Impromptu storm Charles Event: 3 Waves of Gen AI on the Microsoft Stack
With Day 2 of Web Summit cancelled, I thought I'd re-run a community session i did in September in London for anyone who's now at a bit of a loose end today and is interested in learning about agents from a Finance & Data perspective!
The event will be hosted online and if - closer to the time - travel options (Uber/Bolt) are running OK I'll make an in person ticket option avaiable too!
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Come and join us on this rollercoaster ride of exploring the three waves of Generative AI - Personal productivity, Task Agents and Agent Teams!
Agenda:
14:00-14.30: 10 min lightning talks from 3 startups at web summit
Wave 1 - Personal productivity
14.30-14.50: Rishi will showcase the power of AI to enhance productivity using Claude. Reconciling a general ledger/trial balance and producing a full set of financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflow statement) within minutes using the freely available '3 statement model' skill from Anthropic.
14.50-15.00: Brainstorm - "Where have you best used Gen AI for personal productivity and how could you scale that to your team/organisation?"
Wave 2 - Process Transformation
15.00-15.30: Rishi will walk through a role-play scenario to explore how AI agents can support employees in their day-to-day work. The session will highlight how clear role definitions, well-designed tasks, and thoughtful guardrails can help create effective collaboration between agents and the people guiding and managing them.
15.30-15.40: Brainstorm: "How would you define a task agent job specification for a business process that you run today?"
Wave 3 - Organisational Capability
15.40-16.30: Rishi will paint a vision of the (not too distant!) future where humans and agents are together in teams - humans rely on the agents for specialised experience (e.g. data analytics/BI) but remain in charge of agent performance. And potentially have more fulfilling roles compared to the pre-Gen AI era!
16.30-17.00: Q&A / Wrap-up