Shoutout: AI Dev Night with Microsoft and Elastic
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Cologne AI Hi folks, Microsoft & Elastic asked me to give a shout out to their event: https://luma.com/iml0fztu **Tech Talk: Ship Agents, Pass Risk Review: Microsoft Foundry + Elastic on Azure** **Speaker:** Mike Richter, Principal Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft **Abstract:** In this session, I’ll share how I built ELK Burgers, an agent-governance demo using Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents and Elastic on Azure, and the lessons learned moving toward production readiness. Using synthetic contracts and operating manuals for a fictional restaurant chain, we’ll ask the same question of an intentionally over-permissioned assistant and four agents scoped for different jobs. **Tech Talk: RAG is Broken: How Elastic & Azure Fix Context, Latency, and Token Bills** **Speaker:** Francois Protopapa, Principal Solutions Architect at Elastic **Abstract:** In this session, we will explore how advanced Context Engineering and Elastic’s hybrid retrieval optimize context accuracy-drastically cutting prompt size, response latency, and cloud API overhead. Furthermore, learn how Elastic LLM Observability (built on OpenTelemetry) delivers total operational visibility, allowing leaders to track token spend, monitor accuracy, and govern AI investments on Azure in real time.