Name: Two AI Talks: Building Agents with C# & Intelligent Apps with Foundry Local
Start: 2025-07-01T17:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-07-01T19:30:00+10:00
Location: Arinco

Melb.NET is excited to host two great AI talks by [Will Velida](https://www.linkedin.com/in/willvelida/) (Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft) and [Nilesh Gule](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nileshgule/) \(Cloud Solution Architect \| Enterprise Architect \| Microsoft MVP \| Docker Captain\)

Doors open at 5:30pm, and we kick off the night at 6pm. Food and drinks provided in-person.

**Agenda:**

* Introductions and few words from our Sponsors (10 min)
* **Talk 1** - **Building Agents with C#** by [Will Velida](https://www.linkedin.com/in/willvelida/)
* QnA - grab some more food/drinks (10 min)
* **Talk 2: Infuse intelligence into your App with Foundry Local** by [Nilesh Gule](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nileshgule/)

**Talk 1: Building Agents with C#**
When it comes to building agents with C#, we aren't spoiled for choice. Between Azure AI Foundry, the M365 Agent SDK, and Semantic Kernel, which agent solution should we choose? In this talk, we'll compare different frameworks and discuss which one we should use in which situation (and when we might use a combination of them!)

**Talk 2: Infuse intelligence into your App with Foundry Local**
Foundry Local allows us to run AI models locally on the machine. This session will demonstrate how to use the Foundry Local AI inferencing service to interact with the model and infuse intelligence into the application

**Hosts:**
[William Liebenberg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-liebenberg/) \- Microsoft \.NET MVP \| Consultant at Arinco

**Location:**
In-Person at Arinco Melbourne - Level 6 / 440 Collins Street, Melbourne CBD.

🗣 Apply to speak now: [https://bit.ly/melb-dotnet-cfp](https://bit.ly/melb-dotnet-cfp)

**Sponsors:**
We have some amazing sponsors that help make this event possible:

* [Arinco](https://arinco.com.au)
* [Tank Stream Labs](https://www.tankstreamlabs.com/)
* [Microsoft Melbourne](https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/about/officelocator/all-offices?Location=Melbourne)
* [Dotnet Foundation](https://dotnetfoundation.org/)

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