Ready to get started with AI and the latest technologies? Microsoft Reactor provides events, training, and community resources to help developers, entrepreneurs and startups build on AI technology and more. Join us!
Ready to get started with AI and the latest technologies? Microsoft Reactor provides events, training, and community resources to help developers, entrepreneurs and startups build on AI technology and more. Join us!
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development, Agents, AI Security and Data Governance, Developer Tools, Data Science & Machine Learning
Language: English
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.
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All times in - Coordinated Universal Time
May
05
Tuesday
2026
Achieving 360° Visibility in Azure with OpenTelemetry with Middleware
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC)
Learn how to instrument Azure-based cloud-native workloads using OpenTelemetry across logs, metrics, traces, RUM, and Kubernetes for complete observability.
LivestreamTopic: Agents
Language: English
May
13
Wednesday
2026
Precision Monitoring: Leveraging Data Correlation for Effective Alerting, Middleware
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)
Learn how to correlate data to get complete visibility and setup effective alerting to reduce noise.
LivestreamTopic: Agents
Language: English
May
21
Thursday
2026
The Future of Fixes: Automating Issue Resolution with Middleware opsAI
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)
Learn how to use Middleware's AI agent (opsAI) to auto detect and fix issues across infrastructure and applications.
LivestreamTopic: AI Security and Data Governance
Language: English
May
28
Thursday
2026
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]
LivestreamTopic: Developer Tools
Language: English
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)
LivestreamTopic: Data Science & Machine Learning
Language: English
Speakers
Keval Bhogayata
Middleware
Naman Vyas
Middleware
Archish Thakkar
Middleware
Jonathan Schneider
Moderne
Bridgette Befort DeFever
Howso
Matthew Fulp
Howso
Corey L. Harrison
Flip AI
Gabriela de Queiroz
Microsoft
Davit Buniatyan
Activeloop
Nicolai Baldin
Synthesized
Yair Adato, PhD
Bria.ai
Vid Jain
Wallaroo.AI
Chris Hazard
Howso
Vitaly Gordon
Faros AI
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
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.
LivestreamTopic: Personal and Business Development
Language: English
