Felicity Nyan

Felicity is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect, with a focus on data, analytics and AI, in the EMEA Digital Natives team at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, she was Head of Business Analytics at the A-Plan Insurance Group and has previously worked in other organisations delivering data projects and driving data adoption for over ten years. She is a co-organiser of the Oxford Microsoft Data Platform user group.

Felicity Nyan's Sessions

AI Agents in Action: Enhancing Applications with Azure AI ServicesSQLBits 2025

With the rapid advancements in AI technology, AI agents are becoming increasingly integral to our daily lives, enhancing everything from personal assistants to business applications. You might be wondering how to get started making the most of the opportunity this presents in your applications. In this session, we will: • Give an introduction to AI, generative AI, agents, and assistants to help you cut through the confusion • Discuss architecture design patterns using Azure services so you know which work best for your scenario • Do a deep dive on agents and frameworks, and give you inspiration on how agents can enhance your applications and differentiate user experience We will bring all of these concepts together in a demo of a copilot app for an online store using Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, C#, and Semantic Kernel so that you have the understanding you need to start bringing AI agents into your applications.