[Online] Pete Gallagher - Raspberry Pi AI + Christophe Crémon - Agents of Change

Sponsored by Raspberry Pi, PJG Creations Ltd & JetBrains.

About the Event:

We'll be kicking off at 18:30GMT for an open networking chat on Zoom, before kicking our talks off at 7PM.

What we'll be doing:

Christophe Crémon - Agents of Change: How Agentic AI is Revolutionizing Every Industry:

Discover how Agentic AI is revolutionizing Industries. Our "Omni Industry Agents Network" project creates powerful, adaptive AI agents that autonomously address complex challenges and unlock new opportunities within various industrial scenarios.

We focus on delivering tangible improvements in productivity, decision-making, and operational excellence, ensuring businesses across all sectors can harness the full potential of generative AI.

Pete Gallagher - Detecting Pollinating Insects with a Raspberry Pi and the Hailo AI Kit

In this short session, Pete will be running us through how he built an AI Pollinator Camera trap for the Gold Medal winning Avanade Intelligent Garden.

Using a Raspberry Pi 5 and an AI Kit, along with a Hailo HEF model, the camera trap could track the presence of pollinating insects in the Avanade Intelligent Garden.

Our speakers:

Christophe Crémon:

Christophe is a Lead Solutions Architect, Digital Manufacturing & Industry 4.0 Expert, a Microsoft MVP and an IT Professional with with over 20 years of experience.

He began his career as a self-taught developer, gradually expanding his expertise to include Cloud computing technologies. His journey to becoming a Cloud Solutions Architect involved mastering and successfully implementing Microsoft Cloud technologies in various customer projects.

Since 2019, he has been at the forefront of Industrial IoT technologies, leading pre-sales activities for Avanade Industry X (Industry of the Future) offerings in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Christophe is also a Microsoft MVP in the IoT Category.

You can find him at;

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophecremon/

Pete Gallagher:

Pete Gallagher is a Application Architect Manager at Avanade UK, a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Azure MVP, Pluralsight Author, experienced public speaker and Meetup organiser.

He has been creating software for decades and is happy programming in just about any language.

Pete has been involved in a wide span of tech in his many years of industry experience, including IoT Projects for; Royal Mail Stamp Vending before there was such a thing as modern IoT, Building Monitoring Systems, Internet Connected Self Service Kiosks, Wildlife Protection and Ecology in Africa and much more.

He has presented internationally on a wide variety of IoT Topics, including the Azure IoT Stack, AI, Robotics, .NET, DevOps, Amazon Alexa, Particle Photon, Arduino etc etc.

Pete helped create the Microsoft AZ220 IoT Developer certification and also has created Pluralsight content to help learners pass the exam.

Pete also organises​ Notts IoT, co-organises Dot Net Notts, Notts Dev Workshop, sits on the Board of LATi, a Loughborough based Advanced Technology networking group, co-organises the Azureish Twitch channel, co-hosts IoTeaLive and is a co-host of the Agile Engineering Podcast.

He is also an active STEM Ambassador and is passionate about making STEM subjects accessible to all ages.

Pete particularly likes gadgets of all kinds!

You can find him at;

x: https://x.com/pete_codes
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pjgcreations/
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/petecodes.co.uk
Sessionize: https://sessionize.com/peter-gallagher/

Swag:

We'll also be giving away a JetBrains license to one lucky attendee!