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Bethany Jepchumba

Bethany Jepchumba

Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

Nairobi, Kenya

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Bethany loves crafting user stories and enhancing user experiences! She strives to make a positive impact on people's lives through her skills in design, code, and leadership.

As a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, she engages with students, aspiring developers, and entrepreneurs to help them learn and grow in Artificial Intelligence (AI). She does this through writing articles, hosting workshops, and speaking at events about AI and cloud computing. She has a strong background in community and skilling others, thanks to her previous roles as a Program Coordinator at Andela and Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador which built her passion for community and skilling others.

She comes from a community of marathon runners but decided to run code instead. Outside tech she defines herself as creative. You will find her testing out new hobbies, sketching or deeply engrossed in a book.

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Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Customer Centered Design
  • Cloud Technology
  • Building tech team
  • Azure AI
  • Azure App Service
  • Leadership Empowerment
  • Empowering Communities
  • Microsoft Power Virtual Agents
  • All things data
  • GitHub
  • UI/UX Design
  • Artificial Inteligence
  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  • Startups
  • Startup Innovation & Creativity

Building kinder and cost effective agents through fine tuning

Learn how to customize AI models for a retail customer service agent using Microsoft Foundry. In this session we will discuss how you can optimize your model through options such as SFT and distillation to reduce latency and token costs and improve the tone of your models. I will also cover how you can synthetically generate your data and create a custom grader to give our model proper guidance for fine tuning. Lastly, we will talk about production, how you can deploy and evaluate your retail customer service agent.

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March 2022 Nairobi, Kenya

Bethany Jepchumba

Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

Nairobi, Kenya

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