With Microsoft Cloud for Retail, you can harness the power of the Personalized Shopping Agent to enhance the digital shopping experience. Leverage generative AI to enable intent-based, conversational interactions, personalized product discovery, tailored recommendations, and a seamless checkout process. Join us for a deep dive into the features, architecture, deployment, and extensibility of this versatile agent, powered by composable AI services configured in Azure AI.

Andrii Mykhailiuk
Principal Software Engineer
Grew and studied in Luhansk, Ukraine, where completed Ms. in Applied Math and Computer Science in 2006. Then worked in Kyiv, Ukraine as a software engineer in various companies, doing a parallel research in National Academy of Science in area of NLP, Knowledge management and Ontologies.Since 2015 part of Microsoft Prague, Czechia, gaining experience and delivering impact at Skype, D365 for Marketing, Industry Clouds as engineer and architect, primarily focusing on business solutions and AI.
Happy father of 3 beautiful children, spending most of free time with them. Excited about AI, cars, martial arts and travelling.
Happy father of 3 beautiful children, spending most of free time with them. Excited about AI, cars, martial arts and travelling.

Pepijn Richter
General Manager Microsoft Cloud for Retail
General Manager for the Microsoft Cloud for Retail leading product management for retail, consumer goods, and agriculture. Pepijn is passionate about empowering businesses through innovative technology. His expertise lies in driving business transformation by collaborating with organizations and re-imagine data and AI solutions.

Vishal Sarkar
Executive - Global Lead , Business Applications
Vishal leads Avanade’s Business Applications portfolio covering Customer Engagement and ERP practices. He helps clients to formulate the vision for Avanade offerings that help clients transform their business functions, empower their employees and help their customers co-create experiences. Vishal is also responsible for Avanade’s Power Platform global business. He works with Microsoft and Accenture leadership to bring the best of industry strategy and technical expertise to clients. Vishal has over 27 years of global experience in consulting, coaching, selling and leading business and technology engagements related to customer experience initiatives.