The Microsoft AI Tour in London on 21 October 2024 talked about solving the biggest challenges and uncovering new opportunities to empower your organization. The Opening Keynote was with Clare Barclay, Satya Nadella and Jared Spataro. There were discussions on building an agentic world where personal agents, organisational agents, business process agents and cross organisation agents enable the use of AI in business to assist you with work. An example of this is Pages for AI artifacts that enables you to work with the organisation and AI . The 3 areas of innovations
- Copilot
- Copilot & AI Stack
- Copilot devices
These innovative areas will increase value and reduce waste and Copilot Studio for autonomous agents was announced.
A very important announcement, for us in the UK, is that Microsoft and UK Government have signed a five-year agreement to support the new era of digital transformation. So a very exciting time for the UK to grow.
There is gravity with data. AI needs to bring all the data together in one platform like Microsoft Fabric, to simplify data and have App servers, AI apps and tools. Microsoft showed its unified data offering in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS to unify the data estate, at what ever stage a business is at, for databases and analytics.
Trust is the most important thing in #AI. You must have a set of principles considering Security, Privacy, Safety at the core
AI is redefining Britain. It can take longer to realise value as change and adoption management takes time. It is cheaper to innovate than before so we need to think big, think bold and be ambitious
Satya finished with 4 important points to note: expand opportunity, earn trust, protect fundamental rights and advance sustainability.
The announcement today can be read here
