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[Post Event] Global AI Nights - Cluj-Napoca, September 2019

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This week we had Cluj-Napoca on the map of Global AI Night. The Global AI Night is a free evening event organized by 94 communities all over the world that are passionate about Artificial Intelligence on the Microsoft Azure. During this AI Night you will get inspired through sessions and get your hands dirty during the workshops. By the end of the night you will be able to infuse AI into your applications.

There were 2 sessions covering Cognitive Services and Azure Machine Learning. The event was hosted by UIPath and more than 35 people joined the late afternoon event.

You can find below information related to the session that I delivered together with some pictures from the event.
Title: Creating applications that can see, hear, speak or understand - using Microsoft Cognitive Services Workshop
Description: In this workshop, you will be introduced to the Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, a range of offerings you can use to infuse intelligence and machine learning into your applications without needing to build the code from scratch. We will cover pre-trained AI APIs, such as computer vision and text analytics, that is accessed by REST protocol. Next, we will dive into Custom AI that uses transfer learning - Microsoft Azure Custom Vision. This enables you to provide a small amount of your own data to train an image classification model. Wrapping the workshop up by building our custom trained AI into an application - using Logic Apps, this technology is ideal for building data pipeline processes that work with your machine learning models.Title: Creating applications that can see, hear, speak or understand - using Microsoft Cognitive Services Workshop Description: In this workshop, you will be introduced to the Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, a range of offerings you can use to infuse intelligence and machine learning into your applications without needing to build the code from scratch. We will cover pre-trained AI APIs, such as computer vision and text analytics, that is accessed by REST protocol. Next, we will dive into Custom AI that uses transfer learning - Microsoft Azure Custom Vision. This enables you to provide a small amount of your own data to train an image classification model. Wrapping the workshop up by building our custom trained AI into an application - using Logic Apps, this technology is ideal for building data pipeline processes that work with your machine learning models.
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