I recently presented “Building Real-Time Voice AI: From Pipelines to Conversations” at the Nashua Cloud .NET User Group, where we explored how Voice AI is evolving beyond rigid pipelines like Speech → Text → LLM → Text → Speech. Traditional approaches introduce latency, break conversational flow, and make interactions feel unnatural. With the rise of […]
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Building AI Agents with the Microsoft Agent Framework (#NashuaUG)
I recently presented “Building AI Agents with the Microsoft Agent Framework” at the Nashua Cloud .NET User Group, where we explored how AI systems are evolving from simple prompt-response interactions into fully agentic architectures. The session focused on building intelligent agents with memory, tools, orchestration, and multi-agent collaboration using the Microsoft Agent Framework, which brings […]
Guardrails in Action: Ensuring Safe AI (#BCC39)
At Boston Code Camp 39, I presented “Guardrails in Action: Ensuring Safe AI with Azure AI Content Safety,” a practical look at why modern AI needs strong guardrails before it ever reaches production. AI is mighty, but without safeguards, it can hallucinate, leak copyrighted or sensitive content, and fall for prompt-injection tricks. The session showed […]
Transforming the Web with Natural Language: My NLWeb Presentation at Nashua CLOUD .NET & DevBoston
On a mission to make the web more intelligent and human-friendly, I recently had the opportunity to present and host a session at our joint Nashua CLOUD .NET and DevBoston meetup groups, introducing an exciting open-source initiative from Microsoft: NLWeb. Watch the recording: https://youtu.be/x_4gbzUrW0s View the slides on SlideShare: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/transform-any-website-into-a-conversational-experience-with-nlweb/281034902 What Is NLWeb? NLWeb (Natural […]