Henk Boelman
Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft
Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Netherlands
Henk is a Cloud Advocate specializing in Artificial intelligence and Azure with a background in application development. He is currently part of the AI cloud advocate team and based in the Netherlands. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Microsoft AI MVP and worked as a software developer and architect building lots of AI powered platforms on Azure.
He loves to share his knowledge about topics such as DevOps, Azure and Artificial Intelligence by providing training courses and he is a regular speaker at user groups and international conferences.
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Making sense of unstructured data with AI
Do you have a lot of data in unreadable formats such as PDFs, images and audio files and want the ability to extract this rich information, analyze it and act on it?
In this session, you'll learn how to combine a set of Cognitive Services like Azure Cognitive Search to make sense of this data in a short amount of time. We'll discuss AI concepts, like the ingest-enrich-explore pattern, skillsets, leveraging cognitive services, knowledge bases and connecting all these elements together to build an intelligent search experience into an applications.
A.I. on the Microsoft Stack
The need to jump on the AI track is more relevant than ever. With the commodity of hardware and the computing power of the Azure Cloud, Artificial Intelligence is at our fingertips and waiting to be implemented in new innovative solutions.
In this session we do a deep dive into the A.I. stack that Microsoft has to offer. We start with pre-trained Cognitive services like Computer Vision, Anomaly Detection and Speaker recognition. And move on to the more advanced tooling like Machine Learning Studio and Azure Machine Learning Services.
At the end of this session you have a good grasp of the technological building blocks that make AI happen. Just waiting to be used in your own projects afterwards.
The AI revolution is coming and you can be part of it!
Containers, Machine Learning, Security and GitHub Actions
Join Sjoukje and Henk in this session to find out how you can create a Machine Learning pipeline that can train a PyTorch model using GitHub actions and learn how you can deploy and secure the container holding the model in production.
There will be a lot of live coding demo's!
Building accessible experiences with AI
AI can be a game changer for people with disabilities. Already we’re witnessing this as people with disabilities expand their use of computers to hear, see and reason with impressive accuracy.
At Microsoft we’ve been putting to work stronger solutions such as real-time speech-to-text transcription, visual recognition services and predictive text functionality. AI advances like these offer enormous potential by enabling people with vision, hearing, cognitive, learning, mobility disabilities and mental health conditions do more in three specific scenarios: employment, modern life and human connection.
In this session we dive into the tools and services that are available for you to create solutions that are more accessible and inclusive.
The session will be packed with demos, use cases and lot's of tips and tricks.
Join this session and learn how you can help building the future of disability inclusion and accessibility.
Build and deploy PyTorch models with Azure Machine Learning
With machine learning becoming more and more an engineering problem the need to track, work together and easily deploy ML experiments with integrated CI/CD tooling is becoming more relevant then ever.
In this session we take a deep-dive into Azure Machine Learning, a cloud service that you can use to track as you build, train, deploy, and manage models. We use the Azure Machine Learning Python SDK to manage the complete life cycle of a PyTorch model, from managing the data, to train the model and finally run it into a production Kubernetes cluster.
At the end of this session you have a good grasp of the technological building blocks of Azure machine learning services and train a PyTorch model on scale.
Experts Live Europe 2023 Upcoming
SQLDay 2023 Upcoming
SharePoint Saturday Netherlands 2019
Experts Live Nederland 2018
Unleash some AI into the wild...
IT.A.K.E. Unconference 2018
Unleash some AI into the wild...
Codegarden 2018
Infuse some AI into Umbraco
Umbraco Festival Germany
Infuse some AI into Umbraco
DevNetNoord
Unleash some AI into the wild...
Orlando codecamp
Unleash some AI into the wild...
MixUG
Beyond the usual suspects, emerging Cognitive Services
Umbracofestival UK
Infuse some Custom vision into Umbraco
DUUGFest 2017
Infuse some AI - Making Umbraco smarter
DevCamp Noord
Infuse some AI - Making apps a bit smarter
SDN
Infuse some AI - Making apps a bit smarter
Umbraco Usergroup
Infuse some AI - Making Umbraco smarter
Code & Comedy
Give Your Apps a Human Side