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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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! 💋

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

👀 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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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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

canadianpowerplatformsummit.com

Canadian Power Platform Summit

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

💁🏽‍♀️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!

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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.

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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 🇪🇪

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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.

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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

cloudtechtallinn.com

Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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 👀

Dona wearing a giant coat, hat and scarf

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

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

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

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 😹

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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 💝

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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 💞

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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.

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

@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 😇

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

@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…

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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):

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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.

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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.

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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 😻

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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 💝

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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

The task schedule workflow described in the post

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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)

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I figure after coding in it single 1998, C++ and I are in a proper long term relationship 😹

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Yep my mind can only process C++ first and everything else after!

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I’m still messing around with making this more robust, but the o1 model keeps losing the pic so still experimenting! Holler me any prompt mods you make. I’d love to learn!

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Then Prompt this: ——— “You are a professional stylist. Do an analysis to figure out which color palette I am. An example would be warm autumn Suggest the best colors for me to wear for my skin tone and what hair color I should consider.” ——

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

First, go to your AI product of choice and upload a pic of you in natural light. I uploaded this basic pic of me at the gym.

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hello beautiful friends! I was creating some AI prompts for #PrimaDonaStudios and thought I’d share this basic one I made.

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

As we fully immerse into the hype of AI Agents this month, let’s remember it’s only an Agent if it’s from the Autonomous region of France. Else it’s just Sparkling Automation 😇 Cheers from Paris 🥂

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Doc is written and out for review in under 2 hours! Can anyone guess where the first external #AgentCon will be?

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

3. “Create the TO line of an email for <my PM counterpart>’s whole org and create a draft email asking for input before EOD Jan 8th.”

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

2. “Look at the past 4 AgentCon event agendas <here> and the new Agent table info above and create a draft keynote agenda of an external AgentCon for January. Prioritize the new stuff. Call it My Copilot Brings All The Agents To The Yard.”

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

1. “Look at these 3 blog posts <here> and make a list of all the Agents mentioned along with one line about what they do. Put these into a table.”

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I’m writing a strategy paper for our team to organize external AgentCons 👀 One thing I find annoying is looking across 5 different places to get the info to put into a doc. Here are 3 Microsoft Copilot prompts I used today to write this doc. I used BizChat in Work mode for all of these:

Dona scheming AgentCon in a very pretty coffee shop

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Happy New Year friends! I wish you a 2025 full of health and abundance…and also a flash of troublemaker energy! Go create good trouble! 🎨

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Holla if you all are ever here and we’ll do it!

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Thank you for listening to my enthusiastic yap about all things wines 😹 We will do these very often starting in April for rosé season so keep an eye on this. Thank you for coming!

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

🐺 The adorable fluffy wolf 🍷 The Two Vinters Reisling 🍷 The Two Vintners Orange wine 🍷 425 Cellars Medina Malbec 🍷 CaveB Semillion

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Our first Tarot & (Wine)Tasting event at #SideHustle was fun 💃🏻 Lots of new grapes to try and so many new friends made! Other than learning about your futures, you all liked:

Collage of pics from Side Hustle last night

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

$20/person for 4 different wines + our new charcuterie boards. 🔮 OH and we will have a fortune teller so come and find out what 2025 holds for you! 15 Lake St #201 Kirkland, WA 98033

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Dona Sarkar @donasarkar.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Okay Seattle-area friends! If you’re ready for an outing, come by #SideHustle on Sunday 29th from 4-6 pm. I’ll be pouring you 4 of my fave local wines of the season starting with this adorable tiny Reisling!

Dona holding up a tiny bottle of Reisling

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