Friday Five: Dynamics 365, CNTK and C# and More!

Getting started as a Dynamics 365 CE Developer

Andrew Ly currently works as a Microsoft Technical Specialist for KPMG in Adelaide, Australia.  He is passionate about helping customers reach their full potential, and bringing forward digital transformation.  Andrew has been involved in Microsoft Technologies since 1997, with application development across a number of domains including finance and public sector.  He is a current Microsoft Business Applications (Dynamics 365) MVP and enjoys helping out others in the Dynamics community.  He is also a chairperson on the Australian Dynamics 365 User Group committee, and is a regular speaker at local user group events. Follow him on Twitter @365lyf

Linear Regression with CNTK and C#

Bahrudin Hrnjica is from Bosnia and Herzegovina and holds a PhD in technical science. He is a Microsoft MVP for . Bahrudin has many years of experience in developing software on Microsoft technologies and is a Microsoft MVP for development technologies, data scientist and software developer.  Besides teaching at the University, he develops different ML solutions for predictive models using artificial neural networks and genetic programming. In the development of ML-oriented solutions, he has more than 10 years of experience. His field of interest also includes the development predictive models with the CNTK - Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit library for deep learning. Bahrudin has also recently published a book “Optimized genetic programming applications : emerging research and opportunities”. Follow him on Twitter @bhrnjica

Defining Input Parameters For Policy Definitions in ARM Template

Stanislav Zhelyazkov has been working in IT since 2007. He is based in Bulgaria and has worked in various positions where he was developing and consulting companies on Azure, OMS, management and Private clouds. Currently he is Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Sentia Denmark. Stanislav is an active community member at MSDN forums providing answers on Azure and OMS. Follow him on Twitter @StanZhelyazkov. 

A "Modernize-by-Shifting" App Modernization Approach

Vishwas Lele serves as the CTO at Applied Information Sciences, Inc. Based on his firm belief that public cloud is becoming the backbone of *all* IT, Vishwas assists organizations with envisioning, planning and realizing their public cloud objectives. Vishwas brings close to 30 years of experience and thought leadership to his position. A noted industry speaker (Channel9IgniteVSLive) and author (Pluralsight & books) Vishwas also serves as the Microsoft Regional Director for Washington D.C. and has been a recipient of the Azure MVP award for the last five years. Follow him on Twitter @vlele

The Role of Authenticity in Corporate Branding

Christian Buckley is an Office Apps & Services MVP and Microsoft Regional Director based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, an independent research and technical marketing services company, as well as the CMO for revealit.io, an AI and blockchain-based interactive video startup. Follow him on Twitter @buckleyplanet.