GAB 2018 Sessions



Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning



Introduction to the Azure Bot Service



Joe Mayo


Chatbots are an incredibly easy way for user's to interact with your company or service. A few popular use cases are FAQs, customer service, and notifications.


This session shows how easy it is to get started creating your own chatbot in the cloud with Azure Bot Service. Some knowledge of C# development will be helpful, but this is an entry-level presentation, teaching you how to build a basic chatbot.





darkdataspot.com AI-Assisted Search for Humans



Albert Rojas


Problem we solve: Search engines only support limited # of keywords.


Note: This is an entrepreneurial effort using AI with hybrid cloud.







Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio (for the Non-Data Scientist)



Michael Washington


Learn how to create predictive models using the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio. You can then deploy the models using web services, and consume the model using Microsoft Excel. We will also cover how you can create an .Net Core C# Angular 2 application to consume the model we will build. Finally we will cover programmatically retraining the model with new data.


The presentation will cover a series of articles at: http://AiHelpWebsite.com





Business Intelligence



PowerBI - Business intelligence like never before



Patrick Alexander


Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools that deliver insights throughout your organization. Connect to hundreds of data sources, simplify data prep, and drive ad hoc analysis. Produce beautiful reports, then publish them for your organization to consume on the web and across mobile devices.


Everyone can create personalized dashboards with a unique, 360-degree view of their business. And scale across the enterprise, with governance and security built-in.





Cloud architecture



Event-Based Architecture in the Cloud with Azure Event Grid



David Barkol


This session will provide an overview of Azure Event Grid along with some examples of how to leverage it effectively. We'll cover it's use cases, recommended practices and demonstrate some real-life scenarios of how it can be implemented.


Audience: developers and architects​





Introduction to Serverless using Azure Functions



Andrés Nava


In this introduction to Azure Functions, you will learn how to leverage event-based “serverless” compute to build scalable applications.


From simple one-off functions to building complex workflow, Functions can serve as a cost-effective and scalable platform to develop your backend services.


Audience: developers and architects. Level: 100





Demystify the Internet of Things & Azure IoT



Samuel Phung


IoT is a vague term used by business professionals to speculate a huge trend which may result in 50+ Billion devices deploy by 2020. While the projected number of IoT devices may not be accurate, the IoT business/technology trend is real, happening at rapid pace and is an important factor that drives future opportunities for Azure and other cloud businesses.


This presentation talk about the IoT marketplace, demystify the term IoT and explore some of the IoT opportunities, solution and ongoing opportunities for technology professionals in the application development, IT and data science fields





Internet of Things (IOT)



Harish Bansal


A talk on various Architectural components and Azure Services to build an end-to-end Azure IOT solution.


Audience: developers and architects.


Level: 100





Logic Apps



Harish Bansal


Build your workflows with Azure Logic Apps in minutes! Yes, you can follow along!


Audience: developers and architects.


Level: 100





DatabaseS



Azure SQL database - The intelligent relational cloud database service



Patrick Alexander


Azure SQL Database is the intelligent, fully-managed relational cloud database service built for developers. Accelerate app development and make maintenance easy and productive using the SQL tools you love to use. Take advantage of built-in intelligence that learns app patterns and adapts to maximize performance, reliability, and data protection.





AZURE COSMOS DB PART I - INTRODUCTION TO COSMOS DB



Leonard Lobel



This session presents an overview of Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed, massively scalable, low (single-digit millisecond) latency, fully managed NoSQL database service that is designed specifically for modern web and mobile applications. Like other NoSQL platforms, Cosmos DB supports a schema-free data model, built-in partitioning for sustained heavy-write ingestion, and replication for high availability. But only Cosmos DB offers turnkey global distribution, automatic indexing, and SLAs for guarantees on 99.99% availability, throughput, latency, and consistency.


