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GenAI for Software Developers

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Topic: Core AI

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Are you a Software Developer, Architect, IT Decision Maker, AI enthusiast, or entrepreneur? Dive into the future of software development with 'GenAI for Developers - an innovative, cutting-edge series of free live webinars which explore the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape.

Why Attend?

Stay Informed: Unlock the newest breakthroughs in AI and explore cutting-edge tools that are revolutionizing software development.
Inspiring Keynotes: Hear from visionary tech leaders and pioneers who are shaping the future of software development.
Gain Practical Insights: Acquire real-world knowledge and use cases that can elevate your development projects to new heights.
Network and Engage with the Community: Connect with peers, share innovative ideas, and adopt industry best practices while building lasting relationships with like-minded professionals, potential employers, and mentors.
Win Prizes!

Who Should Attend?

Software Developers & Architects: Innovators looking to integrate AI into their development practices.
IT Decision Makers: Company leaders seeking to understand the impact of AI on software development and deployment.
AI Enthusiasts: Passionate individuals eager to explore the latest in AI technologies.
Entrepreneurs: Visionaries looking to acquire hands on experience and harness AI to drive their business forward.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to explore the cutting-edge world of AI in software development. See below the upcoming events. Register now to join the 2nd wave of GenAI for Software Developers and be part of a transformative journey!

Upcoming Events

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Jan

09

Thursday

2025

Leveraging Cloud Native Infra For Your Intelligent Apps

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (UTC)

Dive into the future of software development with the ‘GenAI for Developers’. This innovative, cutting-edge series of FREE live webinars explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape.  👥Who Should Attend? ** Software Developers, Architects, IT Decision Makers, AI Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs — anyone eager to revolutionize their development practices with AI. 🔍Why Attend?** Learn from visionary tech leaders shaping tomorrow's technology Gain practical insights you can apply immediately Network with a vibrant community of professionals Win exciting prizes - join each event, take part in the live contest, and get the chance to win a special prize offered by GitHub. The contest is open only to webinar attendees who are 18+ years old and lasts until June 12, 2025. For additional details, see Official Rules. 👉About this session Deploying AI-enabled applications involves an application or microservice interacting with a LLM inferencing endpoint. Microservices architectures and a cloud native approach are ideal for hosting your intelligent apps. This session demonstrates how you can use Kubernetes and cloud-native tools to reduce operational overhead in building and running intelligent apps. This event may be recorded and shared publicly with others, including Microsoft’s global customers, partners, employees and service providers. The recording may include your name and any questions you submit to Q&A. You may submit questions anonymously.

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Jan

30

Thursday

2025

Platform Engineering with GitHub

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (UTC)

About the series Dive into the future of software development with the ‘GenAI for Developers’. This innovative, cutting-edge series of FREE live webinars explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape. 👥Who Should Attend? Software Developers, Architects, IT Decision Makers, AI Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs—anyone eager to revolutionize their development practices with AI. 🔍Why Attend? Learn from visionary tech leaders shaping tomorrow's technology Gain practical insights you can apply immediately Network with a vibrant community of professionals Win exciting prizes - join each event, take part in the live contest, and get the chance to win an online voucher offered by GitHub. Contest is open only to webinar attendees 18+ and lasts until June 12th, 2025. For additional details, see Official Rules Receive not just the webinar resources (deck and recording), but also a treasure trove of practical materials to keep honing your AI skills. 👉About this session We’ll explore how to unlock the full potential of developer autonomy with GitHub. In this workshop, participants will dive into the essentials of platform engineering, from Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automated deployment workflows. Through hands-on demos, you’ll learn how to build self-service tool chains that empower developers to provision, manage, and clean up environments seamlessly. By removing infrastructure bottlenecks and streamlining workflows, platform engineering accelerates the development lifecycle, improves productivity, and reduces costs. This session is ideal for developers and DevOps engineers looking to optimize their software delivery processes and foster a cloud-native engineering culture. This event may be recorded and shared publicly with others, including Microsoft’s global customers, partners, employees and service providers. The recording may include your name and any questions you submit to Q&A. You may submit questions anonymously.

