MCP - Model Context Protocol - is coming up on its first birthday and adoption is currently on 🔥 fire 🔥 accelerating the creation and adoption of new MCP servers. Anthropic's original MCP specification: Tools and Libraries for building, testing, and consuming MCP servers: Registries of MCP Servers (these are a couple of examples of reputable ones, but be cautious about any registries, especially rando registries out there!):

Vaibhav Gujral is a seasoned cloud and AI leader with close to 20 years of IT experience,… · Experience: Charles Schwab · Education: Maharshi Dayanand University · Location: Omaha · 500+ connections o...

Join us for the AI Agents World Tour, a global series of one-day conferences designed exclusively for developers building the future with AI agents. From San Francisco to Singapore, we’re bringing to...

I had the opportunity (15-Aug-2025) to talk to Azure Tech Group Bangladesh about how human language has become the new UI as part of their ML Summer School BD program. The talk was recorded and posted to YouTube. The tool used in demos to illustrate an embedding model in action can be found at: funwithvectors.com. And the deck is here: MLSummerSchool-HumanLanguageIsTheNewUI-HowThisIsPossible-05-Aug-2025-pubDownload Connect with Bill and Boston Azure AI

Along with fellow panelists Jason Haley, Veronika Kolesnikova (the three of us run Boston Azure AI), and Udai Ramachandrans (he runs Nashua Cloud .NET & DevBoston), I was part of a Boston Azure AI event to discuss highlights from Microsoft's 2025 Build conference. I knew a couple of the things I wanted to show off were GitHub Copilot Agent mode…

Last night I had the pleasure of speaking to two simultaneous audiences: Nashua Cloud .NET & DevBoston community tech groups. The talk was on Model Context Protocol (MCP) which, in a nutshell, is the rising star for answering the following question: What's the best way to allow my LLM to call my code in a standard way? There is a lot in that statement, so let me elaborate. First, what do you mean by "the best way to allow my LLM to call my code" -- why is the LLM calling my code at all? Don't we invoke the LLM via its API, not the other way around? Good question, but LLMs can actually invoke your code. Because this is how LLMs are empowered to do more as AI Agents. Think about an AI Agent as an LLM + a Goal (prompts) + Tools (code, such as provided by MCP servers). The LLM uses the totality of the prompt (system prompt + user prompt + RAG data + any other context channeled in via prompt) to understand the goal you've given it then it figures out which tools to call to get that done.

The organizers of the AI Community Conference - AICO Boston event did an incredible job. The conference was first-rate and I really enjoyed engaging with attendees and speakers, and learning from everyone. I delivered a new iteration of my talk on how it is possible to have Human Language as the new UI, thanks to LLMs and Embedding models. There was an engaged and inquisitive group!

Earlier today I spoke at the Memphis edition of the Global AI Bootcamp 2025 hosted by the Memphis Technology User Groups. My talk was "Human Language is the new UI. How is this possible?" and resources and a few notes follow. It was similar to, but not identical to, the recent talk I gave. And next time it will be different again.

Earlier today I spoke at the Cleveland OH edition of the Global AI Bootcamp 2025 hosted by Sam Nasr of the Cleveland Azure group. My talk was "Human Language is the new UI. How is this possible?" and resources and a few notes follow. This is from the app I used to show vectors in action: Connect with Bill or other related resources:

29-Mar-2025 Today I attended and contributed a talk to the Boston Code Camp 38 (yes, impressively, the 38th edition of this event). I made the trip with Maura (she gave a talk combining Cryptocurrency And Agentic AI) and Kevin (he gave a talk on Top 10 AI Security Risks). and we got to hang out with and chat with so many cool people from the Boston technology community.

Why Attend the Code Camp?

The Microsoft Disability Scholarship will be awarded to promising high school seniors with disabilities who plan to attend a vocational or academic college and target a career in the technology indust...

Submit a Session

Why Attend the Code Camp?

A hackathon idea to hide sensitive information in the Azure Portal - microsoft/cloudcloak

I was in the audience at the Microsoft PDC on Nov 3, 2008 where Windows Azure was unveiled on stage by Ray Ozzie in the conference’s opening keynote. At the 16:45 mark he graciously tipped hi…

This workbook leverages Azure Resource Graph and provides real-time insights into orphaned assets, empowering you to slash costs, improve governance, and enhance operational efficiency—all from a c…

I was in the audience at the Microsoft PDC on Nov 3, 2008 where Windows Azure was unveiled on stage by Ray Ozzie in the conference’s opening keynote. At the 16:45 mark he graciously tipped hi…

I was in the audience at the Microsoft PDC on Nov 3, 2008 where Windows Azure was unveiled on stage by Ray Ozzie in the conference's opening keynote. At the 16:45 mark he graciously tipped his hat to Jeff Bezos and the AWS team, then announced Windows Azure - a platform with two services: Azure Storage (Blobs, Tables, Queues) and Cloud Services (Web Roles, Worker Roles) - all with the illusion of infinite scale. Later that same day I got hands-on Windows Azure coding experience in a special booth staffed by Microsoft engineers (and the engineer helping me was Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk)). I got to test drive those new super-cool Azure services. From my perspective this was the beginning of the conversation about Platform as a Service (PaaS) in the cloud - and the start of horizontal scale as a mainstream architecture pattern. What an event! Around 15 months from this initial announcement, on Feb 1, 2010, Windows Azure reached "GA" (general availability). In between the initial announcement in 2008 and the GA date in 2010, Boston Azure was born. On Oct 22, 2009, Boston Azure debuted as the first community group of its kind - the first one dedicated to learning about the Azure platform. This post is an update on that journey. Like so much of the rest of the technology world, we have the AI bug too. Accordingly, after 15 years as Boston Azure we are changing calls signs to Boston Azure AI. Simultaneously we are attempting some ambitious in-person training events (see bottom of post for more on this).

Last night I was guest speaker at the Boston .NET Architecture community group. I learned they are now 21-year-olds. That's a long track record! The audience had some insightful questions, which I always appreciate. My talk focused on the perspective of the application architect - and not the data scientist, for example - in how the process works and what are some areas I would need to dig into.