(Virtual) Add Gen AI to your existing .NET apps with Semantic Kernel & Azure SQL

UPDATE: Agenda now mentions the parts of the talk that will relate to this announcement from the SQL DB team from a few days ago: Exciting Announcement: Public Preview of Native Vector Support in Azure SQL Database!

Join this Virtual Boston Azure session where speakers Jason Haley and Bill Wilder will start with an introduction to Semantic Kernel, a Microsoft SDK for interacting with LLM-powered AI services such as those from OpenAI and Azure OpenAI. Semantic Kernel can be especially attractive to development teams with a large investment in C# or Java. Coding examples will be in C# and will also use some AI-enabling capabilities of Azure SQL Database (related to announcement). If there's time we will also delve into some quick wins with .NET Smart Components.

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║ 🎧 ONLINE MEETING DETAILS
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This event will be delivered as a Microsoft Teams meeting with the link provided in the Meetup location listing.

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║ ✓ AGENDA
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• 6:00 - 6:05: Introduction, announcements, banter
• 6:05 - 7:10: Featured talk jointly delivered by Jason Haley and Bill Wilder
• 7:10: Any lingering questions and further announcements.

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║ 🗣 DESCRIPTION of FEATURED TALK
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Probably you've seen the many ways that Gen AI technology is being put to use - but it also seems complicated and there seem to be so many new technologies to assimilate. Is that the only way to go? What about incorporating Gen AI into existing applications?

Imagine you have an existing application built using significant C# and Azure SQL Database. We will meet you where you are and talk about how technologies like Semantic Kernel (which supports coding in C#/.NET, among other languages) and Azure SQL Database can help you integrate AI features into your application (related to this recent announcement). If there's time we will also delve into some quick wins with .NET Smart Components.

And bring your questions!

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