Leveraging Microsoft Founders Hub for Startups

Join Paul Swider, Founder and CEO of RealActivity, for an insightful session on leveraging Microsoft Startups and the Founders Hub to elevate your startup. Currently, at level 4 of Founders Hub, RealActivity has achieved significant success with their product, the Physician Experience Copilot. Paul will share practical lessons and strategies for maximizing the benefits of Founders Hub resources, including Azure credits, Microsoft 365, GitHub Enterprise, and expert mentorship. Learn how these tools can drive growth, ensure compliance, and enhance your startup's journey in the .NET ecosystem. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights from an experienced founder and industry leader.

Architecting and Developing Plugins for Large Language Models, A Practical Guide

This session will delve into the architecture and development of plugins for Large Language Models (LLMs). We'll explore the key considerations in designing and implementing plugins, with a focus on enhancing the functionality and performance of LLMs. We'll provide practical demonstrations, share experiences from real-world implementations, and discuss the challenges encountered. This session is designed for developers seeking to expand their skills and understanding in developing plugins for LLMs.

Vector Databases, Embeddings, and Semantic Search - The Future of Information Retrieval

This session will explore the role of vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search in modern AI applications. We'll demonstrate how these technologies can be used to create more powerful, intuitive search experiences. We'll also share lessons learned from real-world implementations, focusing on challenges and solutions. This session is ideal for developers interested in the cutting-edge of information retrieval and storing state of LLM applications.

Unleashing the Power of Rust: A Beginner's Guide to Crafting High-Performance Code

If you're new to programming or just looking to expand your skills, Rust is a fantastic language to start with. In this session, we'll cover the basics of Rust programming, including its syntax and essential features. We'll also discuss why Rust is such a unique language, thanks to its memory safety and performance optimizations. By the end of this session, you'll have a solid foundation in Rust and be ready to take your first steps in creating your own API or systems-level programming. So, let's dive in and discover the exciting world of Rust programming together!

Unlocking Insights: How Data Science is Transforming Healthcare

Get ready to be blown away by the latest advancements in healthcare and data! Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365 cloud for industry are revolutionizing the healthcare and health life science industry by unlocking powerful insights through data science and engineering. Join us as we dive deep into the Common Data Model, layered industry-specific schemas, mission-critical business app architecture, and multi-cloud data engineering used in Azure Health Data Services and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. You won't want to miss this opportunity and discover how these mission-critical data engineering technologies can transform any organization!

AI & ML 101 - Making AI Real

There is often a clash when AI meets reality. Unfortunately, many people think AI is “bots taking over the world” when it should be really a collaboration of People + AI.

So, how can AI be made real so that there are tangible outcomes for users, customers, and innovators? And, how can AI and humans coexist in the ever-increasing digital world?

In this session we'll dive into:
Crafting an AI strategy
Applying AI to existing workstreams
Scaling AI to meet future business demands

Power Platform and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare

Power Platform, Azure, and Microsoft 365 can be deployed to improve both patient care and the healthcare provider experience. In this session learn how industry cloud features and the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, can empower health organizations to deliver world-class physician services and patient care.

Optimizing Cloud for Clinical Use Cases

Cloud technology can empower organizations seeking to both modernize healthcare technology and increase access to clinical care. This session teaches how health, government, or supporting organizations can optimize cloud technology to streamline clinical care.

Industry Cloud: Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare runs on Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Learn how Cloud for Healthcare can assist in optimizing clinical care, patient access, the physician experience, and more. Explore how industry cloud and SaaS services can optimize healthcare organizations.

Microsoft 365 and Healthcare

Learn how to empower care teams to deliver the best possible care. Explore how to optimize patient outcomes by simplifying collaboration across care teams, enhancing quality of care through virtual visits, and reducing costs by streamlining fragmented workflows.

Indefinite Optimism: Microsoft 365, Business Apps and Azure in Healthcare

Microsoft 365, the Power platform and Azure are designed to meet local and federal compliance regulations, improve patient care, and streamline operations while also enabling health organizations to quickly build flexible solutions. In this session learn how these platforms and services are being used today to empower health organizations of all sizes.

GraphQL and FHIR APIs

GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. Graphir is a lightweight proxy that reshapes GraphQL queries and mutations into standard FHIR REST requests. In this session, we'll use two open-sourced projects from the Microsoft HLS engineering team to learn how to provide a GraphQL interface over a FHIR API to accelerate client app development.

Azure and FHIR

Did you know Microsoft has an open-source FHIR implementation available in Github? In addition, there is the Azure FHIR Service (SaaS) and Aure Health Data Services (PaaS). In this session, learn about the different versions and how pick the best one for your project or organization.

Rust for Mission-Critical AI: A Journey into Healthcare's Safest and Most Performant Language

Discover the powerful potential of Rust in mission-critical AI applications in this comprehensive 45-minute session tailored for newcomers. Starting with a gentle introduction to Rust, we'll guide you through its key features and benefits, highlighting how Rust can help you create more reliable and efficient IoT, data engineering, and API systems. Delve into the technical aspects that make Rust stand out, such as its memory safety guarantees, fearless concurrency, and strong static typing. Finally, we'll compare and contrast Rust with C# to reveal Rust's unique advantages to mission-critical AI projects. By the end of the session, you'll have a deeper understanding of how Rust can revolutionize your AI systems and help you build a robust and resilient infrastructure for the future.