We begin by explaining NoSQL databases in general, and how they compare with traditional relational database platforms. Then we tour the many features of Cosmos DB, including its multi-model capabilities which allow you to store and query schema-free JSON documents (using either SQL or MongoDB APIs), graphs (Gremlin API), and key/value entities (table API). You’ll learn about global distribution, scale-out partitioning, tunable consistency, custom indexing, and more. We’ll also discuss client development using the many available SDKs. Attend this session, and get up to speed on Cosmos DB today!





Azure Cosmos DB Part II – Building Cosmos DB Applications



Leonard Lobel



In this intensive demo-packed session, you’ll learn how to write applications for Cosmos DB, and see how to work with the various Cosmos DB APIs. These APIs support a variety of data models, including the SQL API (for JSON documents), Table API for (key-value entities), Gremlin API (for graphs) and Cassandra (for columnar). Regardless what you choose as a data model of choice, you’ll learn how to provision throughput, and how to partition and globally distribute your data to deliver massive scale.


You’ll see how to migrate data from SQL Server to Cosmos DB, and how to write queries using Cosmos DB SQL. Then we’ll write data access code that creates and queries databases, collections, and documents, manages custom indexing policies, and defines users and permissions for resource-level access. We’ll also create, deploy, and execute server-side stored procedures, triggers and user-defined functions, using the Cosmos DB server-side programming model. Attend this session, and prepare to build Cosmos DB applications today!





Microsoft Azure for SQL Server Professionals - Get your head in the cloud



Armando Lacerda


Lift and shift is an utopia many IT professionals have about moving on-prem resources to the cloud. The truth is we must understand how the cloud works so we adjust, design accordingly and deliver to expectations. As SQL DBAs we have options.


We can choose between IaaS or PaaS, between SQL in a VM or SQL DB, NoSQL options, Azure Data Warehouse some more. In this session we will dive into these options and understand some key points on the platform through some demos.





SQL Server Backup StrategiEs in Azure



Armando Lacerda


Keep doing things the same way because they have always worked in the past is a very comfortable mistake we all make in many areas. That includes backup strategies.


In this one-hour presentation full of demos I will explore many options available in SQL Server and Azure that can potentially reduce the amount of data and time required for backups and even eliminate the need all together. It sounds scary but it will be really fun.






Unleashing SQL Server Stretched Databases



Armando Lacerda


This is a deep dive session full of demos about SQL 2016 stretched databases feature. It will go from pre-reqs and blocking factor through deployment and disaster recovery.


Everything you need to know and when to use this new cloud-based exciting capability.






Development



Rock Your Development With A Real World Example



David McCarter


This session will demonstrate concepts in the first four parts of my series titled "Improving Code Quality... One Developer At A Time" with an real world app that attendees will use during this session. This app that runs from the cloud (Azure) will show how I use proper architecture design along with coding standards, defensive programming by properly implementing OOP, logging of events and exceptions, code obfuscation, unit testing, strong naming and much more. Even though code examples in this session are in .NET, the concepts can be applied to any language. This is part five in my series titled "Improving Code Quality... One Developer At A Time".


Note: Even though code examples in this session are in .NET, the concepts can be applied to any language.





Infrastructure



Reduce Azure VM Costs with Hybrid Benefit and Reserved Instances



Paul Morse


Come learn how to reduce the costs of running virtual machines in Azure. We'll do a brief overview of Virtual Machines and then examine the offers that can reduce VM operational costs by up to 82%. Well even do a live process of buying a Reserved Instance!​





Infrastructure As Code



Cesar White


In this session, you will learn how to build and deploy ARM templates to automate the creation of Microsoft Azure environments as well as how to monitor deployment progress. Cloud environments can be from simple to complex and include IaaS, PaaS or both. ARM templates support your CI/CD release pipeline allowing repeatability and consistency of services.


Level: 100





SECURITY



USING AAD, CLOUD APP SECURITY AND AZURE INFORMATION PROTECTION TO HELP PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS



Paul Morse


This session will examine the valuable intersection of Single Sign-on to SaaS apps, how Cloud App Security adds value and how Azure Information Protection protects a wide variety of document types where ever they are.​




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