This Is Our Agent, We Make the Call
NewAgents! Finally, a term that might be even more over-hyped than AI! But what exactly are Agents, and more importantly, how do you use them? Where do Agents fit within the overall AI toolkit? What capabilities do they add, and what tasks can they help us perform? Dona and Jeremiah will help you gain a solid understanding of Agents and the fundamental components of an Agent-based AI system. You’ll learn key design principles for Agents, as well as when to leverage them and scenarios where they may not be the best choice. We'll cover how to identify business problems that are well-suited for Agents, walk through the step-by-step process of using out-of-the-box Agents, and spend time building your own Agent to address a specific business problem.
Dona Sakar believes you are one experiment away from being your most powerful self at work. And yes, in life! Currently, at her day job, she's running 100 experiments as the Chief Troublemaker of the Microsoft AI and Copilot Extensibility Program. Her goal is that people all over the world can use Microsoft's AI and Copilot programs to reason over their OWN data and truly make AI useful for their business. Dona's also a keynote speaker (fave audience is corporate leaders like YOU), a multi-published author (it turns out fiction writing is useful in software!), the owner of the ethical luxury fashion brand called Prima Dona Studios, and has recently become a wine bar co-owner and is studying to be a sommelier. A few years ago, she was named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Productive People and Cosmopolitan magazine's Businessperson of the Year for her multi-faceted (aka weird) life. And yes, she is always ready to get on a plane and come see YOU.
Jeremiah Marble is a product leader, founder, author and speaker. He focuses on building high-quality, customer-centric products in the AI era. His career includes leadership roles at Mozilla and Microsoft, where he helped grow the Windows Insider Program from a whiteboard to 22+ million people worldwide. An advocate for tech for good and social entrepreneurship, Jeremiah launched “Do The Thing Academy” and co-wrote Model 47: A Startup Storybook to help non-traditional founders turn napkin ideas into responsible businesses. He co-founded ethical fashion line Prima Dona Studios, empowering single mother tailors worldwide - including in Senegal, Mexico, and with Afghan refugees in Seattle. Previously, Jeremiah worked for the UN in Africa and Asia, was a Fulbright Scholar to Costa Rica, and volunteered in the Dominican Republic with the Peace Corps. He earned an MBA from Wharton, MA in International Studies from U Penn, and CS undergrad from Columbia.