Adam Stephensen
AI Lead @ Agile Insights
Brisbane, Australia
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Adam is the AI Practice Lead at Agile Insights. He works with customers to help them understand where AI can empower their organisations, and then makes that vision come to life. Adam loves adopting emerging technologies early, and then sharing best practices and lessons learned with the broader development community. In his downtime, you can find him outdoors camping, kayaking, cycling, 4WDing, or at the beach.
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The Azure AI Ecosystem for Real-World Enterprise ROI
Enterprise AI success is no longer about choosing the right model or writing better prompts—it’s about building the right ecosystem.
In this session, we explore the Azure AI ecosystem from a delivery and architecture perspective, showing how real-world AI solutions emerge from the combination of data platforms, semantic foundations, agent orchestration, pro-code and low-code experiences, and securely exposed tools and APIs. Drawing on Microsoft’s latest Ignite announcements—Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, and Work IQ—we’ll unpack how Microsoft is converging on a unified intelligence layer that finally makes AI agents useful at enterprise scale.
You’ll see how these capabilities map to practical architectures, where teams typically go wrong on the path to AI ROI, and which patterns consistently succeed. The focus is on delivering measurable value today—search, summarisation, decision support—while deliberately preparing for the next wave of agent-driven systems.
This talk is aimed at developers and architects who want to move beyond demos and build AI platforms that scale, govern, and deliver real outcomes.
Delivering Enterprise AI: From Architecture to Real-World ROI
AI projects fail far more often due to poor architectural and delivery decisions than flawed code. In modern enterprises, success depends on how well data platforms, agents, integrations, security, governance, and operations are designed to work together—not just on model selection or prompt engineering.
This full-day workshop is for developers, architects, and technical leaders responsible for delivering AI solutions that create real business value. Drawing on lessons learned from delivering enterprise AI systems across government, education, finance, and healthcare, the session explores what consistently works, what commonly fails, and why.
Attendees will examine real-world AI architectures, learn how to prioritise use cases, choose between pro-code, low-code, and third-party AI tools, and understand how emerging platforms such as Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft Fabric fit into today’s delivery landscape. The focus is practical and experience-driven, equipping participants with the decision frameworks needed to build AI systems that scale, comply, and deliver measurable ROI.
Agenda:
AI Ecosystem & Capability Map
Use-Case Selection & Value Realisation
Architecture Patterns That Work
Failures, Crashes, and Hard Lessons
Azure AI Ecosystem: What to Use When
Security, Ops, and Scaling Reality
Building the Next 12–24 Month Roadmap
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Copenhagen Developers Festival 2023 Sessionize Event
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NDC Porto 2020 Sessionize Event
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NDC Oslo 2019 Sessionize Event
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Global AI Bootcamp - Brisbane Sessionize Event
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NDC Sydney 2017 Sessionize Event
Microsoft Ignite 2017
Talk: Angular War Stories
Talk: Testing Angular 2
Interview: What is Service Fabric and Why you should care with Namit T.S
Interview: Conversation as a Platform & the Bot Framework with Dr Neil
Microsoft TechEd Melbourne 2014
Talk: Easy Continuous Deployment: Azure + TFS-Git
Talk: Application Insights: A Private Investigator for your Application
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