Microsoft Cloud User Group - Manchester - 30th April 2019

Welcome to the second MSCUG Manchester meetup for 2019 :)

If you fancy speaking at any of our events get in touch. martin.boam@ucmart.co.uk

More info on our venue here https://bruntwood.co.uk/our-locations/manchester/neo/

Event Address - Neo, 9 Charlotte Street, M1 4ET

6:00pm – Networking

6:30pm – Custom Learning for Office 365 (formerly Microsoft Training Services) - Grace Picking - Microsoft

This session will include an overview of the program & a live demo of the Learning Portal & BOT.

7:00pm – Using Change Management to drive Transition to Cloud SaaS - Andrea Jones - Concoxia Ltd CEO and Founder

Let’s explore how to manage the transition to using SaaS and effectively managing the change while minimising the user impact.

7:30pm – Break, networking and Pizza :)

8:00pm – Real World Problem Solving with Azure Cognitive Services - Dylan Hayes - Blacklight Software

This session is aimed at those who are interested in Azure Cognitive Services and how it can be applied to solve real world problems.

Firstly what we mean by Azure Cognitive Services? And how does it relate to the long and sometimes legendary history of what has previously been termed "Artificial Intelligence"? Once past the Terminator and HAL 9000 quotes, we can then examine how cognitive services actually work, and how it is composed of distinct services that each solve particular problems.

Then we'll discuss the many services in more detail, and take the time to do some demos of interesting services such as image recognition, sentiment analysis and content moderation and see how they cope (or not) with real world data.

8.45pm - 9.00pm – Wrap up and Finish Wrap up and head to the pub for more networking.