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AI Community Conference - Boston 2024

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Understanding the decades-long journey of AI that has led us to the recent emergence of Generative AI is important to make the best use of its current capabilities and shape its future potential. This talk will focus on connecting the dots between the past, present, and the evolving future trends of generative AI.

Evolution of Generative AI

AI-Powered Storytelling: Revolutionizing Video Production with Generative Tools and Smart Systems

Session Description:

Step into the future of content creation where AI is no longer just a tool but a collaborator in storytelling. This session uncovers how generative AI and smart systems are fundamentally transforming the video production landscape, allowing creators to elevate their craft and scale their efforts in ways previously unimaginable.

You’ll explore the power of generative AI to autonomously produce stunning visuals, compelling narratives, and immersive video experiences—changing the way we approach everything from concept to post-production. Paired with smart decision-making systems like Smarty Pants, these technologies streamline workflows, automate complex processes, and optimize content for diverse audiences in real-time.

In this session, you’ll discover:
- How generative AI is expanding creative possibilities by crafting unique video content, enabling creators to break free from traditional limitations.
- Real-world applications and success stories, showing how AI-driven video production has transformed brands, campaigns, and storytelling.
-The integration of AI-powered decision-making tools, which balance creativity with data insights to produce more targeted, engaging, and impactful content.
- A forward-looking strategy, illustrating how you can implement these innovations in your own workflows to revolutionize your video production process and stay ahead of industry trends.

Perfect for content creators, media executives, and AI enthusiasts, this session is your guide to navigating the exciting world of AI-powered storytelling, blending cutting-edge technology with human creativity to produce exceptional content that captures attention and drives results.

See a sample talk (password: CGA) https://vimeo.com/video/1000771098?share=copy

Erich Archer https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericharcher/

AI-Powered Storytelling: Revolutionizing Video Production with Generative Tools and GPTs

Organizations are using Copilot to increase productivity across the organization. This session will cover in-depth details about how Power Automate is boosting the actionability of these intelligent copilots, and best practices.

Extend you Copilot with intelligent actions and workflows

In this dynamic 45-minute session, we'll confront the ethical dilemmas , business and societal implications arising from the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. Explore the crucial balance between harnessing AI's transformative power and ensuring its responsible development and deployment.
We will unfold the critical issues of AI bias, fairness, and transparency, and uncover the crucial role of governance in mitigating risks and maximizing benefits. Learn how proactive and inclusive governance frameworks can not only safeguard ethical AI practices but also become a catalyst for innovation, promoting trust and accountability.

Key Takeaways:
* Navigate the AI Value-Risk Spectrum: Uncover the potential for both remarkable progress and unintended consequences.
* Confronting Bias Head-On: Examine the pervasive challenge of bias in AI and strategies for its mitigation.
* Ethics as a Guiding Principle: Learn how to embed ethical considerations throughout the AI development lifecycle.
* Governance as an Enabler: Discover the power of robust governance in fostering responsible AI practices.
* Innovation Through Trust: Understand how thoughtful governance can foster trust and create an environment where innovation thrives.

This session is a must-attend for anyone seeking to navigate the complex and evolving AI landscape. Business leaders, technologists, policymakers, students, researchers and ethicists will gain valuable insights into the critical interplay between AI, ethics, and governance, and leave equipped to shape a future where AI serves as a force for good.

AI's Ethical Crossroads: Balancing Innovation with Responsible Governance

M365 Copilot is perhaps one of the most exciting capabilities to be added to the Microsoft 365 service, but it isn't cheap. In this action-packed session, we will talk about making a business case for M365 Copilot, which personas you should target first with your deployment, how to unlock and measure value for your investment in M365 Copilot, and some example use cases that should help you save time and realize productivity gains. 

 Microsoft AI Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Clippy (Getting business value out of Copilot for M365)

This session explores AI within the Microsoft ecosystem, focusing on a balanced approach that values both human-centric and data-centric perspectives. We'll explore how end-users interact with and benefit from AI technologies in Microsoft's landscape, while also examining how low-code solutions can bridge the gap between user needs and complex data-driven AI implementations. The discussion will cover effective strategies for introducing and scaling AI technologies across various business functions while maintaining a strong AI driven data culture. Participants will gain valuable insights into the harmonious blend of turn-key and user-friendly AI solutions, all while navigating the challenges of governance and adoption in the dynamic landscape of Microsoft's AI offerings.

Bridging the AI Gap: Human-Centric and Low-Code Approaches in the Microsoft Ecosystem

Learn more about how to protect your organization at the speed and scale of AI with a generative AI-powered assistant. Copilot for Security can summarize vast data signals into key insights to cut through the noise, detect cyberthreats before they cause harm, and reinforce your security posture. It can put critical guidance and context at security teams’ fingertips so they can respond to incidents in minutes instead of hours or days. And it can empower and advance the work of junior staff through step-by-step guidance and alleviate tedious tasks for senior staff so they can focus on strategic priorities.

