Cedric Vidal
Microsoft
Ready to get started with AI and the latest technologies? Microsoft Reactor provides events, training, and community resources to help developers, entrepreneurs and startups build on AI technology and more. Join us!
Ready to get started with AI and the latest technologies? Microsoft Reactor provides events, training, and community resources to help developers, entrepreneurs and startups build on AI technology and more. Join us!
Topic: Core AI, Using AI Products
Language: English
Hosted live from the GitHub HQ by Gabriela de Queiroz and Cedric Vidal, each month we will welcome thought leaders and AI innovators to share their work.
Speakers
All times in - Coordinated Universal Time
Mar
13
Thursday
2025
AI Show + Tell with Leo Chen, Engineered Arts
1:00 AM - 3:30 AM (UTC)
Join the SF Reactor for our first installment of our new monthly series, AI Show + Tell featuring Engineered Arts' Leo Chen! Keynote title: Humanoid Robots in the real world Session Abstract: A discussion on the impact of AI and humanoid robotics in the real world and examples of real world applications. Agenda 6:00 PM PT: Doors open for food, drinks and networking with your AI community! 6:30: Welcome to AI Show and Tell! 6:35 - 7:05 PM PT: Keynote: "Humanoid Robots in the real world" (Leo Chen, Engineered Arts) 7:05 - 7:25 PM PT: Azure AI tools for building interactive AI apps and appliances (Cedric Vidal, Microsoft) 7:25 - 7:45 PM PT: Q&A with Leo Chen moderated by Cedric Vidal 7:45 - 8:30 PM PT: Continue networking with your AI community
Topic: Core AI
Apr
02
Wednesday
2025
Global AI Bootcamp: SF AI Show + Tell & AI Agent Dev Tools
1:00 AM - 3:30 AM (UTC)
The Global AI Bootcamp is a series of free events organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure. The SF event will feature talks from Bobur Umurzokov (Neon), Gabriela de Quieroz (Microsoft), and others! The Global AI Bootcamp is an annual event that occurs worldwide, where developers and AI enthusiasts can learn about AI through workshops, sessions, and discussions. An evening of learning about AI Learn how to implement AI solutions using pre-trained AI services like Cognitive Services and Bot Framework, or by building your own machine learning models with Azure ML and open-source frameworks like PyTorch and ML.NET. By the end of the event, you will be able to infuse AI into your applications. 👉 More details, surprises, and announcements in the coming days. The experience will be truly amazing! 💃🕺 Agenda | Time | Session | Speaker | Session Abstract | Session Details | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | | 5:30pm | Doors Open | - | | | | 6pm – 6:10pm | Welcome and introduction | Gabriela de Queiroz | | | | 6:10pm – 6:25pm | The next gen AI agents development: Tools, trends and challenges | Prakhar Agarwal | | 10 min lightning talk + 5 min Q&A | | 6:25pm – 6:40pm | Building Reliable Browser Agents | Paul Klein | OpenAI Operator inspired millions of people to start thinking about how they can automate the web. But would you trust an LLM to non-deterministically complete your task that needs to be done perfectly every time? In this talk, we'll cover some useful strategies to get more deterministic and reliable outcomes from agents as well as some of the infrastructural challenges of getting them working in production. | 10 min lightning talk + 5 