Leveraging Azure Serverless and Cognitive Services for COVID-19 Data Processing

Dear CloudChamps,

We will continue with our online lunch and learn format for the month of July. For July, we have a very interesting topic delivered by a gifted speaker. Manoj is joining us from India and he is going to provide a walkthrough of a practical Azure implementation which he built during the COVID-19 lockdown. It's going to be an awesome session and we look forward to seeing you all.

Also, a gentle reminder in case you haven't signed up yet, please join our new slack channel - https://join.slack.com/t/charlotteazuregroup/shared_invite/zt-ectazw7m-HrnJYS~YcMGEtO~sZG_WtQ. Going forward we will be using Slack for meetup announcements, technical discussions and sharing job opportunities. It's a great way to extend and strengthen our community circle.

Abstract:
In this session we'll explore with a simple, yet representative example how Azure functions built with Python along with AI (leveraging Azure Cognitive services) can be combined to create a powerful, scalable solution for processing data. We'll use a hypothetical COVID-19 use case of performing text analytics (like Key Phrase extraction) for notes taken on the frontlines by COVID-19 medical professionals.

Speaker Bio:
Manoj Ganapathi, Chief Architect & Digital Technology Consultant
Manoj has more than 19+ years of IT experience. He is a seasoned Architect with products and services experience. His current area of specialization is Cloud and DevOps. You can connect with Manoj on Twiiter (@manojgr) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/manojg).