Ayca Bas
Microsoft, Principal Cloud Advocate
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Ayca Bas is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft focused on helping developers adopt AI technologies through technical storytelling, hands-on experiences, and developer education. She works closely with product and engineering teams to translate complex capabilities into practical guidance and learning experiences. She focuses on Microsoft IQ and context-aware AI, helping developers explore enterprise knowledge, grounding, retrieval, and the context that powers intelligent agents. Her work centres on making advanced AI concepts accessible and actionable for the developer community.
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Next generation AI for developers
Dive into what's next and discover the capabilities of advanced language models like GPT-4o. Experience AI Studio, a user-friendly platform that simplifies building your own AI applications using insights from Microsoft’s Copilots. Learn how vector search, with techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), is revolutionizing information retrieval for precise results. Explore the Assistants API, which enables developers to create intuitive applications that can analyze data, recommend solutions, and automate tasks with ease. This session is your starting point to understand AI technologies' potential and integrate them into your projects.
RAG and Knowledge Retrieval Fundamentals
In this session, we are going to talk about what is Retrieval Augmented Generation and why It’s a Game Changer.
We'll also learn the fundamentals of search indexing and talk about Vector Search 101: Revolutionizing Retrieval with AI.
Introducing Custom Engine Agents
Discover the power of custom engine agents, learn the scenarios and AI experiences you can build using the Teams AI library. We'll cover key concepts, showcase practical examples, and demonstrate how these agents can transform user interactions with AI. This session is perfect for anyone looking to understand or start building with custom engine agents.
Building the Enterprise Intelligence Layer for AI with Microsoft IQ
Learn how Microsoft IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ combine work context, enterprise context, and knowledge context into a shared intelligence layer that powers copilots, agents, analytics, and business applications.
Building generative AI powered bots with Teams Toolkit and AI library for .NET
In this session, you'll discover the new features of Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio and understand how it helps .NET developers to easily build, debug and deploy apps for Microsoft Teams.
You'll also get introduced to the new Teams AI library for .NET and learn how you can build your first generative AI powered Teams bot using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio and Teams AI library for .NET.
Build a developer assist dashboard for Microsoft Teams using Teams Toolkit, GitHub, DevOps and more!
As a developer, wouldn't you enjoy a dashboard on Microsoft Teams that can show you your team's GitHub issues, Azure DevOps work items, Planner tasks and more (Open AI)? Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code can help you build a dashboard for Microsoft Teams from scratch and let you bring exciting features as widgets.
In this session, you'll learn how to build a Teams dashboard tab with Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code and bring popular tools and services fro developers into your dashboard with easy integrations.
Build agents with knowledge, agentic RAG and Azure AI Search
Start building your next agent with the latest knowledge features from Azure AI Search. In this session, we will demo how to connect your agentic retrieval engine to new knowledge sources like Sharepoint, web and blob. We will also walk through new controls available to improve your RAG performance, across query planning, retrieval and answer generation. Join this code-focused breakout for samples and step-by-step guidance on connecting knowledge to your next agent.
Agents of Tomorrow: Building the Next Generation of Intelligence
We stand at the edge of a profound shift in artificial intelligence. Over the last five years, generative AI has moved from novelty to necessity—transforming how we create, code, and collaborate. Now, a new frontier is emerging: AI agents. Unlike traditional tools that wait for instructions, agents can perceive, decide, and act toward goals—expanding the boundaries of what humans and machines can achieve together.
In this keynote, we’ll explore the evolution from copilots to fully agentic systems, highlight breakthroughs that are reshaping industries, and imagine the future horizons where autonomous agents redefine productivity, creativity, and discovery. Most importantly, we’ll discuss the role of humans in this new era—not as bystanders, but as leaders guiding how agents operate, align with our values, and amplify our potential.
The Agents of Tomorrow are here—and the future will be built by those bold enough to partner with them.
Building productivity apps with Microsoft Graph and Teams Toolkit
Every day millions of people spend their precious time in productivity tools. Do you know that you can tap into beloved Microsoft applications (Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and many other Office apps) and customize them for your business?
In this session you will learn how to build a custom app for Microsoft Teams by using Microsoft Graph and Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code to boost your productivity.
Build productivity apps with the power of ASP.NET Core and Teams Toolkit!
Let’s code! Every day millions of people spend their precious time in productivity tools. Do you know that you can tap into beloved Microsoft applications (Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and many other Office apps) and customize them for your business? In this session, you will discover how to build apps for Microsoft Teams to boost your productivity by using ASP.NET, Microsoft Graph and Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio.
Tap into the world’s productivity and build an app powered by Microsoft Cloud
Every day millions of people spend their precious time in productivity tools. Do you know that you can tap into beloved Microsoft applications (Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and many other Office apps) and customize them for your business? In this session you will learn how to build a collaborative app with Teams and Microsoft Graph and show how these apps supercharge productivity.
Tap into the world’s productivity and build an app powered by Microsoft Cloud
Let’s code! Every day millions of people spend their precious time in productivity tools. Do you know that you can tap into beloved Microsoft applications (Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and many other Office apps) and customize them for your business? In this session we will build a collaborative app with Teams and Microsoft Graph and show how these apps supercharge productivity.
Tap into the world’s productivity and build an app powered by Microsoft Cloud
Let’s code! Every day millions of people spend their precious time in productivity tools. Do you know that you can tap into beloved Microsoft applications (Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and many other Office apps) and customize them for your business? In this workshop we will build a collaborative app with Teams and Microsoft Graph and show how these apps supercharge productivity.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to enrich your apps by using Microsoft Graph to access hundreds of productivity and collaboration datasets across Microsoft 365?
- Building Microsoft Teams apps to increase productivity by using Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
- Designing your app by using Microsoft Graph Toolkit React components to enable agenda, to-do tasks and files data in your Microsoft Teams app
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