Sam Nasr

The Global AI Night is a an online community event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure. For one night, you will get to join various speakers as they share their experience with AI features in Azure. The event is free of charge, virtual, and open to all. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, April 20^th 4-9 PM EST. Not sure if you should register? Here are the top 5 reasons why you should!

Interact with AI experts actively working in the field

The event will speakers from around the US and the world. These are professionals actively working in the AI field. Not only will they share their experience, but you can interact with them directly during the session. Despite the online presentation, speakers and organizers strive to make it as much of a roundtable discussion as much as possible. This means you can ask questions at any time, either verbally or via the chat window. In addition, their contact information will be made available for additional questions.

Expand your skillset

Working in IT, one always has to keep up with modern technology. Not keeping up means falling behind in your career. Attending free events, such as the Global AI Night is a great way to learn, without travel or additional expenses.

Explore new ways how AI can be used in your organization. Be a pioneer

Not using AI in your workplace? This doesn’t mean your organization can’t benefit from AI. Learning to use AI can help you identify applications that can benefit your end customer by integrating various AI features. Learn AI and learn to be a pioneer among your peers by bringing added features to your applications.

Discover free learning resources

With each session, every speaker will present links where you can find more information and helpful tutorials.

Learn what to do, what not to do, and Gotcha’s

Each speaker will present a session and a walk-thru of creating working demos. In addition, they will also discuss their own learning experiences, problems encountered. They will show what to do and what not to do. Speakers will also cover the hidden gotchas and issues they encountered so you can avoid them.

For more info on the Global AI Night 2021, please visit https://globalai.community/global-ai-night-april-2021/usa-cleveland.

To RSVP, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-ai-night-2021-cleveland-tickets-148258271481

Looking forward to seeing you online on April 20^th.

Azure Health Bot

Bots have been available to developers and consumers alike for many years. They have been used in many facets of everyday life that many times we don’t even realize. The intelligence behind these has continued to become more sophisticated and specialized for specific business sectors. In addition, Microsoft has made the bot development experience very easy and straightforward for developers.

Continuing in the path of specialization and ease of creation, Microsoft has a developed a Health Bot, with strict focus on health care. It’s backed by a pre-trained Machine Learning model with focus on the healthcare terminology. This empowers developers to quickly build and deploy AI-powered conversational bots. In addition, the bot service follows industry compliance requirements and HIPAA standards. These bots can be used in any healthcare related environment to assess a potential sickness of a patient, inquire about certain medications/supplements for a specific scenario, etc. The bot can also be combined with the Text to Speech service to provide a more human-like interaction with users.

To get started, follow the Step by step guide to creating your first health bot.

For more information, please visit the following links:

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Global AI Night 2021

To learn more about this event, please visit https://globalai.community/global-ai-night-april-2021/usa-cleveland

If you’re interested in sharing your AI story, feel free to submit your presentation at https://sessionize.com/global-ai-night-2021-cleveland/

Join us for a night of AI and expand your skill set.

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Apr/May '21 Tech Events

Virtual User Group Meetings

Apr 6: ONDT (https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/)
Apr 15: GLUG.Net: (https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/)
Apr 21: Hudson Software Craftsmanship (https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ )
Apr 22: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/)

Virtual Conferences

Apr 20: Global AI Night - Cleveland: (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-ai-night-2021-cleveland-tickets-148258271481)
Apr 24: Global AI Student Conference (https://aiconf.education/)
May 4: MDC (https://mndevconf.com/)
May 7: Stir Trek (https://stirtrek.com/)
May 10: SQL Day Poland (https://sqlday.pl/en/)

Monday, March 15, 2021

Free Microsoft Certification Courses!

SkillMeUp.com is hosting four free events in March and April! Each Saturday will prepare you to pass a new Microsoft fundamentals certification exam!

Free Live Courses

Microsoft Azure

March 20th │ ~~$250~~ Free

Power Platform

April 3rd │ ~~$250~~ Free

Security Compliance & Identity

April 10th │ ~~$250~~ Free

Microsoft 365

April 17th │ ~~$250~~ Free

Meet the Instructors

Dwayne Natwick

Cloud Training Architect Lead

Dwayne Natwick is a lifelong learner and teacher. Dwayne delivers live training, creates curriculum, writes blogs and more! He is an expert in Azure and cloud computing.

