Presentation on Jason Haley

My Session at Boston Code Camp 40

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Saturday was Boston Code Camp 40, hard to believe it is still going after all these years. We had a good turn out too!

I presented “Agentic RAG”, which was very similar to the session I presented at the Memphis AgentCamp a couple of weeks ago. Due to all the traveling I’ve done since then, I didn’t have a lot of time to update it.

Agentic RAG

It was nice to have an in person group of attendees, so I was able to tailor the content to spend more time on what they wanted. I spent more time on the basics of RAG than Agentic RAG this time.

My Session at Memphis AgentCamp

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today is Memphis AgentCamp - you still have time to catch some sessions! The schedule is here: Schedule.

As always Doug Starnes did a fantastic job organizing a multi-track conference. I’m always impressed at how well he organizes his events.

I presented “Agentic RAG”, which was a long form of the session I presented at the Agent Framework Dev in January. This one was all new code too.

Agentic RAG

The presentation was a quick overview of traditional RAG and focused on using agent framework to build Agentic RAG.

My Session at Boston Code Camp 39

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This past Saturday was Boston Code Camp 39 (fall edition). For those of you who don’t know, the Boston Code Camp is the one that started it all (back in 2004) - see wikipedia for more info … at this point it may also be the last remaining one (not sure.).

I got to visit with many old friends that I mostly just see at Code Camp these days … many of which I met at a code camp some time in the past 20+ years. I did not get to attend any sessions due to taking the time to catch up with people instead.

Hands-on Boston AgentCon Workshop

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This past Saturday, I held my latest hands on workshop: From Static Files to Smart Agents: Unlocking Document Intelligence at AgentCon Boston. I ended up with around 30 attendees. There was quite a bit of interaction, with some real practical questions being asked about RAG and GenAI applications.

Hand-on-Lab: From Static Files to Smart Agents: Unlocking Document Intelligence

The repository is located at: https://github.com/JasonHaley/agentcon-boston-workshop

What is it?

The end result (which is the “completed” branch of the repo), is a Chainlit application designed to provide four use cases:

Virtual Boston Azure AI - Microsoft Build Recap

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Last night Bill, Udai, Veronika and I gave our top picks from Microsoft Build at the Virtual Boston Azure AI meetup.

In order to not overlap topics, we each picked areas to cover - mine was Copilot and Copilot Studio.

My picks:

Copilot Wave 2 Spring release features – this was announced in April but still hasn’t landed for us. You’ll know when this lands due to the look of Copilot changing. The navigation will be on the left side of the screen with the new release (instead of the right where it is now).

My Session at Boston Global AI Bootcamp

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday was Boston Azure AI’s Edition of the Global AI Bootcamp at the NERD in Cambridge.

We had a lot of interest in the event - 85 people on the RSVP list and almost that on the waitlist. Since the space we had couldn’t handle any more people, unfortunately we couldn’t let more people in. However since there was such good interest in a Saturday AI oriented bootcamp, we are working on planning another one soon - so if you happen to be one of those people that couldn’t attend - stay tuned!

Boston Code Camp 37 Session

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday was Boston Code Camp 37. I spent the majority of the day talking with people in the community I haven’t seen for awhile, as well as some new people I hadn’t met before. I only made it to one session (Juan Pablo Garcia Gonzalez - Agentic AI: Unlocking the Power of Multi-Agent Systems), which was good and got me thinking about how to rewrite my demos in my talk to use agents.

Virtual Boston Azure Lunchtime November 2024

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Today at lunchtime Bill Wilder and I spoke at the Virtual Boston Azure meetup. Our talks were based on the same material we presented on Tuesday night, however I introduced eShopSupport as well today.

The recording of the session can be found on the (Lunchtime editions) Boston Azure YouTube channel.

Talk: Add Gen AI to your existing .NET apps with Semantic Kernel & Azure SQL

My part of the presentation PDF can be downloaded here.

Virtual Boston Azure November 2024

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Last night Bill Wilder and I spoke at the Virtual Boston Azure meetup. Our talks were about adding GenAI to .NET applications. My portion was mostly demos that focused on Azure SQL’s new native VECTOR support, Entity Framework Core and Semantic Kernel.

The recording of the session can be found on the Boston Azure YouTube channel.

Talk: Add Gen AI to your existing .NET apps with Semantic Kernel & Azure SQL

The presentation pdf can be downloaded here.

Techbash 2024

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This week I presented at the TechBash conference in Pocono Manor, PA. All the resources for the conference are available on the TechBash GitHub repo. Below are links to my presentations specifically.

It was great to see companies sending their employees to conferences again. This was my first time at TechBash, and I finally got to meet Alvin Ashcraft in person (the Morning Dew). I also met a bunch of people from the Philly area and around Pennsylvania, but there were attendees from all over-even a couple of guys from Panama!

Virtual Boston Azure August 2024

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Last night I spoke at the Virtual Boston Azure meetup. The talk was about the Azure Developer CLI and geared towards developers.

The recording of the session can be found on the Boston Azure YouTube channel.

Talk: What is the Azure Dev CLI (AZD) and How Can You Use It?

The presentation pdf can be downloaded here.

The resource slides:

I added this slide after the presentation with links I mentioned after the recording was stopped:

Wisconsin .NET User Group

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Last Thursday night I spoke at the Wisconsin .NET User Group near Milwaukee, WI. I was nice to meet so many .NET developers interested in RAG and AI.

To carry on the tradition from my Memphis talk, I gave the presentation a local look using images related to Milwaukee generated from Bing/create.

Talk: Getting Started with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

The presentation pdf can be downloaded here.

One of my demos failed to deploy before the talk, but I don’t think it was missed due to having so many good questions. It was really nice meeting a user group with so many core members. Plus the pizza was really good!

Boston Azure June 2024

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Last night was the Season of AI presentation. We started with Bill Wilder presenting the fundamentals of Generative AI and quick introduction to Azure AI Studio, then I finished up with a .NET code walkthrough implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) using Semantic Kernel.

It was nice to see a lot of regular faces and meet several new people.

Demo Code

The demo code is on my GitHub repo BostonAzure-June2024 under a subdirectory.

Memphis Azure User Group

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Last Thursday night I spoke at the Memphis Azure User Group, it was nice to meet some people in person and see how excited others are about finding valuable ways to work GenAI into their applications.

I also gave my slide deck a completely new look (Memphis themed via Bing/create):

Talk: Getting Started with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

The presentation pdf can be downloaded here.

Since the presentation was hybrid, there were not as many questions as the other two times I’ve given the talk … or that is my guess at the reason why it was so quiet. That also means I should have put that third demo back in the presentation (I took a demo out after the first version of the talk since there were so many questions and needed to free up time for Q&A). Next time I’ll have it ready to use in case I need it.

My Session at Boston Global Azure Bootcamp

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This past weekend was Boston Azure’s Edition of the annual Global Azure Bootcamp. This year we focused on AI and hands-on-labs.

The odd thing about when we scheduled the meetup was we had a lot of people sign up for the group just to rsvp - before most of the existing members had gotten around to rsvp’ing. We did not expect that. It is a mystery as how they heard about the event so quick. We only had one room reserved, so there really was a hard cap on how many people we could let in.

Boston Code Camp 36 Sessions

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday was Boston Code Camp 36 hard to believe it has been going on for 20+ years now. For me it is one of those regular events for the Boston tech community that is well worth spending a Saturday attending.

It was nice to see a lot of regular faces and meet some new people.

Talk: Getting Started with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

I was surprise the room was full, it was good to see so many developers, students and architects - mostly with .NET backgrounds looking to get started with RAG applications.