Hands-on-Lab on Jason Haley

Hands-on Agent Framework Workshop Jan 2026

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday Bill Wilder, Udai Ramachandran and I held the first In-person, hands-on, all-day, free. Agent Framework Dev Day in BURLINGTON MA for the year. This year, we targeted both .NET and python developers (last year we only focused on .NET).

My presentation and labs focused on implementing Agentic RAG with Agent Framework.

Talk: Agentic RAG

NOTE: The repository has moved to the new Agent Framework Dev Day github.

About the Lab

This year I tried to stay away from the instructional labs that just turns into a treasure hunt, copy paste set of instructions … though not completely.

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:

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!

Hands-on AI Workshop Jan 2025

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday Bill Wilder, Juan Pablo Garcia Gonzalez and I had the second Hands-on AI Workshop - this time in Cambridge MA. Like the last time, the goal was to give the attendees a hands on experience using Semantic Kernel. The target audience was .NET developers using Visual Studio Code looking to learn GenAI.

My presentation and labs focused on RAG.

Talk: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

I made a few small changes since the December workshop, mostly in the part where I discuss chunking.

A Semantic Kernel Workshop

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Announcing: A Semantic Kernel Workshop

Friday Bill Wilder, Juan Pablo Garcia Gonzalez and I finally were able to make the workshop we’ve been working on for the past couple of months public. We had an in person day long event where we used the content, which was received really well. The attendees had some good questions - giving us some really good ideas on how to improve the content.

Target audience: .NET developers looking to start using Gen AI in their applications

Hands-on AI Workshop Dec 2024

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

Yesterday Bill Wilder, Juan Pablo Garcia Gonzalez and I put on a Hands-on AI Workshop in Burlington MA. The goal was to give the attendees hands on experience using Semantic Kernel. The target audience was .NET developers using Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio looking to learn GenAI.

I gave the middle presentations and labs focusing on RAG.

Talk: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

This was an intro level presentation on what RAG is and the concepts you need to know to create a RAG system. The presentation can be downloaded on the github here

Azure SQL, Entity Framework, Semantic Kernel Hands-on-Lab

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

Announcing: Build a RAG App using Semantic Kernel, Entity Framework and Azure SQL DB Hands-on-Lab

A couple of weeks ago after Azure SQL DB announced their public preview of native vector support, I put a hands on lab together to help people get started with the new feature and EF Core extension. Bill Wilder and I did mentioned it in our presentations on December 12 and December 15, but I haven’t had a chance to announce it for those of you who missed our presentations.