Welcome,
We're glad you are here and look forward to your delivery of this amazing content. As an experienced presenter, we know you know HOW to present so this guide will focus on WHAT you need to present. It will provide you a full run-through of the presentation created by the presentation design team.
Along with the video of the presentation, this document will link to all the assets you need to successfully present including PowerPoint slides, demo instructions & code.
- Read document in its entirety.
- Watch the video presentation
- Ask questions of the Lead Presenter
Imagine you are a sales manager at Contoso, a multinational retail company that sells outdoor equipment. You need to analyze sales data to find trends, understand customer preferences, and make informed business decisions. To help you, Contoso has developed a conversational agent that can answer questions about your sales data.
| Resources | Links | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Workshop Manual | Build Your First Agent with Azure AI Agent Service | Lab Guide |
| Workshop Repo | Build your first agent with Azure AI Agent Service Lab | Repo |
| Presenter Intro | Build Your First Agent with Azure AI Agent Service | PPT |
| Presentation Video | Introduction to Azure OpenAI Assistants | YouTube |
This lab is intended to be delivered by a Presenter who will show the slides and demos and answer questions for the class, supported by one or more Proctors who will provide individual assistant to participants during the lab.
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 0:00 - 2:00 | Meet the instructors |
| 2:00 - 8:00 | What are we building? |
| 8:00 - 18:00 | DEMO and Lab Manual walk through (participant initial set up) |
| 18:00 - 22:00 | How does the assistant work? |
| 22:00 - 24:00 | Workshop Goals |
| 24:00 - 75:00 | Self paced walk through(50 mins) |
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As attendees enter the room have
slide 2up on the screen. (Preferably add Wi-Fi information to this slide.) -
Once everyone is seated jump to
slide 5, which is the 'Meet the Instructor and Proctors" slide. For the sake of time this is the slide you must begin with. Please edit this slide with relevant information including:- Lead instructor name and picture
- Proctor names and pictures
- Wi-Fi information
- Link to to launch Participant Lab Environment (provided by Skillable team)
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Let the attendees connect to the Wi-Fi and instruct them to navigate to the skillable link and press the
Launchbutton. Launching the lab may take some time so start the presentation once the majority of participants have clicked the launch button.
- Switch to the Skillable Lab Manual page and complete each step of the instructions with the attendees. They should be carrying out the steps on their own machines at the same time.
When this lab is delivered during AI Tour, the Skillable platform provides a temporary Azure account for each participant to use. After logging in, the environment provides a set of Lab Instructions, the launching point for the lab content.
Depending on your role in the workshop, you will launch the Skillable lab environment using a dedicated link.
- Lab authors: This link is used by authors and maintainers of the lab content.
- You must log in using your Microsoft corporate credentials to access this link. Note: the lab environment will appear in 2-3 minutes,
- You'll need to wait up to 10 minutes more for Azure resources to deploy to the temporary Azure account before running the workshop.
- Log into the Azure portal using the credentials in the Lab Instructions to monitor progress. In the
- single resource group created, you 14 Azure resource when the 34 deployments are complete.
- Presenters and Proctors: Launch Lab WRK552 from the Tech Check portal. (This link will be provided by your content owner 1-2 weeks before lab events.) Use this link to test the lab using an environment identical to that provided to lab participants.
- Partcipants. Use the participant link provided by your lab presenter. Note: participant lab environments will only be active 15 minutes before through 30 minutes after the scheduled lab time.
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Participants will be able to complete the lab in a self-paced manner by:
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When they've connected to the Skillable environment, they will be able to complete the lab by:
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Launch the the Edge browser from the desktop. It's pinned to the taskbar. By default the browser will open with three tabs. The first tab is the lab manual, the second tab is the AI Foundry, the third is the Azure portal.
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Follow the instructions in the lab manual to complete the lab.

