Introduction to Cognitive Services

Introduction to Cognitive Services

Abstract:
Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science. These are all terms which are being asked of us as engineers. However, these topics are topics which take years to understand and master. This session will showcase how Microsoft has taken some of its greatest research and transformed it into simple APIs which any developer can use and integrate into their applications quickly. These services truly democratize access to intelligent capabilities.

Speaker Bio:
David Crook is a Tech Evangelist at Microsoft. He also holds the position of IoT & ML Dev Lead for Evangelism – South East, World Wide Machine Learning Subject Matter Expert, Deep Learning Garage Lead and Self Driving Car Research Group Member. David has been working at Microsoft 5 years across multiple organizations. David is a Husband, Father and Entrepreneur. While not working during the day, David spends his off time working on his advanced cognitive robotics startup.