples for infrastructure and security management tools like Terraform and Vault. The portal leverages large language models to offer personalized assistance, making it easier for developers to get started and troubleshoot complex tasks.

Innovating the SDLC with insights from Docker CTO Justin Cormack | StudioFP128

This video discusses the ongoing collaboration between Docker and Microsoft, highlighting the advancements in container technology, including Windows containers, ARM support, and the integration of Docker with AI tools like Copilot. The video also emphasizes the importance of providing developers with seamless hybrid experiences, leveraging both local and cloud-based resources, to enhance productivity and enable the development of innovative applications.

Supercharging game dev with Microsoft's cloud native and AI technology | BRK254

This talk explores how Microsoft's cloud-native and AI technologies can supercharge game development. The speaker demonstrates using GitHub Copilot, Azure Container Apps, and other cloud services to rapidly build, deploy, and iterate on a web-based game, showcasing the benefits of a cloud-native approach for game developers.

Take an Azure OpenAI chat application from PoC to enterprise-ready | BRK134

The video provides a detailed guide on how to take an Azure OpenAI chat application from a proof-of-concept (PoC) to an enterprise-ready solution, covering infrastructure, the role of a gateway, and building the solution itself. It also highlights the importance of using well-architected principles, experimenting with different configurations, and leveraging published guidance to ensure the application is production-ready.

Bridge the chasm between your ML and app devs with Semantic Kernel | BRK250

This video discusses how Semantic Kernel, an open-source AI platform, can bridge the gap between AI researchers and enterprise app developers. The presentation showcases Semantic Kernel's capabilities in enabling seamless collaboration between these two teams, allowing them to leverage their respective strengths and deliver AI-powered solutions at scale.

Navigating Win32 App Development with WinUI and WPF | BRK241

This session explores the benefits and tradeoffs of using WinUI and WPF for building modern Windows applications. It covers the key strengths of each framework, when to choose one over the other, and how to leverage the Windows App SDK to enable incremental adoption and predictable consistency across different Windows versions.

Level up your dev box how devs at Microsoft are productive on Windows with Scott | BRK245

This video showcases the customization and productivity features available in Windows for developers, including tools like PowerToys, Windows Terminal, GitHub Copilot, and .NET Interactive notebooks. The presenters demonstrate how they personalize their development environments and leverage various Windows capabilities to boost their efficiency and streamline their workflows.

Five lessons Etsy learned building on Microsoft AI | BRK258

Etsy, an e-commerce platform, shares five key lessons they learned while building on Microsoft AI, including using the right platform, learning by building, optimizing for impact, balancing constraints, and recognizing the journey ahead. The talk covers Etsy's experiences with guided search, gift mode, mission clarity classification, and title rewriting using large language models, highlighting the challenges and solutions they encountered.

Better Together - Powering SAP innovation with Microsoft Copilot | BRK205

This session explores how Microsoft's Power Platform and Copilot can revolutionize the way businesses interact with their SAP systems, enabling greater agility, automation, and user experience. The presenters demonstrate various use cases, from automating accounts payable processes to leveraging Copilot for Finance, showcasing the power of integrating low-code and AI technologies with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

Better together build and deploy to Azure with GitHub | BRK180

The video demonstrates how developers can leverage the integration between GitHub and Azure to streamline their development workflow, from code to deployment. It showcases various tools and features, such as GitHub Copilot, GitHub Actions, and the Azure Developer CLI, that enable seamless collaboration, automation, and security throughout the software development lifecycle.

Grow your business with Copilot extensions and marketplace | BRK147

This video discusses how developers and businesses can leverage Copilot extensions and the Microsoft marketplace to grow their businesses. It covers the process of building, publishing, and monetizing Copilot extensions, as well as the various distribution channels and tools available to developers.

How GitHub builds GitHub on GitHub | BRK189

The presenters, Martin Woodward and Neha Batra, discuss how GitHub uses its own tools and processes to build and scale its platform, including the adoption of technologies like GitHub Codespaces and GitHub Copilot. They highlight the importance of developer productivity, communication, and cultural changes in an engineering organization.

