Azure Thursday - May 2021

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## Schedule (Time in CEST)
18:30 - 19:00 - Get ready!
19:00 - 19:45 - Sarah Maston | Project 15
20:00 - 20:45 - Sander van de Velde | Solving real world problems using ML.Net and Azure IoT edge.
20:45 - Bye bye!

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19:00 - 19:45
Title: Project 15
Speaker: Sarah Maston

Abstract:
Project 15 from Microsoft (aka.ms/project15) began when Sarah Maston realized that solutions and skills of the commercial solutioning world could help scientific projects be accelerated. She realized this after a safety platform she had invented for safe schools had a new use case of anti-poaching. Additionally, what was the real difference in the prevention of loss from a store from preventing the loss of a pangolin.

Now entering its second year, Project 15 from Microsoft has partnered with many NGO organizations including the GEF Small Grants Programme implemented by the United Nations Development Programme. This session will cover the origin of Project 15 and how as Sarah and her co-founder Daisuke Nakahara developed the Project 15 Open Platform to accelerate the development of IoT solutions in the scientific space.

About Sarah Maston:
Sarah works with our partner ecosystem to build global scalable IoT solutions on Azure. She specializes in process architecture and data solution architecture. She is the founder of Project 15 from Microsoft (aka.ms/Project15) and the inventor of Project Edison, a safety notification solution accelerator for safe schools and workplaces, for which she won the Microsoft Polaris Award. In her 20-year career, she has architected many data warehouses out in the world including those at Monster.com, CouchSurfing.com, and Boston Medical Center. Prior to joining Microsoft, she won an Excellence & Eminence Award at IBM for the invention of the Nutrition Graph and an Outstanding Innovation Award for the invention of Simple Data Pipe.

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20:00 - 20:45
Title: Solving real world problems using ML.Net and Azure IoT edge
Speaker: Sander van de Velde

Abstract:
Life is strange for IoT devices. They are 'born' in the outside world all alone, or they are on the move, or they are located in places which are hazardous, not easy to access, and nobody is there to nurture them.
But still, they have to execute logic locally and make intelligent decisions on their own using eg. ML.
Luckily, Azure IoT Edge comes to the rescue Zero-touch provisioning and deployment.
In this session, attendees learn how Azure IoT Edge is brought to life successfully for intelligence on the edge and how Azure provisioning services help unattended provisioning.

About Sander van de Velde:
I'm an IoT Platform Architect at Atos and specialized in Microsoft Azure IoT. I’ve been presented with the 2017 – 2021 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for my Azure IoT community work.
On a daily bases, I'm involved with most aspects of the Azure IoT Platform and Azure in general.
I work on IoT innovations and I implement my findings in my daily work with partners, clients, and the community.