min Q&A | | 6:40pm – 6:55pm | Using Isomorphic Agentic System to Measure Agentic Experiences on the Web | Erik Thorelli | An entirely new class of users is visiting, navigating, and taking actions to satisfy their intents on your site. LLM agents are in production. They are scaling and receiving more decision-making autonomy everyday. Now, imagine if buying a similar product is easier for them on your competitor's site than yours. Overnight, the buying behavior for customers could change. How can you ensure your web app has good Agentic Experience ("AX")? In this talk and live demo, we'll show how we're using an "isomorphic" system of agents to produce dynamic AX scores while giving actionable advice, like code or copy changes. | 10 min lightning talk + 5 min Q&A | | 6:55pm – 7:10pm | Beyond Q&A: Build Event-Driven AI Agents with Streaming Databases | Yingjun Wu | LLM-driven agents are often limited to simple question-answering tasks. Imagine agents that can continuously learn, respond to complex events, and seamlessly integrate with real-time data streams. | 10 min lightning talk + 5 min Q&A | | 7:10pm – 7:25pm | Postgres for AI Agents: Speed, Cost, and Safety | Bobur Umurzokov | AI agents are now managing data and even creating databases, but this comes with challenges—slow deployments, unpredictable AI-generated data, and high costs. In this talk, we’ll explore practical solutions to these challenges with Neon Serverless Postgres. | 10 min lightning talk + 5 min Q&A | | 7:30 pm – 8:30pm | Networking | - | | |
Topic: Using AI Products
May
09
Friday
2025
SF AI Show + Tell [May]
1:00 AM - 3:30 AM (UTC)
Join us on May 8 for our AI Show & Tell monthly event at the GitHub HQ. We'll have several fantastic talks, snacks & drinks, in a beautiful venue. Can't wait to see you there! Speakers include Sofiia Shvets (CEO and Co-Founder, Claid.AI), Sam Partee (CTO and Co-Founder, Arcade AI), and Sri Laasya Nutheti (Agent Developer, AgentOps). Session titles coming soon! Agenda 6pm: Doors Open (Food and Beverages served) 6:30-6:40 pm: Welcome and Introduction 6:40-8pm: Talks by AI startup founders and industry leaders 8:00-8:30pm: Networking 🎟 Limited spots available – secure your seat now! AI Show & Tell is a monthly series designed to bring together enthusiasts, professionals, and experts in the field of AI. Each event features engaging presentations, interactive demos, and networking opportunities, providing a place for attendees to learn about the latest advancements in AI technology and connect with like-minded individuals.
Topic: Core AI
Jun
12
Thursday
2025
SF AI Show + Tell June
1:00 AM - 3:30 AM (UTC)
Join us on June 11 for our AI Show & Tell monthly event at the GitHub HQ. We'll have several fantastic talks, snacks & drinks, in a beautiful venue. Can't wait to see you there! More details to come soon! Agenda 5:30pm: Doors Open (Food and Beverages served) 6:00-6:10 pm: Welcome and Introduction 6:10-8pm: Talks * 8:00-8:30pm: Networking 🎟 Limited spots available – secure your seat now! AI Show & Tell is a monthly series designed to bring together enthusiasts, professionals, and experts in the field of AI. Each event features engaging presentations, interactive demos, and networking opportunities, providing a place for attendees to learn about the latest advancements in AI technology and connect with like-minded individuals.
