Azure Cognitive Services for everyone with Travis Sansome, Kristina Rumpff and Rolf Tesmer - Microsoft Ignite Australia 2017 - SSW TV - Learn from Professional Software Developers

Microsoft Ignite Australia is on the Gold Coast this year and SSW TV was there to catch all the action.

Travis Sansome Interviews Kristina Rumpff and Rolf Tesmer

In this interview Travis, Rolf and Kristina discuss:

1. Intro to Azure cognitive services
2. Use cases and skills needed
3. Future directions
4. Why use them
5. Difference between data science and cognitive services

About the speakers

Azure Guru's

Kristina Rumpff is a Data Platform Solution Architect at Microsoft. Prior to being an architect, Kristina has been a DBA, A Web Developer, a Unix Admin and a programmer.

Travis Sansome is a Technology Solution Professional at Microsoft. Travis has 3 years worth of development experience with Microsoft's latest Azure offerings in the data and analytics space.

Rolf Tesmer is a Data Solution Architect at Microsoft. Rolf has over 15 years experience in the IT industry across APAC and the UK.

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