Jumpstart Your AI Skilling Journey in 2024 with the Microsoft AI Tour!
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Published: 2024-01-10 21:54:00

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title: Jumpstart Your AI Skilling Journey in 2024 with the Microsoft AI Tour!
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description: How do you keep up with the fast paced evolution of AI tools, technologies and solutions? Register for free and join us on the Microsoft AI Tour for tech talks, hands-on workshops and curated resources for developers and decision makers alike. #MSAITour
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> Registration is open for the next few cities on the tour! It's free to attend but you must be registered. **Please bring a laptop and charger** to participate in one of the many hands-on workshops provided at the event.
> 1️⃣ Jan 11, 2024 | **San Francisco, USA** 👉🏽 [Register Here](https://msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=2142590774)
> 2️⃣ Jan 25, 2024 | **New York, USA** 👉🏽 [Register Here](https://msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=2474845579)
> 3️⃣ Feb 07, 2024 | **Sydney, Australia** 👉🏽 [Register Here](https://envision.microsoft.com/en-US/sydney)
> 4️⃣ Feb 08, 2024 | **Bengaluru, India**  👉🏽 [Register Here](https://msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=1343514900)

**✨✨It's Time To Skill Up On AI!✨✨**

Happy New Year!! If you started off 2024 feeling a little overwhelmed with the pace of AI development and innovation - _you're not alone!_. If you started the year off thinking you needed to get skilled up on all the concepts, tools and technologies - _we've got you coverered!_. 

![Four Stops In First Leg Of Tour](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/8vfdhf8xhl1anw1dtq25.png)

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## Say Hello to #MSAITour!

Yes, the Microsoft AI Tour is kicking off _tomorrow_ in San Francisco, and I couldn't be more excited about it. The agenda contains a carefully crafted set of breakout talks and hands-on workshops that cover everything from Generative AI concepts to Azure AI Services and end-to-end development workflows for streamlining your LLM-based intelligent application solutions.

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**This is an in-person event** - it's free to attend but you must be registered and have your own laptop or development device with you, to participate in the workshops.

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## The Tech Talks! 

Here are just a short sample of the **breakout sessions** you can attend at the event, each delivered by subject matter experts from advocacy, product teams and key partners including NVIDIA.

1. What's New in Generative AI?
1. Vector search and state of the art retrieval for Generative AI apps
1. The Future of Security with AI
1. Evaluating and Designing Responsible AI Systems for The Real World
1. Getting started with Azure AI Studio
1. Building and extending Copilots to accelerate productivity
1. Building AI applications using Azure Cosmos DB and Azure PostgreSQL Flex

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## The Workshops!

Nothing helps reinforce concepts like hands-on experience with the tools, technologies and processes involved. Make it a point to register and attend the workshops **and bring your laptop and charger**. Workshop sessions will have limited capacity but are being offered multiple times in the same day so you may be able to complete more than one.

Workshops range from beginner-friendly sessions that teach you core OpenAI concepts, to advanced sessions that walk you through multi-step workflows to build production-grade apps. Here are some of the workshops offered at the San Francisco event:

1. Workshop: Learn how to interact with OpenAI models
1. Workshop: Get started with data science in Microsoft Fabric
1. Workshop: Build your own Copilots with Microsoft Copilot Studio
1. Workshop: Developing a production-level RAG workflow

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## Register Now!

Get a head start on the 2024 resolution to learn something new and skill yourself up in AI. We can't wait to see you there!

> Registration is open for the next few cities on the tour! It's free to attend but you must be registered. **Please bring a laptop and charger** to participate in one of the many hands-on workshops provided at the event.
> 1️⃣ Jan 11, 2024 | **San Francisco, USA** 👉🏽 [Register Here](https://msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=2142590774)
> 2️⃣ Jan 25, 2024 | **New York, USA** 👉🏽 [Register Here](https://msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=2474845579)
> 3️⃣ Feb 07, 2024 | **Sydney, Australia** 👉🏽 [Register Here](https://envision.microsoft.com/en-US/sydney)
> 4️⃣ Feb 08, 2024 | **Bengaluru, India**  👉🏽 [Register Here](https://msevents.microsoft.com/event?id=1343514900)

![Four Stops In First Leg Of Tour](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/8vfdhf8xhl1anw1dtq25.png)