BITE-CON Innovation Challenge

Step 1: Learners must sign up with BITE-CON for this challenge using the "Register" button above. 

Step 2: Choose your Learning Challenge below with Microsoft to get started!

AI 102 Innovation Challenge:

Microsoft registration link 

AZ 204 Innovation Challenge

Microsoft registration link

DP 203 Innovation Challenge

Microsoft registration link

Here's the Challenge Schedule: 

March 25 - March 31 Initial Registration Window 

April 1 - April 5 Final Registration window/Training sessions begin 

May 23 - Training ends

Microsoft Innovation Challenge registration

Get ready for the future of AI. 

Sign up for the Innovation Challenge from The BITE-CON Foundation and Microsoft are partnering on the Innovation Challenge, an invite only hackathon starting May 28th where teams will build AI solutions and compete for over $25,000 in prizes. In order to be invited, you need to pass a qualifying Azure certification exam. BITE-CON will help you get certified with a tech intensive series of training events, online learning, and hands on exercises. You’ll build skills that are highly in demand and open doors to new career opportunities. Register to get started.

Prepare for AI 102, AZ 204, DP 203 – or earn a combination of 3 Applied Skills credentials.

During the hackathon, teams of 5 will work together to solve for real world AI use cases, based on Microsoft enterprise customer scenarios. It’s an opportunity to get the skills it take to be a technical professional, solving problems, getting creative, building on each other’s strengths and competencies. At the end of two weeks, you’ll have a working, end-to-end solution that proves what you can do. To get invited to the hackathon, you’ll need to validate your knowledge. Choose from one of these options

• Exam AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution As a Microsoft Azure AI engineer, you build, manage, and deploy AI solutions that leverage Azure AI.
• Exam AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Participate in all phases of development, including requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, security, maintenance, performance tuning, and monitoring.
• Exam DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure Understand the data through exploration, and build and maintain secure and compliant data processing pipelines by using different tools and techniques
• Any combination of 3 of these Applied Skills (You won’t have to take an exam, but you will have to perform the task you’re being tested on)
• Build a natural language processing solution with Azure AI Language
• Build an Azure AI Vision solution
• Create an intelligent document processing solution with Azure AI Document Intelligence
• Deploy cloud-native apps using Azure Container Apps
• Develop generative AI solutions with Azure OpenAI Service
• Train and deploy a machine learning model with Azure Machine Learning

BITE-CON is here to support you on your tech intensity journey

Our webinar series will deliver the concepts and teach you the tools it takes to build on Azure. And we’ve also pulled together a great set of resources including videos, online learning and hands on labs. We’ll have office hours where you can get your questions answered. And you’ll have the support and encouragement of a dedicated group of learners who are on the journey with you. Register now using the "Register" button above!