Bethany Jepchumba - Past Speaking Engagements

Bethany Jepchumba

Microsoft

Cloud Advocate

Kenya

Past Speaking Engagements

Fine Tuning Model Customization with Microsoft Foundry

European AI and Cloud Summit 2026

fine-tuning

openai-models

microsoft-foundry

05/05/2026

Confex - Koelncongress

Cologne, Germany

A Practical Guide to Model Training in Microsoft Foundry

ECS 2026

05/05/2026

Confex - Koelncongress

Cologne, Germany

European AI and Cloud Summit 2026

05/05/2026, Confex - Koelncongress
Cologne, Germany

Fine Tuning Model Customization with Microsoft Foundry

fine-tuning

openai-models

microsoft-foundry

You are an AI developer building a multi-agent AI solution for your enterprise retail store. You want to deliver a solution that is accurate, cost-effective, and performant. How do you select and optimize your model choice to deliver on these requirements? In this session, we put the spotlight on model customization. Learn what your options are, and why fine-tuning might be the right option for your scenario. Learn about the various fine-tuning options in Microsoft Foundry, with hands-on demos. Walk away with resources and insights that help you streamline your end-to-end model optimization journey with Microsoft Foundry. Learning Outcomes By the end of this session, you should be able to: Describe what model customization is, and the different techniques involved Describe why fine-tuning matters, how it works, and when it is most applicable Describe the different fine-tuning options in Microsoft Foundry Use the Distillation technique to optimize costs with comparable accuracy Build and optimize your AI application seamlessly, with Microsoft Foundry Technologies Used Microsoft Foundry - the unified Azure platform-as-a-service for enterprise AI. Azure OpenAI Service - provide API access to OpenAI models in Microsoft Foundry Stored Completions & Distillation - fine-tuning to achieve model (size) compression Reinforcement Fine-Tuning - fine-tuning reasoning models with rewards-based approach

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Kenya

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