Arinco has launched AI Build Centre, an initiative aimed at ideating, designing and deploying Microsoft AI solutions at scale across Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ). The initiative taps into Arinco’s team of over 130 consultants, who specialise in Azure and Microsoft AI technologies and hold over 190 Microsoft certifications, to provide end-to-end guidance Part of AI Build Centre is the Australian specialist Microsoft partner’s pre-built AI application Coco, which was built with a secure landing zone and integrations across data, apps and AI platforms to develop customised, multi-skilled AI assistants. Coco also contains pre-built AI capabilities like knowledge mining and document summarisation, as well as industry-specific knowledge and capabilities. "Accelerating AI adoption across the A/NZ region has been a core focus for Arinco since our inception in 2019,” said Chris Padgett, CEO at Arinco. “Artificial intelligence is recognised by the Australian and New Zealand governments as a transformative and productivity-boosting technology crucial to the nations’ interests.” Vanessa Sorenson, global partner solutions director for Microsoft A/NZ, said that Arinco’s commitment to delivering AI solutions mirror’s Microsoft’s own mission “to empower every person and every organisation to achieve more”. “Their focus on embedding AI technologies into real business solutions and enabling customers to innovate will help drive AI adoption and support A/NZ organisations as they pursue transformative outcomes,” she added. The launch of the AI Build Centre comes months after Arinco was awarded Microsoft's Australian Partner of the Year for 2024 in June and more than a year after it launched its New Zealand presence with Daniel Lund appointed as New Zealand general manager.