# AI Foundry Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry) is the unified, enterprise-grade platform for building, optimizing, and governing AI applications and intelligent agents at fleet-wide scale.

Consider Microsoft Foundry your AI app and agent factory: a single, interoperable platform that accelerates the journey from concept to production. It unifies agents, models, and tools under one management grouping, providing developers a streamlined hub to build faster and smarter. The platform offers the industry’s widest selection of models, including access to over 11,000 foundational models from providers like Anthropic, Grok, and Microsoft’s own GPT-5.1 series. For enterprise control, it delivers fleet-wide security and governance via a centralized control plane, leveraging rich Microsoft Defender and Entra integration to ensure compliance and iterative performance improvement.

- Official technology site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/foundry
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 2
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [AI/ML for SMBs](https://atlanta.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ODG8dpI77oo)

How to leverage AI/ML to drive automate routine tasks like data entry and scheduling, generate content for marketing, and enhance customer service through chatbots and personalized recommendations.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Atlanta Meetup – August 28, 2025 — 2025-08-28 — Atlanta
- Public talk page: https://atlanta.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ODG8dpI77oo

### [Multi-agent demo with Microsoft Semantic Kernel](https://toronto.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_njQDdpXybEg)

The demo is called Personal Finance agent a multi-agent proposal with the following components: 🔗 Chainlit: A web app with a user-friendly conversational interface. 🧠 Semantic Kernel: Orchestrates conversations by choosing the right agent for each message. 🖼️ Blob Storage: Stores uploaded images from users. The solution include the following finance Agents 👨‍💼 HostAgent: Manages the conversation context and answers questions about personal finance and how the app works. 🛠️ SetupAgent: Helps you configure your accounts, payment methods, and spending/income categories. 💳 TransactionsAgent: Registers your financial transactions with minimal friction. 📷 VisionAgent: Reads receipts and invoices to extract key information automatically. 📊 AnalyzerAgent: Analyzes your data to offer insights, summaries, projections, and visualizations

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Toronto - May 2025 Meetup: AGENTS at Ada — 2025-05-22 — Toronto
- Public talk page: https://toronto.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_njQDdpXybEg

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