New Breakpoint

Ever wanted to be a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional? Discover our guest Haimantika Mitra’s journey from student advocate to MVP in Developer Technologies. Host Michelle Sandford will chat through Haimantika’s tips and insights for career acceleration as well as how to get the best from open source communities and Hacktoberfest. And for those who love a hands-on demo and have been meaning to dig into GitHub Actions, Haimantika will guide us through an OpenAI example that can also help you write technical documentation. That’s a lot of good stuff in just an hour!

Join us for an insightful session where Melissa Houghton, Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, teams up with our host Michelle Sandford to share her expertise on how Bicep can save you time and reduce stress. 

With its templated and reusable components and modules, Bicep enables repeatable, standardised deployment of your code and resources.

In this episode, Melissa will guide you through deploying AI services to Azure using Bicep. She’ll also help you troubleshoot any challenges you might encounter. With Melissa’s step-by-step demos, you'll quickly build your deployment muscle. 

Tune in for this on-screen demo of AI services provisioning with Bicep – from go to whoa. 

In this episode of New Breakpoint, Michelle Sandford, Microsoft Developer Engagement Lead, and Damian Brady, Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub, will talk about how GitHub is embracing developer choice with Multi-Model Copilot, New App Tool GitHub Spark, and AI-Native Developer Experience.

From advancements to GitHub Copilot in VS Code to the next iteration of Copilot Workspace and GitHub Models, Damian will walk us through the AI-native and agentic developer experience powered by developer choice and control.  

Join us for a mind-blowing episode of New Breakpoint! GitHub's own Damian Brady is here to show you the latest and greatest dev tools, just launched at GitHub Universe.
Get ready for a cheat sheet to:

• Multi-model Copilot: choose your AI coding assistant from top-tier models.

• GitHub Spark: build apps with natural language, no code required.

• AI-native developer experience: supercharge your workflow with AI.

Tired of the limitations of traditional RAG? Ready to unlock the full potential of your LLMs? Join us for a deep dive into GraphRAG, a revolutionary tool that's changing the game.
In this episode of New Breakpoint, Michelle Sandford, Microsoft Developer Engagement Lead, and Graeme Foster, Microsoft Senior Azure Technical Specialist, will explore the power and limitations of simple retrieval augmented generation (RAG). They’ll unpack the hows and whys of tools that can expand and improve your LLM responses. And Graeme will be your guide to GraphRAG – the principles behind it, and the new Microsoft SDK that you can use right now.