SQLBits 2024

Copilot Studio: Guiding Your Chatbot Takeoff with AI Aviation!

I will talk you through how I created the Copilot chatbot for the SQLBits website.

I will talk you through how I created the Copilot chatbot for the SQLBits website.

We will look at why Copilot is relevant, how to use Copilot Studio to create your own bespoke bot, how to deal with answers not being right, how to use the inbuilt analytics, how to test and then deploy your bots. There will also be some hints and tips on best practice and what I think works best from my personal experience of using the tool.

Lewis Prince's other proposed sessions for 2026

AI Beyond the Hype; Practical Solutions for Real Businesses - 2026

Automating Multilingual Document Translation with Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI - 2026

Demystifying AutoML; Building Machine Learning Models with Azure - 2026

Responsible AI in Practice for the Microsoft Data Platform - 2026

Unlocking Insight from Text Using Azure AI Language Studio - 2026

Using Microsoft Copilot Studio to Build Chatbots That Answer Questions and Take Action - 2026

Lewis Prince's previous sessions

Fast and Efficent Text Analysis using Azure's Language Cognitive Service

We will go on a whirlwind tour of Azure Cognitive Services Language Studio, to show the wealth of tools available there, and then talking in particular about Key Word Extraction, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining. We will apply these concepts through Language Studio APIs via Python on Customer Reviews data to then feed into a Power BI report to show how we can really squeeze so much more useful data out of chunks of text!

Copilot Studio: Guiding Your Chatbot Takeoff with AI Aviation!

I will talk you through how I created the Copilot chatbot for the SQLBits website.

The SQLBits Website ChatBot with Copilot Studio: How I built the chatbot for this events website)

I will talk you through how I created the Copilot chatbot for the SQLBits website.

Model Creation in Azure AutoML and Ingestion Through Excel

We will go through a brief introduction to what Machine Learning is and some of its applications. we will then explore why AutoML should be used by all; as a great starting point for anyone new to Machine Learning, as well as a time saving tool for those more experienced. Finally, we will expose a model as an endpoint and understand how we can use it. Specifically in this case how to use it in excel via VBA. Technologies I will demonstrate are: - Azure Machine Learning Studio - VS code (with Azure Machine Learning Studio extension) - Python - VBA