The Data Toboggan Piste Maps for Saturday 25 January 2025
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The Data Toboggan Piste Maps for Saturday 25 January 2025
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Bramberg Room
Pradaschier Room
Rigi Kaltbad Room
Jack Rowbotham has shared a great set of tool to get Copilot ready for agents . The full set of tools to use can be downloaded here: https://lnkd.in/gpPBSMmf
Continuing our travels with Data Toboggan
History of Events
2021
Inaugural event Winter Edition 2021: January 30, 2021
Cool Runnings July 2021: June 12, 2021
World Synapse Day 2021: Friday, November 12th, 2021
2022
Winter Edition 2022: January 29, 2022
Cool Runnings July 2022: July 9, 2022
Alpine Coaster 2022: Friday, November 25th, 2022
2023
Winter Edition 2023: January 28, 2023
Cool Runnings June 2023: June 24, 2023
Alpine Coaster 2023: Friday, November 24th, 2023
2024
Winter Edition 2024: February 3, 2024
Data Toboggan Slide Preparation @ SQLBits: Thursday 21 March 2024
Cool Runnings 2024: Saturday, July 13th, 2024.
Alpine Coaster 2024: Friday, November 8th, 2024
2025
Winter Edition 2025: Saturday, January 25th, 2025.
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The UK Government's response to the AI Opportunities Action Plan outlines a comprehensive strategy to harness the potential of artificial intelligence. Key points relate to AI infrastructure, a national data library, AI skills and talent, regulation and safety and public services. The government plans to expand the UK's AI infrastructure, including a new supercomputing facility and AI Growth Zones to support AI development and job creation. A National Data Library is to be established to provide secure access to public sector data for AI research and innovation. There are initiatives to attract and retain top AI talent, including scholarships and fellowships, and efforts to increase diversity in the AI workforce. The government wants to ensure a robust regulatory framework to support AI innovation while addressing risks and maintaining public trust. In addition to using AI to improve public services, such as healthcare and education, by adopting a 'Scan, Pilot, Scale' approach to AI implementation.
The plan aims to position the UK as a global leader in AI,
driving economic growth and improving the quality of life for its citizens.
You can read the government response to the AI Opportunities Action Plan.
The AI Opportunities Action Plan presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology in January 2025 outlines the UK's strategy to harness the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for economic growth, public service improvement, and personal opportunities.
The key goals for AI adoption in the UK, as outlined in the
AI Opportunities Action Plan, are:
Read the AI Opportunities Action Plan
There is now an accelerator to build a Microsoft Fabric modern data platform using pre-built reusable Fabric items. It uses a metadata-based ELT orchestration used for Azure Synapse and Azure Databricks. The medallion architecture enables files in Lakehouse or Data Warehouse in OneLake.
An accelerator has many benefits to accelerate development, makes implementations repeatable and enables best practice. It is ease to use, scalable, flexible, reuseable and everything is automated.
The architecture has
Bronze layer - files
Silver layer - Lakehouse
Gold layer – Data Warehouse
To get started follow these steps:
During Microsoft Ignite there were a number of Microsoft Purview updates.
Names changes in products were
Data Security Posture Management for AI
Data assessments (in preview) to identify and fix potential oversharing risks in your organization.
Recommendations and policies to detect risky AI usage with insider risk management policy.
Extending support for other generative AI apps, including Copilot Studio, ChatGPT - Microsoft Purview integration with ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API