Yesterday, I received an email from Google about an upcoming virtual event Decode with Google India 2021. It is a day event, planned to be held on August 26, 2021 compared to a two day event last year.
It seems, this time the focus of event is: Contributing from India, Impacting the World
Join us for the virtual edition of Decode with Google India 2021 and learn about what we’re working on, the state of AI, the opportunities it presents—with a focus on the next billion internet users. You will get to hear live from the Google Tech leaders and you will also have the opportunity to ask leaders some questions and potentially have them answered live on air!
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If it resonates, Register to join in to learn more and ask queries about how Google engineers, researchers, scientists and product managers based in India are addressing unique Indian challenges, and finding solutions that will benefit people across the world.
Event date: August 26, 2021 12:00 AM – 1:10 PM GMT+5:30
As shared in my earlier post, recently Microsoft held its Build Conference 2021 as a virtual event. It spanned across for more than two days that touched upon various topics. It was not as big as it used to be in person for last several years. There were numerous updates that they shared which I have tried to cover here.
To empower developers, to empower you, to empower the world.
Microsoft vision
Core Themes
Microsoft unveiled a handful of news and tools to empower developers. There were multiple Innovative AI, mixed reality solutions, intelligent cloud tools solutions shared. Core themes for the conference were as depicted below:
With so much changing in working mode, Microsoft shared how they are looking to support for Operational excellence with their developer platform. A deep dive session on how to increase developer velocity with Microsoft’s end to end platform was shared during the conference.
Further, data being the key for future transformations, they showcased how Azure Data was being built as a platform that could support AI & data governance.
They now support building deeper Artificial Intelligence infrastructure for everyone. This would help in easy onboard and usage of Azure services to have more proactive approach to solutions. Details about how to harness the power of data in our applications with Azure can be viewed here.
With Microsoft vision to empower developers, there was a session on how to build cloud native solutions that can run on premise, on edge and on multiple cloud. Recording of the session can be seen here.
Covid has probably made the biggest shift in how we work today. A hybrid future work style is being imagined with new operating models to work, learn or collaborate.
Microsoft Teams is one of the Microsofts fastest growing product with 145 million daily active users to date.
With new working style, transformation seems to be an opportunity where cross device collaboration would be the key. Microsoft surely knows the same and are investing in it. Following session shares on how they are progressing on the collaborative applications journey: Build the next generation of collaborative apps for hybrid work
Based on the different kind of services, need of support, scalability options and various other factors puts software as a service, a much needed way. Microsoft looked focused on the same and shared on how they are working towards a cloud native SaaS apps composed on top of other clouds and components.
Microsoft also held a session showcasing how they are working towards helping build Metaverse Apps (digital and physical mixing up) incorporating digital twins, IOT, Autonomous systems, Power platforms and Mesh.
Announcements
Like always, there were few key announcements about new initiatives and solutions as mentioned below:
Real World
Through sessions, Microsoft covered few examples on how various other organizations are leveraging Microsoft solutions to provide awesome customer experience with speed and accuracy.
Fusion Teams for mission critical delivery app
Generate captions for live audio conversations using MS Speech service
Power eCommerce transactions using MS CosmosDB
Incident response using MS Teams, Graph & Bot
Application development using MS Financial Services cloud, Teams & Azure
Track bottles till distribution processes using Metaverse stack
Nadella in his keynote also shared that because of Covid, digital transformations have accelerated and has advanced by 10 years.
Post pandemic, virtual world will still have a significant role in the new normal. Solutions across industries would want to be connected and continue use the benefits of digital first responders. This would further fuel the innovations and development across technology.
Windows Update
Microsoft’s Build 2021 event didn’t had much of Windows-specific news. Few that came out were:
21H1 windows update was rolled out with multiple security fixes
Support for Linux GUI apps on Windows 10 will come later this year
Continues promoting ARM – Qualcomm ARM/Snapdragon Developer Kit was announced
Fall update (aka Sun-Valley Update) might have renewed UX
Windows10 used by 1.3 billion – work, learn, connect and play
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.NET Update
.NET 6 is the next version of .NET, a modern, open-source development platform for building apps for any OS with the best performance and productivity.
.NET 6 completes the unification of the platform and adds new capabilities for building web, native and hybrid apps for Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android with a single codebase. Details can be viewed here: .NET 6 deep dive – what’s new and what’s coming
.NET 6 preview 4 available, .NET 6 planned to be released during .NET Conf 2021
Visual Studio 2022 under works, preview to be available soon
Imagine Cup 2021
Make an impact through coding, collaboration, and competition. Innovate with passion to tackle global issues and bring your idea to life in the Imagine Cup.
One Winner out of four student teams from across the world was announced. Teams brought their innovations focused on four social good categories – Earth, Education, Healthcare, and Lifestyle. With intention to solve issues in their local and global communities, multiple teams participated and final four were selected after evaluation on various parameters.
