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Konstantinos Passadis

Konstantinos Passadis

Solutions Architect - Microsoft Azure MVP

Athens, Greece

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Konstantinos is a passionate IT professional and Microsoft Certified Trainer with over two decades of experience in crafting and deploying comprehensive IT solutions. His expertise lies in Microsoft technologies, evident in his Microsoft Azure MVP status. As a Cloud Solutions Architect, he specializes in designing enterprise architectures for cloud environments, including Azure, M365, and hybrid/multi-cloud solutions. Konstantinos is a lifelong learner, continually expanding his knowledge and certifications across various vendors, primarily Microsoft. He is a dedicated community leader and advocate, spearheading knowledge-sharing initiatives through his Microsoft Tech Group, live sessions, and blog posts.

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Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Azure
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Azure Data & AI
  • Cloud Security Architecture
  • Cloud Containers and Infrastructure
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Technologies
  • Azure App Service
  • Azure Logic Apps
  • Azure IaaS

How to create an AI Web App with Azure AI Search Vector Embeddings and Microsoft Fabric Pipelines

In this session we will learn how to build an AI and Recommendations Assistant with cutting-edge features, helping users decide which Book is best suitable for their preferences. Our assistant will handle various interactions, such as, providing customized recommendations, and engaging in chat conversations. Additionally, users can register and log in to this Azure Cloud-native AI application. Microsoft Fabric will handle, automation and AI related tasks such as:

Load and clean the books Dataset with triggered Pipelines and Notebooks
Transform the Dataset to JSON and making proper adjustments for Vector usability
Load the cleaned and transformed Dataset to Azure AI Search and configuring Vector and Semantic profiles
Create and save embeddings with Azure OpenAI to Azure AI Search
As you may already guessed our foundation lies in Microsoft Fabric, leveraging its powerful Python Notebooks, Pipelines, and Datalake toolsets

Bot Framework: Build an AI Security Assistant with ease

In this workshop we will utilize the Bot Framework to build our own security assistant with the ability to Generate and Execute KQL Queries on or Log Analytics Workspace as well as provide Security advice using Azure OpenAI.The Bot will be available on a Teams Channel for our users to work with.

Azure OpenAI Assistants: AI Automation with Logic Apps

In this session we are building Azure OpenAI Assistants to perform automated tasks with Logic Apps. A full scale Azure AI demonstration for the future of automation with Assistants and Assistants API.

Azure AI Search: Nativity in Microsoft Fabric

Build a recommendation AI Integrated Web App with Azure AI Search Indexes and Microsoft Fabric Integration. In this session we are integrating Azure Ai Search , Microsoft Fabric , Azure SQL for Custom Identity DB and Azure OpenAI for a Book recommendation engine based on users criteria and requests. A perfect example of Vector Indexing with Python Notebooks running as Fabric Pipelines.

Azure AI Services on AKS

Host your AI Language Containers and Web Apps on Azure Kubernetes Cluster: A Flask Web App Sentiment Analysis application deployment with Azure AI Containers using the corresponding model on AKS, and step by step demo \ walk-through.

Azure OpenAI: Creating Prompt Flows with Azure AI Studio Machine Learning

An end to end demonstration of how to build and configure our Prompt Flows, using our own Data. We are going to explore the use of Azure AI Studio and Machine Learning workspace and the required resources that will help us create our QnA on our Data Prompt Flow and optimize it based on our needs

Azure Container Apps, APIs & Redis Cache for ChatGPT Completions

Build a Container App Full Stack Web App utilizing Redis Cache for ChatGPT responses. We will see how we can build Docker Images directly to Container Registry, use environment values for our API backend and integrate on our SDK Redis Cache for cached responses from the OpenAI API.

Secure Synapse Analytics Data Watehouse

This session is all about a Python Web App with Azure SQL and Synapse Analytics for a secure Data Warehouse solution! Build and deploy with Private Endpoins , Managed VNET and all the tweaks on Synapse for your own Polling Data Analytics ! Oh it won't hurt to have a pinch of Power Bi !