Migrating to the Arm architecture from a developer’s perspective | StudioFP135

This video discusses the developer's perspective on migrating to the Arm architecture. It highlights the ease of porting Windows applications to Arm, the available resources for getting started, and the enthusiasm of the speaker for the Arm platform.

Shift test left and effectively debug to beat app quality challenges | StudioFP118

The video discusses the concept of 'shifting test left' and how Docker tools like Docker Debug and Testcontainers can help developers debug and test their applications more efficiently within their local development environment. The speakers demonstrate how these tools can provide developers with early feedback and confidence in the software they're building, without the need for a separate staging environment.

TomTom brings AI-powered talking cars to life with Azure | BRK121

TomTom has developed an AI-powered talking car assistant using Azure services like OpenAI, Cosmos DB, and AKS. The presentation covers the technical details of how TomTom built this assistant, including the use of retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, and responsible AI practices.

Code-First LLMOps from prototype to production with GenAI tools | BRK110

The video demonstrates how to build a code-first LLM (Large Language Model) application from prototype to production using Azure AI tools like Prompty, Semantic Kernel, LangChain, and Azure Developer CLI. It showcases the iterative development process, tracing and debugging capabilities, and monitoring solutions for LLM applications in production.

Create robust fully-featured apps with rich document viewing features | StudioFP107

This video showcases the Lead Tools SDK, a comprehensive document processing solution that offers a range of features, including image recognition, document analysis, and redaction capabilities. The presentation highlights the SDK's unique advantages, such as its on-premises deployment and support for sensitive industries like banking and healthcare, as well as a preview of the upcoming demo session.

Realize your vision with a guide to building Windows on Snapdragon | StudioFP121

This video discusses the opportunities for developers to build and port their applications to the Windows on Snapdragon platform, highlighting the performance, efficiency, and AI capabilities it offers. The speakers provide insights into the resources and tools available to help developers get started, including the Snapdragon Developer Kit, and share their experiences in porting and optimizing applications for the platform.

Developer experience improvements in Windows | BRK242

This session covers the various developer experience improvements in Windows, including new features in PowerToys, Dev Home, and the Windows command line. The session showcases advancements in environment management, configuration, and performance optimization, as well as upcoming enhancements to File Explorer and Windows customization.

Reimagine Enterprise Website building with Low Code using Power Pages | BRK208

This session provides an overview of Power Pages, a low-code platform for building enterprise websites. It highlights key capabilities such as Copilot for makers and visitors, low-code and pro-dev tools, data connectivity, and security/governance features to help organizations rapidly build and manage business-critical websites.

Using Power Platform to accelerate full-stack software development | BRK204

This session explores how the Power Platform can accelerate full-stack software development by providing a low-code/no-code platform that integrates with traditional code-first development. The presenters demonstrate how developers can leverage the Power Platform's features, such as source code management, custom components, and virtual entities, to build and deploy robust, enterprise-grade applications with increased efficiency and reduced technical debt.

Understanding cloud powered development environments | BRK185

This session discusses the benefits of cloud-powered development environments, highlighting Microsoft's solutions: Dev Box and GitHub Codespaces. The speakers demonstrate the features and use cases of these cloud-based tools, which aim to improve developer productivity and collaboration by providing customizable, on-demand development environments.

Build Microsoft Copilot extensions with Copilot Studio | BRK148

This session provides an overview of Microsoft Copilot extensions and how to build them using Copilot Studio. It covers the different types of extensions, including connectors, power automate flows, conversational AI plugins, and AI Builder prompts, and demonstrates how to create and publish these extensions within Copilot Studio.

Build your own copilot with Microsoft Copilot Studio | BRK143

This video showcases the latest advancements in Microsoft Copilot Studio, a platform that empowers users to easily build and customize their own AI-powered virtual assistants. The presenters demonstrate the simplicity of the creation process, the ability to integrate various data sources, and the enhanced security and compliance features, highlighting the platform's versatility in addressing a wide range of business needs.

