Up for an app building challenge?

Skill up and compete with Microsoft!

Building intelligent apps is crucial to facilitating new ways of working. How are you stacking up to the challenge!

This challenge lets you explore how to combine the power of AI, cloud-scale data, and cloud-native app development to create highly differentiated digital experiences.

There's three challenges to choose from:
  • Intelligent Apps Skills Challenge - Applications are at the core of intelligent solution development. Cloud-native app development empowers you to create modern containerized and serverless apps to build innovative solutions. Explore how to get started with building intelligent apps using Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions and GitHub. 
  • Data Skills Challenge - It is time to activate our enormous data stores for building data driven intelligent solutions. Compete to skill up on your core skills for cloud-scale databases. Explore how to build, scale, and optimize modern applications on Azure with Azure Cosmos DB. 
  • AI Skills Challenge - The world of generative AI is rapidly evolving. Learn how to create intelligent solutions that extract semantic meaning from text and support common computer vision scenarios. Explore how to take advantage of large-scale, generative AI models with deep understandings of language and code to enable new reasoning and comprehension capabilities for building cutting-edge applications responsibly.

Build intelligent apps

Put your skills to the test!

Join Microsoft on a learning journey to skill up on your core skills for developing intelligent apps and earn a badge in your Microsoft Learn profile!

From Feb 15 - April 15, explore how Azure AI can enable new capabilities to build cutting-edge apps responsibly.

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