.NET User Group: OpenAI Lessons Learned
Lessons learned from early OpenAI integration, presented at the .NET User Group. Accompanied by a Teams chatbot demo project built with TypeScript and Bot Framework.
OpenAI · ChatGPT · .NET · Azure · Teams Bot
// speaking · Bay View, Milwaukee, and anywhere with a salmon run
Talks, workshops, and keynotes.
Sessions on running AI agents in production: evaluation, tracing, regression testing, and the control plane around them. Each talk lists where it has been delivered and what is public from it.
Upcoming
nothing scheduled// no dates on the calendar yet. book a slot
Past
18 deliveredData-Driven Wisconsin
Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center - Great Hall · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
AgentOps for Data Teams: Observability, Evals, and Control for Production AI
Delivered
Delivered
Delivered
Delivered
Delivered
Delivered
Delivered
Delivered
MSPIN Meeting
Landmark Credit Union Corporate Office, 555 S Executive Dr · Brookfield, Wisconsin · meeting
GLSF Sport Show
Delivered
GAIC (Global AI Community)
Delivered
Delivered
Milwaukee AI Symposium
Milwaukee, WI
Automating Personal and Team Tasks with Copilot and Copilot Studio
Delivered
Delivered
The talks
13 in the catalogAgent Portfolio
Presentation on managing an organizational portfolio of AI agents, including inventory, governance, and strategic planning.
agent portfolio · AI governance · agent management · enterprise AI
AgentOps for Data Teams: Observability, Evals, and Control for Production AI
A practical operating model for production AI systems covering evaluation datasets, golden prompts, tracing, regression testing, human approval gates, production monitoring, escalation paths, and kill switches.
AgentOps · AI operations · AI evaluation · observability · production monitoring
AgentOps: From Request to Retirement
Agent governance lifecycle presentation covering the full agent journey from initial request through deployment, monitoring, and eventual retirement.
agent governance · AI lifecycle · AgentOps · agent portfolio management
AgentOps: Running AI Agents in the Real World
A practical operating model for running AI agents in production, covering observability, evaluation datasets, golden prompts, tracing, regression testing, human approval gates, and kill switches.
AgentOps · AI operations · AI agents · observability · production AI
AI Symposium: Art of the Possible
AI strategy and art-of-the-possible presentation for Generac, including a ChatGPT hackathon group ideation session.
AI strategy · ChatGPT · enterprise AI · hackathon · ideation
Automating Personal and Team Tasks with Copilot and Copilot Studio
Practical session on using Microsoft Copilot and Copilot Studio to automate everyday personal and team workflows.
Copilot · Copilot Studio · automation · productivity · Microsoft 365
Best of Build 2024
Recap of the most impactful announcements and features from Microsoft Build 2024.
Microsoft Build · Azure · AI · Copilot · developer tools
Building Your First Copilot Studio App
Introduction to Microsoft Copilot Studio, walking through building a first AI-powered application from scratch.
Copilot Studio · Microsoft Power Platform · AI · low-code
Developer Productivity
A hands-on session for business analysts and delivery leads on using Microsoft Copilot Studio to turn plain-language requirements into functional, data-driven applications without writing code. Covers prompt craft, modeling data in Dataverse, and rapidly prototyping and testing apps with real users.
Copilot Studio · Dataverse · low-code development · business analysis · rapid prototyping
Great Lakes Sport Fishing Presentation
Presentation on Lake Michigan fisheries for the Great Lakes Sport Fishing sport show, covering stocking summaries, lake trout research, and fishery management plans.
Lake Michigan · sport fishing · fishery management · lake trout · Great Lakes
Hybrid Agent Building
Demonstrates three approaches to building AI agents — low-code, pro-code, and hybrid — comparing Copilot Studio, code-first frameworks, and combined architectures.
AI agents · Copilot Studio · agent architecture · hybrid development · low-code
MSPIN Elections and Bylaws
MSPIN meeting presentation covering elections, bylaws, and voting procedures.
MSPIN · governance · bylaws · elections