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#001 Cristiano Almeida GonΓ§alves
Code-First Agent Delivery
Build, deploy, and integrate a production agent into Teams in a single working session. VS Code β†’ Azure β†’ Copilot Chat.
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VS Code Azure Teams
#002 Raghav BN
Scoped Multi-Source Search
Stop searching everything. Analyze the input first, then target specific sources. The fix for "Copilot found the wrong stuff."
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RAG Query Routing ADO + Graph
#003 Raghav BN
Prompt-Chained Triage
Extract β†’ Classify β†’ Recommend. One prompt chain with YAML playbooks that replaces a manual triage board.
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Prompt Chaining YAML Playbooks
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#004 Raghav BN
Secure In-Boundary Processing
"Our data can't leave our tenant." MCP connectors + in-memory aggregation + tenant-scoped AI. The architecture for regulated industries.
#005 Pete Puustinen
Human-in-the-Loop Approval Gates
When the agent needs a human to say "yes" before it acts. Approval flows that don't break the conversation.
#006 Pete Puustinen
Meeting-to-Knowledge Pipeline
Turn meeting recordings into structured, searchable knowledge that agents can reason over.