Topic: Core AI
Jul
02
Wednesday
2025
SF AI Show + Tell July
1:00 AM - 3:30 AM (UTC)
Join us on July 1 for our AI Show & Tell monthly event at the GitHub HQ. We'll have several fantastic talks, snacks & drinks, in a beautiful venue. Can't wait to see you there! Agenda 6 PM: Doors open 6 - 6:30 PM: Networking, light bites and refreshments 6:30 - 7:45 PM: Program 5 min: Intro - Pamela Fox, Principal Cloud Advocate @ Microsoft 15 min: Talk - Philip Kiely on Inference and training 15 min: Talk - Michael N Magán on building AI powered apps 15 min: Talk - SallyAnn DeLucia, Arize on evaluation 25 min: Panel + Q&A moderated by Pamela Fox 7:45 - 8:30 PM: Networking part II 8:30 PM: Event concludes 🎟 Limited spots available – secure your seat now! AI Show & Tell is a monthly series designed to bring together enthusiasts, professionals, and experts in the field of AI. Each event features engaging presentations, interactive demos, and networking opportunities, providing a place for attendees to learn about the latest advancements in AI technology and connect with like-minded individuals. ### Talks Philip Kiely @ Baseten - Five things to know about AI infrastructure as you scale In 2025, AI-native startups are scaling to 8 figures of annual revenue in months. How do you build infrastructure that keeps up with this explosive growth? This talk provides five sometimes-surprising solutions selected from the hardest challenges we’ve faced while working on scaling fast-growing AI startups. Michael N Magan @ Tambo.co - Generative UI in Practice: From Intent to Interface Generative UI lets AI assistants surface real UI such as charts, forms, and complete workflows exactly when users need them. This talk shows how it works by treating components as tools: mapping user intent to the right component, binding data, and rendering on the fly. A demo of how we use it internally. I'll close with the main opportunities, and the chief challenges. Attendees leave knowing what generative UI is, why it matters, and how to ship it. SallyAnn DeLucia @ Arize - Evaluating Agents in the Wild with Arize This talk will demo how Arize supports agent evaluation with a focus on strategy and visibility. I’ll walk through our new Agent View, which aggregates traces, tool use, and reasoning steps into a structured, searchable format—making it easier to debug failures, track performance, and iterate on agent design.
Topic: Using AI Products
Aug
13
Wednesday
2025
SF AI Show + Tell [August]
1:00 AM - 3:30 AM (UTC)
Registrations for this event are now closed to new attendees. If you have registered already, your registration is still confirmed -- see you at GitHub HQ in SF! Note: AI Show and Tell is now a Global AI Community event. For information about this and future AI Show and Tell events, visit https://globalai.community/chapters/san-francisco/ Join us on Aug 12th for our AI Show & Tell monthly event at the GitHub HQ. We'll have several fantastic talks, snacks & drinks, in a beautiful venue. Can't wait to see you there! This event is part of Global AI Community https://globalai.community/chapters/san-francisco/ Agenda 6 PM: Doors open 6 - 6:30 PM: Networking, light bites and refreshments 6:30 - 7:45 PM: Program 5 min: Intro 15 min: Talk - Sam Alba, Founder @ Dagger 15 min: Talk - Graham McBain, DevRel @ SourceGraph 15 min: Talk - Vaibhav Gupta, Founder and CEO @ Boundary, a Y Combinator startup 25 min: Panel + Q&A 7:45 - 8:30 PM: Networking part II 8:30 PM: Event concludes 🎟 Space is limited and entry is strictly first come, first served—arriving early gives you the best chance of getting in. There will be no entry once event reaches capacity. Thank you for understanding. AI Show & Tell is a monthly series designed to bring together enthusiasts, professionals, and experts in the field of AI. Each event features engaging presentations, interactive demos, and networking opportunities, providing a place for attendees to learn about the latest advancements in AI technology and connect with like-minded individuals. Talks Sam Alba, Founder @ Dagger Title: Coding Agents, Meet Containers - Run Experiments Without Wrecking Your Dev Env Abstract: One issue with coding agents is they require constant supervision and can only work on one task at a time. Container-use is an opensource MCP server that gives coding agents their own containerized sandbox environment. It allows developers to run several code experiments in parallel without altering the local dev environment. Developers then have the ability to inspect and merge changes as needed. It's built Dagger for containerized workflows and Git worktrees for branching. Graham McBain, DevRel @ SourceGraph Title: Everything is changing Abstract: Everything is changing. From how developers build to how we market to developers. In This talk I'll walk through some of the projects I'm currently building for fun and to challenge myself. Vaibhav Gupta, Founder and CEO @ Boundary, a Y Combinator startup Title: BAML - a new programming language for building agents Abstract: The world had javascript, and then we invented typescript - and life was better. Today, we all write prompts as strings, but a lot of the tooling plain sucks. There's no type-safety, some tools require you to sign up, and the iteration speed is minutes for a single prompt. We made BAML because we wanted to take an engineering perspective on how programming with LLMs could be if you started from scratch. You write your AI part in BAML and write the rest of your software in any language of you love, (python, typescript, go, etc). BAML is completely open source, internet free, and some how we created a way to do tool calling better on any base models (without any fine-tuning).
