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Tara is a Principal Software Engineer for Microsoft dedicating her time helping developers build solutions on Azure. Currently her primary focus is developing IoT and Intelligent Edge Solutions in the cloud with customers, however, she is passionate and versed in technology development with mobile, serverless architectures, artificial intelligence/machine learning, gaming, and cross-platform applications.
Over her 20+ year career, Tara has worked on various development platforms, systems, and a myriad of languages in varying technical and engineering roles with Amazon Web Services, Turner/Time Warner, Georgia Pacific, and other Fortune 500 companies. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University and currently working on her Master’s degree (MSCS) at Georgia Institute of Technology.
She has spoken at several conferences and webinars around the world, some examples are:
AnDevCon Boston
DevNexus
DevoxxUK
SyntaxCon
IT/Dev Connections
Mobile+Web Devcon
ConnectTech Atlanta
Orbograph Client Conference
GDC 2015
ContainerDays
AWS reInvent
AWS Summits
AWS Webinars
Fidelity WiT conference
Microsoft Virtual dotNetConf 2015
Xamarin Dev Days
Channel9 webinars
DevoxxBE
CollisionConf
You can find Tara on Twitter at @taraw.
Exploring Deep Learning AI in the Cloud: Bringing AI to all Devs via Cloud Services
When people think of Artificial Intelligence (AI), typically they think of human-like thinking robots or futuristic scenes of self-aware computers taking over the world. But AI goes well beyond the automatons of science fiction into the very real world of modern day advanced computer science.
In this session, we will explore the new AI cloud-native deep learning technologies to add the power of artificial intelligence to your applications for: natural language understanding (NLU), automatic speech recognition (ASR), visual search and Image recognition, text-to-speech (TTS).
We will provide overviews and demos of the AI services:
Conversational Bots
Image recognition and analysis
Synthesize Lifelike speech
Neural language translation
Let’s Get Serverless - Build Cloud Based Serverless Microservice Application
This session will demonstrate the basics of how to create serverless applications and microservices using AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon API Gateway and other serverless services. During the session, attendees will build an application using standard patterns of creating a small dynamic microservice using Amazon Web Services as cloud provider.
Introducing the CI/CD Workflows in the Cloud
Today, companies seeking to innovate faster are looking for new ways to make it easier and faster for their development teams to build and deploy software. Today, many companies and organizations face some challenges in implementing a more agile, dynamic software development process. They seek ways to make it easier and faster for their development teams to build and deploy software while delivering technical innovations to the marketplace. Implementing continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment processes can aid you in building and releasing well-tested software safely and quickly.
In this session, we will discuss how you can quickly implement a CI/CD workflow using the cloud services. Using an automated CI/CD pipeline makes it easier to set up your entire development and continuous delivery toolchain for coding, building, testing, and deploying your application code with many popular programming languages.
Build, Debug and Deploy your First Serverless Chatbot
Conversational interfaces through text and voice with are rapidly becoming more mainstream. With cloud based deep learning technologies, you can add compelling voice and chat interfaces to mobile devices, web apps, and easily publish your chatbots to, Twilio, Slack, and Facebook Messenger. This session will explain how to build a fully functional chatbot with multiple frontends using a serverless cloud backend. Attendees will learn the key components required for building chatbots integrated with text, voice, and response cards, and will gain foundational skills for enriching applications with natural, conversational interfaces.
The session we will discuss the choice of technologies, development tools and debugging techniques and will demo and build a chatbot. Additionally, the session will demo how to processing conversations and triggering corresponding actions in a serverless backend systems.
