Hello Everyone!

We are pleased to announce that registration is open for the "Azure DataFest: Microsoft Azure Advance Analytics and Big Data Conference", a 2-day event to be held on Thursday and Friday, October 12-13, 2017, 9:00AM to 5:00  PM at the Microsoft Training Center at 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 300 Reston, Virginia 20190. 

This event is being sponsored by Applied Information Sciences (https://www.appliedis.com/ ) and CloudCheckr  (https://www.appliedis.com/).

Please note  - this will be a paid conference, and we are charging a nominal registration fee of $50.00 up to the October 10th registration deadline.  Hurry though, we only have 150 seats available for this great two day event, packed with nearly  30  advanced analytics and big data sessions. This will be a great event, and one you will not want to miss out on.

Here is our event schedule (things could change slightly):

Day 1, Thursday, October 12, 2017

9:00AM to 10:00AM - Introductions and Key Note, Tim McAliley, Brian Moran and Brian Charles

10:00AM - Jim Dugan - Insights from Projects on Data Science

11:00AM - Ashish Jaiman - Deep Learning with Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit

12:00PM - LUNCH -Lunch and Learn Session from CloudCheckr, https://cloudcheckr.com

1:15PM – 2:15PM

Track 1 -Devin Jaiswal, Pavle Coric  - Power BI from Personal to Premium 

Track 2 - Rehan Mirza - Azure Cognitive Services 

Track 3 - Joey D’Antoni - Building a Data Delivery Solution in the Cloud

2:30PM – 3:30PM

Track 1 - Jim Dugan - Doing Something Amazing in Power Bi 

Track 2 - Jon Tupitza - Build a Recommendation Engine with Azure Machine Learning Studio 

Track 3 -  Arief Bevan – Block Chain as a Service

3:45PM – 4:45PM

Track 1 - Matt Morrell, Matt Williams - Hurricanes, Pizza, Floods, and Elections: How to use ArcGIS Maps for PowerBI to Tell YOUR Story 

Track 2 - Rehan Mirza - Azure Data Factory 

Track 3 - Bogdan Rosca - Enterprise Analytics Adoption through “Crowd sourcing". Powered by
self-service on Azure

Day 2, Friday, October 13, 2017

9:00AM to 10:00AM - Aleksey Savateyev, Microsoft Senior Program Manager, Azure Cosmos DB, - Overview of Azure Cosmos DB

10:15AM – 11:15AM

Track 1 - Andy Roberts – BI Everywhere

Track 2 - Lisa Jackson-Neblett – Intro to Azure Machine Learning 

Track 3 - Alex Zeltov - Intro to Big Data Analytics using Apache Spark in Azure

11:30 - LUNCH - Lunch and Learn Session with Adam Ormond and Yared Tsegaye,  Applied Information Sciences, "Improving citizen mobility through Azure data services”.

12:45PM – 1:45PM

Track 1 - Bryan Swan – No Data Is Safe from Power BI 

Track 2 -  Vicky Fu - Deep Learning? Better Equipped With Data Science Virtual Machine 

Track 3 - Somnath Nandi - Custom Speech Service

2:00PM – 3:00PM

Track 1 - Mehul Shah – Architecting Cloud Data Analytics Solutions 

Track 2 - Frank Lavigne - So You Want To Be A Data Scientist?  

Track 3 - Somnath Nandi – Azure Data Lake as a Service

3:15PM – 4:15PM

Track 1 - Andy Roberts - A lap around the Microsoft Data Platform

Track 2 - Faizan Khan - Make your apps cool again with Bots and Cognitive Services

Track 3 - Chris Price - Building Real-Time Data Pipelines on HDInsight with Spark 2

4:15PM – Closing/Wrap up

Check here for session details:

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AmTIyoGGsHyxaj2j__vIq_0l-U8

This event is being run and coordinated by:

Brian Moran - Database and Cloud Solutions Manager at DB Best Technologies, https://www.linkedin.com/in/briancmoran/

Tim McAliley  - Microsoft Account Technology Strategist,  https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothymcaliley/

Please help spread the word via twitter ( @azuredatafest #azuredatafest2017), LinkedIn, etc. Thank you for registering and we look forward to seeing you all at the event!

 If you have a question about the event, the way to ask is via discussion section the NOVASQL meetup page... www.meetup.com/novasql or email us at team.novasql@outlook.com