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Beyond the Hype: AI in Action
AI Festival is a free, 2-day virtual event bringing together business leaders, IT professionals, and digital technology users to explore how AI is reshaping the enterprise. AI Festival brings together practical, real-world sessions on how organizations can adopt AI responsibly and build working solutions that deliver value fast. The program blends strategy and governance with hands-on technical content across productivity, data, security, and modern AI engineering.
Program on two online stages for two days:
1/ Apply (adoption and impact): sessions focused on AI literacy, compliance and risk, and practical use cases for teams across the business, including marketing, change management, project delivery, and getting value from tools like Copilot and Google’s latest AI experiments.
2/ Build (hands-on engineering): sessions for technical professionals covering secure AI assistants with private data, AI for DevOps and Kubernetes context, threat intelligence pipelines, building agents on AWS, Copilot Studio agent workflows, and document processing pipelines from raw files to structured outputs.
Across the agenda, the content emphasizes practical demos, case studies, and technical deep dives. Sessions are designed for everyone from beginners building foundations to advanced practitioners looking for patterns they can apply immediately.
Whether you’re starting your AI journey or scaling enterprise adoption, AI Festival will help you turn opportunity into execution.
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Wednesday, June 10
Stage 1
09:00 - 09:30
AI Won’t Replace You — But Someone Using AI Might
In this session, I’ll demonstrate how to quickly build an AI-powered tool that automates the candidate screening process. Beyond recruitment, this live demo illustrates a broader principle: AI is a force multiplier. The same approach can be applied to engineering, operations, research, or product work. Attendees will leave with a practical example, a reusable mental model, and a clear understanding of how to easily tap into the power of large language models to amplify their own work.
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09:35 - 10:20
Copilot for Marketing: AI Content Creation
Discover how Copilot generates marketing ideas, copy, images, and campaign assets
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10:25 - 11:10
AI Agents in Agile Delivery: Supercharging APMG AgilePM with Autonomous Workflows
Attendees learn AI agents for APMG AgilePM: backlog, planning & retros. Get playbook + prompts. Cut planning 25-35%.
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11:15 - 12:15
The Microsoft AI Files
André Melancia
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13:30 - 14:30
From Finish Line to Bottom Line: AI-Powered Insights with Power BI and Copilot
Analyze Comrades 2025 & global parkrun data with Power BI and Copilot to reveal insights for performance in sport and business. What do ultramarathon runners and successful businesses have in common? Both rely on data, pacing, strategy, and continuous performance improvement. Every year, over 22000 runners take on the Comrades Marathon, the world's oldest and largest ultramarathon, covering nearly 90 kilometres across South Africa. At the same time, millions participate in parkrun, the world's largest free weekly community running event with over 10 million registered runners across 23 countries. Behind every finish time, personal best, and race strategy lies something powerful: data. In this session, we transform real Comrades 2025 race results and South African parkrun data into meaningful insights using Power BI and Copilot. Through practical demonstrations, we reveal how the same analytical techniques used to understand athletic performance can also drive better decision-making, performance measurement, and strategic growth in business. Because whether you're running a marathon or running a business, success is rarely accidental - it’s measured, analyzed, and improved through data.
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14:35 - 15:20
AI-Driven Organizational Change: Mastering APMG Change Management in the GenAI Era
Attendees learn GenAI for APMG Change Mgmt: analysis, plans & resistance prediction. AI-Change Canvas for 2-3x adoption.
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15:25 - 16:10
AI-Enhanced Predictive Projects: Integrating Generative AI into the PMBOK® Guide Eighth Edition
Attendees learn to embed GenAI in PMBOK® 8: automate risks, forecast 30-40% better, use AI-PMP Canvas & 5 ready prompts.
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16:15 - 16:45
Google NotebookLM: AI-Powered Research Assistant
Use NotebookLM to turn documents into an interactive AI research assistant
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16:50 - 17:35
EU AI Act: Governance and Compliance
Understand the key requirements of the EU AI Act for organizations adopting AI
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Stage 2
09:00 - 09:45
Build Your First AI Agent on AWS: A Hands-On Demo with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
From concept to code: A live demo to build a real AI agent on AWS with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
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09:50 - 10:20
Boosting DevOps Productivity with LLMs
DevOps work is dominated by context gathering, and Large language models become powerful when they are grounded in real infrastructure context. In this session, I’ll demonstrate how to bring live Kubernetes context into LLM workflows, enabling natural-language queries against real cluster state. Through a practical demo, you’ll see how contextual AI transforms troubleshooting and operational tasks, reducing cognitive load and accelerating decision-making. Attendees will leave with a concrete pattern for integrating LLMs into DevOps tools, which will boost productivity in a meaningful way.
