MSCC Meetup – Developing Intelligent Apps

On July 29th, we had a meetup regarding the development of Intelligent Apps by using the Microsoft Cloud technologies.

Since the developers conference where Neil and I talked about Azure Machine Learning and showcased how we can use cloud technologies to build intelligent apps, we noticed a good interest in this area and therefore decided to host a meetup around this topic.

Introduction to cognitive services By Vidush Namah 
Vidush delivered a presentation and demo of Microsoft Cognitive services and demonstrated how we can easily consume and plug intelligent APIs such as Emotion APIs to our Apps. You can also read his blog post here.

Consuming Cognitive Services in Xamarin By Arwin Baichoo

Have you ever noticed how the driver of a User car authenticates himself using facial recognition? Neil coded a similar app using the Face API of Cognitive services live! The audience was mesmerized! He wrote a blot post about it here.

Building Your First Intelligent Bot – By Chervine Bhiwoo
I delivered a session about building your first bot. All the steps from configuring the SDK, to adding language understanding and deploying the bot to Azure and Skype were covered.

You can read more about the steps to build your first bot on my series of articles on TechNet Wiki.

Building Bots using Azure Bot Service – By Adrien Rose

Finally, the last session was by Adrien. He explained how to build a bot using Azure services, add automation such as CI/CD and deploy a bot to several channels.
The session explored one of the industry’s first Chatbot-as-a-Service platforms – Microsoft’s Azure Bot Service. With a more hands-on approach, the demo consisted of creating and deploying a Weather Bot – capable of providing weather reports for specific locations on request.

A big thanks to all speakers, attendees and to Middlesex University for providing a venue.
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