Artificial Intelligence for everyone (Veronika Kolesnikova)

Agenda:

6:00 pm Networking and pizza

6:30 pm "Artificial Intelligence for everyone" presented by Veronika Kolesnikova

I’m sure you have heard about artificial intelligence because it’s next big thing and all major tech companies are involved in its development. Now you can implement it too directly in all your websites, mobile and desktop apps using Microsoft Cognitive Services. In this session you will get basic knowledge about artificial intelligence, machine learning and their applications, go over all 6 groups of Cognitive Services and see individual APIs available in Azure. We’ll see how to use pre-built and custom services. Also we will concentrate on some details and specifics of Cognitive Services implementation in Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms solutions. In the end, you will see a demo on how using exported model from Custom Vision service create image recognition app.

Bio:

Veronika Kolesnikova
Web Developer at Rightpoint Passionate about backend web development, mainly with Microsoft technologies like C#, .NET, SQL, Azure. Loves to learn new development tools and languages and share the knowledge with the community. Public speaker, hackathon volunteer, Boston Azure user group co-organizer. Curious about mobile, ML and AR. Veronika holds a master degree in Information Technology. In her free time, she likes dancing, traveling and practicing aerial yoga.

Venue and Food:

We meet at Microsoft offices in Burlington, MA (see address above) at 6-8 pm. As usual, there will be pizza and sodas provided. Please RSVP through this site if you will be attending.