Behind the Scenes

Global AI Bootcamp

Join us for six exclusive Global AI Bootcamp sessions.

What is this all about?

What is Global AI Bootcamp?

The Global AI Bootcamp is a free event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure. The event is a perfect balance of quality content, awesome talks, and hands-on learning with like-minded peers in your community. Find the link in Resources below to learn more.

What are these 'Behind the Scenes' sessions?

For the Global AI Bootcamp, we’ll go behind the scenes. In 6 episodes we will connect to organizers from all over the world to learn more about their event, what content they provide, how to join and who is organizing! Every episode focuses on a specific region, and like the bootcamp, will go around the world to connect to everyone.

What's the format for these sessions?

Every episode a program manager from Microsoft will join the show to demo and answer all your questions about a Microsoft AI tool as well as a roundtable with event organizers. Join to look behind the scenes of the Global AI Bootcamp 2022.

Our Sessions & Topics

  • Behind the Scenes Down Under

    Learn about PyTorch on Azure Machine Learning and join us in a friendly chat with organizers from Australia and New Zealand.

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  • Behind the Scenes Africa

    Learn about Semantic Search on Azure and join us in a friendly chat with organizers from Morocco and Mauritus.

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  • Behind the Scenes South America

    Learn about the Azure Percept devices and join us in a friendly chat with organizers from Chile and Mexico.

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  • Behind the Scenes North America

    Learn about Document Processing on Azure devices and join us in a friendly chat with organizers from Canada and the USA.

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  • Behind the Scenes Asia

    Learn about the Azure Cognitive services and join us in a friendly chat with organizers from India and Taiwan.

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  • Behind the Scenes Europe

    Learn about the responsible AI Dashboard and join us in a friendly chat with organizers from the UK and the Netherlands.

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Learning Resources

  • Cloud Skills Challenge

    Build in-demand skills to advance your career in cloud development while preparing you to earn a Microsoft Certification. Complete the Challenge in 30 days and earn a 50% discount on the certification exam.

  • Find a Global AI Bootcamp near you!

    This free one-day event is organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure. The events dates will be announced soon, with venues on every continent. 

Meet our Hosts

  • Henk Boelman (he/him)

    Your host across the six sessions. Henk is a Senior Cloud Advocate specializing in Artificial intelligence and Azure with a background in application development. He is currently part of the regional cloud advocate team in the Netherlands.

  • Sjoukje Zaal (she/her)

    Your host across the six sessions. Sjoukje is a CTO at Capgemini, where she completely focuses on Microsoft technology. She is a Microsoft Regional Directory and an Azure MVP.

  • Sammy Deprez (he/him)

    Sammy is the founder of Arinti. He is a senior consultant in the data & AI industry for over 13 years and has done projects in many different industries from finance to healthcare and many in-between.

  • Stacy Cashmore (she/her)

    Part of the Global AI team, Stacy is a Microsoft MVP based in the Netherlands. For the last 3 years she has been sharing her enthusiasm for learning new things are conferences and meetups, as both speaker and host.

Meet our Speakers

  • Down Under

    Sabrina Smai (she/her)

    Sabrina is a Product Manager at Microsoft working with PyTorch and ONNX Runtime.

  • Africa

    Derek Legenzoff (he/him)

    Derek is a Senior Program Manager for Azure Cognitive Search. He's currently focused on Semantic Search and the core search functionality within Cognitive Search

  • South America

    Amira Youssef (she/her)

    Amira has two decades of experience spanning product marketing, program management, voice of the customer and advocacy. She is currently a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft Azure Edge Devices and Platform Services, leading the evangelism and enablement at scale efforts for Azure Percept.

  • North America

    Neta Haiby (she/her)

    Neta is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. An experienced product manager and data scientist, she's passionate about data and customer experience.

  • Asia

    Anand Raman (he/him)

    Anand leads the Program management team for Azure AI Platform, building AI Services at Scale. He is passionate about solving large scale infrastructure problems with a strong history of cross-company leadership.