App innovation in the AI era: cost benefits and challenges | BRK120

This session explores the benefits and challenges of app innovation in the AI era, showcasing how organizations can modernize existing applications, infuse them with AI capabilities, and leverage Azure services to enhance performance, scalability, and customer engagement without rewriting the entire application from scratch.

Developer’s Guide to Customizing Microsoft Copilot | BRK150

The session provides a comprehensive overview of the customization options available for Microsoft Copilot, including Graph Connectors, Plugins, Declarative Copilots, and Custom Engine Copilots. Developers can leverage these tools to extend the capabilities of Copilot and integrate it seamlessly with their own applications and data sources, enabling more focused and specialized AI-powered experiences for their users.

Accelerate Microsoft Azure deployment with infrastructure as code | ODFP666

Pulumi is an infrastructure as code tool that allows you to manage cloud resources using real programming languages like TypeScript, Python, and C#. The video demonstrates how Pulumi can be used to accelerate the deployment of Microsoft Azure resources, including features like Pulumi Insights, Pulumi Deployments, and integration with Azure Deployment Environments.

Transcending microservice constraints in search of supergraph nirvana | ODFP662

This talk explores the evolution of architectural patterns in software development, from monoliths to microservices and the emergence of supergraphs as a solution to the complexity of integrating multiple data sources. The speaker demonstrates how Hasura's supergraph architecture can provide a unified, composable, and governed API layer that abstracts the underlying data sources and enables efficient data retrieval across multiple databases.

How you can develop a new breed of applications | ODFP664

This video discusses how developers can leverage programmable network capabilities from mobile operators to create a new breed of applications. The speakers highlight the GSMA's CAMARA initiative, Microsoft's Azure Programmable Connectivity, and various use cases that showcase the potential for developers to build innovative, network-aware applications.

Explore AI-powered SDKs with Document and Medical Viewer Controls | ODFP615

This video explores the powerful capabilities of the LEADTOOLS SDK, a comprehensive software development toolkit designed to help developers create robust applications with advanced document and image processing features. The video showcases the SDK's document viewer, editor, e-signature, and medical imaging capabilities, demonstrating how developers can leverage these tools to enhance their applications and improve user experiences.

Meta & Microsoft: The future of Windows productivity and mixed reality | ODFP659

This video discusses Meta's investment in mixed reality technology and its partnership with Microsoft to enhance workplace productivity and collaboration. The presentation highlights the integration of Microsoft's productivity suite and Mesh platform with Meta's Quest headsets, as well as the company's focus on security and the future potential of AI-powered virtual assistants in the workplace.

How Cassidy.ai is building no-code tooling with Azure OpenAI Service | OD546

Cassidy.ai is building no-code tooling with Azure OpenAI Service to make it easy for businesses to customize large language models and AI technology to their specific use cases. The platform offers features like a knowledge base, AI-powered assistants, and no-code workflows, making it accessible to non-technical users and enabling them to automate tasks and create applications using AI.

Building JavaScript intelligent web apps with the AI Chat Protocol | OD547

The video introduces the new Microsoft AI Chat Protocol, a standardized API contract for consuming and evaluating AI backends in JavaScript-based intelligent web applications. The AI Chat Protocol SDK, an open-source library, enables seamless integration of AI backends with client-side applications, simplifying the development process and improving interoperability.

Scaling Spring Batch in the Cloud | OD542

This video discusses how Azure Spring Apps Enterprise provides a new feature called 'Jobs' that enables users to easily run and manage their Spring Batch applications in a cost-efficient, scalable, and fully-managed cloud environment. The speaker demonstrates the deployment and execution of a sample Spring Batch application using the Jobs feature, highlighting the benefits of reduced operational overhead and cost optimization compared to traditional approaches.

Build scalable automations with AI UiPath Autopilot | ODFP613

This video showcases two powerful AI-powered automation tools, UiPath Autopilot and Microsoft Copilot, that revolutionize data extraction, processing, and task automation in a seamless and efficient manner. The video demonstrates how these tools can streamline various business processes, from contract data retrieval to loan application submissions, highlighting the transformative potential of AI-driven automation in modern workplaces.

