Visualizing Palmyra with Mixed Reality + Azure

This meetup is hosted by and organized with ReDi School (redi-school.org)

Please note: The event is at Kemperpl. 1, Eingang A and you can tell at the reception that you’re here for the meetup and they will let you through on the 7th floor.

Talk 1: Premade AI in the Azure Cloud with Python
"The goal of Azure Cognitive Services is to help developers create applications that can see, hear, speak, understand, and even begin to reason”. In this talk, we will learn how to setup and use a handful of Azure’s Cognitive Services with Python, Jupyter notebooks and a collection of snippets to get you quickly up and running.

Speaker: Diego Penilla, Data Scientist Intern in Akelius

Talk 2: Visualizing Palmera with Mixed Reality + Azure
After a short introduction, Zaid will dive behind the technology of what it takes to create a Hololens application (with Unity 3D) and how to integrate it with Azure Technology (Text-to-Speech).
With the support of Matthias Buchorn he will be visualizing the destroyed historical monuments of the city Palmyra (over 2000 years old city) in Syria with Microsoft Hololens Mixed Reality Technology.
He will also be talking about future plans of the project with Azure.
At the end of the talk, there will be a Hololens demo that the meetup visitors can experience.

Speaker: Zaid Zaim
Zaid Zaim, a student at ReDi School and from Syria, is very passionate about the project and will also be speaking about the idea and background of this project.

Agenda:
18:00 - walk-in
18:30 - Start 1st talk
19:15 - Break
19:30 - Start 2nd talk and Demo