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Simon Bisson is a freelance writer, specializing in enterprise technologies and development. He writes for several publications, including InfoWorld, ZDNet, and Computerworld. Anand Raman leads the program management for AI Services Platform at Microsoft. Previously, he was the chief of staff for the Microsoft Azure AI and Data Group, covering data platforms and machine learning, and ran the company's product management and the development teams for Azure Data Services and the Visual Studio and Windows Server user experience teams; he also worked several years as researcher before joining Microsoft. Anand holds a PhD in computational fluid mechanics. Mary Branscombe has worked as a freelance technology journalist for many publications over three decades. Recently she's specialized in AI, enterprise technology, and development. Chris Hoder is a Program Manager on the Cognitive Services team at Microsoft. Chris focuses on the end-to-end developer experience across the entire suite of services - from our API and SDK designs to the getting started documentation. In prior roles, Chris worked directly with customers to envision, design, build and deploy AI-focused applications using Microsoft's AI stack.