Global AI Bootcamp 2025

Agenda: 14.00 - 14.10 Welcome

14.10 - 14.30 Keynote Thriving in Tech During the AI Revolution – Career Growth & Personal Branding Femke Cornelissen, Technical Evangelist at Wortell & Microsoft MVP

14.35 - 15.05 (AI Track) Semantic All-The-Things: Why Embedding Models Might Be More Important Than Language Models Christian Weyer, Microsoft MVP & RD, CTO @ Thinktecture AG

(Azure Track) Deploying a Chatbot via Azure AI and Slack Nicholas Chang, Microsoft Azure MVP & Senior Platform Engineer@ Kainos

(Copilots Track) Copilot YES but which one, when Michael Plettner, Microsoft MVP & CEO in2success

(Microsoft 365 Track) Responsible AI at Microsoft and the AI Act Raphael Koellner, Microsoft RD, MVP Office Apps and Services

15.10 - 15.40 (AI Track) How to enhance your own AI services using Semantic Kernel Håkan Silfvernagel, AI Evangelist, Microsoft AI MVP

(Azure Track) Unlock the Power of AI: From Play to Productivity Ralf Richter, Director Consulting Expert @CGI, Azure & AI MVP

(Copilots Track) How to master Copilot for Microsoft 365 Giuliano De Luca, Solutions Architect @ BMW & Microsoft MVP Federico Porceddu, M365 MVP & Modern Workplace Solution Architect

(Microsoft 365 Track) Data Security Posture Management for AI Uros Babic, Security Architect @ Crayon, Microsoft Security MVP, MCT

15.45 - 15.15 (AI Track) Attacking LLM Detectors with Homoglyph-Based Attacks Aldan Creo, Technology Research Specialist @ Accenture Labs

(Azure Track) Building a ChatOps Workflow with GPT Models and Azure DevOps Estelle Auberix, CEO @IOKELA, Co-founder @Cloudhersity, Microsoft RD, MCT

(Copilots Track) Unlocking the Power of Copilot Agents: Creation, Features, and Licensing Tanja Wiehoff, M365 Solution Consultant, Copilot Prompster

(Microsoft 365 Track) Data chaos reloaded: How a lack of data governance is slowing down Copilot Fabio Bonolo, Microsoft MVP, Teamleader Productivity M365 & Power Platform @ redIT

16.20 - 16.50 (AI Track) AI Agents in Action Dr. Alexander Wachtel, Microsoft AI MVP, MCT & CEO @ ESC Deutschland

(Azure Track) Securing Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Services: Best Practices for the field Tiago Costa, Cloud Architect and Advisor, MCT

(Copilots Track) Extend Teams using Microsoft Copilot Studio Marcin Siewnicki, Microsoft 365 Consultant and Architect

(Microsoft 365 Track) Empower Microsoft Fabric solutions using Generative AI on top of data in Fabric Mihail Mateev, Senior Solution Architect @ EPAM Systems

16.55 - 17.25 (AI Track) Agents, Semantic Kernel & Azure AI Foundry Jose Luis Latorre Millas, Microsoft AI MVP, Software Developer @ Swiss Life

(Azure Track) Vision to Visualisation: Using GitHub Copilot for Azure and Diagrams Marcel Lupo, Microsoft MVP DevOps + Azure, Cloud Solutions & DevOps Architect

(Copilots Track) High-end agents with Copilot Studio and Azure OpenAI Sabrina Göttlinger, Team Lead AI Solutions @Skaylink & Microsoft MVP

(Microsoft 365 Track) Discover Planner Copilot and Planner Premium Daniel Rohregger, Cloud Architect @ Glueckkanja AG

17.30 - 18.00 Endnote Patrick Chanezon, VP Developer Relations @ Microsoft