Microsoft AI Tour Utrecht – Program breakout sessions

10:00 - 11:15

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Join us for a keynote featuring industry leaders Jared Spataro, Anke den Ouden and Maryleen Emeric.
After that Keynote from Maurice Koopman​ - CEO Non-Life Banking,​ Nationale Nederlanden will present his keynote

11:45 - 12:30

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Join this session with ABN AMRO to learn how they transitioned to Microsoft Copilot Studio to enhance their customer interactions through new GenAI-driven agents.
Discover capabilities of their "Anna" agent, which handles millions of conversations annually, and get insights into ABN AMRO's future plans, including advanced AI features and GenAI Platform development.

Speakers:
Bobby van Groningen - IT Lead Customer Services, ABN AMRO
Eduard Wu - IT Engineer & Chapter Lead, ABN AMRO

13:30 - 14:15

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Many organizations exploring the potential of AI overlook a critical consideration – is their technology estate ready to scale and innovate?
Learn why Azure is the right platform to help you fully realize your AI ambitions.

Speakers:
Niek Smits - Senior Azure Specialist, Microsoft
Dylan de Jong - Cloud Architect Azure, Microsoft

Focus area:
Infrastructure | Security

14:45 - 15:30

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Explore Albert Heijn's (AH) transformative journey with Gen AI from initial exploration to developing a platform with advanced infrastructure, tools, and consulting to accelerate AI adoption across their organization.
Learn how the AH Technology and Product teams collaborated to launch the first Gen AI-powered assistant for retail customers in Europe and hear what’s next in bringing their AI vision to life.

Speakers:
Norman van Ameyden - Product Manager Innovation & Inspiration, Albert Heijn
Dick Heerkens - Technical Product Owner Gen AI Enablement, Albert Heijn

Focus area:
Data & AI; Application Innovation

16:00 - 16:45

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Discover why security should be your top priority in your AI transformation. Gain insight on how the threat landscape is evolving, how AI can assist IT and security teams with cyber defense, and how IT and security teams can accelerate the safe adoption of AI.

Speaker:
Rob Elsinga - National Technology Officer, Microsoft

Focus area:
Security

11:45 - 12:30

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Explore the fascinating world of AI agents with Azure!
Dive into the innovative Azure AI Agent Service, where you’ll discover how these intelligent agents can transform processes and products.
Learn about the diverse use cases, from automating customer support to enhancing decision-making processes. Understand why AI agents are essential for modern businesses, offering efficiency, scalability, and advanced problem-solving capabilities.

Speaker:
Roelant Dieben - Azure & AI MVP, Senior Principal Expert, Sopra Steria

Focus area:
Data & AI; Application Innovation

13:30 - 14:15

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AI is a quantum leap for applications: not only accelerating application modernization but unlocking a whole new category of new, ground-breaking use cases. From AI assisted development to transformative new products and improved customer experiences, explore best practices, tools, strategies, approaches, and patterns to assess, plan, and modernize your app and data estate and innovate with AI.

Speaker:
Alessandro Vozza - Senior Technical Specialist, Microsoft

Focus area:
Digital & Application Innovation

14:45 - 15:30

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Deploying AI-enabled applications involves an application or microservice interacting with a LLM inferencing endpoint. Microservices architectures and a cloud native approach is ideal for hosting your intelligent apps.
This session demonstrates how you can use Kubernetes and cloud-native tools to reduce operational overhead in building and running intelligent apps.

Speaker:
Soham Dasgupta - Senior Partner Solution Architect, Microsoft

Focus area: Digital & Application Innovation

16:00 - 16:45

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Discover how Copilot Studio empowers you to build and customize agents with ease using low-code.
This session will explore the transformative impact of Copilot Studio on business processes, enabling you to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and drive innovation.
Learn how to leverage the power of low-code development to create intelligent agents tailored to your specific needs, and witness firsthand how these agents can revolutionize the way your business operates.

Speaker:
Dieter de Cock - Principal Program Manager - Power CAT, Microsoft

Focus area:
BizApps

11:45 - 12:30

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Discover how the seamless integration of SAP Joule with Microsoft Copilot can transform decision-making, enhance productivity, and streamline operations. This session will explore how combining the power of SAP’s intelligent insights with Microsoft 365’s collaborative tools can create a unified experience for your teams.

Speakers:
Niels van der Kam - AI Lead, SAP NL
Holger Bruchelt - Product Manager AI & SAP Integrations, Microsoft
Katya Troubacheva - SAP on Azure Lead, Microsoft

Focus area:
Infrastructure | Copilot

13:30 - 14:15

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A top security concern for organizations when adopting AI is data security. We will walk you through the best data security practices for securing the data that your AI solution is using – specific to Microsoft M365 Copilot. Discover how Purview enhances your data security, governance, and compliance, driving business success. This session will explore the transformative impact of Data Security in safeguarding AI applications, ensuring safe use of tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot. Learn how to mitigate AI-related risks, such as data leaks and oversharing to achieve tangible deployment results within four months. Join us to learn how Purview can secure your data in the era of AI - to ensure you can achieve your business goals.

