Inside AI Agents: How they work and how to run them in production

NNUG is excited to welcome you for an evening to explore the inside of AI Agents - how they work and how to run them in production!

We are excited to announce that we will have two amazin speakers at this event who will focus their presentation on practical aspects of working with AI and use them in practice.

- Michael Åhs: Don't ban it. Architect it. OpenClaw for Microsoft Developers
- Tore Nestenius: How does a Coding Agent work

About the session: Don't ban it. Architect it. OpenClaw for Microsoft Developers
OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent framework — one of the most
capable available right now that shows the future of AI Agents. Join
developers that are running it locally — this is what ships next.

I'm a Microsoft developer of 25 years. When OpenClaw showed up on my
radar, I did what most of us do: I built something with it. Then I
tried to get it working inside an Microsoft stack. That experience —
what worked, what broke, and what I had to figure out along the way —
is what this talk is about.

No architecture diagrams. Just what I actually ran into: wiring it
into Azure, handling agent identity, and whether you can actually
trust it in a production environment.

Developer to developer — from someone who has been on your stack, in
your constraints, for a long time.

About the speaker
Michael Åhs has 25 years on the Microsoft stack - from LOB applications in .NET to AI agents on Azure. He is the founder of AgentBrew Oslo. Michael is focused on how enterprises adopt open-source AI tools like OpenClaw within Azure and .NET environments - without compromising governance or security.

About the session How does a Coding Agent work
Coding agents are increasingly used to automate software tasks, yet how they actually work is often treated as a black box. This talk breaks a coding agent down into its core mechanics: how it is structured, how it communicates with a language model, and how a text-only model can read and modify real source code.
We will cover:
- what a coding agent is, mechanically
- how agents communicate with language models
- how tools and MCP calls are executed
- how a text-only model works with source code
- how to build a basic coding agent in C#

About the speaker
Tore Nestenius is a Microsoft MVP in .NET and a senior .NET consultant, instructor, and software architect with over 25 years of experience. He specializes in .NET, ASP.NET Core, Azure, identity architecture, and application security, helping teams build secure, scalable, and maintainable systems.

He delivers .NET workshops, Azure training, and technical presentations across Europe, with a strong focus on practical, hands-on learning and modern cloud-based development.

Read more on his blog at https://nestenius.se or explore workshops and training at https://tn-data.se.

Location
Nova House, Karl Johans gate 16

Agenda
16:30 – 17:00
Food, drinks, and mingling
17:00 – 17:05
Welcome and introduction
17:05 – 17:50
Don't ban it. Architect it. OpenClaw for Microsoft Developers
18:00 – 18:45
How does a Coding Agent work
19:00 - 19:30
Mingling

Welcome!
We would like to thank our sponsors for this event:

• Bekk
• Bouvet
• Enso
• Forse
• If
• Knowit
• Microsoft
• Miles