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Adding sign language interpretation to your online event

The current situation around the world forcing us to stay at home and re-invent online conferences, offers us the opportunity to make events more accessible for community members who are deaf or hard of hearing. The past six months I have been involved in co-producing multiple online conferences that offered signed language interpretation.

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Online events with Teams NDI and OBS

A few weeks ago the NDI feature in Teams became available. This is great news as it gives event organizers the opportunity to use Teams as a conversation platform and use another tool, like OBS of vMix to manage and brand the output and stream it to a platform of their choosing, like YouTube or Vimeo.

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High quality live streaming of your events on a shoestring

High quality live streaming of your events on a shoestring

The past year our usergroup has been experimenting with streaming events and creating videos afterwards. In this article you find the setup that we found working the best for us. We looked at setup time, portability of set, quality of stream and the costs. The setup we landed on consists of 3 parts that you can buy for around 500 dollars.

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10 tips on how to create a friendly community MeetUp

10 tips on how to create a friendly community MeetUp

Over the past years I had the privilege to run many MeetUps for different tech usergroups. In this article I want to share my experience on how I try to make my meetups welcoming and friendly for everyone. Many of the points are lessons learned others are tips and tricks I picked up during other MeetUps or during discussions.

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Intelligent Cloud Conference 2019

Intelligent Cloud Conference 2019

In this session we take a deep-dive into the DevOps process that comes with Azure Machine Learning service, a cloud service that you can use to track as you build, train, deploy and manage models. We zoom into how the data science process can be made traceable and deploy the model with Azure DevOps to a Kubernetes cluster.

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TechDays Finland

TechDays Finland

In this session we do a deep dive into the A.I. stack that Microsoft has to offer. We start with pre-trained Cognitive services like Computer Vision, Anomaly Detection and Speaker recognition. And move on to the more advanced tooling like Machine Learning Studio and Azure Machine Learning Services.

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Data science talks not to be missed at Ignite 2017

Data science talks not to be missed at Ignite 2017

This year I will be joining Ignite 2017 in Orlando. I'm very excited and hope to meet a lot of people and get a boost of inspiration and knowledge. The main reason I'm going is to find out what is new in the world of AI. The aim is to get information about Cognitive Service, Machine learning and bots

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Microsoft //Build 2017 - Vlog

Microsoft //Build 2017 - Vlog

May 2017 I went with my colleague Daniel van der Starre to Microsoft Build 2017 in Seattle. Build is a 3 day conference hosted by Microsoft to inform developers about what is going on in developers world at Microsoft. During…

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Cognitive Services @ Code & Comedy Ordina

Cognitive Services @ Code & Comedy Ordina

Code and Comedy is Ordina's yearly event. Mixing technical talks and standup comedy make this a event one of kind. During the event I gave a small breakout session about the power of the Microsoft Cognitive Services. Slides Code A…

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