Conversational AI apps

It's 2025 and we're all adding AI features to our apps. But the tech moves so fast - what solid ground can you actually build on?This talk will focus on one of the best established patterns: building chat UIs that accept natural-language instructions. This includes:Getting started with Microsoft.Extensions.AI and Aspire (without needing any paid service) Ingesting, indexing, citing, and visualizing your custom business data sources for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) Teaching AI how to retrieve data from your APIs and invoke your app's actions on behalf of a user Consuming and building Model-Context Protocol (MCP) servers for easy interop across AI systems A peek into potential future tooling that simplifies the development processThis is a fast-paced deep dive into how to do it - it's coding demos all the way through! By the end you'll hopefully have a strong sense of which parts are relevant to your scenarios and how to wire them together into something genuinely useful for your users. Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzF5XpzkZeg&list=TLGG7qyJwEWYNdExMjAzMjAyNg