CODE Presents: Why You Should Be Looking at Semantic Kernel to Build Your Copilot

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Join us Wednesday, April 16, 2025 @ 12:00pm Central for our free webinar presented by Mike Yeager
In this webinar Mike Yeager will look at using an AI framework to build copilots and other AI powered projects. He willfocus on Microsoft Semantic Kernel and we'll walk through a bunch of sample code including:

Cloud hosted models like GPT, Gemini, Llama, Claude
Locally hosted Small Language Models (SLMs) like GPT 3o-mini
Automatic function calling
Agents and agentic systems
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
...and more

We'll look at when it's a good idea to use a framework, and how you can leverage a framework to build a robust and adaptable system. We'll also discuss when you should avoid a framework and roll your own.

You will learn:

The pros and cons of Semantic Kernel
How to get started with Semantic Kernel
What features are available now
What to expect in the future

00:00:00 Live Timer
00:06:16 Introduction
00:11:10 Agenda
00:11:39 What is Semantic Kernel
00:13:16 Which Framework to Care About?
00:17:20 What's in These Frameworks?
00:23:26 Intro to Semantic Kernel
00:24:10 Functions and Plugins
00:27:40 Semantic Functions Example 1
00:28:00 Semantic Functions Example 2
00:28:40 Prompty
00:28:41 Prompty Example
00:30:00 Native Function (C# Code)
00:30:49 Function Examples
00:31:12 An Overview of RAG
00:52:36 Plugins/Functions/Tools
00:55:08 Automatic Function Calling
01:02:30 Agents
01:26:10 Recap
01:27:35 Ending