About London Reactor Meetup
Microsoft Reactor London Meetups are a community of like-minded engineers, developers, professionals and students, allowing you to connect with people, skills, and technology to enhance your career or personal learning. Our regular meetups are an opportunity to hear from leaders in the industry about challenges, tooling and best practices. If you are interested in speaking or want to suggest a talk you’ve heard before, please do let us know (no vendor / recruitment / sales pitches please).

Agenda

6:00 PM - Arrivals: Registration and welcoming of guests
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM - Welcome Address by Liam Hampton, Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
6:40 PM - 7:15 PM - Build Custom Copilots for Teams with the new AI library and Teams Toolkit by
Ayça Baş, Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft
Joey Glocke, Principal PM Manager - Teams Conversational Platform
Sid Uppal, Principal Group Engineering Manager - Teams Conversational Platform

7:15 PM - 7:45 PM - Break
7:45 PM - 8:20 PM -Managing your AI (and other) APIs with Microsoft API Management service by Johan Myburgh, Technical Trainer at Microsoft
8:20 PM - 8:45 PM - Networking & Closing

Session Descriptions

Build Custom Copilots for Teams with the new AI library and Teams Toolkit

The new Microsoft Teams AI library simplifies the integration of Large Language Models (LLM) into Teams applications, enabling you to build intelligent, conversational apps in the flow of work of your users. Learn how to build conversational apps with Teams Toolkit and explore the full range of capabilities of the AI library to help you build AI-powered apps easily, responsibly, and providing a consistent natural language user experience. Reimagine a new era of intelligent apps in Teams.

Managing your AI (and other) APIs with Microsoft API Management service

Microsoft's AI services are normally exposed via HTTPS endpoints and are secured by set of keys that need to be stored and managed. But how can you manage those endpoints and keys at scale? Enter Azure API Management (APIM) which wraps your APIs and gives you complete control over these requests by applying authentication, authorization, logging, throttling to requests.