.NET API development end-to-end | OD538

This video covers end-to-end development of a .NET Web API using Visual Studio and ASP.NET Core, including scaffolding endpoints, configuring the database, and leveraging HTTP files and environment-specific secrets for testing and deployment.

Modern Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core & Blazor | OD533

This video demonstrates how Blazor, a web UI framework for building modern full-stack web apps using .NET, can be used to create a feature-rich web application with data management, authentication, and advanced UI components. It also highlights the upcoming improvements and new features planned for Blazor in .NET 9, as well as experimental work on integrating AI-powered components into Blazor applications.

Modernize desktop apps into state-of-the-art web ones with Wisej.NET | ODFP653

The video demonstrates how to modernize desktop applications into cloud-native, AI-powered web solutions using Wisej.NET, a framework for building enterprise-level web applications. The presentation showcases real-world case studies and highlights the benefits of this approach, including significantly reduced development time and costs, while preserving the existing business logic.

Master AI-enhanced search with Azure OpenAI and Elasticsearch | ODFP652

This video demonstrates how to leverage the Azure OpenAI service and Elasticsearch to enhance search capabilities and extract valuable insights from a large corpus of tax-related documents. The presentation explores a hypothetical scenario involving a goat rental business, showcasing the ability to quickly find relevant tax deductions and provisions by combining the power of AI-driven search and natural language processing.

Driving innovation through Azure Red Hat OpenShift and Azure OpenAI | ODFP636

This video showcases how Azure Red Hat OpenShift and Azure OpenAI can drive innovation by providing a comprehensive application platform and seamless integration of AI capabilities. The presentation highlights the benefits of this joint offering, including improved developer productivity, operational efficiency, and faster application development.

Accenture’s GitHubCopilot Study | ODFP638

Accenture's study on the impact of GitHub Copilot on their 125,000 software engineers reveals a 35% acceptance rate of Copilot's suggestions, with 88% of the accepted code retained, a 45% increase in build success rate, and a 15% increase in pull request throughput. The study also found that 100% of the developers found Copilot useful, with 50% considering it extremely useful in their day-to-day work.

With great power comes great responsibility in code quality | ODFP625

The presentation emphasizes the importance of responsible adoption of AI code generation tools, highlighting the need to ensure code quality, reliability, security, and maintainability. It introduces Sonar solutions as a way to integrate AI coding assistance with static code analysis to minimize risks and reduce technical debt in the software development process.

May the forms be with you: a new hope with Blazor Hybrid on WinForms | ODFP623

This talk demonstrates how to seamlessly integrate Blazor, a web-based UI framework, into a traditional Windows Forms application using Blazor Hybrid. The presenter showcases the ability to mix and match web content and Windows Forms content within the same application, enabling developers to leverage the benefits of both technologies.

Building blocks for using Azure-native experimentation | ODFP643

This video introduces Split Experimentation for Azure App Config, a tool that allows teams to measure the impact of feature flag releases on key metrics. It demonstrates how to set up the necessary components, create experiments, and interpret the results to make informed decisions and release features safely.

How Microsoft and Seismic are enabling the modern seller | ODFP641

Seismic, a global ISV partner of Microsoft, leverages cutting-edge Azure and OpenAI technologies to empower sales teams with tailored content, advanced analytics, and generative AI capabilities that boost productivity, streamline operations, and drive efficiencies across organizations. By integrating seamlessly with Microsoft's Copilot, Seismic's solutions enable sales professionals to access trusted information, automate tasks, and deliver exceptional customer experiences, all within their familiar Microsoft ecosystem.

Elevate team coordination and workflow integration with latest tools | ODFP603

This video showcases the latest AI-powered features in Lucid, a collaborative platform for team coordination and workflow integration. Presenters demonstrate how Lucid's collaborative AI capabilities can streamline ideation, diagramming, and task management, empowering teams to boost productivity and drive innovation.

