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Applying Azure ML and Jons magical rating game


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Applying AML to improve customer experience - Derek Graham

The cloud is often presented as the cool new technology everyone should use as well as SaaS being the answer for businesses reluctant to purchase and service their own hardware. For a SaaS provider, balancing the cost of cloud computing against performance can be challenging when it's not clear of the amount of load to expect, how the system will be used or if use will change over time.

Machine Learning is just one of a series of new technologies and services that are available on Microsoft's Azure platform and offers new possibilities to answer this challenge. In this presentation we'll look at an application of AML, in combination with other Azure services, that can make predictions about customer behaviour and scale out to provide a better customer experience without breaking the bank.

Derek Graham

Derek has worked at almost every level of the software development food-chain over the last 20 plus years. He has experience in real-time motion control, ERP stock control and barcoding systems, software licensing, developer tooling and shrink-wrapped software.

He is a Principal Developer at Sage UK, helping to deliver cloud-based business solutions in .Net on Azure.

His main areas of interest are in using agile methods to help improve what we ship, XP, TDD, continuous and deliberate learning, visual thinking, design and, of course, code. He may also be hastening the coming of our robot overlords.

Properly Rated? - Jon Noble

Lets see about getting a bit of a discussion going... All will be revealed on the night!


See you all there!