Topic: Using AI Products
All times in - Coordinated Universal Time
Mar
13
Thursday
2025
AI Show + Tell with Leo Chen, Engineered Arts
1:00 AM - 3:30 AM (UTC)
Join the SF Reactor for our first installment of our new monthly series, AI Show + Tell featuring Engineered Arts' Leo Chen! Keynote title: Humanoid Robots in the real world Session Abstract: A discussion on the impact of AI and humanoid robotics in the real world and examples of real world applications. Agenda 6:00 PM PT: Doors open for food, drinks and networking with your AI community! 6:30: Welcome to AI Show and Tell! 6:35 - 7:05 PM PT: Keynote: "Humanoid Robots in the real world" (Leo Chen, Engineered Arts) 7:05 - 7:25 PM PT: Azure AI tools for building interactive AI apps and appliances (Cedric Vidal, Microsoft) 7:25 - 7:45 PM PT: Q&A with Leo Chen moderated by Cedric Vidal 7:45 - 8:30 PM PT: Continue networking with your AI community
Topic: Core AI
Apr
02
Wednesday
2025
Global AI Bootcamp: SF AI Show + Tell & AI Agent Dev Tools
1:00 AM - 3:30 AM (UTC)
The Global AI Bootcamp is a series of free events organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure. The SF event will feature talks from Bobur Umurzokov (Neon), Gabriela de Quieroz (Microsoft), and others! The Global AI Bootcamp is an annual event that occurs worldwide, where developers and AI enthusiasts can learn about AI through workshops, sessions, and discussions. An evening of learning about AI Learn how to implement AI solutions using pre-trained AI services like Cognitive Services and Bot Framework, or by building your own machine learning models with Azure ML and open-source frameworks like PyTorch and ML.NET. By the end of the event, you will be able to infuse AI into your applications. 👉 More details, surprises, and announcements in the coming days. The experience will be truly amazing! 💃🕺 Agenda | Time | Session | Speaker | Session Abstract | Session Details | | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | | 5:30pm | Doors Open | - | | | | 6pm – 6:10pm | Welcome and introduction | Gabriela de Queiroz | | | | 6:10pm – 6:25pm | The next gen AI agents development: Tools, trends and challenges | Prakhar Agarwal | | 10 min lightning talk + 5 min Q&A | | 6:25pm – 6:40pm | Building Reliable Browser Agents | Paul Klein | OpenAI Operator inspired millions of people to start thinking about how they can automate the web. But would you trust an LLM to non-deterministically complete your task that needs to be done perfectly every time? In this talk, we'll cover some useful strategies to get more deterministic and reliable outcomes from agents as well as some of the infrastructural challenges of getting them working in production. | 10 min lightning talk + 5 min Q&A | | 6:40pm – 6:55pm | Using Isomorphic Agentic System to Measure Agentic Experiences on the Web | Erik Thorelli | An entirely new class of users is visiting, navigating, and taking actions to satisfy their intents on your site. LLM agents are in production. They are scaling and receiving more decision-making autonomy everyday. Now, imagine if buying a similar product is easier for them on your competitor's site than yours. Overnight, the buying behavior for customers could change. How can you ensure your web app has good Agentic Experience ("AX")? In this talk and live demo, we'll show how we're using an "isomorphic" system of agents to produce dynamic AX scores while giving actionable advice, like code or copy changes. | 10 min lightning talk + 5 min Q&A | | 6:55pm – 7:10pm | Beyond Q&A: Build Event-Driven AI Agents with Streaming Databases | Yingjun Wu | LLM-driven agents are often limited to simple question-answering tasks. Imagine agents that can continuously learn, respond to complex events, and seamlessly integrate with real-time data streams. | 10 min lightning talk + 5 min Q&A | | 7:10pm – 7:25pm | Postgres for AI Agents: Speed, Cost, and Safety | Bobur Umurzokov | AI agents are now managing data and even creating databases, but this comes with challenges—slow deployments, unpredictable AI-generated data, and high costs. In this talk, we’ll explore practical solutions to these challenges with Neon Serverless Postgres. | 10 min lightning talk + 5 min Q&A | | 7:30 pm – 8:30pm | Networking | - | | |