Journey into Generative AI, Building Your Own AI Copilot

Step into the world of Generative AI with our beginner-friendly session. We'll share how we built our AI Copilot for financial and HR tasks, showcasing the fundamentals of choosing and implementing OpenAI's GPT-4 on Microsoft Azure. From model selection to application development using semantic-kernel, Visual Studio, and VS Code, our journey will provide invaluable insights for GAI developers and newcomers. Join us and turn your curiosity into action as we explore the fascinating real world of the AI copilot project!

We are deploying a private version of ChatGPT for a local hospital. We can demo the process and discuss decisions. We can demo our real development environment.

Semantic Kernel and Agentic Algorithms for .NET Developers

Join Paul Swider for an advanced session on mastering the Semantic Kernel and agentic algorithms in. NET. Dive deep into the Semantic Kernel's architecture, including the Azure.AI.Agents namespace and uncover how to integrate large language models with mission-critical .NET applications.

Learn to create, deploy, and manage powerful native plugins using c#. Additionally, delve into advanced topics such as agentic solutions, intelligent planning, and prompt engineering.

This session is tailored for developers who aim to elevate their .NET skills with advanced AI capabilities. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your development skills and enhance your expertise.

This session will be a deep dive into the Semantic Kernel SDK. I will focus on the .NET demos. I'll show how the semantic kernel can be used to add conversational capabilities to existing apps, and new apps. Thank you for all that you do!

From Code to Intelligence – Building NextGen AI Agents

You've built functions and optimized workflows—but are your AI agents actually intelligent? Building on my Code Camp 34 session last year, "Introduction to Semantic Kernel," we now explore semantic-aware functions and advanced agent orchestration.

In this session, you'll learn how to:
• Understand Agentic AI – Break down the architecture behind intelligent, adaptive AI agents.
• Orchestrate AI with Semantic-Aware Functions – Use dynamic, context-driven functions to optimize agent orchestration and workflows.
• Manage Semantic App State – Enable AI systems to retain memory, adapt to interactions, and evolve in real-time.
• Apply Microsoft Research Insights – Leverage breakthroughs from AutoGen and Magentic-One to build enterprise-grade AI agents.

Whether you're looking to enhance your current AI applications or build something entirely new, this developer-focused session provides a roadmap to innovate confidently.

Last year's session was great. It was also one of the first live public sessions on the semantic kernel. This year I built on the success.

This session demos cutting-edge Microsoft Research projects, including AutoGen v0.4, Semantic Kernel, and Magentic-One.

Beyond Intelligence—Securing & Scaling Agentic AI (Tokyo Edition)

You’ve built functions and streamlined workflows, but are your AI agents both smart and safe? This developer-focused session dives into semantic-aware functions, advanced agent orchestration, and the security patterns that keep them trustworthy in production.

What You’ll Learn
Decoding Agentic AI – Break down the architecture behind intelligent, adaptive agents and where security controls must reside.

Semantic-Aware Orchestration – Use context-driven functions to optimize workflows while enforcing zero-trust guardrails and policy-as-code.

Managing Semantic App State: Retain memory, adapt in real time, and protect sensitive context from leakage or abuse.

Threat-Model & Defend – Identify common jailbreak vectors, implement prompt shielding, and integrate Azure Confidential Computing & Defender for Cloud into your agent stack.

Whether enhancing existing apps or launching new solutions, you’ll leave with a battle-tested roadmap to innovate confidently and securely.

Building Secure Next-Gen Products with Microsoft AI Developer Services (Tokyo Edition)

Konnichiwa, AI product leaders and solution architects! Join Paul Swider in Tokyo for a deep dive into the secure future of AI product development. This advanced session weaves Microsoft’s newest AI-development stack—Azure AI Studio, Semantic Kernel, and the Healthcare/Enterprise Agent Services.

Key Takeaways:
Secure Agentic Programming: With Azure Confidential Computing + Defender for Cloud, Harden prompts/agents against jailbreaks, data leaks, and supply-chain tampering.

-MCP-Based Authorization at Scale — Orchestrate multi-agent workflows using Model Context Protocol’s fine-grained authorization and policy-as-code (OPA, Azure Policy) for true zero-trust.

-Compliance-Ready Conversations — Build privacy-filtered bots that satisfy APPI and upcoming METI AI guidelines.

Location & Format
Live in Tokyo • Bilingual slides & Q&A • Hands-on code snippets and threat-model templates provided.

Stay ahead. Stay secure. See you in Tokyo!

Radical AI Governance: From JP-Core FHIR to Firewall (Tokyo Edition)

Japan’s health sector is sprinting toward AI-driven care, but every FHIR JP-Core resource you ingest widens the attack surface. In this demo-rich talk, Paul Swider maps a zero-trust reference architecture that merges Azure Health Data Services, Semantic Kernel agents, Confidential Computing, and Responsible AI guardrails.

You’ll learn to threat-model clinical data pipelines, embed bias and lineage checks, and align controls with APPI, HIPAA, and METI’s forthcoming AI guidelines—transforming compliance into a competitive moat while unlocking hyper-personalized patient experiences.