boldthis.Just.inbold // The rise of powerful, even more sophisticated Artificial Intelligence technologies continue to influence our daily lives and shape our human societies. The promise of AI is unprecedented – perhaps one of our more powerful tools in addressing tough challenges like climate change, administering healthcare solutions at world-scale and automating humanity’s more routine tasks. Yet AI is fundamentally based on data…and obtaining, securing, interpreting, and visualizing data can reinforce bias and produce unintended outcomes. The ethical use of AI is a topic for all people to participate in with the goal of helping us prioritize what matters – creativity and productivity – in a socially responsible way. So how are developers, decision-makers, data scientists, and passionate technologists to navigate these uncharted waters? What are orgs, governments, and the community to move AI forward ethnically? Join Microsoft Cloud Advocates Justin Garrett and Amy Boyd as we share what we’ve learned and invite you into a conversation where the future of AI might go from here!

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italicWho is it aimed at?italic

• Business leaders & decision-makers

• Data Analysts and Domain Experts

• Data Scientists

• AI Developers

• Students or learning professionals interested in learning more about AI solutions

  • you can subnest bullets by adding two spaces like this

italicWhy should I attend?italic

1. Learn about the AI Fairness Checklist and other frameworks to help evaluate AI solutions

2. Share your thoughts on what ethical use of AI means to you and to our community

3. Network with other professionals interested in AI development

italicMore learning / prerequisites: italic

• Read through Principles and Practices for Responsible AI

• Check-out episodes of A bit of AI with Henk and Amy

italicSome code we’ll be sharing…italic

pip install azure-cognitiveservices-speech 

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italicAbout the speakers: italic

boldJustin Garrettbold is host of this.Just.in and a Principal Cloud Advocate in Cloud + AI Engineering at Microsoft. Justin works closely with learner communities to help address the skills gap in cloud native dev and manages a team of Cloud Advocates from around the world that do likewise. You’ll find him leading workshops at Microsoft Reactors, mentoring Student Ambassadors, and helping improve our dev stack like Azure and Visual Studio. Justin’s career at Microsoft also spans 16 years across Windows, Bing, Edge and Web Platform. In his spare time, he enjoys coaching his son’s soccer team, gardening, and is an avid Pacific Northwest mountaineer. Follow him on LinkedIN and Twitter.

boldAmy Boydbold is a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, having obtained a degree in Computer Science, completing a research project in Natural Language Processing/Machine Learning. Amy is passionate about Data Science and Machine Learning and her roles at Microsoft have allowed her to work on many different areas of data science (Visualisation, ML, Big Data, IoT) as well as working on projects with customers across the globe. Her role as a Cloud Advocate is to help developers to learn, engage and build on the Microsoft AI Platform. Amy creates and delivers content online and in-person and works with developers to provide the best product experience for them. Twitter: @AmyKateNicho.

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