Speaker

Simon Kingaby

Simon Kingaby

Voice Developer, Author and Innovator (Alexa), Data Mover (ETL, SQL), Code Monkey (C#, Python)

Niagara Falls, New York, United States

Simon Kingaby has been writing code and moving data for over 30 years. In the last few years, he’s been creating Alexa skills. Last year, he landed his dream job as the voice skill developer for the Digital Assistant (DA) team. DA builds the internal-use chatbot. In 2021, Apress published Simon's first book, Data-Driven Alexa Skills.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure SQL Database
  • ETL
  • C#
  • Microsoft Azure DevOps
  • Alexa
  • Voice
  • Voice Apps

Going Beyond Hello World: Building a Custom Alexa Skill

You've seen the standard Hello World skill. But how do you go beyond that? If you want to incorporate APIs and Data in a Custom Alexa Skill, then this is the session for you. See the skill creation process, learn what to change, and how, to go from Hello World to Data-Driven.

During this two-hour workshop, you will learn how to build Alexa skills that are Data-Driven. You will take away an understanding of how to create custom skill logic in an AWS Lambda function, and how to integrate that logic with your Alexa skill to bring data and the power of APIs into your skills.

Moving Data to the Cloud (with Azure Data Factory)

You need to move data. A lot of data. To the cloud. You’ve got data in a variety of on- and off-site data sources. There are several ways to move it. Some of them can be quite easily implemented using Azure Data Factory. Learn how to use variables and looping in your Data Factory pipelines. Use the Integration Runtime to pull directly from on-site sources. See how to upload files to blob storage and import them. Learn how to trigger Data Factory activities. And, learn how to keep all those connection strings and passwords secret in Azure Vault. After this session, you will have tools that you can readily implement in your own data migrations.

Music City Tech 2019 Sessionize Event

September 2019 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

SQL Saturday

I will be presenting my session on Azure Data Factory.

June 2019 Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Simon Kingaby

Voice Developer, Author and Innovator (Alexa), Data Mover (ETL, SQL), Code Monkey (C#, Python)

Niagara Falls, New York, United States