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Veronika Kolesnikova

Veronika Kolesnikova

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft MVP (AI)

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Software engineer by day and AI enthusiast by night. Veronika has extensive experience in full-stack development using C#, .NET, Java and Typescript, Azure and AWS clouds. Public speaker, hackathon volunteer, co-organizer of Boston Azure user group, and mentor. Curious about mobile and Augmented Reality.
Veronika holds a master's degree in Information Technology. She likes dancing, traveling and practicing aerial fitness in her free time.

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Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • AI
  • Chatbots
  • Cognitive services
  • Azure
  • Machine Learning & AI
  • Xamarin

Azure OpenAI in the heart of your smart bot

If you heard about ChatGPT – one of the most popular artificial intelligence platforms in the world right now, you heart about OpeAI. Azure is making it more accessible and adding all the benefits of the cloud to it. Let’s figure out what’s hiding behind all the hype.
You will learn about the core components of a chatbot and how Azure supports these components with its AI and machine learning capabilities. The talk will also showcase how OpenAI can be integrated into Azure-powered chatbots to add even more advanced features such as natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and recommendation engines.
In this session we’ll talk about general concepts of artificial intelligence, OpenAI offerings and machine learning models you can access using Azure OpenAI service. Then you'll learn about bot design and development tricks, tools and services to make your bot user appealing. In the end you'll see how to start developing a completely custom bot backed up by Azure OpenAI service.

Is there ML.NET in MAUI?

Machine Learning is not only a buzz-word now. There’re so many opportunities for developers to include it in a wide variety of applications. If you heard or tried something about data collection and processing, creating and training models and ready to see how to connect those knowledge with mobile applications, that's the right session for you. When you are ready to use your custom ML model, .NET will help you to connect it directly to your MAUI cross-platform mobile app. In this session, you’ll see how .NET can be truly used everywhere.

Responsible AI

Nowadays with the development of AI, it became a big part of our lives. It started with statistics, so was focused mostly on numbers: precision, recall, etc. But at some point, it became obvious lots of AI models were missing something very important: responsibility.
Microsoft came up with basic principles of Responsible AI and provided some tools to support AI developers. In this session we will talk about AI and ML in general, data preparation and Responsible AI principles and tools. In the end, I will show a demo using some of the tools inside Azure ML.

Make your applications interactive with Speech Services

Everyone knows we can’t deny benefits of artificial intelligence both for business and for consumers. Developers are trying to integrate it to all kinds of applications and all major tech companies are working on making it as accessible as possible. Whether you are working with machine learning models every day, building chat bots or just want to “humanize” your app you’ll find Microsoft Speech Services very useful. There’s a wide variety of use cases and applications for them.
In this session we’ll talk about Artificial Intelligence in general and then move to more detailed view of Speech Services. You will learn about available speech tools and their applications. We’ll talk about similar tools provided by Google and Amazon. In the end you’ll see a quick demo overviewing the services. I’m sure this session will make you excited enough to start working with Speech services.

Machine Learning for .NET developers

Machine Learning is the future and it's already here. There’re so many opportunities for developers to include it in a wide variety of applications. If you heard a lot about data collection and processing, creating and training models and ready to try it all yourself with the help of .NET, I'll show you where to start. Your first completely functional ML.NET project won't take too long to create. In this session we'll talk about the specifics of ML.NET, its applications and see how Auto ML can be a good starting point.

KCDC 2023 Sessionize Event

June 2023 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Festive Tech Calendar 2022 Sessionize Event

December 2022

TechBash 2022 Sessionize Event

November 2022 Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, United States

Visual Studio Live! New Orleans, Boston & Microsoft HQ 2019 Sessionize Event

August 2019 Redmond, Washington, United States

Xamarin Developer Summit Sessionize Event

July 2019 Houston, Texas, United States

Veronika Kolesnikova

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft MVP (AI)

Boston, Massachusetts, United States