Blogging: Our Labs at Microsoft Build 2024

As I write this, I am at the Seattle Summit Convention Center checking the preparation for Microsoft Build 2024 starting tomorrow. So exciting to be back in person in Seattle, and waiting for all the attendees to arrive tomorrow.

Please come say hi if you see me

Today is what we call the "pre-day". Mostly it's a lot of rehearsals, tech checks, some meetings, some reunions,...

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Blogging: Getting started with Azure AI Studio at the Build AI Day in Zurich

Today I had the pleasure of co-presenting the session Getting Started with Azure AI Studio with my colleague Cloud Solution Architect Anna Peter (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-mei-peter).

You can find the slides below in this post. This session is actually a session that was originally created for the AI Tour t...

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Blogging: The Acquired podcast episode about Microsoft

I listen to a lot of podcasts these days, including the wonderful historical episodes of The Rest is History (https://therestishistory.com/episodes) (Thanks Jon Galloway (https://twitter.com/@JonGalloway) for the reference, I love it). But these last few days I've been listening to the 4 hours long episode (!) of the Acquired show (https://pod.link/acquired) dedicat...

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Blogging: Responsible AI Revisited at the .NET User Group Basel

(https://www.meetup.com/basel-net-user-group/events/299885900)

Next Tuesday, I will speak at the .NET User Group Basel, about Responsible AI. My session, Responsible AI Revisited is one that I have been giving a few times in 2023 and 2024, and always a huge pleasure to talk about this very important topic. I'd love to meet many people from Swit...

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Blogging: How to Install GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, MS Dev Community Blog

I just published a new article on the Microsoft Developer Community Blog (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-developer-community/how-to-install-github-copilot-in-visual-studio/ba-p/4088771/?WT.mc_id=academic-117935-lbugnion)

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Blogging: Join me in Cape Town and Johannesburg for the Build AI Day

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As I write this from the Microsoft AI Tour in Paris, France, I am also getting ready to fly to South Africa for two exciting events: Microsoft Build AI Day in Cape Town (March 15th) (https://msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=3326943151) and Johannesburg (March 18th) (https://msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=3379308608)...

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Blogging: My Azure Cosmos DB and AI session at Microsoft Ignite Switzerland 2024

Yesterday the Microsoft Ignite Switzerland conference took place at the Kongresshaus in Zurich. The event was sold out at a maximum (theoretical, see below...) capacity of 1200 attendees. I presented a short session on collaboration with our partner ELCA (more below). The conference was very nice, and it was lovely t...

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Blogging: Implementing a link shortener with Azure Static Web Apps, part 1

In this series of articles (https://galasoft.ch/posts/category/link-shortener) we will see how I build a link shortener (similar to tinyurl etc) and run it at minimum cost using an Azure Static Web App (https://gslb.ch/627).

Why a link shortener?

Link shorteners are quite useful for a number of reasons.

- You can give your users a shorter, easier to me...

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Blogging: Responsible AI revisited at the Microsoft Cloud

Today I was honored to be invited to speak at the Microsoft Cloud Security & Modern Work meet-up taking place at Microsoft Switzerland's offices. You can see my slide deck here below.

More about this presentation, and the slide deck, can be found here (https://galasoft.ch/presentations/2024002)....

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