Agenda: 5:00 pm - Doors Open 5:30 pm - Welcome & Announcements 6:00 pm - "Cohere on Azure AI" - Elijah Straight, Microsoft 6:45 pm - "Azure AI Model Inference API" - Nitya Narasimhan, Microsoft 7:30 pm - Doors Close

Feature Talk #1: Cohere on Azure AI

Abstract: Cohere has a diverse family of models (Command, Command R and Command R+) representing text-generation LLMs that can be used with or without Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Join us to learn how to deploy Cohere models with Azure AI Studio, and how you can leverage these models for your generative AI solutions.

Speaker: Elijah Straight is a Program Manager on the Azure AI Studio team at Microsoft based in New York City.

Feature Talk #2: Azure AI Model Inference API

Abstract: Generative AI applications are increasingly using a diverse set of models from various providers, to create compelling applications. Many models and providers provide custom APIs and SDKs for use with their models, making app development more complex. With the new Azure AI Model Inference API, you have a unified interface that exposes a common set of capabilities for use with a broad set of models and tasks. Join us to learn more about this new API from concepts to demos.

Speaker: Nitya Narasimhan, Phd - is a senior AI Advocate at Microsoft where she works on content, samples and solutions to empower developers to build generative AI solutions code-first on Azure.