In this session, Vivek Raja P S, VP - Product will discuss the journey of NexStem - an award-winning Brain Computer Interface Startup. NexStem is part of Microsoft for Startups Program and Vivek will walk through the ease of use and challenges in developing hardware and software products in Microsoft Azure. NexStem extensively uses Azure IoT services and Machine Learning for its BCI products, and we will take a glimpse of architecting, developing and deploying solutions at scale.

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Guest Speaker: Vivek Raja P S

Vivek Raja P S is working as Founding member / VP - Product at NexStem and Organiser at Azure Developer Community, India. • He is a Guinness World Record Holder also an AWS Machine Learning Hero. • He is 16x Multi-Cloud Certified, Azure Data Scientist, AI Engineer, Data Engineer, and Developer Associate. • Besides all, he loves to mentor hackathon teams, blogging, and speak at various developer groups in the field of AI & Cloud.

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LinkedIn-https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek0712/

Session hosted by- Vinayak Hegde

Vinayak Hegde currently works as CTO-in-residence at Microsoft for Startups helping startups to scale their tech stacks, teams and products. With over 20 years of experience, Vinayak has built multiple products across different domains such as IoT, large scale networks and large-scale data systems in a variety of individual contributor and senior technical leadership roles. Previously he has worked with Akamai, Inmobi, and Zoomcar.

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LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinayakh/

Session hosted by- Vivek Sridhar

Vivek is a technophile and an Open-Source contributor with around 15 years of experience in the Software Industry and works at Microsoft as Senior Cloud Advocate. In his previous role, he has mentored startups/developers, speaker at conferences/meetups for DigitalOcean as Senior Developer Advocate, Co-Founder / Chief-Architect of NoodleNext Technology. He was also heading DevOps and QA at BlackBuck and was a DevOps Solution Architect at HCL (Australia) in client engagement. Vivek started his career with IBM Rational (India Software Labs) as a Software Developer.

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Twitter - https://twitter.com/vivek_sridhar