Name: Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge Local Party
Start: 2023-08-08T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-08-08T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Microsoft NERD New England Research & Development Center

Boston Azure is supporting you in the Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge with an in-person event! Join us for lots of AI awesomeness at NERD in Cambridge.

We'll provide an overview of Azure AI infrastructure, talk about AutoML, Azure Open AI and Copilot. The talks will be related to the content of the AI Challenge: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/cloudskillschallenge/ai/registration/2023?ocid=aisc23_CSC_AI-MVP-5003396

Signups close the night before - Monday @ 8 PM. On Tuesday, August 8th, pizza will be provided and we'll spend the first half an hour socializing.

1. BRING GOV'T-ISSUED ID - driver's license or passport or similar should do the trick - this is to get into NERD
2. There are no longer any mask or vaccine requirements from Microsoft who is kindly offering the space for us to host this event.

Bill Wilder

Veronika Kolesnikova

Jason Haley

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**Bill Wilder**
Bill Wilder is a cloud computing veteran, with deep expertise in the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, with a technology focus on public cloud, distributed systems architecture, and application security. Since 2014, Bill has been CTO at Finomial, an early stage SaaS company serving the global hedge fund industry from the cloud. Prior to that, Bill consulted as a hands-on architect to giant corporations (including Microsoft), mid-sized companies, and startups, helping them execute on the cloud by providing architecture guidance, Azure training, and custom development. Bill began working with the Azure cloud platform the day it was unveiled at the Microsoft PDC in 2008 and subsequently founded, in October 2009, Boston Azure, the oldest Azure-focused community user group in the world.




Starting in fall 2019, Bill joined as adjunct faculty in the School of Engineering at Quinnipiac University teaching a class on securing cloud workloads on Azure as part of their Masters in Cybersecurity degree program.

Bill is co-author of two CloudAcademy training courses on Azure (including one on Azure Security) and is the author of the book Cloud Architecture Patterns (O’Reilly Media, 2012) which explains patterns and concepts core to understanding how to most effectively use public cloud platforms such as those from Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Bill is also recognized by Microsoft as a Microsoft Azure MVP, a reflection of his Azure cloud expertise, a willingness to share it, and community leadership.

Bill speaks regularly at community events and occasionally at big conferences (most recently at O’Reilly’s Software Architecture Conference), blogs at blog.codingoutloud.com, and tweets from @codingoutloud.

**Veronika Kolesnikova**
Passionate about backend web development, mainly with Microsoft technologies like C#, .NET, Azure. Public speaker, hackathon volunteer, and co-organizer of Boston Azure user group. Curious about AI, ML and AR.

Veronika holds a master's degree in Information Technology. She likes dancing, traveling and practicing aerial fitness in her free time.

Bill Wilder and Veronika Kolesnikova