QCI AI Symposium

Agenda for QCI's AI Symposium

When: April 16 — 3:30–6:00 PM

Where: Embassy Club West (520 Market St, West Des Moines, IA)

3:30 PM	Arrival	Drinks, apps, meet, and mingle.
4:00 PM	Eric Protzman Opening	Introduction to the AI Immersion Workshop.
4:05 PM	Mehul Bhuva Building Sprout AI - SeedOps Savant: Corteva's Enterprise RAG Platform on Azure AI Foundry	Sprout AI RAG-based chatbot using Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Custom Blazor frontend + Azure AI Foundry GPT 5.2 backend architecture Enterprise features: multi-lingual support, citations, visual insights, and profile-based access control Databricks integration (current & future): connecting Genie Spaces and vision for agentic AI workflows Chat analytics, user feedback, and usage metrics via Power BI and CosmosDB
4:20 PM	Ben Dunkerton Building Useful Agents (Not Just Chatbots)	Overview of agent tooling: MCP, LangChain, LangGraph How to evaluate agent reliability and performance Examples of non-chatbot AI projects Demo: agent graph with evaluation harness
4:35 PM	Adam Drees Agents as Part of Your Engineering Team	How to integrate agents into the dev workflow How to prompt effectively Using BMad inside real development workflows Demo: good vs bad prompts; development cycle of a story
4:50 PM	Q&A	Q&A with the speakers.
5:00 PM	Networking and happy hour	Continue the conversation with speakers and guests.