At AgentCon Boston, I delivered a packed 2-hour hands-on workshop—so full we needed overflow seating—focused on building real, production-ready AI agents using Azure AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, and LangChain. To ensure everyone could follow along without setup issues, attendees were provided pre-configured Windows VMs, each loaded with the required SDKs, repo, tools, and environment variables. […]
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Building Enterprise AI Agents using Azure AI Search
At the Nashua Cloud .NET User Group meetup and Dev Boston User Group, I delivered a session titled “Building Enterprise Agents using Azure AI Search,” focusing on how modern enterprises can go beyond basic RAG and build knowledgeable, secure, multi-source AI agents. The talk centered on the evolution from simple search pipelines to agentic retrieval, […]