  • Europe

    Mehrnoosh Sameki (she/her)

    Mernoosh is a Senior Program Manager and Responsible AI tools tech lead at Microsoft helping machine learning developers and data scientists operationalize Responsible AI in practice

Meet our Community

  • Down Under

    Anupama Natarajan (she/her)

    Anu is a Data, Analytics and AI Consultant with 20+ years of experience working in design and development of Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, AI enabled applications and SaaS integrated solutions. She is a Microsoft MVP in Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Certified Trainer and passionate in sharing knowledge. Anu enjoys solving complex business problems with innovative solutions using Microsoft technologies.

  • Down Under

    Akanksha Malik (she/her)

    Akanksha is a Microsoft AI MVP, an international speaker and a Managing Consultant at Altis Consulting. After studying Financial Maths and Actuarial Science at UCC, Ireland, she realized she wanted to work with people as well as numbers. At Altis, she is working with clients to help them solve problems by making more informed decisions with data.

  • Africa

    Zakïya Buhora (she/her)

    Zakïya leads organization of tech & startup events, as well as structuring activities to boost and enhance the digital and innovation sector in the Indian Ocean Islands.

  • Africa

    Hassan Fadili (he/him)

    Hassan is Freelance Lead Architect /Consultant and VS ALM Consultant/Trainer at FadiliCT Consultancy. He has been working with Visual Studio Application Life Cycle Management full-time since 2005 and has worked with a variety of companies ranging in size from just 10 employees up to some of Netherlands’s largest companies and government institutions.

  • South America

    Luis Bertran (he/him)

    Luis is a Microsoft MVP in AI and Developer Technologies who is currently pursuing his PhD in Engineering Informatics. He enjoys learning and sharing his knowledge about Xamarin, Azure, .NET and AI at every opportunity.

  • South America

    Patricio Cofre (he/him)

    Microsoft MVP and RD since 2016, Co-founder of Metric Arts, a Big Data and Analytics specialized firm, recently acquired by EY. He is also lecturer in various Universities in South America.

  • North America

    Ehsan Eskandari (he/him)

    Ehsan is a Senior Azure Principal Engineer and Microsoft Azure MVP. He has extensive experience on App modernization, DW Modernization and Dynamics integration on Azure. He is organizer of Metro Toronto .Net User Group and passionate about organizing local tech events in the Greater Toronto Area.

  • North America

    Ron Dagdag (he/him)

    During the day, Ron is a software artisan with 20+ years of experience working on a number of business applications using a diverse set of frameworks and languages. He currently supports developers at Spacee with their IoT, Cloud, and ML development. On the side, Ron is active participant in the community as a Microsoft MVP, speaker, maker and blogger.

  • Asia

    Kasam Ahmed Shaikh (he/him)

    Kasam is among India's first 5 MVPs in AI. He works as Cloud Evangelist with Capgemini and has authored 4 best seller books in Azure and AI. He is also MCT and leads largest online azure community DearAzure | Azure India. He is a Global AI Speaker and active contributer to MS Docs.

  • Asia

    Ning Chen (she/her)

    Ning is an influential female community leader in Taiwan. She has nearly a decade of experience in incubating female data scientists for hundreds of female speakers. She is currently dedicated to a non-profit Data For Social Good project, which evangelizes concepts of AI and data thinking into public sectors and NGO and initiates the pioneer projects.

  • Europe

    Alyona Galyeva (she/her)

    Alyona is a Principal Data&AI Engineer at LINKIT, PyLadies Amsterdam organizer and Microsoft AI MVP, who found joy in building, optimizing and deploying end-to-end AI and Data Engineering Solutions.

  • Europe

    Terry Mccann (he/him)

    Terry is a Microsoft Artificial Intelligence MVP. Terry holds an Masters degree in Machine Learning and is the Director of AI for Advancing Analytics - A Data Analytics Microsoft Gold Partner.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a cost to attend the event?

The event is free! You can join Learn TV anytime to stream content for free!

Will this event be available on-demand?

Yes! You can stream past events anytime! Start here

Code of Conduct

We seek to provide a respectful, friendly, professional experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, physical appearance, disability, age, race or religion. We do not tolerate any behavior that is degrading to any gender, race, sexual orientation, or disability, or any behavior that would be deemed harassment or discrimination. Individuals are responsible for knowing and abiding by our standards and we encourage everyone to assist in creating a welcoming and safe environment. Additionally, we strive to treat our shared planet with the same amount of respect. Please report any questions, concerns, or disruptive activity or behavior to the organizing team, so that we can address the issue immediately.