Dona Sarkar

I’ll be there loitering and pouring wines, beers, ciders and non-alcoholic drinks that pair (AND yapping your ear off about Agents ofc!)

Join us! 👇🏼
Wed March 26
4 pm - 10 pm

15 Lake St #201
Kirkland, WA 98033

Come by for a bit or a lot — I’m very excited to see you! 💋

Dona and Ana

👀 time for FUN 👀

#MVPBuzz & local friends!

Our community friend Ana Demeny Welch will be guest cheffing at #SideHustle Kirkland on Wednesday March 26th—yes, right in the middle of MVP week and you ALL are invited to come and experience this INCREDIBLE one-night-only menu she’s prepared for you!

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They’re in specific areas now like EPPC - European Power Platform, ESPC - European Sharepoint, FabCon EU - Fabric & friends

The MS execs generally keynote and break news at these

Hmmmm how about an #AgentCon? ALSO there is a good AI/Power event on March 22nd in Vancouver that I’m coming up for!

canadianpowerplatformsummit.com

💁🏽‍♀️Modern Work agents
🦹🏽‍♀️ Biz Apps agents
📈Data platform agents
🧱Agent builders
🦾Futuristic Agent research projects
🛃 Agent projects build with customers
Etc…

REMINDER: this event is NDA 👀

Thank you!

If you have something cool to show, slide into my Teams DMs this week please. We hope to have an agenda published next week.

We are gathering up a cool lineup of speakers but we’d love to hear from you if you’re working on anything Agent-ey that you’re looking to launch at Build or later

Daniel, Dona, Henk on stage

Hello to my fellow #Microsoft colleagues:

On March 19th, we are having our fifth internal-only #AgentCon. This event is so product teams and customer engagement teams can learn what’s working for others and what’s coming up.

Come and watch me fight and yell at AI as I try to get it to do my job.

BONUS: I’ll share my workflow for my dev projects and exactly which segments I use AI for (it’s not all of them!)

Thurs at 3:15 pm.

See you there 🇪🇪

Website snippet of this talk

Okay Cats of #CTTT25!

I have a *surprise* session this week called “Actually AI WILL Take Your Job!”

This will be different than my *usual* yelling because I will get hands-on live with GitHub Copilot and show you the 5 things I use it for all the time.

Hahaha let’s definitely gather our nerds. I’m planning something special for you all 👀

I’ll be sharing what I think is a good use of your time and what things to wait on so you don’t get frustrated and quit agenting too soon.

It’ll full of drama and truths. See you then! 🛫🇪🇪

cloudtechtallinn.com

Dona wearing a giant coat, hat and scarf

I’m bundled up within an inch of my life and heading to TALLIN for #CTTT25!

This time I’ll be salty (😹) about all things AI Agents!

“FEELING AGENT-Y, WON’T DELETE LATER” drops on Friday 👀

//so curious what the youths of the next decade will think is their OG coding language

Tattoo that says #include <hustle.h>

Youth at a conf recently: What was your first coding language ?

Me: Binary, but the one I learned to really use was C++

Youth: it raises an eyebrow that it wasn’t C# given you work at Microsoft

Me: Yeah, C# hadn’t been invented yet

Youth: 👀👀👀

Me: Yes, I am THAT old 😹

Thank you for being here!

Dona with AI tour badge

Hello #MicrosoftAITour Johannesburg! 🇿🇦

I’ll see you all at my Imposter Syndrome in the Era of AI spiel at 10:50 — I’ll show you 10 steps to get over your own insecurities and become the AI proficient person your biz needs! 👀

Now it’s time for @scott.hanselman.com ‘s keynote on floor 5 💝

HOMEWORK: If you have ideas on the kinds of events and activities you'd like to see from us to make AI Adoption easier for your life and biz, please holler below!

It’s going to be a wild year in tech and we have assembled a wildly exceptional crew 💞

We have already started our global shenanigans to create AI Power Users out of all y'all. We will do many a virtual #HackTogether and in-person #AgentCon and so much more.

@tommylee.bsky.social who will continue to lead Green computing into the era of AI

…and of course I will continue my Copilot and Agent troublemakery 😇

@aprildunnam.bsky.social who will continue to lead the Power Platform & Dynamics 365 Advocacy teams

@regularitguy.com who will now lead the Modern Infrastructure & Security Advocacy teams

@soniacuff.com will now lead the Cloud Native & Linux Advocacy teams

AND…

We're VERY excited to tackle this challenge in interesting and fun ways in collaboration with all of YOU!

The leaders of this amazing team are some of my fave colleagues in the world. You all know them very well!

Please follow (if you are not):

AI Power Users are people who are not letting AI happen to them, they are *happening to AI* by dictating what scenarios are good for AI and which are not.

Our new team will look after all of you tech communities out there who are figuring out how to use AI to make your jobs simpler, more energizing and less annoying.

Slide of the AI Power Users DevRel team

New Job Scope just dropped 👀

We had a bit of a reorg this week. In addition to me continuing to wrangle the many Microsoft Copilots & Agents via #CopilotLearningHub, I’ll now be wrangling the newly announced AI Power Users DevRel team 😻

Thank you!

You can modify the Task or see all of your Tasks when you click your profile pic in the upper right hand corner. I made a task for safe travel too 😊

Give it a shot and holler. This is a super simple ✨sparkling automation✨ but it gets us all going with natural language automation 💝

4. I'm trying to be in Seattle more and when I'm home, I would like to cook, so, my Task example below is:
TIME: Every Friday at 10 am
DO THIS THING: Give me a soup receipe
CAVEATS: I'm not a kitchen expert so don't make it too complicated

The task schedule workflow described in the post

The task schedule workflow described in the post

The task schedule workflow described in the post

The task schedule workflow described in the post

Try this:
1. Go to ChatGPT.com
2. In the upper left-hand corner, switch the drop-down to 'ChatGPT 4o with Scheduled Tasks'
3. In the Prompt Box, ask for any Task. I used my framework of
TIME
DO THIS THING
CAVEATS

Good morning friends!

Like the Scheduled Prompts functionality in #MicrosoftCopilot, you can now schedule mini-automation things in ChatGPT (it's in Beta and rolling out to everyone)