Begin Ignite 2024 with a deep dive into Azure OpenAI Service’s latest product launches and capabilities. Steve Sweetman and Yina Arenas will lead a live demonstration, showcasing the power of Azure OpenAI Service in real-world applications. This session will provide attendees with a comprehensive understanding of how Azure OpenAI Service is revolutionizing industries and will feature a technical product leader from the NBA to join the speakers on stage, followed by a Q&A.
Yina Arenas
VP AI Platform
Yina Arenas is the VP of Product for Azure AI Platform, where she empowers developers to integrate AI into every application. She leads Azure OpenAI and the Azure AI Model Ecosystem, as well as the toolchain that enables developers to augment their applications with AI, delivering a diverse range of cutting-edge models, tools and experiences that prioritize transparency, explainability, and alignment with industry regulations. Yina’s focus on enterprise readiness ensures that Microsoft’s AI solutions meet the complex needs of customers globally. With extensive experience in building platforms and developer ecosystems, Yina has played a pivotal role in driving innovations that power millions of applications, reaching nearly a billion customers.
Charlie Rohlf
VP, Stats Technology Product Development
Charlie has been with the NBA for over 7 years and leads the NBA's Stats Team responsible for ingestion, storage, data science, and delivery of all basketball-related stats and data for the NBA's digital products and partners. Prior to joining the NBA, Charlie was a computer vision engineer helping to build the first optical tracking system deployed to all NBA arenas. He graduated from Duke University with an undergraduate degree in computer science and went on to complete a masters degree in computer science, with a focus on computer vision, from DePaul University.
Steve Sweetman
Azure OpenAI Product Lead
At Microsoft, my team's mission is to provide customers with the most reliable and secure generative AI applications. Leading Azure OpenAI product, we're proud to support the largest generative AI applications, including Microsoft's own co-pilot solutions. Our commitment to excellence has facilitated widespread adoption across a diverse customer base, establishing Azure OpenAI as the backbone of enterprise-level AI applications.