Jan Meetup | Build Your Copilot (Azure AI Studio), ID Aircraft (Computer Vision)

*The Microsoft AI Tour comes to New York on Jan 25. The event is free to attend but you must register here: https://aka.ms/msaitour*
The event provides a full-day of hands-on technical sessions and workshops covering all aspects of AI development and tooling. Join us for the Jan 22 meetup for a sneak peek at key sessions from that event, alongisde community talks from NYC. Please bring your laptops fully-charged, if you want to explore the tools and code samples presented.

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Agenda:
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5:00 pm - Doors Open
Food & Networking.

5:45 pm - Welcome & Announcements
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• Microsoft AI Tour (Jan 25)
  *RSVP: https://aka.ms/msaitour*
• Microsoft AI Tour Pre-Event Mixer (Jan 24)
  *RSVP: https://aka.ms/AITourPre/NYC*
• Cosmos DB Conference Call-For-Speakers (closes Feb 15)
  *https://sessionize.com/azure-cosmos-db-conf-2024*

If time permits, we'll give you a sneak peek of the Microsoft AI Tour NYC tracks, speakers and sessions, with links to resources to check out.

6:00 pm - Featured Talk #1
Title: Build your own co-pilot using Azure AI Studio
In this session, you'll learn how to create an enterprise chat solution with an advanced LLM using your data to quickly help your customers with comprehension, tasks, and decisions. Along the way, you'll get an introduction to the rich features and tools that make up the Azure AI platform, from Azure AI Studio (with CLI and SDK) to PromptFlow.

Speaker: Henk Boelman - Henk is a Cloud Advocate specializing in Artificial intelligence and Azure with a background in application development. He is currently part of the AI cloud advocate team and based in the Netherlands. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Microsoft AI MVP and worked as a software developer and architect building lots of AI powered platforms on Azure.

7:00 pm - Featured Talk #2
Title: Deep Dive on Using Computer Vision For Aircraft Identification
This talk will focus primarily on the theory and implementation of classifiers, a popular model architecture for tasks associated with computer vision. We will cover a brief history of classifier model architectures including SVMs, Logistic Regression, and CNNs. We will explain the mathematical foundation for how these models work. Furthermore, we will showcase a demo of a custom app that uses Pytorch to implement a classifier that identifies different aircraft.

Speaker: John Foster - John is a Software Engineer who graduated with a computer science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has built multiple AI / Generative AI applications and has also worked on undergraduate research in ML while at RPI. John is a student pilot and is passionate about all things related to aviation.

7:30 pm - Doors Close
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Welcome to the AI Developers & Entrepreneurs Meetup!
This is a community meant for anyone who is interested in exploring the fast-growing AI ecosystem from the perspective of an application developer or a startup founder. Join us as we build an inclusive and collaborative community of students, creators, entreperneurs, developers and enthusiasts looking to build intelligent apps & experiences.

Event Sponsors
We are grateful to our hosts and partners at Microsoft for their support. Thank you to Microsoft Reactor for hosting us and the Microsoft Developer Audience team for sponsoring food and drink for this event. Please check out their site and links for more events and resources to help you learn and build with cloud and AI.

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