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. 

Please note  - this will be a paid conference, and we are charging a nominal registration fee of $50.00 up to the October 6 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

1:15PM – 2:15PM

Track 1 - Brian Charles - 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 - 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 - Rosca Bogdan - AmerisourceBegen's Enterprise Analytics Platform - "Crowd sourcing" data and analytic models through self service

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 – Azure Machine Learning     

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

11:30 - LUNCH

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 - Catalin Vieru - Chat Transcripts Classification Using Azure ML                  

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!AqR90V07LFnlgeZPEYVvGQSSgDtWFg

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