Global Azure, local event

Calling all Azure enthusiasts, professionals, students, and aficionados of Azure in Amsterdam! Get ready to be part of something truly extraordinary - Global Azure 2024.

The schedule:
13:00 - 13:20 Walk in
13:25-13:30 Welcome and Introduction
13:30-14:15 Daniel Costea - Deep dive into Microsoft Semantic Kernel Agents powered by AI Assistants
14:15-14:30 Questions and short break
14:30-15:15 Anjuli Jhakry - Microsoft Entra External ID: easy authentication from your app to your API
15:15-15:30 Questions and short break
15:30-16:15 Sander ten Brinke - Say goodbye to building boring APIs with Azure Data API Builder
16:15-16:30 Questions, break
16:30-17:15 Drinks & chat

Deep dive into Microsoft Semantic Kernel Agents powered by AI Assistants
You may be interested in creating agents with the Microsoft Semantic Kernel using GPT Assistants for handling complex problem-solving tasks. It uses AI to coordinate the work among multiple assistants. Each assistant has its own persona and tools, operating as separate GPTs. The days of manually managing conversation states and chat threads are behind us. Now, with the support of these assistants, we can have conversations that remember their context.

In this session I explore how these assistants can interact in three different scenarios:

• hierarchical chat agents (interactive chat)
• joint chat agents (interactive chat)
• agent powered by agents as plugins chat (one prompt chat)

Daniel Costea
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft MVP

Daniel Costea is a senior software engineer with more than two decades of experience and a passion for C# since its inception in 2001. He has been a frequent international speaker in Europe and the US in the past 6 years, and has organized community meetings and workshops. As a trainer, Daniel has delivered over 1200 hours of training in .NET web technologies to more than 700 students. He is also a published author of articles on .NET technologies, and was recognized as a Microsoft MVP in developer technologies in 2019.

http://twitter.com/dfcostea
http://apexcode.ro/

Say goodbye to building boring APIs with Azure Data API Builder
Developers often find themselves building APIs solely for data retrieval and storage, a task that can lack excitement and be very time-consuming. Enter Microsoft's open-source solution: Data API Builder. This tool enables you to securely expose your Azure database through REST and GraphQL endpoints, eliminating the need to manually write these APIs.

Sander ten Brinke
Lead Software Engineer @ Arcady | Microsoft MVP (Developer Technologies)

Sander ten Brinke is a Microsoft MVP and Lead Software Engineer at Arcady, a Dutch IT consultancy firm based in Zwolle. He loves working with .NET, Azure, CI/CD and a whole lot more. He always stays up to date with all new technology and loves sharing his knowledge with everyone by speaking, blogging, podcasting and more!

https://twitter.com/sandertenbrinke
https://stenbrinke.nl

Microsoft Entra External ID: easy authentication from your app to your API

Save yourself and your users time with Microsoft Entra External ID authentication. Microsoft Entra External ID provides built-in support for multiple identity providers, such as Google and Apple ID. With just a few clicks in Azure, and a few lines of code in your app, your users can sign in, sign out and a lot of other useful things. You don’t even have to worry about creating a login page!

In this session, you will learn the basics of Entra External ID, its benefits, and how to integrate it into your app and Azure. This includes a walkthrough on setting up Entra External ID and a demonstration of how you can log in with a .NET MAUI app and access an API.

Anjuli Jhakry
Meet Anjuli Jhakry: A .NET developer at 4DotNet by day and a .NET MAUI explorer by night. I'm navigating the vast ecosystem of Microsoft, always eager to learn. Beyond this, I am passionate about giving presentations and advocating for the incredible potential of tech to everyone.

https://twitter.com/ALJhakry
https://www.youtube.com/@CodeWithAnjuli

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