Date: 19th November 2025Location: VirtualTopic: Building Scalable Voice Solutions with Azure Communication Services (ACS)Speaker: Fabrizio Volpe, Senior Consultant at Exponentially A Warm Welcome to the Community The Welsh Azure User Group wrapped up its final event of 2025 with an engaging virtual session focused on Azure Communication Services (ACS). Hosted by John Lunn and Matthew …
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n 23rd September 2025, the Welsh Azure User Group marked a major milestone—its 5th anniversary—with a vibrant virtual meetup that blended community spirit, technical innovation, and a healthy dose of nostalgia. Hosted by long-time organisers John Lunn and Matthew Fortunka, the event brought together Azure enthusiasts from across the UK to reflect on the journey …
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The Welsh Azure User Group’s August virtual meetup was a whirlwind tour through the future of urban living, enterprise data, and—of course—the ever-popular community quiz. Hosted by the dynamic duo John and Matthew, the event welcomed a global audience (no Welsh passport required!) and kicked off with the usual housekeeping: be courteous, stay on mute, …
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Welcome and Community Spirit This month’s Welsh Azure User Group session opened with a warm welcome from John, who celebrated the group’s nearly five-year journey. He emphasized the importance of community, encouraged idea sharing, and thanked sponsors Servant and Creditsafe for their ongoing support. 1 Mastering Azure Exams: Insights from Jake Walsh & Steve Brown Jake …
The enterprise AI landscape has undergone a seismic shift over the past 12 months. What began as cautious experimentation has evolved into strategic transformation, with AI spending surging to $13.8 billion in 2024, more than 6x the $2.3 billion spent in 2023. For C-suite executives, this isn't just about keeping pace with innovation—it's about unlocking …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG April 2025 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by another two brilliant community speakers, firstly Owain Osbourne-Walsh joined us to talk about Building Self Hosted AI applications on Kubernetes using KAITO, then Colin Chaplin came …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG March 2025 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by another two brilliant community speakers, firstly Turja Chaudhuri joined us to talk Multi Tenant Architectures, then Maik van der Gaag came to discuss Reusable Bicep Modules …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG February 2025 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by another fantastic community speaker and Microsoft Strategic CTO Tim Hinchey on to discuss using Azure AI Foundry for experimentation. Unfortunately Tayyeba couldn't join us tonight but …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG January 2025 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by another fantastic community speakers Marcin Gastol on to discuss Azure Backups and preparing for the worst! Then we had Andrew Brown on where he gave us …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG October 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by the amazing Alan Cox who discussed Microsoft Multi-Tenant Organisations (MTO): Enhancing Collaboration across Tenants. Then the brilliant Konstantinos Passadis came to discuss and demo Azure AI …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG September 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by yet another two awesome presenters. First up we had Radu Vunvulea on to discuss the AI Architecture in the Cloud, then Carlos Solis Salazar joined us …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG August 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by yet another two awesome presenters. First up we had Deiter Gobeyn with a great talk around Triaging Email with Azure AI Language Services and Logic Apps. …
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Hey all, long time since my last post, so I thought Id drop one over on the awesome subject of the awesome OpenAI and in particular ChatGPT. If you haven't heard the recent announcements of ChatGPT and the recent investments from Microsoft and OpenAI then take a look at the services offered across Azure here. …
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Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined by Microsoft Regional Cloud Advocate Jim Bennett. This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released multiplatform on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) Jonnychipz Twitch (www.twitch.tv/jonnychipz) my Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube simultaneously and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 7.30pm (BST) on …
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On my quest to learn more about Azure's native Artificial Intelligence capabilities I am aiming to have a run through of each component and look to see how each can be utilised. Azure Content Moderator is a Machine Assisted set of content moderating API's as well as a human readable review tool that you can …
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Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined by Software Developer and Community Leader and Microsoft MVP Veronika Kolesnikova This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 14th May 2021 Veronika talks …
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So we hear a lot about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning built into devices and applications. In this blog article I will walk through a simple example of how to utilise the CustomVision.ai website to create and train an AI model to recognise objects. This website is part of the Microsoft Cognitive Services features and …
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Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he chats with Technical Programme Manager for Robotics and Self Driving Car Projects Mr Saiman Shetty This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 19th March 2021 …
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Being a relative newbie in the world of AI, I have immersed myself with as many articles / books and writings outside of the Microsoft view, so that when I use the AI tools built into Azure I have a better contextual understanding of them. This Harvard Business Review of AI is a very good …
Well what can I say, and fun, humorous and learned introduction to Artificial Intelligence and its weirdness. Janelle Shane has composed a brilliant representation covering an overview of core concepts of AI and its training, but does brilliantly well explaining how to look out for and keep an eye on your AI model in terms …
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