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Craig EllisGlobal Black Belt | Partner ExecutiveApp Innovation | Intelligent Cloud

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Reasoning, Understanding, and Interacting

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AI IS THE NEW UI

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Microsoft’s Long Term InvestmentThe arrival of machine learning Performance for decades-old challenges has been transformed

Image recognition

Speech recognition

Form 10-K 2016

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Office 365 AI Infused Features

Resume Assistant Insights

Design Ideas Video Navigation

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Outlook Cortana Scheduling Bot

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AI adoption todayRetail Media Health TravelVirtual assistants, visual product matching and recognition, recommendations, personalised shopping experience, spatial analytics, tracking.

Content summaries, breaking news, analytics, data correlation for stories and insights, personalised content.

Diagnosis, chat bots, monitoring, medication adherence, data management, data correlation, clinical knowledge, security, pharmaceutical research.

Personalisation, concierge, traffic, routing, contextual awareness, calendar analysis.

Insurance Finance Legal Field ServicesVirtual assistants, cross referencing, claim processing, underwriting, emerging risks, new revenue sources.

Personalised communications, roboadvisors, rebalance portfolios, banking and spending summaries

Document searching, legal document generation, contesting parking tickets, data correlation.

IoT monitoring, team coordination, routing, data correlation, equipment location, health and safety, virtual assistants.

MicrosoftAI Industry Trends

AI adopters expect 39% revenue rise by 2020

Alongside a 37 percent reduction in costsOf IT and business decision makers see AI as pivotal to the success of their organization

Why have an app factory mindset?

App delivery lifecycle

Complex device ecosystemBusinesses need to rapidly appify with high-quality apps

Mobile development–for just one app–involves

many stages

Design & Develop

TestMonitor

100+ apps 1000+ devices

Amazing App Experiences Infused with AI

Faster Time-to-Marketand Lower TCO

DNA of a successful App Strategy

Infuse your Business withMicrosoft Data+AI

Microsoft Azure

On-premises data

Hybrid

Cloud data

AI over any data, anywhere

2Comprehensive Enterprise data estate

3Enterprise-proven solutions

SocialLOB Graph IoTImageCRM

1ProductiveAI platform

The Microsoft AI platform: Azure + AICloud-powered AI for every developer and every scenario

Bot Framework

CUSTOM SERVICES

Azure Machine Learning

CONVERSATIONAL AI TRAINED SERVICES

Cognitive Services

AI ON DATA

Cosmos DB

AI COMPUTE

SQL DB

SQL DW

Data Lake Spark DSVM Batch

AI ACS

CPU, FPGA, GPU

Edge

VS Tools for AI

Azure ML Studio

CODING & MANAGEMENT TOOLS

Azure ML Workbench

DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORKS

Cognitive Toolkit TensorFlow Caffe

Others (Scikit-learn, MXNet, Keras, Chainer, Gluon…)

3rd Party

Others (PyCharm, Jupyter Notebooks…)

Services

Infrastructure

Tools

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Computer Vision APIDistill actionable information from images

Content ModeratorAutomated image, text, and video moderation

Face APIDetect, analyze, organize, and tag faces in photos

Emotion API*Personalize user experiences with emotion recognition

Video API*Intelligent video processing

Video Indexer*Unlock video insights

Custom Vision Service*Easily customize your own state-of-the-art computer vision models for your unique use case

VisionState-of-the-art image processing algorithms help you build more personalized apps

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Translator Speech APIEasily conduct real-time speech translation with a simple REST API call

Bing Speech APIConvert speech to text and back again to understand user intent

Speaker Recognition API*Use speech to identify and authenticate individual speakers

Custom Speech Service*Overcome speech recognition barriers like speaking style, background noise, and vocabularySpeech

Process spoken language in your applications for a more natural interaction

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Language Understanding Intelligent Service*Teach your apps to understand commands from your users

Bing Spell Check APIDetect and correct spelling mistakes in your app

Web Language Model API*Use the power of predictive language models trained on web-scale data

Text Analytics API*Easily evaluate sentiment and topics to understand what users want

Translator Text APIEasily conduct machine translation with a simple REST API call

Linguistic Analysis API*Simplify complex language concepts and parse text with the Linguistic Analysis API.

