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Startup Spotlight

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Topic: Personal and Business Development, Agents, AI Security and Data Governance, Developer Tools, Data Science & Machine Learning

Language: English

  • Events in this Series:
  • 15

Startup Spotlight is a developer‑focused series featuring startups building real‑world solutions on Microsoft Azure. Each session delivers practical technical insights—architecture patterns, demos, and lessons learned from teams shipping to production. These sessions are educational, not sales‑driven, and designed for developers and architects looking to apply modern Azure best practices in their own work from innovative startups.

Upcoming Events

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All times in - Coordinated Universal Time

Aug

25

Tuesday

2026

CoreStory: Building with AI in Systems You Don’t Fully Understand

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (UTC)

Most organizations aren't building on greenfield applications. They're building on decades of accumulated code, integrations, and undocumented business logic. As AI becomes a core part of software delivery, teams face a new challenge: how do humans and AI agents work effectively in systems nobody fully understands? This session explores the hidden costs of system ambiguity, compares common approaches to understanding legacy environments, and discusses how organizations can create a persistent intelligence layer with CoreStory that enables safer modernization, faster onboarding, and more confident AI-assisted development.

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Topic: Data Science & Machine Learning

Language: English

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Sep

01

Tuesday

2026

CoreStory: Garbage Context In, Garbage Code Out- Fixing AI’s Real Problem

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (UTC)

Plenty of experienced developers don’t trust AI-generated code, and on a large codebase the agent has never understood they’re right not to. The problem isn’t the model; it’s the missing context. Without a structured, current understanding of the codebase, agents hallucinate, duplicate logic that already exists, and introduce changes no one asked for. This session takes the skepticism head-on and shows what changes when developers and their AI agents work from a persistent intelligence layer grounded directly in the code: fewer hallucinations, fewer regressions, and output a developer can actually review and trust. Built for the engineer who wants AI to earn its place in the workflow, not just be mandated into it.

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Topic: Data Science & Machine Learning

Language: English

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Sep

08

Tuesday

2026

CoreStory + GitHub Copilot: Turning Plausible Suggestions Into Correct Ones

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (UTC)

GitHub Copilot is powerful, but its effectiveness depends on context. By connecting CoreStory to Copilot through MCP, developers give Copilot persistent intelligence about their codebase, architecture, dependencies, and business logic. The result: more accurate suggestions, fewer hallucinations, fewer regressions, and code that works the first time. Join us for a live demo showing how CoreStory helps Copilot deliver smarter, more trustworthy results, and why teams have seen up to 44% better task resolution when AI agents work from CoreStory’s intelligence.

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Topic: Data Science & Machine Learning

Language: English

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Speakers

  • Corey L. Harrison

    • CEO & Co-Founder

    Flip AI

  • Gabriela de Queiroz

    • Director of AI

    Microsoft

  • Davit Buniatyan

    • Founding CEO

    Activeloop

  • Nicolai Baldin

    • Chief Executive Officer & Founder

    Synthesized

  • Yair Adato, PhD

    • Founder and CEO

    Bria.ai

  • Vid Jain

    • Founder & CEO

    Wallaroo.AI

  • Chris Hazard

    • Co-Founder and CTO

    Howso

  • Vitaly Gordon

    • CEO and Co-Founder

    Faros AI

  • Keval Bhogayata

    • Principal Engineer

    Middleware

  • Naman Vyas

    • Software Engineer

    Middleware

  • Archish Thakkar

    • Principal Engineer

    Middleware

  • Jonathan Schneider

    • Cofounder & CEO

    Moderne

  • Bridgette Befort DeFever

    • Product Lead

    Howso

  • Martin Koistinen

    • Principal Software Developer

    Howso Incorporated

  • Matthew Fulp

    • Senior Engineer

    Howso

Past Events in this Series

All times in - Coordinated Universal Time

Jan

16

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Flip AI

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the first episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Corey Harrison from Flip.AI to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

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Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

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Jan

30

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Activeloop

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the second episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Davit Buniatyan from Activeloop to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

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Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

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Feb

13

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Synthesized

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the third episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Nicolai Baldin from Synthesized to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

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Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

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Feb

27

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Bria.ai

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the fourth episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Bria.ai to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

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Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

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Mar

13

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Wallaroo.AI

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the fifth episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Wallaroo.AI to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

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Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

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Apr

03

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Howso

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the next episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Chris Hazard from Howso to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

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Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

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Apr

17

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Faros AI

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the fifth episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Vitaly Gordon from Faros AI to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

