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Excited to share our upcoming Microsoft for Startups AI Advisory Day which will take place on May 8th at the Microsoft Reactor in Tel Aviv.   In this event, we've partnered with UBTECH and NVIDIA to offer a unique depth workshop focusing on AI implementations for early-stage startups. As part of the agenda, we will host practical workshops for building together real-world AI applications, showcase successful AI-First startup stories, and provide personal 1:1 Advisory sessions to discuss your specific startup challenge, while offering extended support for the entire team. Register here: https://lnkd.in/dykyzUc5 Amit Svarzenberg Shiri Hochhauser Ronen Gabbay Gil Gross Moti Malka Avishay Levran Shlomit Meler Avi Parnas Ofer Feivushevitz Maggie Sorek Raz Bachar

A sneak peak of the upcoming “AI Startup Showcase” episode by Microsoft for Startups hosting Or Wilder, Director of Security at Blink Ops. In this episode, we covered thier experience as early adopters in our Pegasus program with AI Assistants, auto-pilot methodologies around security and some of the unexpected challenges they faced when scaling their AI-based pilots in production for the first time. Full episode will be uploaded next week in Microsoft for Startups channel in YouTube - don’t miss out! Gil Barak Ted Roduner Gabriela de Queiroz Tom Davis Samantha (Bowman) Turner Meital Shamia Rob Ferguson Hans Yang

Excited to share a special episode of The Ecosystem Podcast featuring me and Raz Bachar. During this episode, we shared some best practices from the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub startups around the age of AI Assistants and what we learned at Microsoft from building 20+ Copilots - don't miss out! https://lnkd.in/ejieUdur Eitan Gueron Rawaa Makhoul Alon Cinamon Idan Tamir GUTS - Harel Innovation hub

AI Advisory Day tomorrow l!

Last week, we've continued the Microsoft for Startups AI Advisory Tour across EMEA with key engagements in Zurich and Paris. Had the pleasure of meeting the top startups in Switzerland, as part of the great Demo Day of Microsoft for Startups AI Tech Accelerator led by Maruscha Heyner Andrew Reid and the entire local startup team. Was really inspiring to see the innovation coming from the region, and the way they leverage our Founders Hub program to build new AI-First experiences across domains such as healthcare, manufacturing and AI tools. In the next stop, I've got to participate in dedicated AI Advisory events for startups as a follow up to the great Microsoft AI day that was held last week in Paris. Reviewing some of the innovation coming from France, from both startups and partners in the program generated some interesting next steps we will share in next few weeks. Strategic engagements such as the launch of Mistral-Large by Mistral AI team and the security alliance with Arrow Intelligent Solutions around Copilot will definitely make a difference across the entire EMEA region. Upcoming AI Advisory EMEA tour visits to be announced soon!

Last week, I had the pleasure of collaborating with the NVIDIA team in Israel around a Generative AI Cybersecurity event and represent Microsoft for Startups in a panel with Wiz and Sentra. One of the key concerns we discussed was the potential misuse/misconfiguration of those LLMs in areas of malicious use, hallucination, and prompt-based attacks. We covered some key mechanisms that are currently emerging in this domain including AI model safety, Enterprise data usage and Prompt safety as well as understanding some of the newest regulation in this market like the AI EU Act that was recently approved as an AI governance requirement for the European ecosystem. Thank you Shiri Hochhauser for having me, Herzog for hosting us and Ron Reiter Ami Luttwak for the great discussion! As those technologies move in an accelerated pace, I'm sure we will see much more coming in the next few months around cybersecurity and defense best practices.

Microsoft for Startups AI Advisory Day is coming to Serbia! Join me and the team for an exclusive business lunch event in partnership with Crayon, where we delve into the latest insights and trends. During this event, we will share insights from our Founders Hub & ISV Success programs, explore some best practices for AI implementation based on Crayon Services for Digital Natives experience, and learn from to startups in the region on their journey as early adopters of AI. Join us: https://lnkd.in/dYfhiy3v

Earlier this month, we hosted a unique 2-day event to the top startup & digital native companies across EMEA. I was privileged to lead the opening session focused on envisioning AI-first experiences to existing SaaS companies and concrete ways to fully embrace AI as the platform of the future with our assistant-led approach. Throughout the event, I've participated in various 1:1 CTO discussions and 1:few roundtables, exploring in depth key innovative capabilities of Azure AI Studio in areas such as grounding AI on the vast amount of data already collected by our Digital Native customers, integrating AI models into their existing APIs and services, undersetting challenges around privacy and responsible AI and cultivating the LLMOps approach in production environments across engineering teams, processes and tools. One of the key highlights from the event, was to hear from our early-adopting customers in our DN cluster such as Volocopter, BioCatch and Mistral AI (which also leveraged this event to co-announce their new Mistral Large offering on Azure), sharing openly their AI Transformation journey with Microsoft with key insights, challenges and best practices when scaling those AI products in real world scenarios. Thank you Idit Gazit Berger and the entire EMEA DN team for having me and the amazing set of speakers that led such insightful discussions and personally inspired me around the future of AI. Can't wait for the next one!

Join me at Microsoft for Startups AI Discovery Day! During the event, we will celebrate ChatGPT on Azure AI's first birthday with lots of depth sessions, best practices and real-world insights from startups & VCs on becoming an AI-first company. With some key announcements coming up that I will share for the first time in my keynote, you should definitely not miss this one! Wednesday March 20th | 16:30- 21:00, | Microsoft Reactor TLV https://lnkd.in/eqyz8i9f Raz Bachar Amit Svarzenberg Marina Marenkov DAVID ZILBERBERG Hila Zigman Ron Reiter Neta Rozy Rob Ferguson Lyndsey Toeppen Hans Yang

Yesterday, I participated in a unique ecosystem event around "Building AI-First Startups" in collaboration with Blumberg Capital Random Forest VC and GUTS - Harel Innovation hub. During the event, I had the privilege of hosting a workshop around building an assistant-based experience with Azure AI to a room filled with entrepreneurs, investors, and experts in the world of AI. We discussed in depth insights, challenges and best practices from building Copilots in Microsoft for Startups throughout the past 12 months and sparked a discussion that lasted way beyond the official event hours. Shout out to the amazing cohort of speakers including Eilon Reshef, Gong's co-founder and CPO; Netta Shaked-Stadler, Partner & Head of Al Practice, Gornitzky & Co;  Ori Luzia, Corporate storyteller & pitching expert and Lior Schachter, CTO at Natural Intelligence. Raz Bachar Idan Tamir Elior Z. Dana kislev;Asaf Klier, Roy Zwebner, Ami Dagan, Michael Kerbis Bruce Taragin,Lt. Col. (Ret.) Sharona Mizrahi, Sharon Landesman, Ilia Shnaidman, Eitan Gueron, Zemer Shwartz-Noy