Adelaide Azure User Group

Join us to hear Ben Petito and Simeon Solomou present on "From Shiny Demo to Enterprise Reality: Productising Azure AI"

The rise of Agentic AI is fundamentally transforming how enterprise Azure environments are architected, designed, deployed, and managed. Traditional infrastructure practices once reliant on manual processes and static configurations are giving way to intelligent, autonomous systems capable of making real-time decisions at scale.
Most Azure AI talks focus on what’s new, what’s shiny, and what’s possible.
This talk focuses on what happens after the demo.
Drawing on real-world experience delivering Azure AI solutions in regulated, governance-heavy environments, Ben will explore the practical realities of moving from proof of concept to production-grade systems.
We’ll cover:
- The gap between AI demos and enterprise reality
- What it actually takes to fully productise an Azure AI environment
- Architectural trade-offs you only discover in production
- Security, compliance, monitoring, and operational concerns
- Using Azure AI behind the scenes, not just as a chatbot
- Lessons learned: what worked, what didn’t, and what surprised us
- A walkthrough of the production solution, including a live demo of what we actually delivered
If you’re building (or planning) Azure AI solutions and want an honest, experience-driven perspective on the uncool but critical parts, this session is for you.
This presentation explores how this convergence redefines the infrastructure lifecycle shifting engineers from reactive administrators to strategic orchestrators in an increasingly autonomous, AI-driven cloud landscape.

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