Microsoft Build - AI Day in London

 

There  is a one day free event in London on 19 October 2023 to help developers discover new opportunities with AI and advance their knowledge and skills to deliver more value faster with AI and Microsoft Azure. I am excited to be attending the event and helping out.

The event is at ExCeL London and the event agenda is full of interesting sessions

Opening Keynote: Learn what developers need to know about AI today, and explore new paths forward in your organization and career.

Breakout Sessions: Dive into topics like:

• Building and scaling cloud-native apps
• Generative AI using Azure OpenAI Service
• The power of cloud and AI into your workflow
• Integration of security throughout your code and cloud workflow.
• Integrating Azure AI and Azure Kubernetes Service
• Building and maintaining Copilot with Azure ML and GPT-4
• Building intelligent Apps with GitHub Codespaces
• Developing in the cloud with Microsoft Dev Box

Immersive Workshops: Bring your device and join a 75-minute immersive workshop on topics like building flexible, intelligent apps with OSS on Microsoft Azure and GitHub Copilot, learn how to use OpenAI models using Azure OpenAI, and how to automate your cloud application testing.

Connection Hub: Connect and learn with one-to-one meetings with experts, and spaces to collaborate with other developers and industry leaders to help solve your technical questions.

Evening Mixer: Come together with speakers, industry leaders, and the developer community to continue your conversations, mix and mingle, and have a little fun.

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The Data Saturday Oslo Event

I was really excited to go and speak at Data Saturday in Oslo on #35 on 2 September 2023 on the Business Benefits for good governance.  Oslo is an amazing city and the Saturday venue was in the heart of the Campus Fjerdingen | Høyskolen Kristiania, Chr. Krohgs gate 32, 0186 Oslo

It was great to see all the room with Norse names

I spoke after lunch at 14:15 in Vanaheim, one of the nine worlds that are situated around the world tree Yggdrasil.

My session slides are on Github

The event was packed full of amazing session content with the day being a true community event.  I would recommend the event to anyone in the future and hope i have to opportunity to speak there again in the future. 

Data Saturday Oslo

I will be speaking at Data Saturday Oslo 2023 on Saturday 2 September 2023 . 

Only a few days to go. Details: https://datasaturdays.com/2023-09-02-datasaturday0035/

The Microsoft Community UK Spotlight and Recognition Awards

The Microsoft Community UK Spotlight and Recognition Awards is an annual event recognising those in the UK Microsoft Community who have gone above and beyond, nominated, and chosen by their peers.

There are a total of 10 award categories:

• Best Podcast / YouTube Channel
• Best User Group
• Best Blogger Award
• Modern Work Evangelist
• Azure Evangelist
• Business Applications
• Security & Compliance Evangelist
• Community Rising Star
• Social Impact
• The Communities, Community Hero

View all the nominees here: https://www.ukcommunityawards.co.uk/nominations/

It is an honour to be nominated amongst so many amazing people for the 'Communities, Community Hero' award.  All the nominees are amazing with what they do for the community.  The top 3 nominees from each award category will be selected as finalists. Voting begins 1st September. The 2023 ‘Microsoft Community UK Spotlight and Recognition Awards’ ceremony will be hosted on Friday 13th October, from 7pm at the South Coast Summit 2023 Community Gala.

Free version of Microsoft Purview (Preview)

The free version of Microsoft Purview is an amazing opportunity to start down that journey to data governance. There are various elements  

• An Automatically available instance, ready your users without set-up.
• A single, organization-wide instance of Microsoft Purview
• Metadata stored in Azure is automatically inventoried
• Free search using the Microsoft Purview Data Catalog
• The Data Catalog automatically records data schema

Meta data curation can be done by data owners in the data catalog curator role,  for things like description, classifications, and contacts. To view any assets all users need Read permissions.

The free version of Microsoft Purview supports these data sources:

·       Azure Blob Storage

·       Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2

·       Azure SQL Database

·       Azure subscriptions

There is a limitation on the free version of 10,000 annotated assets.  For clarity a description and a classification on the same asset are only treated as one annotated asset.

It is managed at the organization/tenant level.

 
The new experience uses a single, primary Microsoft Purview account. Multiple accounts, should be coming later'

References

What's in the free version of Microsoft Purview? | Microsoft Learn

Get started with the free version of Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Learn

Deployment best practices for Microsoft Purview (formerly Azure Purview) | Microsoft Learn

Microsoft Purview Portals

Microsoft Purview has been evolving over the last year. First with the name change from Azure Purview to Microsoft Purview, and with the rename of the risk and compliance apps to Microsoft Purview as well.  Then the introduction of the Microsoft Purview hub for Fabric and now a New Purview Governance Portal. It is great to see this level of innovation and change. 

There are currently multiple ways to access Microsoft Purview depending on which Portal you want to reach.  

Microsoft Purview governance portal  (Legacy)

https://web.purview.azure.com/ ​

Microsoft Purview compliance portal​

https://compliance.microsoft.com

Purview Governance New Portal (Preview) 

https://purview.microsoft.com

Fabric – The Purview Hub ​

A mixture of governance and risk and compliance apps at the moment.

 

The New Microsoft Purview Portal

The exciting new #MicrosoftPurview portal is in Preview.

Microsoft Purview is a family of data governance, risk, and compliance solutions. These solutions enable organizations to govern, protect, and manage the entire data estate.

The new portal is at https://purview.microsoft.com/

Read about it here: What to expect in the new Microsoft Purview portal

There is now a live view for Azure sources.  This means that some Azure resources are available in the Microsoft Purview Data Catalog without scanning. This live view has Name, Properties, Schema and Lineage available as metadata.
Read more : Live view

There are also updated reader and owner permissions.

Another exciting change is that there is now a free version of Microsoft Purview for the Data Catalog.
Details: What's in the free version of Microsoft Purview?