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

Presenter: Mike Yeager

When: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025 12:00pm Central Time (CT)

Duration: 75 minutes (approximately)

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