Creating Immersive 3D Solutions with Microsoft Mesh | OD515

This video showcases how Microsoft Mesh, a platform for creating immersive 3D collaborative experiences, can be leveraged to build custom solutions for data-driven decision making. It demonstrates the Mesh toolkit's features, including the Mesh 201 tutorial, which integrates live data, AI-powered interactions, and spatial context to enhance a wind farm scenario.

Dynamics 365 test automation with ACCELQ Copilot | ODFP605

This video introduces ACCELQ, a codeless AI-powered test automation platform that integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite. It highlights ACCELQ's capabilities in automating across various technology stacks, its recognition as a leader by industry analysts, and its unique 'ACCELQ Live' feature for seamless integration with Dynamics 365 releases.

Streamlining Backend Printing in SAP Landscapes with Universal Print | OD519

This video demonstrates how the integration of SAP printing with Microsoft's Universal Print service can streamline backend printing in SAP landscapes. The speakers discuss the collaboration between SAP and Microsoft, the benefits of Universal Print, and how an open-source solution can be used to seamlessly connect SAP print queues with the Universal Print service.

Copilot: Bring protected AI chat to your organization at no additional cost. | OD511

Microsoft Copilot is a powerful AI-powered chat tool that provides commercial data protection at no additional cost to organizations with Microsoft 365 or Office 365 subscriptions. Copilot offers advanced features like natural language processing, knowledge-based responses, and creative capabilities, making it a versatile and secure AI assistant for businesses.

Leverage Copilot in Microsoft Loop for productivity and collaboration | OD508

This video demonstrates how Microsoft Loop can enhance productivity and collaboration for technical teams. It showcases various features of Loop, such as integrating Copilot, managing project requirements, sprint tracking, asynchronous collaboration, and streamlining retrospective meetings, to help teams optimize their workflows and focus on their core work.

Azure Boards New and Noteworthy | OD504

This video presentation covers the latest updates and new features in Azure Boards, including the New Boards Hub, improved work item history filtering, swimlane rules and colors, automated team rules, and enhanced GitHub integration. The speaker provides a comprehensive overview of the product enhancements, highlighting their benefits and the roadmap for their rollout.

HPC

Empowering scientific innovation with HPC AI and Quantum –with Aseem Datar | Studio09

This video showcases how Microsoft is empowering scientific innovation through the convergence of AI, high-performance computing, and quantum computing. The speaker, Aseem Datar, discusses Microsoft's investments and breakthroughs in these technologies, highlighting how they are enabling researchers and industry leaders to accelerate scientific discovery and bring new products to market faster.

Observability

Azure Monitor: Observability from code to cloud | BRK127

This talk provides an overview of the Azure Monitor observability platform, covering its capabilities for monitoring cloud-native, hybrid, and edge environments. The presenters highlight new features and enhancements, including AI-powered diagnostics, cost optimization, and extended observability for Kubernetes and virtual machines.

Sewing up success even when RAGs unravel | StudioFP115

Elastic's observability platform leverages AI and machine learning to help developers and SREs quickly identify and resolve issues in their applications. The demo showcases how the platform can analyze logs, metrics, and APM data to provide contextual insights and recommend solutions, streamlining the troubleshooting process.

Improve Application Resilience using Azure Chaos Studio | OD540

This presentation introduces Azure Chaos Studio, a platform that enables chaos engineering to improve the resilience of applications built on Azure. It demonstrates how to set up and run a chaos experiment to simulate an availability zone outage, highlighting the importance of continuous resilience validation throughout the application development lifecycle.

Optimizing AI Applications for Production with Observability | OD548

The video discusses optimizing AI applications for production using observability and OpenTelemetry. It covers the concepts of observability, the architecture and features of OpenTelemetry, and how to use it to instrument and monitor AI applications, including demos of using the .NET Aspire dashboard and Azure Monitor.

Performance Engineering

Boost workload performance and get more done optimizing native code | StudioFP120

This video discusses the challenges of measuring performance and how Arm's WindowsPerf tool can help optimize native code on Windows on Arm platforms. The speaker demonstrates the tool's top-down analysis approach and showcases how it integrates with the Windows performance ecosystem, providing developers with a comprehensive solution to boost workload performance.