Topic: Using AI Products
May
09
Friday
2025
SF AI Show + Tell [May]
1:00 AM - 3:30 AM (UTC)
Join us on May 8 for our AI Show & Tell monthly event at the GitHub HQ. We'll have several fantastic talks, snacks & drinks, in a beautiful venue. Can't wait to see you there! Speakers include Sofiia Shvets (CEO and Co-Founder, Claid.AI), Sam Partee (CTO and Co-Founder, Arcade AI), and Sri Laasya Nutheti (Agent Developer, AgentOps). Session titles coming soon! Agenda 6pm: Doors Open (Food and Beverages served) 6:30-6:40 pm: Welcome and Introduction 6:40-8pm: Talks by AI startup founders and industry leaders 8:00-8:30pm: Networking 🎟 Limited spots available – secure your seat now! AI Show & Tell is a monthly series designed to bring together enthusiasts, professionals, and experts in the field of AI. Each event features engaging presentations, interactive demos, and networking opportunities, providing a place for attendees to learn about the latest advancements in AI technology and connect with like-minded individuals.
Topic: Core AI
Jun
12
Thursday
2025
SF AI Show + Tell June
1:00 AM - 3:30 AM (UTC)
Join us on June 11 for our AI Show & Tell monthly event at the GitHub HQ. We'll have several fantastic talks, snacks & drinks, in a beautiful venue. Can't wait to see you there! More details to come soon! Agenda 5:30pm: Doors Open (Food and Beverages served) 6:00-6:10 pm: Welcome and Introduction 6:10-8pm: Talks * 8:00-8:30pm: Networking 🎟 Limited spots available – secure your seat now! AI Show & Tell is a monthly series designed to bring together enthusiasts, professionals, and experts in the field of AI. Each event features engaging presentations, interactive demos, and networking opportunities, providing a place for attendees to learn about the latest advancements in AI technology and connect with like-minded individuals.
Topic: Core AI
Jul
02
Wednesday
2025
SF AI Show + Tell July
1:00 AM - 3:30 AM (UTC)
Join us on July 1 for our AI Show & Tell monthly event at the GitHub HQ. We'll have several fantastic talks, snacks & drinks, in a beautiful venue. Can't wait to see you there! Agenda 6 PM: Doors open 6 - 6:30 PM: Networking, light bites and refreshments 6:30 - 7:45 PM: Program 5 min: Intro - Pamela Fox, Principal Cloud Advocate @ Microsoft 15 min: Talk - Philip Kiely on Inference and training 15 min: Talk - Michael N Magán on building AI powered apps 15 min: Talk - SallyAnn DeLucia, Arize on evaluation 25 min: Panel + Q&A moderated by Pamela Fox 7:45 - 8:30 PM: Networking part II 8:30 PM: Event concludes 🎟 Limited spots available – secure your seat now! AI Show & Tell is a monthly series designed to bring together enthusiasts, professionals, and experts in the field of AI. Each event features engaging presentations, interactive demos, and networking opportunities, providing a place for attendees to learn about the latest advancements in AI technology and connect with like-minded individuals. ### Talks Philip Kiely @ Baseten - Five things to know about AI infrastructure as you scale In 2025, AI-native startups are scaling to 8 figures of annual revenue in months. How do you build infrastructure that keeps up with this explosive growth? This talk provides five sometimes-surprising solutions selected from the hardest challenges we’ve faced while working on scaling fast-growing AI startups. Michael N Magan @ Tambo.co - Generative UI in Practice: From Intent to Interface Generative UI lets AI assistants surface real UI such as charts, forms, and complete workflows exactly when users need them. This talk shows how it works by treating components as tools: mapping user intent to the right component, binding data, and rendering on the fly. A demo of how we use it internally. I'll close with the main opportunities, and the chief challenges. Attendees leave knowing what generative UI is, why it matters, and how to ship it. SallyAnn DeLucia @ Arize - Evaluating Agents in the Wild with Arize This talk will demo how Arize supports agent evaluation with a focus on strategy and visibility. I’ll walk through our new Agent View, which aggregates traces, tool use, and reasoning steps into a structured, searchable format—making it easier to debug failures, track performance, and iterate on agent design.
