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29th April 2025 | 09:30-12:00 GMT | ONLINE WorkshopJoin us on Microsoft Teams for an instructive and interactive session featuring live demos.
Apps Workshop with Microsoft
Architecting for GenAI Apps with Microsoft & Ascent
The hype frenzy around GenAI has captivated industry with its promise, but the modernisation pathway for apps to deliver on board-level AI ambitions at scale is complex.
What does the ideal AI ecosystem look like, and how can it evolve from supporting single applications to enabling robust AI platforms? What foundational capabilities, such as an AI Landing Zone, are critical to driving your AI app roadmap? How can platform-thinking accelerate your time-to-market, maximise ROI, and streamline the AI developer experience, including LLM operations? This interactive online workshop explores these questions, combining insights, live demonstrations, and practical strategies to help B2C and SaaS businesses modernise, build, or integrate consumer apps and customer interfaces with GenAI.
Designed for CTOs, CIOs and senior technical leaders, we’ll explore the platform concepts, architectures and modernisation approaches that underpin your GenAI journey, with real-world examples and demos. You’ll leave with an ideation canvas and a clear set of next steps to support your app innovation journey with GenAI.
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What you'll take away from this online workshop.
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Practical examples of adding Generative AI to an existing application.
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An ideation canvas for inspiration built out with Ascent subject matter experts.
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A broad understanding of Responsible AI and its impact on your approach.
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A clear view of your eligibility for Microsoft funding for your app innovation journey with GenAI.
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Multi Events - All-dates - Murray Foxcroft - MS
Murray Foxcroft
Chief Technology Officer, Ascent
Murray is an experienced and empathetic technology leader whose career has been forged at the intersection of tech, business and innovation. Murray is responsible for Ascent’s technical vision and strategy, leveraging his extensive expertise in strategising, architecting, developing, and delivering projects across a diverse range of organisations and industries. He is a Generative AI domain expert and passionate about the power of the Azure ecosystem.
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Why Ascent for AI?
- Ascent is one of 10 UK OpenAI prioritised partners and one of 70 Microsoft AI Cloud Partners worldwide. This enables us to apply our elite Microsoft partnership benefits (business roadmap, training, funding, alignment) to customer engagements.
- We offer proven, certified Azure expertise as a Microsoft Designated Solution Partner for Data & AI. Our partner status is backed by audited specialisations in AI and Machine Learning and Data Analytics.
- We are totally focussed on maximising AI ROI. The strength of our people, process and tools delivers business value quicker. Our customers capitalise on our proven methodologies, architectures and delivery accelerators.
- Our consultative teams have the skills to translate business requirements into technical specifications and implementation methodology. We are experienced collaborators who listen, advise and strategise, comfortable working with your teams to custom KPIs.
- Our end-to-end capability takes you from initial business case to in-life service management. Working with Ascent gives customers access to certified data and visual engineers, experience designers, architects, data scientists, AI specialists, product owners and delivery leaders.
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Secure your place.
How will you apply Generative AI to your existing and future apps? How will it transform user experience? How will it scale? How will you ensure your investments in app modernisation deliver quantifiable business value? Join us for an unmissable, interactive morning as Ascent and Microsoft support your application innovation journey with GenAI.
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