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In this session, Rony will describe how databases like SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery can be transformed into GenAI machines. Rony will explain the challenges of using LLMs for enterprise data and the architectural considerations they needed to take into considerations to provide hallucination free insights from the databases. Rony will explain how at Tursio they create automatic data models and highlight industry specific GenAI use cases they are seeing and how enterprises are adopting GenAI to drive efficiency within their existing workloads using the Tursio platform.

What if your databases could be transformed into a GenAI Machine?

Step into the world of Generative AI with our beginner-friendly session. We'll share how we built our AI Copilot for financial and HR tasks, showcasing the fundamentals of choosing and implementing OpenAI's GPT-4 on Microsoft Azure. From model selection to application development using semantic-kernel, Visual Studio, and VS Code, our journey will provide invaluable insights for GAI developers and newcomers. Join us and turn your curiosity into action as we explore the fascinating real world of the AI copilot project!

Journey into Generative AI, Building Your Own AI Copilot

Join us for an in-depth exploration of how Copilot can enhance your experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Learn how this innovative tool can streamline your workflows, improve productivity, and provide intelligent insights to drive better decision-making within your organization. Discover practical tips, best practices, and real-world use cases to maximize the benefits of Copilot in your Business Central environment. Whether you're a seasoned user or new to the platform, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to leverage Copilot effectively and unlock the full potential of Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Title: AI Ready Data with Apache Iceberg: Unifying, Controlling, and Optimizing Your Data for Effective Artificial Intelligence

Target Audience:
Data engineers
Data scientists
Data architects
Technical leaders (CTOs, CIOs)
Anyone interested in improving data quality for AI/ML initiatives

Abstract
In today's data-driven world, the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) models depends heavily on the quality and organization of your underlying data. "AI Ready Data with Apache Iceberg" addresses this challenge and describes how Apache Iceberg can facilitate unifying, governing, and optimizing your data, making it truly AI ready.

Key Takeaways:
The Data Lakehouse Advantage:
Explain how Apache Iceberg, combined with the lakehouse architecture, provides a unified platform for all types of data, breaking down silos and simplifying data management.

Git-Like Data Governance with Nessie:
Introduce Nessie and demonstrate how its Git-like functionality brings version control, branching, and collaboration to your data, enabling efficient experimentation and ensuring data reproducibility.

Data Contracts for Quality Assurance:
Discuss the concept of data contracts and how they can be used to define and enforce quality standards, ensuring that data meets the necessary criteria for AI/ML workloads.

Iceberg's Optimized Data Structures:
Highlight how Iceberg's optimized data layouts (e.g., columnar formats, partitioning, hidden partitioning) improve query performance and resource utilization, leading to faster AI/ML model training and inference.

Real-World Use Cases:
Share examples of how organizations are using Iceberg, Nessie, and data contracts to build robust data pipelines, enhance data quality, and achieve tangible results with their AI initiatives.


AI Ready Data with Apache Iceberg: Unifying, Controlling, and Optimizing Your Data for Effective AI

Healthcare is not one-size-fits-all. Cognitive AI techniques can help develop personalized treatments and approaches for complex patients. 

Cognitive AI Techniques in Healthcare

In this session, we’ll dive into the transformative power of AI for organizations and entrepreneurs alike. AI is not just the future; it’s actively reshaping industries and unlocking unparalleled opportunities for innovation right now. Yet, some entrepreneurs/organizations hesitate, fearing that AI may replace jobs, limit creativity, or render human roles obsolete.

This talk aims to demystify AI and highlight its role as a vital collaborator in scaling your organization and building solutions that would otherwise seem impossible. By embracing AI with the right mindset, you can harness its potential to drive productivity and innovation while keeping the human touch at the center.

Key points we’ll cover:

How AI can enhance productivity and fuel creativity:
Practical ways to integrate AI into your organization to accelerate workflows and make better decisions.

AI as a co-creator, not a competitor:
Why AI is not here to replace founders or teams but to work alongside them, enhancing capabilities rather than limiting them.

Building confidence in AI:
How embracing AI will amplify your team’s potential and open doors to solutions and growth that were previously out of reach.

AI CoE Key Essentials:
The fundamentals of establishing an AI Center of Excellence (AI CoE) to drive AI adoption and foster innovation within your organization.

Embracing AI for Success

We'll introduce the many ways AI is baked into Microsoft's Power Platform. We'll view a bunch of the AI offerings from Microsoft, include M365 CoPilot and see how it assists in the creation of low code apps and Power BI reports. We'll show the Designer tool to create AI images, demo how to create chatbots in Azure and Teams, and we'll learn how to leverage AI to quickly turn an Excel table into a Dataverse schema, with data and a fully functional low-code app using the assistance of AI and the Maker Portal.

AI inside of the Microsoft Power Platform

Help end users learn about and prepare for the use of Microsoft 365 Copilot! This session will cover a range of topics, including an overview of Copilot's capabilities, best practices for using Copilot, and strategies for integrating Copilot into your organization's workflows. How to manage the human transformation through robust user enablement programs, invest in the employee experience, improve the culture, authentically integrate feedback, build and iterate technical skills to deliver on business results, provide access to training and experts, manage and mitigate risk, and improve service management processes. This session will provide valuable insights and information to help end users make the most of their Copilot experience.

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