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Feb

20

Thursday

2025

Preparing for Your Organization's AI Workloads

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (UTC)

Dive into the future of software development with the ‘GenAI for Developers’. This innovative, cutting-edge series of FREE live webinars explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape.  👥Who Should Attend? ** Software Developers, Architects, IT Decision Makers, AI Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs — anyone eager to revolutionize their development practices with AI. 🔍Why Attend?** Learn from visionary tech leaders shaping tomorrow's technology Gain practical insights you can apply immediately Network with a vibrant community of professionals Win exciting prizes - join each event, take part in the live contest, and get the chance to win a special prize offered by GitHub. The contest is open only to webinar attendees who are 18+ years old and lasts until June 12, 2025. For additional details, see Official Rules. 👉About this session Any new application can introduce risk to your organization, so how do you keep AI applications controlled and compliant? This session explores governance and compliance controls for Azure AI services, including the fundamentals of Identity and cost management. Follows the Governing AI report and NIST AI Risk Management Framework. This event may be recorded and shared publicly with others, including Microsoft’s global customers, partners, employees and service providers. The recording may include your name and any questions you submit to Q&A. You may submit questions anonymously.

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Sep

11

Wednesday

2024

GitHub and Azure: Better Together!

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (UTC)

Join us to explore GitHub's AI-powered developer platform and its seamless integration with Microsoft Azure, the world's leading cloud provider. Learn more about how to build and deploy applications to Azure by using GitHub Actions in this dedicated training. In this session, we will look at the integration between GitHub and Microsoft Azure. April and Laurent will introduce GitHub' built-in capabilities for secure end-to-end delivery to Azure and various deployment tools that can scale and offer organizational control and guidance. Who Should Attend? Software Developers, Architects, IT Decision Makers, AI Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs—anyone eager to revolutionize their development practices with AI. Learn more about how to build and deploy applications to Azure by using GitHub Actions in this dedicated training. This event is the part of the 2nd wave of ‘GenAI for Software Developers’ series, an innovative, cutting-edge series of live webinars explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape. You can register to additional events in this series here. Why Attend? Learn from visionary tech leaders shaping tomorrow's technology Gain practical insights you can apply immediately Network with a vibrant community of professionals Win exciting prizes - join each event, take part in the live contest, and get the chance to win an online voucher offered by GitHub. Contest is open only to webinar attendees 18+ and lasts until 3/10/24. For additional details, see Official Rules.

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Oct

10

Thursday

2024

Code-First LLMOps from prototype to production

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM (UTC)

Dive into the future of software development with the ‘GenAI for Developers’. This innovative, cutting-edge series of FREE live webinars explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape. 👥Who Should Attend? Software Developers, Architects, IT Decision Makers, AI Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs—anyone eager to revolutionize their development practices with AI. 🔍Why Attend? Learn from visionary tech leaders shaping tomorrow's technology Gain practical insights you can apply immediately Network with a vibrant community of professionals Win exciting prizes - join each event, take part in the live contest, and get the chance to win an online voucher offered by GitHub. Contest is open only to webinar attendees 18+ and lasts until 3/10/24. For additional details, see Official Rules 👉About this session During this session you will learn to: → build and test multi-model LLM (agent) applications from prototype to production with prompt flow, prompty, and VS Code. → use new LLMOps tooling for debugging, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring to ensure performance and safety, and collect production signals. This event may be recorded and shared publicly with others, including Microsoft’s global customers, partners, employees and service providers. The recording may include your name and any questions you submit to Q&A. You may submit questions anonymously.

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Oct

31

Thursday

2024

Explore cutting-edge models: LLMs, SLMs, and more

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (UTC)

Dive into the future of software development with the ‘GenAI for Software Developers’. This innovative, cutting-edge series of FREE live webinars explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape. 👥Who Should Attend? Software Developers, Architects, IT Decision Makers, AI Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs—anyone eager to revolutionize their development practices with AI. 🔍Why Attend? Learn from visionary tech leaders shaping tomorrow's technology Gain practical insights you can apply immediately Network with a vibrant community of professionals Win exciting prizes - join each event, take part in the live contest, and get the chance to win an online voucher offered by GitHub. Contest is open only to webinar attendees 18+ and lasts until 3/10/24. For additional details, see Official Rules. 👉About this session There are many Generative AI models: LLMs, SLMs, proprietary, open, cloud-based, on-device, text, code, image, and multimodal. Learn how to choose the right model for your needs and about tools to evaluate and compare models for specific tasks. This event may be recorded and shared publicly with others, including Microsoft’s global customers, partners, employees and service providers. The recording may include your name and any questions you submit to Q&A. You may submit questions anonymously.

