Pre-Conference Workshop
12 November 2025
Update Conference Prague will be even better in 2025. We've decided to add an all-day workshop with the attractive topic of .NET Modernization, which will take place one day before the conference, on Wednesday, November 12, 2025. The workshop will take place in the Virgo hall on the conference floor of the Clarion Congress Hotel Prague. The capacity is limited to 60 attendees.
Dariusz Kacban - AI software developer with .NET background. He's building AI applications with Microsoft Stack. Was involved in building multiple LLM-powered applications in areas like: education, disabilities, insurance, onboarding, internal knowledge management. He started coding in C# professionally in 2013 and keeps coding up to now. Big fan of AI and new AI technology from Microsoft.
Kajetan Duszyński - Senior Developer/Team Leader at JIT Team with over 10 years of commercial experience. A passionate enthusiast for new technologies. Vlogger, blogger, YouTuber, and a person who feels best within the developer community. For more than 3 years, he has been helping people transition into the IT industry.
Semantic Kernel + Agents SDK - AI tools for .NET developers
Hands-on Development from Routing to Role-based Security
Description
Are you .NET developer looking for AI tools that can solve real business problems? Try Semantic Kernel and 365 Agents SDK from Microsoft to create AI-powered applications and use modern LLMs like OpenAI o3 or GPT4o. During the workshkops we'll dive into AI capabilities and real business cases that I encountered during development of chatbots with Azure stack. To become AI developer, you don't have to learn entirely new technologies like python, PyTorch and so on. Today with modern Microsoft ecosystem, toy can become AI developer faster than you think. Just join my workshop and start solving real business problems with AI and of course C# and .NET ecosystem.
Technologies:
- Semantic Kernel
- Azure AI Foundry
- Microsoft 356 Agents SDK
- Azure CosmosDB
- Azure AI Search
- Azure Language Studio
- Azure Bot Service
How the Workshop will look like:
- Darek Kacban and Kajetan Duszyński prepared a git repository that you will be able to clone and start with
- During the workshop we will show most important LLM concepts and you will apply them in the application
- In parallel with the code we will create all necessary Azure components
- You will be supported by 2 trainers and .NET developers: Darek Kacban & Kajetan Duszyński
- You will learn how to plan and add functionality to the intelligent apps
- You will also learn how to avoid common mistakes in AI applications
- You will learn how to build the real application with Semantic Kernel and Microsoft 365 Agents SDK (Successor of Bot Framework)
- You will end the workshop with a fully working app that can be introduced in your company
Important Reminder:
To enjoy the full experience of the workshop, we recommend all attendees to bring their own laptops with the following software installed:
- Visual Studio 2022
- Active Microsoft Azure subscription - you will need it to create the most important cloud components.
We will guide you step by step from empty subscription and empty solution to fully working app deployed to the Azure cloud.
Schedule
9:30 – 9:15 AM – BASIC PART
• Introduction to LLM-based applications
• Deployments in Azure AI Foundry
• LLM models in Azure AI Foundry
• Embedding models in Azure AI Foundry
• Understanding the project high level architecture
• Introduction to Microsoft 365 Agents SDK and Azure Bot Service
• Introduction to Microsoft Semantic Kernel orchestrator
11:30 - 12:30 PM - Lunch Break
Lunch break.
12:30 - 03:00 PM - INTERMEDIATE PART
• Conversation context management
• How to track all interactions and tokens with CosmosDB and Microsoft 365 Agents SDK
• Function calling and Semantic Kernel plugins
• Connect app to Azure Language Custom QnA
• Prompt Rewriting technique
• Building custom knowledge base with Azure AI Search
• Retrieval Augmented Generation with Azure AI Search
• Getting structured JSON output from LLM reliably
3:00 - 3:30 PM - Break
Short break.
03:30 - 5:30 PM - ADVANCED PART
• Building your own MCP standard server
• Extending your plugins with MCP services
• Using multimodal LLMs to process scanned documents
• How to use adaptive cards in Microsoft 365 Agents SDK
Got interested? Register right now!
There are two options of attending workshops. You can register separately from the conference ticket (if you've already registered to the conference before), or you can register for both workshop and for the conference together.
Special bundle including Late Regular Ticket for personal participation in the conference and participation in a pre-conference workshop Semantic Kernel + Agents SDK - AI tools for .NET developers by Darek Kacban & Kajetan Duszyński.
For more information about tickets to workshop or conference see the Tickets section.