Innovate with Azure Bootcamp

The pace and scale of technological innovation happening today is unprecedented and it breathes optimism into our demanding economy. Those leveraging the Microsoft Cloud — the most trusted, comprehensive, and integrated cloud — are best positioned to take advantage of these advancements. Join us to learn how we can help you leverage generative AI as an accelerant to your transformation. Three reasons to attend this session:

1. Your employees and customers are demanding (or will very soon demand) AI capabilities in the services you offer.
2. Learn how to build your own copilot solutions using the same stack and AI services Microsoft used to build our own copilots.
3. AI capabilities in the Microsoft Cloud enable everyone to be more productive, more creative, and more efficient than was ever possible.

Data is the lifeblood of organisations around the world. Over the past few decades, successful businesses have been collecting and storing massive amounts of data from apps, services, IoT sensors and more. Managing and extracting value from data is essential for organisations of all kinds to survive and thrive, but harnessing transformative value from data is extremely challenging. In this session, Prerita Mehta, Azure AI Product Lead, will explore how Microsoft Fabric can tackle these challenges by providing a unified intelligent data foundation for all analytics workloads. You'll discover:

• How to empower every business user.
• How AI drives intelligent insights with Copilot and ChatGPT.
• How you can get hands on with Microsoft Fabric at your own pace.

As the volume of user- and AI-generated content grows, it’s clear that the flipside to the wonder, potential and opportunity of AI is the potential risk to brands and organisations. We explore how AI can be used responsibly to build trust and ensure fairness in the digital world. Join Microsoft experts as we focus on how you can leverage the Microsoft Copilot platform to build AI responsibly in the Microsoft Azure platform and with the integration of open source models and tools. You'll have the opportunity to learn from real-world examples of successful implementation of Responsible AI practices across a range of industries. During the session, we’ll explore:

• See the responsible AI principles in practice through live technical demonstrations showcasing the latest capabilities of AI. Through these demonstrations, you will witness first-hand how AI can be leveraged to address complex challenges.
• The AI principles that guide responsible development and deployment.
• How to ensure privacy and data protection in AI applications.
• Building trustworthy, transparent and accountable AI models.

Get ready to supercharge your development experience with Microsoft! Develop anything from anywhere with exciting options at your fingertips. Say goodbye to slow laptops because GitHub CodeSpaces and VS Code Remote let you code in a flash using containers, remote machines, or WSL. Tired of the same old environment? Embrace the fun of DevBox and explore new setups for each project you tackle. Ready to take coding to warp speed? Meet your new best friend, GitHub CoPilot, the ultimate companion for pair-programming adventures. No boundaries here! Work from anywhere, anytime, with seamless source control integration on both desktop and web. The choice is yours, and we're thrilled to guide you through the delightful array of possibilities in this awesome session!.

Business leaders are increasingly looking to fuel innovation with cloud-native services and be AI ready, where they are looking to the cloud as an enabler – 90% of new apps will embed AI by 2025, and 95% of new initiatives will be cloud-native by 2025. However, many of those leaders need to demystify Cloud Economics to build a strong business case. In order to be AI ready, organisations need to migrate to innovate. Cloud business value extends beyond cost. Migration to Azure provides business leaders with the best of both worlds - the optimised platform to fully embrace AI and cloud native applications, while maximising ROI and giving the necessary performance and resilience. All of this delivered with comprehensive code to cloud security. Hear from Padi Quesnel, as he covers off cloud economics and building a strong business case to justify moving workloads from on-premises datacenters to the cloud from both a technical and financial aspect so that you’re ready to maximise your innovation potential.

What is the ROI Microsoft customers get by moving to the cloud? This webinar, featuring Dave McCarthy, Research Vice President at IDC, will give you insights from actual Azure customers on how they improved business efficiency and reduced costs by moving their Windows Server and SQL Server workloads to Azure. In the session, you’ll learn from actual customer experiences how to:

• Optimise infrastructure costs.
• Enhance security.
• Ship new applications and features more rapidly.
• Make a business case for cloud migration and modernisation for your own company.