Topic: Using AI Products
Aug
13
Wednesday
2025
SF AI Show + Tell [August]
1:00 AM - 3:30 AM (UTC)
Registrations for this event are now closed to new attendees. If you have registered already, your registration is still confirmed -- see you at GitHub HQ in SF! Note: AI Show and Tell is now a Global AI Community event. For information about this and future AI Show and Tell events, visit https://globalai.community/chapters/san-francisco/ Join us on Aug 12th for our AI Show & Tell monthly event at the GitHub HQ. We'll have several fantastic talks, snacks & drinks, in a beautiful venue. Can't wait to see you there! This event is part of Global AI Community https://globalai.community/chapters/san-francisco/ Agenda 6 PM: Doors open 6 - 6:30 PM: Networking, light bites and refreshments 6:30 - 7:45 PM: Program 5 min: Intro 15 min: Talk - Sam Alba, Founder @ Dagger 15 min: Talk - Graham McBain, DevRel @ SourceGraph 15 min: Talk - Vaibhav Gupta, Founder and CEO @ Boundary, a Y Combinator startup 25 min: Panel + Q&A 7:45 - 8:30 PM: Networking part II 8:30 PM: Event concludes 🎟 Space is limited and entry is strictly first come, first served—arriving early gives you the best chance of getting in. There will be no entry once event reaches capacity. Thank you for understanding. AI Show & Tell is a monthly series designed to bring together enthusiasts, professionals, and experts in the field of AI. Each event features engaging presentations, interactive demos, and networking opportunities, providing a place for attendees to learn about the latest advancements in AI technology and connect with like-minded individuals. Talks Sam Alba, Founder @ Dagger Title: Coding Agents, Meet Containers - Run Experiments Without Wrecking Your Dev Env Abstract: One issue with coding agents is they require constant supervision and can only work on one task at a time. Container-use is an opensource MCP server that gives coding agents their own containerized sandbox environment. It allows developers to run several code experiments in parallel without altering the local dev environment. Developers then have the ability to inspect and merge changes as needed. It's built Dagger for containerized workflows and Git worktrees for branching. Graham McBain, DevRel @ SourceGraph Title: Everything is changing Abstract: Everything is changing. From how developers build to how we market to developers. In This talk I'll walk through some of the projects I'm currently building for fun and to challenge myself. Vaibhav Gupta, Founder and CEO @ Boundary, a Y Combinator startup Title: BAML - a new programming language for building agents Abstract: The world had javascript, and then we invented typescript - and life was better. Today, we all write prompts as strings, but a lot of the tooling plain sucks. There's no type-safety, some tools require you to sign up, and the iteration speed is minutes for a single prompt. We made BAML because we wanted to take an engineering perspective on how programming with LLMs could be if you started from scratch. You write your AI part in BAML and write the rest of your software in any language of you love, (python, typescript, go, etc). BAML is completely open source, internet free, and some how we created a way to do tool calling better on any base models (without any fine-tuning).
Topic: Using AI Products