Azure AI @ Microsoft BUILD

Announcing new tools and solutions that empower developers to help solve real world problems, May 25-27, 2021 at Microsoft Build.

All sessions on Azure AI at Microsoft Build. Please join for free.


May 25th, 2021, 2:30-3:00PM PST

Build intelligent applications infused with world-class AI

Presenter: Eric Boyd – Corporate Vice President, Azure AI

Create breakthrough experiences in your applications with industry-leading AI. Join Eric Boyd, Corporate Vice President, Azure AI, as he demonstrates the latest innovations. Learn how Azure is simplifying the developer experience and enabling you to harness the power of AI in your mission-critical applications.


May 25th, 2021, 3:30-4:00PM PST

Build intelligent applications infused with world-class AI

Presenter: Alon Bochman; Anand Raman; Andrew Clear; Erin Dormier; Dewain Robinson; Elena Neroslavskaya; Phani Mutyala

Learn how Azure enables you to create breakthrough experiences in your applications with industry-leading AI. Join the Azure AI product team to learn more


May 26th, 2021, 3:00-3:15AM PST

Build Conversational AI experiences for your customers

Presenter: Lili Cheng – Corporate Vice President, Conversational AI

Building enterprise-grade conversational AI experiences while maintaining control of your data is easy with Azure. Join Lili Cheng, Corporate Vice President, Conversational AI, to learn how Azure significantly enhanced Azure Bot Service to enable you to accelerate building sophisticated conversational experiences with integrated development tools.


May 26th, 2021, 11:30-11:45AM PST

Developing high-quality AI models in Azure Cognitive Services

Presenters: Xuedong Huang – Technical Fellow and Chief Technology Officer, Azure AI

Join Xuedong Huang, Technical Fellow and Chief Technology Officer, Azure AI, to learn about Microsoft’s approach to developing Azure Cognitive Services models and the latest innovations.


May 26th, 2021, 12:00-12:30PM PST

Understand the ML process and embed models into apps

Presenters: John Montgomery – Corporate Vice President, Azure AI Program Management

Machine Learning is becoming an important workload, and developers are increasingly being tasked with moving the models to production. In this session we’ll walk you through the process of building machine learning models and show you how Azure ML enables tools like VS Code, to build ML models. More importantly, we’ll discuss how you can augment your data science teams to operationalize these machine learning models within your apps and incorporate the right DevOps practices for machine learning, often referred to as MLOps.


May 26th, 2021, 2:00-3:00PM PST

Machine learning model deployment and ops in Azure ML Managed Online Endpoints

Presenter: Sethu Raman; Petro Degtiarenko; Rakesh Kelkar; Sid Sidhartha; Vaidyaram Sambasivam

We are launching a brand-new capability to deploy machine learning models in a turnkey manner across powerful compute like high end CPU and GPU machines in Azure in a scalable, fully managed ML platform. Come on in for a discussion: we will walk through best practices for model deployment and our upcoming roadmap. We would like to get your feedback on your deployment practices & CI/CD flows.


May 26th, 2021, 2:30-2:45PM PST

AI at Scale – a new paradigm accelerating AI innovation

Presenter: Luis Vargas – Partner, Technical Advisor to Microsoft Chief Technology Officer

Get an up-close look into Microsoft’s AI at Scale initiative and how it is fueling the next generation of AI development today and accelerating innovation.


May 26th, 2021, 3:00-4:00PM PST

Azure AI: Come discuss what’s new and our future vision

Presenter: Adina Trufinescu; Anand Raman; Krishna Doss Mohan; Neta Haiby; Qun Ying

Create breakthrough experiences in your applications with Azure AI. From improvements in AI quality, to cross-lingual custom neural voices and document translation, we have introduced many new capabilities. In this roundtable, we'll discuss the latest innovations in Conversational AI, Vision, Speech, Language, and Decision, as well as our future vision for Azure AI. We look forward to hearing your feedback and your questions.


May 27th, 2021, 6:00-6:30AM PST

Azure Cognitive Search and its semantic capabilities

Presenter: Derek Legenzoff; Mark Heffernan; Puneet Hairharan; Mike Carter; Vinod Kurpad

Come join us as we dive deeper into Azure Cognitive Search to answer your questions on how you can enable your enterprise and customers to find the most relevant information quickly. Azure Cognitive Search now includes new capabilities such as support for indexing content from new data sources and understanding the meaning of words when you search, not just the syntax.


May 27th, 2021, 6:30-6:45AM PST

Build Responsibly with Azure AI

Presenter: Sarah Bird – Principal Program Manager

Join Sarah Bird, Principal Program Manager for Responsible AI, to learn how Azure enables you to develop AI-powered apps responsibly.