Plus, you’ll hear key learnings and best practices from customers based on their cloud migration and modernisation experiences.

Join Microsoft and IBM for an informative session on how to leverage Azure and Power Platform to extend and innovate your SAP ERP and SAP BTP investment. You will learn how Microsoft and SAP are collaborating to help you accelerate your digital transformation and deliver business value fast. IBM, a key Microsoft SAP Extend and Innovate partner, will share a customer success story that showcases the technical and cultural benefits of using Azure and Power Platform with SAP. You will also get insights into the best practices and lessons learned from this project. In this session, you will discover:

• How Microsoft and SAP are co-innovating to help you optimise your SAP investment and increase your speed to value.
• How Microsoft is simplifying the integration of Power Platform with SAP products and what are the upcoming features and enhancements.
• How Power Platform can empower your SAP users with low-code/no-code tools to create custom apps, workflows, chatbots, and more.
• How a real customer used Power Platform to extend and innovate with their SAP solutions and achieved tangible outcomes.
• How to get started with Power Platform and SAP and deliver business value fast.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Microsoft and SAP can help you unlock innovation within your organisation. Register now.

Security has never been more critical! As you plan your migration to the cloud, in addition to thinking about the migration itself, the most critical task is to secure migrated workloads from threats. Azure offers the most comprehensive mix of technology, best practice guidance, programs, offers, and tools to securely migrate your entire datacenter to the cloud. Learn about new programs and tools available yo help you secure your workloads from cloud to edge with industry-leading, multilayered security.

As organisations look to leverage the opportunities that new innovations in AI bring, understanding the real business impact of these technologies is critical. Getting support from Boards and Executives across an organisation requires a strong business case and core to that is understanding how you think about and then measure success. In this session we will take a look at:

• The different implementations of AI across a business and what that can mean in terms of business improvements or gains;
• Ways of thinking about the impact of your invesments and how you can identify ways of developing different kinds of metrics to measure success against;
• What you can do to make sure that you realise the maximum return on your investment against those metrics.

We believe Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the defining technology of our time. And we also believe that there are core elements a business needs to ensure they get right to be successful in their AI transformation. Join us to get a deep understanding of AI’s key benefits, its functional use cases, and the capabilities required to enable AI within an organisation. Three reasons to attend this session:

• Learn what it means to be AI first and the typical challenges that can get in the way of this goal.
• Understand what holistic data and AI strategies look like across technical and non-technical domains.
• Hear stories about your peers in Asia currently living and breathing AI-first.

Generative AI is predicted to create as much as $115 billion a year for Australia’s economy by 2030. Join Kate Seward, Corporate Affairs Manager at Microsoft, as she delves into the staggering findings uncovered in ‘Australia’s Generative AI Opportunity Report’ – a collaboration between the Tech Council of Australia and Microsoft. You’ll discover:

• The actions adopters need to take now to embrace the generative AI opportunity.
• The four sectors of the Australian economy that are poised to benefit most, and how.
• The key challenges that must be overcome in order to capture this enormous economic opportunity.

AI advancements are fueling global headlines, extensive interest, and widespread innovation. In today’s environment, leaders need new frameworks and strategies to derive business value from AI. Watch Susan Etlinger, Director of Data & AI Marketing at Microsoft, for a sit down with Atefah “Atti” Riazi, CIO of Hearst and Maribel Lopez, founder of Lopez Research as they share their unique perspectives on how organizations can realize business benefits with AI. Watch this webinar to learn more about:

• How to shift from a solution implementation to a problem-solving mindset.
• How collaboration between IT and business teams is key to ROI on AI initiatives.
• Why business leaders should take part in setting standards and enforcing best practices for AI.
• Why Hearst is seeking technical talent with a breadth of interests beyond technology.