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10:25 - 11:25
Building Secure AI Assistants with Private Enterprise Data
Learn how to build secure AI assistants that answer questions using private company documents.
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11:30 - 12:30
Securing Generative AI: Understanding Prompt Injection and Defense
Learn how to identify, prevent, and mitigate prompt injection attacks in real-world generative AI applications.
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13:30 - 14:30
From OSINT to Action: Building AI-Powered Threat Intelligence Pipelines
Learn how to turn OSINT data into actionable threat intelligence using AI-powered analysis and reporting.
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14:35 - 15:05
MCP Servers Demystified: A Practical End-to-End Guide
This session walks through the complete lifecycle of building MCP servers: from foundational concepts and architecture decisions to implementation, deployment, and operational considerations. The talk includes a live practical demo where we build and run an MCP server step by step, translating theory into a working system. Attendees will leave with a clear mental model and actionable patterns they can apply immediately.
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15:10 - 15:40
Building compliant AI agents for financial services on AWS Bedrock
Build auditable, compliant AI agent workflows for financial services using Bedrock Guardrails and AgentCore
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15:45 - 16:45
Decisions Without Bias: Addressing Gender Bias in LLMs Powering Automated Decision-Making Systems
Brent Dawson
Thursday, June 11
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09:00 - 09:45
5 Practical Scenarios in the Microsoft 365 Copilot Environment
Today, Microsoft 365 Copilot can be found in virtually every application within the Microsoft 365 suite. However, its capabilities don’t stop there. Copilot expands the suite with features you’d look for in vain within the "holy trinity" of PowerPoint, Excel, and Word. Through live demonstrations, we will show you both the latest trends from the Frontier program—which represents the future direction and development of the platform—as well as the fundamental building blocks that every user can benefit from.
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09:50 - 10:35
How Copilot Agents Are Changing the Rules of Working with Company Content
A no-hype look at how Microsoft 365 Copilot uses company documents, where it fails, and how Copilot Agents can help with policies and onboarding.
Petr Malášek
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10:40 - 11:40
Creating Agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Create AI agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio. Automate tasks, boost efficiency, no code needed.
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13:30 - 14:30
Agentic AI in Copilot: How to build your own Agent and put it to work
Agentic AI in Copilot: How to build your own Agent and put it to work
Explore how to design and deploy your own AI agent in Copilot. This session demonstrates practical use cases, key configuration steps, and ways to automate tasks, streamline workflows, and create real business value with agentic AI.
Explore how to design and deploy your own AI agent in Copilot. This session demonstrates practical use cases, key configuration steps, and ways to automate tasks, streamline workflows, and create real business value with agentic AI.
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14:35 - 15:20
Automated AI
Discover how AI-driven agents and Power Automate work together to design, run, and optimize workflows.
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15:25 - 16:25
AI in Excel: Automating Pivot tables from data to decisions
The presentation shows how Copilot in Excel automates Pivot Tables, turning raw data into decisions and creating pivots, charts and summaries with simple prompts.
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16:30 - 17:15
From Data Noise to Business Decisions with AI
How AI helps business users understand data, ask better questions, and focus on the decisions that matter.
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17:20 - 18:05
How to create multiple content with AI
Transform a single idea into an AI‑powered content suite—LinkedIn posts, newsletters, hooks, FAQs, and a ready‑to‑publish content calendar.
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18:10 - 18:55
Beyond the Hype: Using Microsoft Copilot in Everyday Finance Work
This session shows how finance teams can use Microsoft Copilot and Copilot in Excel in real day-to-day work, from billing and credit control to accounts payable and renewals. It will cover practical use cases, time-saving workflows, real examples of analysis and communication tasks, and the key limits, risks, and checks needed for responsible adoption.
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Stage 2
09:00 - 10:00
Build the Next Skynet with Microsoft Foundry: An Azure Story
André Melancia
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10:05 - 11:05
Fabricating Fabric Stuff for Human Fabricators: A 365 Story
A demo-heavy introduction to Microsoft Fabric and how to get started with ETL/ELT, data ingestion, and ML in the M365 ecosystem.
André Melancia
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11:10 - 12:10
From AI Pilot to Business Value on AWS
Marek Chmel
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13:30 - 14:00
Document processing pipelines for AI
From raw documents to structured data: approaches to building document pipelines for AI.
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14:05 - 15:05
Governing Generative AI on AWS: What Admins Need to Know
Marek Chmel
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AI Assistants and Agents for Everyday Operations with AWS
Marek Chmel
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Building an Intelligent BI Workflow: Power BI Modeling Meets M365 Chat Agents
See how Power BI and M365 Agents collaborate to model data, create measures, and design reports with AI.
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