Synapse PII Data Masking with Cognitive Services

We are going to deploy Azure Synapse and Data Lake v2 with Terraform, upload a CSV with AD User Data and modify a Synapse Analytics Template to mask Pii Data with Cognitive Services.

Azure Logic Apps & Defender for Endpoint

In this session we will deploy Logic Apps and Storage Account in Azure with DevOps Pipelines. Then the Logic App workflow will Import data from Defender for Endpoint and store it in Azure Storage blob for any further use.

Import Users into Azure AD with Azure functions and CosmosDB

In this session we create a solution via DevOps which publishes Azure Functions and CosmosDB and automates User Registration for Azure AD

Service Bus & Container Apps - Entra ID User Registration

This session displays the integration of Container Apps and Service Bus , where a Web App inserts users into Entra ID from a Web Form. We are using Docker to containerize our Web App and MS Graph with Key Vault !

The deployment is done with Terraform and the purpose is to display the amazing integration of Azure Services along with the lightning fast Service Bus queues.
https://www.cloudblogger.eu/2023/05/16/service-bus-with-container-apps-part-2/

OpenAI Web App - External Authentication

Our Open AI Web App can provide access to other Azure Tenants via the Authentication Providers, and we are going to show you how to do that!

Semantic Kernel: Control your Open AI with Semantic Kernel

A session about the Semantic Kernel and how we can control our Prompts to have OpenAI produce specific requests and apply this to our Applications. React and Python as well as Terraform Azure Function Apps and Container Apps in this Demo!
We are exploring Semantic Kernel and how we can implement Azure Open AI with total control on the prompts and the requests towards our Chat deployments! Our Project is a Learning Application assisting users into learning different topics with Tutorials and Quizzes fresh from Azure Open AI. The same can be achieved using Open AI Chat GPT, but we love Azure and we are going to use the Azure Open AI resources!

Azure Subscription with OpenAI enabled, VSCode and Terraform with Azure Functions Core tools.
https://www.cloudblogger.eu/2023/10/18/semantic-kernel-container-apps-with-react-and-python/

Microsoft Fabric & Content Safety: Analytics on Metadata

In this Workshop we are going to utilize Custom Metadata, and Azure Content Safety to perform Analytics on Image Moderation with Microsoft Fabric. A wide range of tools used to help us categorize and flag content but also analyze the Data with Microsoft Fabric.

https://www.cloudblogger.eu/2023/11/20/microsoft-fabric-content-safety-analytics-on-metadata/

Creating and customizing Copilots in Copilot Studio

Build and configure a Copilot with your Web Site's data from Copilot Studio and Publish it as a Teams App and embed it on your Website for your users to interact with it.

Building Intelligent Chatbots with Azure and Hugging Face

Join our workshop on the future of intelligent chatbot development! Seamlessly integrate Azure Cosmos DB for vectorization, leverage Hugging Face, and craft Prompt Flows within React. This workshop is designed for all audiences looking to learn chatbot development skills and AI Development.

Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance User Group User group Sessionize Event Upcoming

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Microsoft Azure Community User Group User group Sessionize Event Upcoming

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Cloud Lunch and Learn Weekly Sessions 24 User group Sessionize Event Upcoming

March 2024, October 2024

DATA BASH '24 Sessionize Event

October 2024

Microsoft Community Insights Podcast Sessionize Event

October 2024

Azure Innovators Hub - Public Sessions User group Sessionize Event

October 2024

Azure Back to School 2024 Sessionize Event

September 2024

wedoAI 2024 Sessionize Event

August 2024

Microsoft Learn Zero to Hero Community User group Sessionize Event

May 2024

Festive Tech Calendar 2023 Sessionize Event

December 2023

Welsh Azure User Group - Event User group Sessionize Event

February 2022

Konstantinos Passadis

Solutions Architect - Microsoft Azure MVP

Athens, Greece

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