The Azure AI Ecosystem for Real-World Enterprise ROI & Custom Logging w/ADF

This month is a double-header!!

Session 1:
Enterprise AI success is no longer about choosing the right model or writing better prompts — it’s about building the right ecosystem.

In this session, we explore the Azure AI ecosystem from a delivery and architecture perspective, showing how real-world AI solutions emerge from the combination of data platforms, semantic foundations, agent orchestration, pro-code and low-code experiences, and securely exposed tools and APIs. Drawing on Microsoft’s latest Ignite announcements—Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, and Work IQ—we’ll unpack how Microsoft is converging on a unified intelligence layer that makes AI agents useful at enterprise scale.

You’ll see how these capabilities map to practical architectures, where teams typically go wrong on the path to AI ROI, and which patterns consistently succeed. The focus is on delivering measurable value today—search, summarisation, decision support—while deliberately preparing for the next wave of agent-driven systems.

This talk is aimed at developers and architects who want to move beyond demos and build AI platforms that scale, govern, and deliver real outcomes.

Session 2:
Azure Data Factory (ADF) has its own monitoring which focuses on pipeline runs, and activity logs. However there is no inbuilt functionality for having custom logs in Azure Data Factory. In this session we will see how we can write custom logs in log analytics from ADF pipelines.

About the Speakers

Adam Stephensen is the AI Practice Lead at Agile Insights. He works with customers to help them understand where AI can empower their organisations, and then makes that vision come to life. Adam loves adopting emerging technologies early, and then sharing best practices and lessons learned with the broader development community. In his downtime, you can find him outdoors camping, kayaking, cycling, 4WDing, or at the beach.

Ranjan Mishra is an IT consultant with 11 years of experience in Azure solutions, specializing in development and integration using Azure Integration Services (AIS).
Ranjan started his career with .Net development, gradually shifting focus to low code/no code solutioning using Azure services. He is currently working as an integration architect/lead in Deloitte Engineering.