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Nov

14

Thursday

2024

Build a Retail Copilot Code-First on Azure AI

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (UTC)

Dive into the future of software development with the GenAI for Developers-free live webinars. This innovative, cutting-edge series of FREE live webinars explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape. 👥Who Should Attend? Software Developers, Architects, IT Decision Makers, AI Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs—anyone eager to revolutionize their development practices with AI. 🔍Why Attend? Learn from visionary tech leaders shaping tomorrow's technology Gain practical insights you can apply immediately Network with a vibrant community of professionals Win exciting prizes- join each event, take part in the live contest, and get the chance to win an online voucher offered by GitHub. Contest is open only to webinar attendees 18+ and lasts until 3/10/24. For additional details, see Official Rules. 👉About this session Use Azure AI Studio to build, evaluate, and deploy a customer support chat app. This custom copilot uses a RAG architecture built with Azure AI Search, Azure CosmosDB and Azure OpenAI to return responses grounded in the product and customer data. This event may be recorded and shared publicly with others, including Microsoft’s global customers, partners, employees and service providers. The recording may include your name and any questions you submit to Q&A. You may submit questions anonymously.

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Dec

05

Thursday

2024

Build a multi-tasking assistant with Azure OpenAI

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (UTC)

Dive into the future of software development with the ‘GenAI for Developers’. This innovative, cutting-edge series of FREE live webinars explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape. 👥Who Should Attend? Software Developers, Architects, IT Decision Makers, AI Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs—anyone eager to revolutionize their development practices with AI. 🔍Why Attend? Learn from visionary tech leaders shaping tomorrow's technology Gain practical insights you can apply immediately Network with a vibrant community of professionals Win exciting prizes- join each event, take part in the live contest, and get the chance to win an online voucher offered by GitHub. Contest is open only to webinar attendees 18+ and lasts until 3/10/24. For additional details, see Official Rules. 👉About this session Attendees will learn about AI Agents, an approach that gives LLMs tools to carry out tasks. Build a Python writing assistant app to take a user topic, use agents for research, product search, writing, and editing, and present a refined article. This event may be recorded and shared publicly with others, including Microsoft’s global customers, partners, employees and service providers. The recording may include your name and any questions you submit to Q&A. You may submit questions anonymously.

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Topic: Core AI

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Past Events in this Series

All times in - Coordinated Universal Time

Sep

11

Wednesday

2024

GitHub and Azure: Better Together!

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (UTC)

Join us to explore GitHub's AI-powered developer platform and its seamless integration with Microsoft Azure, the world's leading cloud provider. Learn more about how to build and deploy applications to Azure by using GitHub Actions in this dedicated training. In this session, we will look at the integration between GitHub and Microsoft Azure. April and Laurent will introduce GitHub' built-in capabilities for secure end-to-end delivery to Azure and various deployment tools that can scale and offer organizational control and guidance. Who Should Attend? Software Developers, Architects, IT Decision Makers, AI Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs—anyone eager to revolutionize their development practices with AI. Learn more about how to build and deploy applications to Azure by using GitHub Actions in this dedicated training. This event is the part of the 2nd wave of ‘GenAI for Software Developers’ series, an innovative, cutting-edge series of live webinars explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape. You can register to additional events in this series here. Why Attend? Learn from visionary tech leaders shaping tomorrow's technology Gain practical insights you can apply immediately Network with a vibrant community of professionals Win exciting prizes - join each event, take part in the live contest, and get the chance to win an online voucher offered by GitHub. Contest is open only to webinar attendees 18+ and lasts until 3/10/24. For additional details, see Official Rules.