Understanding AI performance and cost management with New Relic | StudioFP114

This video discusses the challenges software engineers face when integrating large language models (LLMs) into AI applications, such as managing latency, accuracy, and scalability. The speaker demonstrates how New Relic's observability platform can help developers address these issues by providing insights into their AI application's performance and cost management.

Security

Secure and govern Copilot within enterprise-grade low code solutions | BRK209

This session discusses how to secure and govern AI copilots within enterprise-grade low-code solutions. It covers key pillars of security posture management, data protection, deep visibility into user and maker activities, and compliance considerations for using AI-powered tools like Copilot in the Power Platform ecosystem.

Unlocking Data Security with Microsoft Purview | BRK229

Microsoft Purview is a comprehensive data security and compliance solution that helps organizations secure and govern their data throughout the AI lifecycle. The presentation demonstrates how Microsoft Purview can be integrated into AI-enabled applications to provide data security, compliance, and responsible AI features, ensuring the safety and trustworthiness of AI-generated content.

Bake Security into your workflow with GitHub Advanced Security and AI | BRK220

GitHub Advanced Security provides developers with security capabilities like code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency review, integrated directly into their development workflow. The session demonstrates how these features, combined with AI-powered automatic remediation suggestions from GitHub's co-pilot, can help bake security into the development process and reduce the time to remediate vulnerabilities.

Realize new opportunities with Fortinet and Azure Integrations | StudioFP122

This video discusses the importance of security in application development, particularly in the era of AI. The speaker, Aidan Walden from Fortinet, emphasizes the need to consider security throughout the application lifecycle, from design to production, and highlights Fortinet's approach to integrating security into the development workflow to minimize the attack surface and protect against vulnerabilities.

Remediating Cloud Risks with Microsoft Copilot for Security | BRK224

This video showcases the integration of Microsoft Copilot for Security into Microsoft Defender for Cloud, transforming the way organizations remediate cloud risks. The presentation highlights Copilot's capabilities in assisted risk exploration, guided remediation, and automated risk remediation, empowering security administrators to efficiently identify, prioritize, and address security vulnerabilities across multi-cloud environments.

Secure your Intelligent Applications with Microsoft Entra | BRK221

This talk discusses how to secure intelligent applications using Microsoft Entra, covering user authentication, authorization, and integrating access control with AI services like Azure OpenAI and Azure Cognitive Search. The presenters demonstrate various approaches, including using the built-in authentication feature in Azure App Service and Container Apps, as well as leveraging the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) SDK for custom authentication flows.

Safeguard your copilot with Azure AI | BRK105

This video demonstrates how Azure AI can be used to safeguard co-pilots and generative AI applications through features like content filtering, prompt shielding, grounded detection, and customizable safety categories. The presentation covers Microsoft's responsible AI approach, highlighting the importance of identifying and mitigating risks, and showcases real-world examples of how these tools can be integrated to build secure and trustworthy AI-powered applications.

Inside AI Security with Mark Russinovich | BRK227

The presenter provides an overview of AI security, discussing various threats and mitigation strategies. He emphasizes the importance of responsible AI principles, platform security, application security, and user-level security, highlighting the need for a multidisciplinary approach to address the challenges posed by AI systems.

Secure data processing with AMD Confidential VMs on Azure Databricks | ODFP639

This presentation discusses how Azure Databricks, with the help of AMD's confidential computing technology, can enable secure data processing and unlock significant business value for organizations, particularly those in regulated industries. The speaker highlights the challenges of cloud adoption in the European Economic Area, how confidential computing acts as a cloud enabler, and provides a live demo and customer testimonial to showcase the practical implementation and benefits of this solution.

True zero-trust runtime security in AKS | ODFP606

This video demonstrates how to use the NeuVector tool to implement a zero-trust security model for Kubernetes workloads in AKS. It shows how NeuVector can automatically discover, monitor, and protect applications running in Kubernetes clusters, allowing for the creation of security policies as code that can be easily deployed and enforced across multiple environments.