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Microsoft Azure AI solutions and Industry Accelerators – David Waxman

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Date and Time: September 28, 2022, 1:45 pm

Speaker:

David Waxman, Worldwide Director of Defence and Intelligence Industry Solutions, Microsoft

Abstract:

Microsoft is investing in making their software and cognitive services easier to use and easier to deploy.  They are creating “Industry Accelerators” which are code, documentation and education aligned to mission use cases, saving customers and partners time and money, accelerating the overall “time to value” in using Azure.  This demonstration will  feature two of those industry accelerators.

MINTED –  The Multi Intelligence Enabled Discovery (MINTED) Industry Accelerator has been designed to support the “Digital Evidence / Captured Enemy Materials” use case.  MINTED enables organizations to discover and prioritize time sensitive data with Microsoft AI. Encompassing digital media enrichment, supervised and unsupervised ML models, rules-based alerting, overhead imagery pattern recognition, and automated trade craft for multi-source anomaly detection to increase productivity and increase the speed of intelligence analysis.

Tactical AI: Offline – The Tactical AI: Offline Concept Demonstrator was created to demonstrate the ability to take AI to the “edge”.    It is designed to recognize objects on a live video feed and function without any form of external communications.   The demonstration illustrates the full life cycle from model creation, training evaluation and through to deployment and operation, outlining how Azure IOT and Azure cognitive services can be combined to address key mission requirements for operators “at the edge”.

 

Speaker’s Bio:

David has over 25 years extensive technical and operational experience having served with the US Navy and national security organisations. In recent years he has led the design and deployment of Intelligence systems around the world. He has extensive experience in applying emerging technologies (such as Artificial Intelligence) to the challenges related to intelligence systems, rapid information analysis and dissemination. David has worked closely with the defense and intelligence organizations from each of the five eyes (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and USA) countries.