LanguageAllow your apps to process natural language, sentiment, and recognize what users want

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Recommendations API*Predict and recommend items your customers want

Knowledge Exploration Service*Enable interactive search experiences over structured data via natural language inputs

Entity Linking Intelligence Service API*Power your app's data links with named entity recognition and disambiguation

Academic Knowledge API*Tap into the wealth of academic content in the Microsoft Academic Graph

QnA Maker API*Distill information into conversational, easy-to-navigate answers

Custom Decision Service*A cloud-based, contextual decision-making API that sharpens with experience

KnowledgeMap complex data to provide intelligent recommendations and semantic search

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Bing Autosuggest APIGive your app intelligent autosuggest options for searches

Bing News Search APISearch for news and get comprehensive results

Bing Web Search APIGet enhanced search details from billions of web documents

Bing Image Search APISearch for images and get comprehensive results

Bing Video Search APISearch for videos and get comprehensive results

Bing Custom Search*An easy-to-use, ad-free, commercial-grade search tool that lets you deliver the results you want.

SearchMake your apps, webpages, and other experiences smarter and more engaging

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Bot ServicesAzure Bot Service enables you to build chatbots that can scale new services and help you provide better support to your customers.

Bot FrameworkBot Framework provides developers with the tools to create intelligent bots that interact with users in a natural way.

Leverage Cognitive ServicesCognitive Services enable your bot to see, hear, interpret, and interact in more human ways.

Connect cross platformThe Connector will have your bot talking in full fidelity on the most popular conversation experiences, including Skype, Slack, Facebook Messenger, Kik, Cortana, Bing, Teams, web chat, email, and many more channels.

Bot ServicesProvide better service and support

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Faster Time-to-Marketand Lower TCO

Increasing Development Efficiencies

HTML 5JavaScript/TypeScript

Hybrid and WebPlatform Specific Silos

Cross-Platform Native

Shared CodeJava/KotlinSwift C#

Multiple teams.

No shared code.

Platform disparities.

Slow innovation.

2-3x more expensive.

Limited API access

Limiting app functionality

Slow performance

Poor user experience.

OK for Captive Audiences!

Better TCO, productivity and development experience

End

user

exp

erie

nce

Hybrid

Platform Silos

One Language - All Platforms

5 Star User Experience

Native performance

Lower Costs

C# is way better than ObjC and Java!

Xamarin’s Approach: Cross-Platform Native

iOS C# UI Windows C# UIAndroid C# UI

Shared C# Back End- Business Logic

- Data Layer- Networking

- Reusable components

Shared C# codebase • 100% native API access

App Factory Mindset

Live Update

Push NotificationsCrash Reporting

Visual Studio App Center

UPS20 years ago UPS was a trucking company, today it’s a technology company: • Delivery Information Acquisition

Device (DIAD)• GPS, tracks route, delivery

confirmation scanner & signature taker

• Trucks are rolling computers

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/ups

UPSUPS uses data to shave time on deliveries:• 1 minute saved per driver/day

over a year adds up to $14.5M• 1 keystroke per driver/day is

$100,000/year• 1 idle minute per driver/day is

$500,000 of fuel/year• Increased average packages/day

from 90 to 130

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/ups

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Sum Up• AI Market is Large: $1.2T market size 85% Enterprises by 2020

• AI is the new UI

• Microsoft Research AI surpasses Human Vision and Speech Recognition

• Azure AI is Enterprise grade: Security, Privacy, Reliability, and Outstanding Partner Community

• Azure AI built on Comprehensive Data platform: • Cosmos DB, SQL, and Data Lake• on premises, on edge, on Cloud, and everything in between

• Spectrum of AI Services: Bot Framework, Cognitive, and Machine Learning

• Robust AI tools to get your started in days instead of months with ML allowing you to go deeper if needed

• Rich Cognitive Services: Vision, Speech, Language, Knowledge, and Search

• Bot framework supporting many connectors

• Value Factory Mindset Tools: Xamarin, App Center, Visual Studio

• Impactful Case Studies: Prism, Starship Commander, Rockwell Automation, and UPS

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