ArnhemJUG - December meetup

ArnhemJUG
We want to end the year 2023 with one last Meetup. Hosted by Avisi, right next to central station, we welcome Soham Dasgupta and Ties van de Ven. We hope you join us for this last meetup of 2023.

Agenda

• 17:00 CET walk-in
• 17:30 – 18:30 Food and drinks
• 18:30 – 19:30 talk: AI Orchestration with Semantic Kernel by Soham Dasgupta
• 19:30 – 19:45 break
• 19:45 – 20:45 talk: Empowering your development with FP: Understanding and practice by Ties van de Ven
• 20:45 – 21:30 drinks

AI Orchestration with Semantic Kernel
Semantic Kernel is an open-source SDK that combines AI services such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Hugging Face, enabling developers to create AI apps by integrating them with their existing code. It supports Java, Python, and C# and offers connectors for adding memories and AI services to simulate the "brain" of the application. Additionally, AI plugins can be added as the "body" of the app. The SDK simplifies the integration of AI services, allowing developers to leverage recent AI advancements and build intelligent pipelines. This workshop focuses on how to use Semantic Kernel within your existing application and how to build and orchestrate AI applications.

About Soham Dasgupta
I am a technology enthusiast working at Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect, with over 18 years of experience in software programming, designing, and architecture which includes on-prem, cloud-native applications and web-based conversational application design.

Empowering your development with FP: Understanding and practice
There are a lot of talks about the newest tools libraries and frameworks but sometimes it is good to take a step back and think about the underlying problems they are trying to solve. In this talk we will go into the 4 fundamental aspects within software engineering; problem solving and managing state, errors and side effects. We will offer solutions and trade-offs (so no silver bullets) and you might learn some tricks for problem solving as well. This talk will contain a bit of theory, but we will mostly focus on the practical side so you can use the given solutions in your code-base tomorrow.

About Ties van de Ven
Ties is a software engineer with passion for concepts, sofware engineering fundamentals and helping others. He combines these passions by doing public speaking, volenteer work for organisations like Devoxx4kids and codingcoach and working as a Software Quality Expert at Alliander.