What does the ideal AI ecosystem look like, and how can it evolve from supporting single applications to enabling robust AI platforms? What foundational capabilities, such as an AI Landing Zone, are critical to driving your AI app roadmap? How can platform-thinking accelerate your time-to-market, maximise ROI, and streamline the AI developer experience, including LLM operations? This interactive online workshop explores these questions, combining insights, live demonstrations, and practical strategies to help B2C and SaaS businesses modernise, build, or integrate consumer apps and customer interfaces with GenAI.

Designed for CTOs, CIOs and senior technical leaders, we’ll explore the platform concepts, architectures and modernisation approaches that underpin your GenAI journey, with real-world examples and demos. You’ll leave with an ideation canvas and a clear set of next steps to support your app innovation journey with GenAI.

What you’ll take away:

• An overview of platform engineering and its relationship with Generative AI.

• Practical examples of adding Generative AI to an existing application.

• Experience of Generative AI scalability, simulated through live demos.

• Ideation canvas for inspiration built out with Ascent subject matter experts.

• A broad understanding of Responsible AI and its impact on your approach.

• Understanding of eligibility for Microsoft funding for your app innovation journey with GenAI.