Build Faster with AI: High‑Impact Ways to Use Your $25K Microsoft for Startups Credits
Join Pablo Veramendi @ Microsoft for Startups for a high‑impact session where we’ll show you how to turn your $25,000 in Azure credits into immediate velocity by applying them to the most valuable, cost‑saving, and experimentation‑accelerating workflows founders rely on today.
You’ll learn:
High‑impact ways to use your credits right now
Run and compare top AI models—OpenAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Meta, OSS—inside Azure AI Foundry to rapidly find the best model for quality + cost.
Power AI‑native development with GitHub Copilot, Codespaces, and Actions—covered by your credits—to speed up iteration during prototyping and sprint cycles using models from OpenAI and many others.
Deploy AI agents and services at scale using serverless, containers, or managed inference endpoints without racking up infrastructure costs.
Stand up enterprise‑ready architecture with built‑in security, compliance, and Microsoft Entra ID—especially valuable for health, finance, or data‑sensitive products.
Additional benefits you'll receive
Same‑day access to new OpenAI releases via Azure AI Foundry.
Unlimited Technical pairing with Microsoft engineers for architecture reviews and deployment guidance.
Go‑to‑market pathway opportunities: enterprise introductions, validation, and seller co‑motion.
This session is designed to help Carnegie Mellon University teams move from prototype → pilot → customer faster while extending runway and reducing experimentation costs during the most resource‑intensive phase of your journey.