August Meetup

18:30 - Menaka Baskerpillai

Build and Grow Customer solutions with Azure Bot Service

In this session let's discuss some important concepts of Azure AI in Customer Interaction services. Let's look deeply about Azure Bot services that includes Azure QnA maker and LUIS Platform and how to implement solutions using the Azure AI Service

Menaka Baskerpillai works as an Associate Software Engineer at Accenture Digital, she is a tech enthusiastic blogger and an international speaker who speaks about cloud and .Net core. Menaka spends her value time in learning and sharing her knowledge to the community. She is also a Former Microsoft Student Partner and Mozilla Firefox student Ambassador. She is a Microsoft certified Resource in Azure and programming in c#. Menaka recognised as a Most valuable professional by c# corner community.

19:30 - Break

20:00 - Amber Vanderburg

The Innovation Ninja

Organizations must be innovative to be competitive, valuable, and relevant. In you’re like many organizations today, you might be wondering how our season of widespread isolation will affect the product and service innovation in your organization. Limits can encourage and inspire creativity, but there’s also proactive steps that you can take to unlock creative genius in individuals and in teams.

In this interactive, engaging, inspiring, and fun chat, I’ll explore creative processes and the theory/ history behind creative masterpieces. I’ll share predictions and trends about an imagination revolution and the future of innovation.

I’ll examine and share practical ways to flex creative muscles. Participants will actively engage in various types of creative exercises utilizing auditory, tacit, visual, and imagination in a unique and captivating virtual session. I’ll challenge the innovative mind in activities to unlock the creative genius in work and life.

Amber is an award-winning international businessperson, coach, and speaker. Named as Tulsa’s 40 under 40, Oklahoma’s 30 under 30, and 3-time SHRM award winner with an MA degree in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Oklahoma and certifications in Lean Six Sigma and Scrum. Amber has implemented team best practices in organizations small and large domestically and abroad with a passion for mobilizing ideas and equipping teams to exceed goals. In 2016, Amber was the female, only American, and only blonde Academy elite football coach for the Adidas Gameday Academy/Paris Saint Germain Academy in Bangalore, India. Amber worked with an international team of coaches to transform the organizational design, training, and culture to cultivate a more high performing team. Amber speaks across the United States and has spoken in 7 different countries with clients including Google, LinkedIn Learning, Prezi, OKHR SHRM, ATD, ScanAgile 2019, and TYPO3.

21:00 - Finish