Session Title: Inside QnA Maker Speaker: Neha Rajput Abstract: This session is to give an overview of Microsoft Cognitive Service: QnA Maker. You can create a conversational layer over your data with no/low code experience. QnA Maker can be used to create your own bot in minutes without writing a single line of code. It [...]
Session Title: Migrating & Operating Business Critical Applications with Azure HDInsight Speaker: Arindam Chatterjee Abstract: The world today runs on data. And enterprises need to gain lightning fast insights from increasingly sensitive data while meeting the strictest security & compliance requirements. And they need to do so while controlling costs and ensuring high levels of [...]
Session Title: Design Patterns for Machine Learning Projects Speaker: Anupama Natarajan Abstract: Machine Learning (ML) Design Patterns are proven techniques to solve common ML problems. In this session you will learn the techniques of applying these design patterns to solve real world problems. You will learn each design pattern with a problem statement followed by [...]
Title: Understanding NULLs in SQL Server Speaker(s): Satya Ramesh Abstract: SQL Server follows three-valued logic (3VL) (instead of Boolean logic) to evaluate any condition to True or False or Unknown. Unknown value in SQL Server is represented as NULL. NULLs in SQL Server are often misunderstood and causes data inconsistency issues. In this 30 min [...]
Session Title: How to Get and Nail Your Interviews Speaker: Paresh Motiwala Abstract: Workforce reduction can strike anyone, anywhere and anytime. Are you prepared for that moment? Let’s look at some real life examples through this session that draws full rooms wherever I have presented it! Also, do you feel you need to get out, [...]
Session Title: DAX - Time Series Analysis, Sequences, And Some Other Fancy Stuff Speaker: Tom Martens Abstract: Here Time Series Analysis does not mean calculating the YTD value of a numeric value. This is about discovering the clients who have been buying 10 days in a row and how concepts of time series analysis can [...]
Session Title: Cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform Speaker: Manohar Punna Abstract: In recent years, the cloud has been adopted by most companies. It offers greater flexibility in terms of infrastructure and resource management at a greater scale. Although, if not noticed the prices of maintaining this infrastructure and resources will blow through the [...]
Session Title: Single Statement, Many Changes: How One Statement Can Modify Multiple Tables Speaker: Deborah Melkin Abstract: You can only insert, update, or delete from one table at a time. At least thats what they tell us when we first learn to write SQL statements. However, that one statement could modify multiple tables, and we [...]
Session Title: Nine (9) Key Questions To Ask Yourself BEFORE Developing Your IoT Solution Speaker: David Goad Abstract: Unlike the Internet which has been around in some shape or form for almost 30 years now and has a relatively stable architecture based on a handful of well known and recognized industry standards, the IoT has [...]
Session Title: Containers - What's Next? Speaker: Anthony Nocentino Abstract: You’ve been working with containers in development for a while, benefiting from the ease and speed of the deployments. Now it’s time to extend your container-based data platform’s capabilities for your production scenarios. In this session, we’ll look at how to build custom containers, enabling [...]
