Reactor Auckland Pop-Up (Day 2) - Innovating with Data and AI

PLEASE NOTE - THE EVENT START TIME IS 3PM NZST

As part of our ongoing commitment to support the community to discover, engage and grow with the Microsoft Cloud, we are excited to be hosting a 3-Day event @ Microsoft Auckland's office featuring the some of very best presenters New Zealand has offer.

Each day will have it's own page, so please only register your attendance for the day/s you can attend. We will also be sharing a link closer to the event for those who can't join us in-person.

**Please only register if you can attend in-person**

Agenda:
3:00pm (NZST) - Welcome to Microsoft Auckland - Nigel Parker, Customer Success Lead, Microsoft.

3:05 - 3:30pm (NZST) - Azure Synapse Analytics- The one-stop shop for data analytics with Myra Ma, Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft
About the session: Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together the foundational capabilities for analytics: data integration, enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms. It brings together the worlds of structured and unstructured data with a unified experience for immediate BI and machine learning needs. In the session, you will not only see what fundamental capabilities Synapse already has, but also the future of data analytics that Synapse will bring to you.

3:30 - 3:55pm (NZST) - Step up the Power BI Architecture with Datamart
Presenter: Reza Rad- CEO @ RADACAD
About this session: Come to this session to learn how to have the best Power BI implementation architecture using the recently announced feature called Datamart. Learn how Datamart works with dataflow, dataset, report, and other components in the Power BI ecosystem through live demos.

4:00 - 4:25pm (NZST) - Zero to hero experience with AI: Azure Machine Learning Workspace.
Presenter: Leila Etaati
About the session: Azure Machine learning these days has been used by many companies around the world to leverage AI inside companies. This source can be used for people who do not have any experience with coding using some Ai features to apply AI and ML on their data to the data scientist who is able to code in python and want to consume their code in the Azure environment in orchestration with other Azure elements.

4:30 - 4:55pm (NZST) - Five examples of AI across five industries in five minutes each!
Presenter: Jourdan Templeton - CTO @ Aware Group
In this session: Lets' see how AI is being adopted by different companies and how they’re leveraging Azure to make it happen. If you’ve been interested in real world applications of AI, Microsoft’s Responsible AI framework, or just want to see something cool – this is the session for you.

5:00pm - 5:30pm NZST - Networking