May 14 Silicon Valley AI Immersion - Shaping the Future of Startups, Digital Native, ISV, Unicorns

This exclusive event is designed for Startups, Digital Native, ISV and Unicorn companies. It will be held at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Conference Center, 1045 La Avenida Street, Mountain View, CA 94043, with complimentary Parking and WiFi, Easy Access off the 101. Individuals located outside Northern California can watch the Zoom Livestream.

You will learn about Microsoft’s comprehensive solutions across Generative AI, Agentic AI, Data Analytics and more, through a series of technical presentations.

Scroll down to see the current agenda and speakers. Click on the name to view their Linkedin profile, and session title for additional information. CPE credit hours are provided.

Please use your Angelbeat account - created on the secure Memberspace platform - to apply to attend by clicking the green REGISTRATION button. If you already have an account, you will be asked to confirm your registration request, with one click. Otherwise you are prompted to fill out a simple contact form.

Microsoft is partnering with Angelbeat and its highly-respected CEO Ron Gerber, on this powerful, impactful and exclusive event.

Agenda, Topics, Speakers

8:00 - 8:50 Check-In, Retrieve Your Badge, Get Microsoft Swag, Enjoy Coffee & Breakfast, Network with Peers

8:50 Event Overview and Introductory Comments

Ron Gerber, CEO Angelbeat

Ron is your host for the day and summarizes the agenda.

9:00 Microsoft Executive Commitment and Corporate Strategy

Asad Ahmed, WW Leader, Microsoft Startups

Learn about Microsoft’s executive commitment and corporate strategy to support Startups, plus Digital Natives, ISV’s and Unicorns.

9:15 Azure AI Infrastructure

Nadeem Mohammad, America’s Leader AI, Microsoft

Deliver high-powered performance to your most compute-intensive AI workloads, including deep learning, with a purpose-built portfolio of AI infrastructure.

9:45 Azure AI Foundry: Unlocking the Power of AI

Savita Mittal, Data & AI Technical Leader | Digital Natives, Startups and ISVs

Yemi Adejumobi, GenAI Solutions Architect, Microsoft

Savita will explore the transformative impact of AI on the future of work and enterprise capabilities. The session will delve into the innovative features of Azure AI Foundry, a comprehensive platform designed to design, customize, and manage AI applications and agents. Attendees will gain insights into the latest trends in generative AI, the challenges faced in AI application development, and the strategies to overcome these hurdles.

The presentation will also highlight the practical applications of Azure AI Foundry, showcasing its role in enhancing developer productivity, accelerating AI deployment, and driving business outcomes.

Join us to discover how Azure AI Foundry is reshaping the landscape of AI and empowering organizations to innovate and thrive in the age of AI.

10:30 - 11:00 Break, Peer Networking

11:00 Azure OpenAI Services

Sandeep Bonagiri, Senior Cloud Solution Architect Data & AI, Microsoft

Discover the latest capabilities of Azure OpenAI, including the capabilities listed below.

  • 01-Preview and 01-mini: Create with advanced models designed for complex problem-solving, reasoning, and extended conversations. They’re ideal for tasks like code generation, math, and scientific inquiries.

  • GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini: Take advantage of this multimodal model series for text, images, and audio. Use mini, a smaller, faster version of GPT-4o, for cost-effective, lightweight applications

  • Fine Tuning Options: Tailor GPT-4, GPT-4o, and o1 series models to your specific business needs.

11:45 Lunch

1:15 AI Agents, Agentic AI, Automating Business with Intelligent Agents

Savita Mittal, Data & AI Technical Leader | Digital Natives, Startups and ISVs

Azure AI Agent Service is a fully managed service designed to empower developers to securely build, deploy, and scale high-quality, and extensible AI agents without needing to manage the underlying compute and storage resources. What originally took hundreds of lines of code to support client side function calling can now be done in just a few lines of code with Azure AI Agent Service.

2:00 Microsoft Fabric: Data as the Foundation for AI Success

Andrio Alves, Senior Digital Technical Specialist, AI & Analytics, Microsoft

Experience the next generation in data analytics with Microsoft Fabric:

  • Give your teams the AI-powered tools they need for any data project—including workloads tailored to your industry

  • Save time and money with an experience that’s easy to set up and uses a single resource pool to power all your workloads.

  • Give data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and business users the AI-powered tools they need to get more done in less time.

  • Build powerful apps at scale with a simplified database experience that unifies all your workloads.

2:45 Break, Peer Networking

3:15 Migrating from AWS to Microsoft Azure: Strategies and Success Stories

Scott St. Martin, Senior Azure AI Specialist, Microsoft

Replatforming an entire workload from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Azure involves migrating various components, including compute, databases, storage, and applications.

This session offers service comparisons between both platforms and example scenarios to help integrate components for transition to Azure.

4:30 Cocktail Reception, Informal Networking