Speakers:
Anela Jaganjac - Data Security Technical Specialist, Microsoft
Ellen van Meurs - Data Security Technical Specialist, Microsoft

Focus area:
Security

14:45 - 15:30

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Copilot in Action: Insights from customers
Join us for an engaging panel discussion among real industry leaders onboarding AI with Copilot: Achmea, ASML, DNB and Philips where our customers share their experiences and insights on leveraging Microsoft Copilot. Discover how these organizations are transforming their operations and driving innovation with the help of Copilot.

Speaker:
Saju Sarangdharan - M365 and Copilot Solution Expert. Microsoft
Emiel van Alphen - AI Strategy Lead - Finance, ASML
Camilia Bruil - Product Manager of the Digital Workplace, DNB
Juan Martinez - Intellectual Property & Legal Specialist, Philips
Symone van Riel-Lenos - Team Lead End User Services, Achmea IT

Focus area:
Copilot track

16:00 - 16:45

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The analytics landscape for data focused application developers is changing fast, with AI, Real-time analytics, data sources growing exponentially and new tools available daily.
Microsoft Fabric can serve as the center of data gravity for both business and technical user enabling data insights or data engineering over a single source of data, assisted by CoPilot. Join us to understand the impact of AI on data analytics and take the next steps to leverage Microsoft Fabric for your organization’s success.

Speaker:
Kasper de Jonge - Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Focus area:
Data & AI

11:45 - 12:15

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AI is revolutionizing industries, but not every implementation goes as planned. In this session, we’ll share real-world AI use cases from our clients. Successes, challenges, and lessons learned. What works, what doesn’t, and how can you avoid common pitfalls? Join us for an honest, practical look at AI in action.

Speakers:
Negin Nafissi - Data & AI Tribe Lead & Business Development Manager, RawWorks, Interstellar
Gerjon Kunst - CTO & Microsoft MVP, RawWorks, Interstellar

12:30 - 13:00

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Migrating your on-prem applications to Azure can help you improve scalability, reliability, and security. It can also help reduce costs and free your engineering teams to focus on innovation and performance optimization. To execute a successful cloud migration, you need a detailed inventory of your current deployments, visibility into your application's performance as you shift traffic to the cloud, and confirmation that—once you've landed in the cloud—you're still providing a high-quality user experience.
In this speaking session, we'll explore current approaches for monitoring your cloud migration and show you how Datadog can give you visibility throughout every phase. We'll show you how to: Plan what cloud resources you need, Build visibility into your cloud environment and Monitor your newly migrated application.

Speaker:
Marieke Glombek - Manager, Enterprise Sales Engineering, Datadog

13:15 - 13:45

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In The Digital Neighborhood, AI agents work alongside people to make work smarter, faster, and more efficient.
In this live session, we’ll demonstrate how AI enhances personal productivity, streamlines processes, and turns data into action.
Through live use cases - based on the The Digital Neighborhoody Merchandise Line - we’ll show how AI agents collaborate with employees to answer customer inquiries, qualify leads, support sales, handle complaints, and drive product improvements.
Experience firsthand how AI doesn’t just automate work but empowers people in their roles.

Speakers:
Charon Konings - Manager Products & Innovation, The Digital Neighborhood
Rob Kuijpers - Pre-sales Consultant, The Digital Neighborhood

14:00 - 14:30

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Kick-start your journey into the transformative world of Agentic AI and gain the insights needed to shape your enterprise's future. Based on our global best practices, we'll guide you through the initial steps of adopting Multi-Agent Systems, highlighting the strategic technology investments necessary to harness their power. Understand the critical capabilities required for effective implementation and learn the best practices for seamless business onboarding. Join us to uncover the why, what, and how of integrating Agentic AI into your enterprise, and stay ahead in the rapidly evolving digital era.

Speakers:
Omit Singh - Senior Director leading strategy and advisory, Avanade
Sujatha Subramanian - Director leading AI practice, Avanade

14:45 - 15:15

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In this session, we will demonstrate a cutting-edge multi-agent AI solution, showcasing its capabilities and practical applications.
Attendees will gain insights into the underlying mechanisms and the development process of the solution.
We will delve into key aspects that ensure the solution's scalability, security and compliance.
We also provide a comprehensive understanding of how to implement and manage multi-agent AI systems in an enterprise environment.
Level: Introductory and Overview

Speakers:
Douwe van de Ruit - GenAI Lead Architect - Northern & Central Europe Cloud CoE & Microsoft AI MVP, Capgemini
Arin Roy - Tech Lead – Cloud Native and Intelligent Applications & Microsoft AI MVP, Capgemini

15:30 - 16:00

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Join UCB Pharma and AvePoint for an insightful session on the successful roll-out of UCB's co-pilot initiative, which began in January 2024. Despite a strong foundation in workspace governance, UCB required insights into oversharing, external access, and data ownership for a successful deployment. Discover how UCB partnered with AvePoint to ensure a secure, managed tenant while empowering their business users to fully embrace the benefits of co-pilot. Don’t miss out on valuable insights on how to balance security with user enablement during a large-scale digital transformation.

