State of GenAI-based development in Azure

Overview

GenAI is the largest hype. All products have AI, and all organizations are interested in it, with the highest levels of leadership demanding AI capabilities from the IT and development teams. Yet, at the same time, there's only a limited number of meaningful software development projects with GenAI. Why is this? What is going on? What is going to happen next? Where will we be next year? This presentation explores the current state of GenAI development market, followed by practical AI projects and forecasting for what's next regarding this highly hyped and interesting field of GenAI.

Speaker

Sakari Nahi

CEO at Zure, Microsoft RD, AI & Azure MVP

Sakari is the other founder and CEO of Zure, an Azure-focused company. He has been coding on .NET professionally since 2002. He's a dad of two, husband of one and likes roguelikes & text-based games. He's passionate about emerging technologies, distributed computing, and synergies thereof. Sakari is also a Microsoft Regional Director, and AI+Azure MVP. He organizes Finland Azure User Group and casts a pod Ikkunastudio in Finnish. Zure designs, develops, and manages solutions on Azure, with offices in Finland, Belgium, Denmark, United Kingdom and Netherlands.