[In Person] Newcastle .NET Meetup - Mar 19th - Azure Open AI, CoPilot, Azure IOT

We will be at a new venue this time as the good folks over at BJSS in Newcastle will be hosting and sponsoring the event.

BJSS, 12th Floor, Bank House, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle, NE1 6SQ

We have a fairly relaxed agenda, but will follow:

5:30 - Doors Open
5:45 - Pizza arrival
6:05 - Introduction / Housekeeping
6:10 - Talks begin
8:00 - Closing

Talk 1: An Intro to Azure Open AI & CoPilot

Description:
Generative and conversational AI is starting to transform companies. To help keep organisations secure you can now deploy Open AI’s DALLE, Chat GPT and embedding models into a compute and security response hosted in Azure.

In this session we will cover:

• An overview of Azure Open AI
• Deploying a Azure OpenAI resource instance in your Tenant
• Using Azure OpenAI studio to deploy, import data sets and set content filters
• Use Azure Open AI studio to examine C# and Python code to embed into apps.
• How to visualise prompts and completions in the studio and in JSON format.

Speaker Bio:
I’m Dan Oliver. I’m a director at EY’s Digital Engineering Technologies practice, where I head up Azure and AI.

Before that I was a Chief Azure Architcet at IBM and was with Microsoft for 17 years working in Cloud and Data Center Technologies.

Talk 2: Azure IoT Using Dotnet Nano Framework

Description:
Peter will show you how to create an IoT hub in azure, set up and register an IoT device on that hub, then he'll program some firmware using C#/.Net standard code into the device, so that it talks to the device registration in Azure, and finishing off with a quick demo of the features available in IoT hub and how the device responds to them.

He'll be programming either an STM32F4 series or an ESP32 series controller board (Maybe even both) , and will be using Visual Studio and the .NET Nano framework extension.

Speaker Bio:
Peter Shaw - I have been a dev for 30 or more years now.

I wrote my first bit of code in may 1979 at the age of 7, by the time I was 10 I was programming chip level in machine code on the Z80 & 6502 CPU's, moving into my teenage years I was programming Arm cpu's before anyone knew what they where.

I don't really sell myself, I'm a dev after all not a marketer, but there's not many areas of I.T. I've not worked in, from hardware to software, support to management.

These days I'm best known for my activities in the .NET & MS Dev scene here in the UK, My blog posts frequently appear on other outlets as well as my own blog, and if you've got the time to sit and listen to what I have to say, I've certainly got the time to tell you.

I'm a veteran of the "Developer Developer Developer" series of live developer events here in the UK, and one of the main figures behind "LiDNUG" (http://lidnug.org) on the linked in network.