Steph Locke
Digital & App Innovation Manager @ Microsoft
Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Steph heads up a team of digital and app innovation architects in Microsoft, helping some of the UK’s biggest organisations use the cloud to deliver more value faster. She has a broad technology background in data, AI, and software and has experience running consultancies and startups. Steph loves open source, and the impact accessible tech can have on empowering people, so she dedicates her spare time to helping others improve their use of tech. She was a Microsoft Most Valued Professional for five years in a row, she sits on the board of the SQL Saturday Foundation, and she is a co-chair for the EU SME Digital Alliance AI Focus Group.
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Microsoft Cognitive Services Intro
What are the Microsoft Cognitive Services, how can we consume them in R, and how can they help us with our day to day R work? Come along to find out!
Is the cloud cost effective?
Yes, the cloud is cool. Yes, it can be easy. But… will it save or even make the company money? That is the all important question!
Learning to build a financial business case for a technology decision is a smart move. Transform the techy topic that C-suite people don’t feel like they can discuss into something they can discuss by making it a financial topic. Help people make the right decision for the business.
In this talk, we’ll look at how we can determine the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and any potential Return on Investment (ROI) for a variety of scenarios, from starting in the cloud, migrating to the cloud, and staying on premises.
We’ll see if there are any tipping points when one or the other becomes sensible. We’ll take into account basic principles like the future value of money, and even incorporate a measurement of opportunity costs for implementing each solution.
By the end of this talk, you’ll have a grasp of basic accounting and you’ll be able to talk business i.e. money!
Build your first bot – no code required!
Learn how to build a bot that will answer questions asked by users. Learn how to customise it and embed it on your website. Learn how to do all of this without having to write a single line of code.
I’ll be using Microsoft’s qnamaker.io site to build an FAQ bot and the putting it live with an Azure Bot Service and the Skype Web Control. The end result is a little snippet you can add to any web page, making implementation a breeze.
You can follow along as I build the bot live, or just soak it all in. Either way, you’ll see how easy it is to build a bot and you’ll know the next steps to follow to start building more complex bots.
Coding from scratch a realtime Azure data and AI pipeline
In just 60 minutes, this session will demonstrate an end to end data pipeline supplemented by AI to achieve insights real-time. Using components like Azure Functions, Event Hubs, Databricks, Cognitive Services, and Power BI I'll be putting together a pipeline that takes our #msBuild social stream and analyses it realtime. Join me as I show how quickly these sorts of systems can be put together for awesome insight.
Build or Buy AI?
If AI is on the cards in your business you're probably needing to make a recommendation as to whether your company should Buy or Build. Leveraging typical project times, staff costs, and resource costs into account this session works through common scenarios to help you work out whether you need a Data Scientist, an API key for Cognitive Services, or simply a good IF statement!
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Steph Locke
Digital & App Innovation Manager @ Microsoft
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