Learn, connect, and explore all of the sessions and on-demand content from Microsoft Build anytime, anywhere.
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With virtual as normal, Microsoft hinted at having multiple What’s next virtual events to share updates through out the year. For now, they have asked to save the date June 24 as event to share all about the operating system’s updates.
All the MS Build sessions are recorded and can be viewed from here.
Microsoft Build is an online free event planned on May 25-27, 2021. It’s suggestible to register in order to access the full learning experience, including all sessions and the Connection Zone. All the details of the event are here.
At Microsoft Build, you’ll leave a better developer than when you arrived. It’s where you can solve challenges, meet the engineers behind the Microsoft platforms you use every day, and connect with a diverse group of coders who want to hone their skills.
Learn the tools and technologies that help you create solutions you can build today. Explore new developer technologies and techniques that will drive your vision and expand your toolkit. Bring your technical questions and imagination and leave with new knowledge and skills.
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Whether you are a student or an experienced app developer, it promises technical sessions, various experts, product round-tables, One-on-One consultations and other engaging activities to learn.
Amazon is planning for AWS re:Invent 2020, a cloud learning virtual event that would be open for all for free. It is a conference for the global cloud computing community, hosted by AWS.
Full details of the events are here. Registrations are open.
Event is spread across 3 weeks: Nov 30 – Dec 18, 2020
Get inspired to build Enjoy unlimited access to hundreds of sessions led by AWS experts. Hear from cloud leaders and be the first to learn what’s new.
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There would be multiple interactive ways to learn. Like, Sessions with over 50 content tracks, Training & Certification to advance your professional skills, all mixed with some fun activities in between.
The world is moving towards cloud. Thus, it seems a good opportunity to see how various organizations are using the cloud to solve problems and the skills needed for it.
Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) is one of the biggest specialized data science upcoming event, scheduled on December 8-9, 2020. Read details about the event here. Theme for the year is RETHINK AI.
Virtual Conference is spread across two days: – December 8th – ODSC India – December 9th – ODSC Asia & Pacific
The Largest Applied Data Science & AI Conference Returns to India!
Learn the latest AI & data science topics, tools, and languages from some of the best and brightest minds in the field.
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The conference promises to accelerate your knowledge on data science and related disciplines with insightful sessions, workshops and speakers from various fields. There would be speakers that include core contributors to many open source libraries and languages.
.NET Conf 2020 is a free virtual developer event organized by the .NET Community and Microsoft. I came across discussion if I am interested in speaking at the event as the call for content is now open.
The conference showcases the .NET platform for developers focusing on desktop, mobile, web, IoT, games, cloud and open source projects. Read details about the event here: .NET Conf 2020
If you feel interested, you don’t need to register for it. Just keep track of the dates and attend event session live here.
This year .NET 5.0 will launch at .NET Conf 2020! Come celebrate and learn about the new release. We’re also celebrating our 10th anniversary and we’re working on a few more surprises.
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There would be live sessions by speakers from the community and .NET team members. One can ask questions live on Twitter, join the fun on Twitch and attend the virtual attendee parties. It would help know whats happening and upcoming in the .NET world.
Couple of days back, I received an email from Google about an upcoming virtual event on 11th & 12th September 2020. All the details of the event are here: Decode with Google
Looks like, theme of the event is: Innovations contributing to Technology in India
At Google, we’re always excited by the potential of technology to solve large-scale, real world problems. Decode with Google is an opportunity for techmakers, entrepreneurs, and academia to get a sneak peek at some of the toughest and most interesting challenges that Googlers in India are solving for.
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If topics resonate, feel free to register and join for the virtual edition of Decode with Google. Seems Google Tech leaders would share highlights about what they are working on, the state of AI and the opportunities it presents.
Lunch Time is a new talk series scheduled on every alternate Wednesday during the Lunch Time, initiated and will be presented by the Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals. Current schedule:
Across the globe, anyone can join in and learn from technical community leaders.
I will be presenting one of the session in this series – A Quick Look at HTML5 (Event ID: 1032545489) Please register! Do share your feedback post presentation.
HelloWorldGeeks.com cordially invites to Developer Day, the quarterly dose of Microsoft Developer Technologies knowledge & learning.
They bring one focussed session on Hyper-V in Windows 8 for Developers by Vijay Raj (MVP) and a panel discussion led by Amit Bansal. Apart from Amit, panelists will include real-life developer heroes Vijay Raj, Niral Bhatt & Sandeep Mewara , all MVPs.
You have the opportunity to ask any .NET/developer related question to them. Event will be hosted in Microsoft premises in Bangalore so that your experience is fabulous.
For details and registration, please visit: Developer Day
