Join us for a great and fun discussion. In this session, we'll be exploring some fundamental areas of AI: What is AI? The privacy and bias? Are BOTs equivalent to AI?

Andrew Fryer is joined on the couch with Buck Woody – from the Microsoft Machine Learning and Data Science team. Buck was an MVP prior to starting at Microsoft, and he'll help Andrew de-mystify Data…

Microsoft's Martin Beeby and Martin Kearn's Web Hack Wednesday

One of Microsoft's bold ambitions is to build the intelligent cloud. But what does that mean? Rob will be your guide on a tour through Azure, IoT, Data and Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.

A run through of how to build a bot and where it can be used and how natural language fits in to building a more natural Bot

A set of demonstrations on Building and using natural language and sentiment analysis to enhance a Bot.

An overview of intelligence in organisations, Why Bots are important and how they will help an organisation. An overview of intelligence in organisations, Why Bots are important and how they will help…

UK MVP, Allan Mitchell is very well known in the SQL community as Mr ETL (Extract Transform & Load), but how does that work for big data on a cloud platform like Azure. The demands of Volume and…

The intersection of big data and data science is the hot topic of the moment and there are few experts better qualified to discuss this than Richard who has built his business in this space.

This demo only session will take you from zero to #DevOps by showing you how to leverage VSTS & TFS to provision infrastructure, deploy and document software and automate the release processes in…

DevOps aims to reduce delivery times and achieve greater production stability and reliability, so automated testing is naturally seen as being key to this. While this may be true, just having…

Change is hard and with databases it's even harder. A database is generally a single point of contact and you need to maintain the data before during and after a change. This leads many people to…

Application containers are the engine of DevOps - they let you deploy small units of change quickly, reliably and with minimal overhead. In this session we'll break down an existing monolithic ASP.NET…

UK MVP Wes Hackett will take you on a tour of Office and Office 365, looking at the newest services and latest updates. With Office 365 having grown to nearly twenty services, join us to learn about…

Alan Richards is an Office 365 MVP who has been involved in migrating organisation from server based resources to cloud based storage using Office 365. In this session he will cover some of the best…

Microsoft are making significant investments in the user experience of SharePoint, creating new, modern experiences for core SharePoint capabilities like document libraries, lists, and portals. Like…

Using Azure Mobile services in Xamarin is getting easier by the day. In this session Garry Whittaker, the Director of App Development at, Xamarin Consulting Partner, AppXib Ltd, Will take you through…

UK MVP Rob Miles reckons that writing programs is the most creative thing you can do. He's very keen to tell everyone why. During the session he wants to talk about the best way to learn to code, how…

Service Fabric underpins a number of Azure services and takes care of much of the hard work in your microservices-based application. MVP Steven Spencer will show you what the technology can offer you.

New services and better plumbing make Azure a great choice for hosting your dev/test environments. Let Richard introduce you to Azure Dev/Test Labs and more.

Identity as a service is the new black, but Azure AD can be daunting at first glance. John will give you a succinct overview of features, their acronyms and benefits, so join him to learn about B2B,…