Name: Highlights from Satya Nadella's Ignite 2024 Keynote
Start: 2025-01-16T16:54:00Z
End: 2025-01-16T16:54:00.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Build and deploy AI solutions confidently with privacy, safety, and security features from Azure. Join us as we explore the infinite possibilities of Azure and learn how to harness its full potential for your business.

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations are accelerating their migration to the cloud, driven by a need for agility, innovation, and maintaining a competitive edge. A key vector to enabling business agility is AI, but leaders often find themselves grappling with various pressing priorities such as rising costs, economic downturns, safeguarding against security threats, maintaining compliance, and controlling IT sprawl.
 
To truly thrive, businesses need forward-thinking strategies that fuel innovation while addressing these challenges. The "Art of Practical AI" brings together proven strategies from AI-first movers who have successfully navigated these obstacles. By executing holistic strategies across data, applications, AI, infrastructure, and security, they have transformed their businesses.
 
Here are the following scenarios that we will highlight during this session: 
• Optimize and scale AM/ML/DL models
• Streamline collaboration
• Provide universal access to data and tools to speed innovation
• Infuse the latest technologies to deliver fast, accurate models
• Operationalize the lifecycle with automation and repeatability
• Ensure in-depth security, governance, and compliance

The Art of Practical AI: Business Optimization Use Cases and Strategies

Watch to learn about Zero Day Quest, an in-person hacking event focused on securing cloud and AI technologies announced by Microsoft. The event will incentivize research into high-impact security flaws that can affect the software powering cloud and AI workloads.

Announcing Zero Day Quest, a hacking event focused on securing Cloud and AI

Watch to learn about Earth Copilot, a software tool developed by Microsoft and NASA designed to make complex data sets accessible to non-specialists and bring the gap between NASA's vast database and users who may lack technical expertise.

With Earth Copilot, Microsoft AI is making NASA's satellite data accessible

Watch to learn about Copilot Pages, a dynamic, persistent canvas in Copilot chat designed for multiplayer AI collaboration. With Pages, you can turn insightful Copilot responses into something durable with a side-by-side page that you can edit and, when ready, share with your team to collaborate.

Copilot Pages, the first artifact of the AI age

Watch this brief video to learn about Microsoft 365 Link, the first Cloud PC hardware device that lets users connect directly to their Cloud PC virtual machine. It is a miniature PC that connects to the cloud to stream Windows, designed specifically for Windows 365 Cloud PCs and offers a streamlined way to access cloud desktops.

Introducing Windows 365 Link: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2024

Watch to learn how Copilot in Excel helps you do more with your data by generating formula column suggestions, showing insights in charts and PivotTables, and highlighting interesting data.

Copilot in Excel is making next-level data analysis available for all

Watch this video focused on AI and the transformational power it has to drive growth in business by improving efficiency and operating leverage. Satya Nadella, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), discusses three new offerings to build out the platform including Copilot, Copilot Devices and Copilot and AI Stack.

Satya Nadella on transforming productivity with Copilot

With Azure App Service, .NET developers can leverage Azure's AI capabilities, including Azure OpenAI models, to build or modernize intelligent applications. Discover the latest innovations for creating robust, scalable apps and the tools Microsoft offers to reduce the cost and complexity of migration. Azure PaaS supports millions of large web apps daily, making it a cost-effective choice for your cloud migration journey.

Unlock the Scale and Reliability of Azure PaaS to build AI Apps with .NET for a Dollar a Day

Join us for an insightful fireside chat where we'll explore the critical role of modernizing app and data estate to driving business growth and operationalize AI transformation at scale. Discover how a holistic approach to modernization can transform your organization, people, process, and technology. Without modernization, you risk missing out on the full value of your investments and falling behind the competition. Learn how taking an integrated approach to modernization centered around AI and skilling can drive growth, unlock new opportunities, drive present and future innovation, and secure a lasting competitive edge. We'll also discuss the challenges leaders face in embarking on this modernization journey and provide practical strategies to overcome them. Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve!

Powering AI transformation through Modernization

In this session you’ll learn how to build multi-agent systems to automate your mission critical business processes. Declaratively define and modify multi-agent workflows through a drag and drop interface. Use the AutoGen Studio UI to build a multi-agent conversation framework as a high-level abstraction to your platform. Using this framework an ISV can conveniently build LLM workflows to monetize their Generative AI applications at scale.

Unleashing AI Superpowers: Task Automation with Agents

Modeling the hard business benefits of AI can be overwhelming. Not only are customers expecting seamless AI integrations into core products, but they are also sensitive to increasing spend on new technologies. In this session, you will see how Microsoft's Customer Business Outcomes team leaders calculate the Business Value of AI and Prioritize Use Cases. You will leave this session with a framework to evaluate what's best for your business and your customers. You will learn how to prioritize your AI investments based on what will deliver the most value. In addition, you'll make connections at Microsoft that can continue with you as you navigate this rapidly evolving capability.

The Business Value of AI

AI-led product transformation represents a significant opportunity to deliver greater value to customers, accelerate product adoption and achieve business growth. This opportunity also poses a daunting task to business leaders in terms of which use cases to start with, what product stack choices to make, how to assess ROI, how best to skill up and ultimately how to delight users. In this session, we will take on some of these common questions and considerations that AI pioneers encounter. We will share principles, practices and decision frameworks that can help leaders & companies navigate their business transformation in the era of AI. If you are an innovator, who is eager to learn from the successes and challenges of others then this session is for you.

Navigating Business Transformation: Learn from AI Pioneers

Cloud solutions are not just a part of the business infrastructure— they serve as catalysts for robust business transformation, expansion and revenue maximization. In this session, we’ll guide you through the essential steps to successfully integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into your business strategy. Whether you’re a seasoned leader or just beginning your AI journey, these steps will empower you to drive meaningful change, accelerate market share, and capitalize on the immense potential of AI.

Design You Blueprint for Business Impact & Innovation with AI

Build your own copilot with Azure AI on your data. Ground your own data on advanced AI models to create conversational copilots that aid user comprehension, task completion, and decision making. In this session, we will show you how to create an Azure AI project in Azure AI Studio as well as use Prompt Flow. Projects are used to organize your work and save state while building customized AI apps.

Create Custom Copilots

Take your solution to market. In this session we discuss critical steps and best practices to reduce the risk and increase the success of launching new AI solutions. Understand the key considerations for your AI business model, from buyer behavior, positioning, pricing models to selling through Marketplace.

Best Practices for Bringing AI Solutions to Market

Azure App Service is an AI-ready managed service used worldwide to help build, deploy, and scale web applications and APIs to the cloud. This secure platform-as-a-service (PaaS) takes cloud management tasks off your plate so you get more time to do what you love: innovate. Learn more here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/app-service/

What is Azure App Service?

Watch this brief video to learn about Copilot-- the UI for AI and Copilot Actions to reduce the time you spend on everyday repetitive tasks, the ability to easily create your own Copilot agents using Copilot studio, and new App Server- Azure AI Foundry.

Highlights from Satya Nadella's Ignite 2024 Keynote

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