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Topic: Core AI

Language: English

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Oct

10

Thursday

2024

Code-First LLMOps from prototype to production

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM (UTC)

Dive into the future of software development with the ‘GenAI for Developers’. This innovative, cutting-edge series of FREE live webinars explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape. 👥Who Should Attend? Software Developers, Architects, IT Decision Makers, AI Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs—anyone eager to revolutionize their development practices with AI. 🔍Why Attend? Learn from visionary tech leaders shaping tomorrow's technology Gain practical insights you can apply immediately Network with a vibrant community of professionals Win exciting prizes - join each event, take part in the live contest, and get the chance to win an online voucher offered by GitHub. Contest is open only to webinar attendees 18+ and lasts until 3/10/24. For additional details, see Official Rules 👉About this session During this session you will learn to: → build and test multi-model LLM (agent) applications from prototype to production with prompt flow, prompty, and VS Code. → use new LLMOps tooling for debugging, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring to ensure performance and safety, and collect production signals. This event may be recorded and shared publicly with others, including Microsoft’s global customers, partners, employees and service providers. The recording may include your name and any questions you submit to Q&A. You may submit questions anonymously.

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Topic: Core AI

Language: English

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Oct

31

Thursday

2024

Explore cutting-edge models: LLMs, SLMs, and more

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (UTC)

Dive into the future of software development with the ‘GenAI for Software Developers’. This innovative, cutting-edge series of FREE live webinars explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape. 👥Who Should Attend? Software Developers, Architects, IT Decision Makers, AI Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs—anyone eager to revolutionize their development practices with AI. 🔍Why Attend? Learn from visionary tech leaders shaping tomorrow's technology Gain practical insights you can apply immediately Network with a vibrant community of professionals Win exciting prizes - join each event, take part in the live contest, and get the chance to win an online voucher offered by GitHub. Contest is open only to webinar attendees 18+ and lasts until 3/10/24. For additional details, see Official Rules. 👉About this session There are many Generative AI models: LLMs, SLMs, proprietary, open, cloud-based, on-device, text, code, image, and multimodal. Learn how to choose the right model for your needs and about tools to evaluate and compare models for specific tasks. This event may be recorded and shared publicly with others, including Microsoft’s global customers, partners, employees and service providers. The recording may include your name and any questions you submit to Q&A. You may submit questions anonymously.

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Topic: Core AI

Language: English

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Nov

14

Thursday

2024

Build a Retail Copilot Code-First on Azure AI

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (UTC)

Dive into the future of software development with the GenAI for Developers-free live webinars. This innovative, cutting-edge series of FREE live webinars explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape. 👥Who Should Attend? Software Developers, Architects, IT Decision Makers, AI Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs—anyone eager to revolutionize their development practices with AI. 🔍Why Attend? Learn from visionary tech leaders shaping tomorrow's technology Gain practical insights you can apply immediately Network with a vibrant community of professionals Win exciting prizes- join each event, take part in the live contest, and get the chance to win an online voucher offered by GitHub. Contest is open only to webinar attendees 18+ and lasts until 3/10/24. For additional details, see Official Rules. 👉About this session Use Azure AI Studio to build, evaluate, and deploy a customer support chat app. This custom copilot uses a RAG architecture built with Azure AI Search, Azure CosmosDB and Azure OpenAI to return responses grounded in the product and customer data. This event may be recorded and shared publicly with others, including Microsoft’s global customers, partners, employees and service providers. The recording may include your name and any questions you submit to Q&A. You may submit questions anonymously.

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Topic: Core AI

Language: English

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Dec

05

Thursday

2024

Build a multi-tasking assistant with Azure OpenAI

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (UTC)

Dive into the future of software development with the ‘GenAI for Developers’. This innovative, cutting-edge series of FREE live webinars explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the software development landscape. 👥Who Should Attend? Software Developers, Architects, IT Decision Makers, AI Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs—anyone eager to revolutionize their development practices with AI. 🔍Why Attend? Learn from visionary tech leaders shaping tomorrow's technology Gain practical insights you can apply immediately Network with a vibrant community of professionals Win exciting prizes- join each event, take part in the live contest, and get the chance to win an online voucher offered by GitHub. Contest is open only to webinar attendees 18+ and lasts until 3/10/24. For additional details, see Official Rules. 👉About this session Attendees will learn about AI Agents, an approach that gives LLMs tools to carry out tasks. Build a Python writing assistant app to take a user topic, use agents for research, product search, writing, and editing, and present a refined article. This event may be recorded and shared publicly with others, including Microsoft’s global customers, partners, employees and service providers. The recording may include your name and any questions you submit to Q&A. You may submit questions anonymously.

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Topic: Core AI

Language: English

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