Ed Charbeneau
Ed is a Microsoft MVP and an international speaker, writer, online influencer, a Developer Advocate for Progress.
Shelbyville, Kentucky, United States
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Ed is a Microsoft MVP and an international speaker, writer, online influencer, a Developer Advocate for Progress, and expert on all things web development. Ed enjoys geeking out to cool new tech, brainstorming about future technology, and admiring great design.
Ed has shared his insights, experiences, and advice around collaboration, knowledge management, social computing, and training at many industry events around the United States. Highly ethical and engaging with an uncanny business acumen, he is a creative community builder and outside the box thinker. Long term business relationships throughout the world within internal communications, employee engagement and marketing as well as IT. Focusing on Financial, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Agency and Professional Services. He has defined, architected, implemented line of business solutions with a touch of style and UX best practices.
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Unlocking AI in .NET: Microsoft Extensions AI (MEAI) and Vector Extensions
Generative AI and multi-modal large language models are now integral to C#. In this session, we'll explore how Microsoft Extensions AI (MEAI) and Vector Extensions empower you to create AI-driven experiences across any .NET stack. You'll discover how to seamlessly integrate chat, automate workflows with AI agents, and leverage vector search, all using native C#.
The Most Overengineered Pocketwatch Ever Made
This session is a retrospective on the engineering behind a pocketwatch that runs a real time voice agent. Built end to end in a single week with Claude Code, from product idea to working reality complete with its own product page, this project showcases an entirely agentic workflow for rapid prototyping and iterative development.
We will explore the ESP32 S3 audio pipeline, including capture, echo cancellation, a unified STT LLM TTS agent, and the barge in system that lets users interrupt mid sentence. You will see how the device’s own settings such as display mode, brightness, volume, color themes, and even its name can be changed through natural speech.
With a fully animated AMOLED UI and synchronized playback, this project demonstrates how conversational interfaces can feel personal and immediate on microcontroller class hardware. Attendees will leave with practical patterns for building voice agents that can manipulate their own environment.
The Bleeded Edge of .NET AI
The dotnet AI ecosystem is rapidly changing. In this session we'll dive into the latest AI libraries, previews and experiments for .NET including: Microsoft Agent Framework, Extensions AI, DevUI, and AG-UI. If you've ever wondered how artificial intelligence fits into the .NET world and the roadmap ahead, then this session is the ideal starting point.
Designing for AI First: Natural Language UX with Blazor
Natural Language is the new default user experience. In this session, we’ll explore what it means to design for an AI First UX—where AI isn’t an add-on, but a central part of the experience. You’ll see how to build intelligent, natural-language-driven interfaces using Blazor, and discover the tools and services that can bring your next AI-powered application to life.
Cosmic Full-Stack a Blazor, ML.NET, and CosmosDB Mashup
Are you ready to count down to liftoff? In this session, we test the limits of the .NET stack in an incredible mission to build BlazePort, a futuristic ride share app for space travel. We'll use a mashup of the latest in .NET technologies: leveraging CosmosDB for data persistence, model travel prices with ML.NET (via an Azure Function), and go full-stack with ASP.NET Core and Blazor for an end-to-end C# development experience. Strap yourself in for fast paced demos and hot bits on this journey through the .NET ecosystem.
Building a Production Voice Agent End-to-End
Voice is fast becoming a primary interface for AI, but most voice demos fall apart the moment real users show up: latency creeps in, people talk over the agent, accents and background noise break the transcript. This session walks through building a voice agent end-to-end, from speech-to-text to response to speech, with the architecture and trade-offs that actually hold up at enterprise scale.
Build Your First Real-Time Voice Agent
Real‑time voice agents sound simple in demos but fall apart the moment real users show up. Latency creeps in, people talk over the agent, accents and background noise wreck the transcript, and the whole experience slides straight into the uncanny valley.
This hands‑on session walks through building a production‑ready voice agent end to end using Python, low‑latency speech‑to‑text, responsive LLM orchestration, and fast speech synthesis. You’ll learn how to handle barge‑in interruptions, reliably detect end‑of‑turn boundaries, and add empythetic emotional responsiveness that makes the agent feel natural without slowing it down.
Beyond the Screen with Natural Language Interfaces (NUI)
The introduction of large language models, real-time voice agents, and generative UI has changed how we interact with computers. In this session we unpack what the next generation of UI/UX will bring and how to prepare your applications for NUIs. You'll walk away with a better understanding of how function calls, vector data, and voice work together interactively.
Practical AI Applications for Better a UX
Let's go beyond the basic AI chat demo and put AI to practical use. In this session you'll learn how Multi-modal Language Models or MLLMs are used to improve the user experience of applications. We'll see how Natural language processing is used to manipulate existing user interfaces to simplify user tasks by making apps more intuitive.
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Ed Charbeneau
Ed is a Microsoft MVP and an international speaker, writer, online influencer, a Developer Advocate for Progress.
Shelbyville, Kentucky, United States
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