This document provides an overview and introduction to Azure Cognitive Services by Sam Fernando. The presentation agenda includes an introduction to Azure Cognitive Services, its APIs, demos, and use cases. Azure Cognitive Services provides APIs for language, speech, vision, knowledge, and search capabilities powered by machine learning. These APIs can be used to make apps smarter by understanding customers, gauging sentiment, engaging better, selling more, acting on trends, and understanding context. The document encourages attendees to get started with Azure Cognitive Services and provides resources for doing so.