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Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

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May

28

Thursday

2026

Moderne: DevTools or AgentTools? The Changing Target of Engineering Productivity

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

As AI agents take more of a leading role in crafting code, the “first user” of engineering productivity tooling is shifting from individual human developers to agents. With a human still at the helm of a fleet of agents in producing software, and increasingly less involved in the writing of individual lines of code, maximizing engineering value delivery means making every tool call faster, more token efficient, and more accurate. This session covers concrete cases where tool call efficiency can be harvested immediately: trigram index-based code search, lossless semantic tree access/manipulation patterns, mining data from chat transcripts, and exposing multi-repository commit/PR activity to agents. Learn more at (https://moderne.ai)[https://moderne.ai]

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Topic: Developer Tools

Language: English

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Jun

11

Thursday

2026

Building Context and Reasoning for Agentic Systems with Howso

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Learn how to enhance agentic systems with real, explainable context using Howso within the Microsoft ecosystem. This session walks through how to integrate Howso with Fabric, Copilot, and Power BI to ground agents in enterprise data. We’ll demonstrate how to use Howso's causal discovery, anomaly detection, and data-driven explainability to validate agent outputs, uncover key drivers in your data, and enable more reliable decision-making. Attendees will see how dynamic, data-driven context improves accuracy, trust, and actionability in agent workflows, with grounded examples in real-world use cases. Read more: Howso's 2025 White Paper - A Theory of the Mechanics of Information: Generalization Through Measurement of Uncertainty (Learning is Measuring)

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Topic: Data Science & Machine Learning

Language: English

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Past Events in this Series

All times in - Coordinated Universal Time

Jan

16

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Flip AI

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the first episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Corey Harrison from Flip.AI to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

  • Format:
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Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

View on Demand

Jan

30

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Activeloop

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the second episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Davit Buniatyan from Activeloop to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

  • Format:
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Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

View on Demand

Feb

13

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Synthesized

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the third episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Nicolai Baldin from Synthesized to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

  • Format:
  • alt##LivestreamLivestream

Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

View on Demand

Feb

27

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Bria.ai

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the fourth episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Bria.ai to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

  • Format:
  • alt##LivestreamLivestream

Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

View on Demand

Mar

13

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Wallaroo.AI

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the fifth episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Wallaroo.AI to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

  • Format:
  • alt##LivestreamLivestream

Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

View on Demand

Apr

03

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Howso

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the next episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Chris Hazard from Howso to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

  • Format:
  • alt##LivestreamLivestream

Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

View on Demand

Apr

17

Thursday

2025

Startup Spotlight: Faros AI

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the fifth episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Vitaly Gordon from Faros AI to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

  • Format:
  • alt##LivestreamLivestream

Topic: Personal and Business Development

Language: English

View on Demand

May

28

Thursday

2026

Moderne: DevTools or AgentTools? The Changing Target of Engineering Productivity

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

As AI agents take more of a leading role in crafting code, the “first user” of engineering productivity tooling is shifting from individual human developers to agents. With a human still at the helm of a fleet of agents in producing software, and increasingly less involved in the writing of individual lines of code, maximizing engineering value delivery means making every tool call faster, more token efficient, and more accurate. This session covers concrete cases where tool call efficiency can be harvested immediately: trigram index-based code search, lossless semantic tree access/manipulation patterns, mining data from chat transcripts, and exposing multi-repository commit/PR activity to agents. Learn more at (https://moderne.ai)[https://moderne.ai]

  • Format:
  • alt##LivestreamLivestream

Topic: Developer Tools

Language: English

View on Demand

Jun

11

Thursday

2026

Building Context and Reasoning for Agentic Systems with Howso

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Learn how to enhance agentic systems with real, explainable context using Howso within the Microsoft ecosystem. This session walks through how to integrate Howso with Fabric, Copilot, and Power BI to ground agents in enterprise data. We’ll demonstrate how to use Howso's causal discovery, anomaly detection, and data-driven explainability to validate agent outputs, uncover key drivers in your data, and enable more reliable decision-making. Attendees will see how dynamic, data-driven context improves accuracy, trust, and actionability in agent workflows, with grounded examples in real-world use cases. Read more: Howso's 2025 White Paper - A Theory of the Mechanics of Information: Generalization Through Measurement of Uncertainty (Learning is Measuring)

  • Format:
  • alt##LivestreamLivestream

Topic: Data Science & Machine Learning

Language: English

View on Demand