Prof Jim transforms text into interactive, cinematic courses using AI. The text could be entered by an educator or be in the form of a textbook. By doing so, an educator can have Pythagoras teach his famous Pythagorean Theorem on the shores of ancient Greece. Or an educator can build their own realistic-looking avatar to teach the same lesson. Compared to creating and editing videos using a production crew, Prof Jim’s approach is often an order of magnitude less expensive. Prof Jim’s website https://www.profjim.com/ (url) has more information on the company. In this session, we will discuss how we implemented aspects of our solution on Azure infrastructure, including our GPU renders, our web portal and our Open AI-based natural language models.

The session will focus on- Infrastructure for rendering animations, Open AI language models on Azure, hosting a website with a NoSQL database back-end on Azure.

Guest Speaker: Pranav Mehta
Pranav Mehta is a seasoned computer scientist and a businessman known for his approachable, problem-solving attitude, and an affinity to “make and break things.” He serves as a Co-founder and CTO at Prof Jim, a Silicon Valley startup that transforms text into interactive, cinematic courses using AI. Prof Jim received a BIG innovation award in 2023 for pioneering Generative AI in education. In his past, during his time at Microsoft, he led the shipping of several releases of Microsoft Dynamics to some of the largest retailers in the world—winning him two awards from Microsoft for being one of the leading innovators on their team. Pranav also co-founded Flatpebble, an online gig marketplace specialized for photographers and scaled the business to thousands of transactions a day with customers like Uber, Foodpanda, Zomato, Oyo Rooms and Swiggy.

Social Handle of the speaker
LinkedIn-https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranav-mehta-00a04ba6/ (url)

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.

Social Handle
LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinayakh/ (url)

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.

Social Handle
Twitter - https://twitter.com/vivek_sridhar (url)

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