Explore how Azure AI Foundry seamlessly integrates with agents to create intelligent, responsive systems. We'll open up the session with Thermo Fisher who has created a multi-agent system to query across a vast store of disparate data. Marco and Mads will then walk you through the new Agent Service, offering practical examples and best practices for implementing AI agents in various business contexts.

Mads Bolaris
Group Product Manager
Mads has 8 years of experience in Microsoft where he has helped build many of Microsoft’s most popular platforms: Power Platform, Teams Platform, and now Azure AI Platform. With this experience, and his time leading Semantic Kernel, he is now leading agent of services within Azure.

Marco Casalaina
Vice President of Products, Azure AI
Marco Casalaina is VP Products of Azure AI and AI Futurist at Microsoft. He leads the AI Futures team, which finds trends and develops products that will lead to the next generation of AI. He has previously led a number of teams across Azure AI, including Azure OpenAI, Vision, Speech, Decision, Language, Responsible AI, and AI Studio. Prior to coming to Microsoft, Marco led the Einstein AI team at Salesforce. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Brian King
GM, AI and Search Platform
Brian is the General Manager of the AI and Search Platform at Microsoft, with over 30 years of industry experience, he is an expert in AI and model grounding; and a recurring Speaker at Ignite. He leads a group that provides services that significantly enhance the power of LLM's by connecting them to an entire planet of live data on the Web. Contact him at Ignite 2024 to discuss this area more. or attend one of his talks.

Lambert Ninteman
Global Lead, GenAI Democratization & Enablement
Innovative thought leader, researcher and developer of generative AI technology in regulated spaces.