Dwayne has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, holding multiple positions and certifications.

Brian Nielson

Senior Cloud Training Architect

Brian has 26 years of professional IT experience. He has exceptional knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and Open Source software. As a consultant he is used to solving highly visible and complex problems.

Brian is well-versed in current technological trends and familiar with a variety of business concepts. He can meet ever-changing technology needs with innovative and up-to-date solutions.

Sunday, March 7, 2021

Podcast: SQL Server For Developers

I recently had the pleasure of being featured on Azure DevOps Podcast. The host, Jeffery Palermo, interviewed me about a topic I’m passionate about “SQL Server For Developers”. These are features available within SQL Server that make some specific development tasks easy to implement. Some of these features include:

File Streams: “Pointers” that allow you to store a BLOB within the SQL Server File Groups and maintain security over it, not storing it in a DB and bloating the table size.

Temporal Tables: Tables that automatically maintain historical changes to every record with a time span of those changes.

FileTables: Tables that duplicate a structure of a specific folder, giving developers the ability to quickly query the files one they’re dropped in the folder.

I discuss these topics and more on the podcast. For the full podcast, please visit http://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/sam-nasr-on-sql-server-for-developers-episode-122#

Thursday, February 25, 2021

Mar '21 Tech Events

Virtual User Group Meetings

Mar 2: ONDT (https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/events/275862156/)
Mar 17: Hudson Software Craftsmanship (https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ )
Mar 18: GLUG.Net: (https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/)
Mar 25: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group (https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/)

Virtual Conferences

Feb 27: Scottish Summit (https://scottishsummit.com/)
Feb 27: Data Saturday (https://datasaturdays.com/events/datasaturday0001.html)
Apr 24: Global AI Student Conference (https://aiconf.education/)
May 4: MDC (https://mndevconf.com/)
May 7: Stir Trek (https://stirtrek.com/)
May 10: SQL Day Poland (https://sqlday.pl/en/)

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Feb'21 Tech Events

Virtual User Group Meetings

Jan 29: OWASP Cleveland Chapter (https://www.meetup.com/owasp-cleveland-group/events/275751911/)
Feb 2: ONDT (https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/events/275862156/)
Feb 17: Hudson Software Craftsmanship (https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ )
Feb 18: GLUG.Net: (https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/lnbmpryccdbxb/)
Feb 25: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group (https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/)

Virtual Conferences

Feb 17: Developer Week 2021 (https://www.developerweek.com/)
Feb 25: .Net Conf (focus.dotnetconf.net)
Feb 27: Data Saturday (https://datasaturdays.com/events/datasaturday0001.html)

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Global AI Bootcamp 2021

The Global AI Bootcamp is a free one-day event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure. It takes place on January 15-16th, 2021 with venues on every continent. The event is a perfect balance of quality content, awesome talks, and hands-on learning with like-minded peers in your community. Currently, there are 4 events happening in the US in different time zones.

Las Vegas, NV: https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp-2020/united-states-las-vegas

Plano, TX: https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp-2020/usa-plano-tx-1

Des Moines, IA: https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp-2020/usa-des-moines

Raleigh, NC: https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp-2020/united-states-raleigh

Find the one that best suits you or choose another event elsewhere in the world. To see a full list of all events, please visit https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp-2020/

For more info on the bootcamp, please visit https://globalai.community/about.

Monday, December 14, 2020

Upcoming Virtual Tech Events

Virtual User Group Meetings

Dec 15: The JavaScript Club (https://www.meetup.com/thejavascriptclub/events/274882089/)
Dec 16: We Can Code IT (https://www.meetup.com/WeCanCodeIT/events/274968946/)
Dec 17: GLUG.Net: (https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/)
Jan 20: Hudson Software Craftsmanship (https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ )
Jan 28: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group (https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/)

Virtual Conferences

Dec 19: SQL Saturday- Lagos (https://www.sqlsaturday.com/1008/)