Speakers:
Dennis Hoogenraad - Senior Solutions Consultant, AvePoint
Shana Steenssens - Team Lead Productivity, UCB
Carlo Grauwels - Team Lead Copilot, UCB

16:15 - 16:45

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Join us for an engaging session where we tackle common myths and misconceptions about AI in the realms of privacy, security, and compliance. Our experts, Linda Durand and Rob Elsinga, will share their invaluable insights and experiences from conversations with customers and experts, addressing the most pressing questions and concerns that customers have. They will provide clear and accurate information to help you navigate the complexities of AI technology.
Whether you're worried about data privacy, security risks, or compliance issues, this session will equip you with the knowledge you need to make informed decisions and confidently embrace AI innovations.

Speakers:
Linda Durand - National Security Officer, Microsoft
Bernadette Wesdorp - Responsible AI Leader, EY

Focus area:
Security

11:45 - 12:05

This live demonstration will show you how to empower your agents with AI Foundry.
You can learn how to leverage AI Foundry for your Generative AI solutions.
We'll guide you through model selection, building agents using Azure AI Agent Service, and evaluating and optimizing your AI workflows.

Speaker:
Mick Vleeshouwer - AI Technical Specialist, Microsoft

Focus area:
Data & AI

12:20 - 12:40

If you are an Azure engineer, you have seen that Copilot has found its place into the Azure portal.
Maybe you clicked on it when it was just released. Since then, Copilot for Azure has developed into a true assistant, able to save you time in your daily Azure management.
Join this demo to find out how Copilot for Azure could help you.

Speaker:
Barbara Forbes - Field CTO and Microsoft MVP

Focus area:
Infrastructure

12:45 - 13:00

Microsoft Learn Trivia – Fun, Fast, and Full of AI!

Join us for a rapid-fire trivia session packed with AI and Microsoft Learn fun.
Test your knowledge with 10 exciting questions (mostly multiple-choice) and compete for awesome Microsoft Learn swag. The first attendee to answer a question correctly wins a prize—so be quick!

Our engaging hosts, Matthijs & Anastasia, will keep the energy high and the fun rolling. Don't miss out on this interactive and entertaining challenge!

Hosts:
Matthijs Van Sterkenburg - Skills Training Program Manager, Microsoft
Anastasia Kountoura - Sr. Partner Marketing Manager, Microsoft

Focus area:
Skilling

13:30 - 13:50

Join Michel Bouman as he takes you on a journey into the future of work, powered by AI. In this engaging session, Michel will demonstrate the transformative capabilities of AI across Microsoft 365, including Copilot and beyond.
Discover how AI is revolutionizing Teams, and get an exclusive look at cutting-edge technologies like Places and Teams Premium.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn from an expert and see firsthand how AI is shaping the modern workplace.

Speaker:
Michel Bouman - EMEA Channel Sales Lead Teams and Device, Microsoft

Focus area:
Copilot

14:05 - 14:25

Discover how Microsoft's autonomous agents can revolutionize customer service with innovative AI-driven knowledge management, intent discovery and case lifecycle management.

Speaker:
Hans Loomans - GTM Manager Business Applications, Microsoft

Focus area:
BizApps

14:40 - 15:00

Discover how Security Copilot modernizes security operations and defense intelligence through Generative AI and Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence.
A fusion of innovation, vigilance, and adaptability where efficiency and excellence converge.

Speaker:
Shruti Ailani - Global Black Belt Security Copilot, Microsoft

Focus area:
Security

15:15 - 15:35

Discover how Microsoft's autonomous agents can revolutionize your sales organisation with innovative AI-driven sales qualification and deal acceleration.

Speakers:
Elise Stedenburg - Technisch Specialist Business Applications, Microsoft
Rens Smolders - Technisch Specialist Business Applications, Microsoft

Focus area:
BizApps

15:50 - 16:10

TBD

Speaker:
Anh Chu - Partner Solution Architect AI, Microsoft

Ana Negru - Data & AI Technical Specialist, Microsoft

Sujatha Subramanian - AI Practice Lead, Avanade

Focus area:
Women in AI

16:25 - 16:45

In this demo, learn how easy it is for developers to experiment with AI models from vendors such as OpenAI, Mistral, Llama, Cohere and others. All you need is your GitHub account: just start Codespaces and start prototyping.

Speaker:
Anton Sizikov - Senior Solutions Engineer, GitHub

Focus area: Digital & Application Innovation; Data & AI

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At the Microsoft AI Tour Utrecht, you can expect a variety of engaging interactive workshops.

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