Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Title: Build a RAG-based Retail Copilot Code-First on Azure AI Foundry
Abstract: Build a RAG-based Retail Copilot Code-First on Azure AI Foundry
Want to build a RAG-based custom chat AI code-first but don’t know where to start? We'll deconstruct Contoso Chat, an open-source sample teaching you to build a retail chat AI with product data in Azure AI Search and customer data in Azure Cosmos DB. Walk through the GenAIOps lifecycle and tools on the Azure AI Foundry platform, plus gain a sandbox sample to explore and extend!
Speaker: Nitya Narasimhan
Bio: Nitya Narasimhan is a Ph.D and Polyglot with 25+ years of software research and development experience spanning industry, academia and startups. She is currently a Senior AI Advocate at Microsoft, serving as 'developer zero' for the product teams, helping empower AI engineers to build intelligent apps on Azure by building skilling content and code samples at enterprise scale. Find her at #in/nityan and follow her visual storytelling adventures at @SketchTheDocs.
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Azure Cosmos DB Conf is a free virtual developer event co-organized by Microsoft and the Azure Cosmos DB community. This is our fifth Azure Cosmos DB Conf. Sessions are a combination of Microsoft and community delivered. Come and learn more about Azure Cosmos DB. See what others in the community are building.
April 15, 2025 9AM – 12PM PT
To explore all sessions, visit: https://aka.ms/AzureCosmosDBConf25Playlist
🔗 Useful Links
• Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2025 Website – https://aka.ms/AzureCosmosDBConf
• Evaluate Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2025 Sessions - https://aka.ms/EvalCosmosConf2025
• Subscribe to Azure Cosmos DB on YouTube – youtube.com/AzureCosmosDB
• Follow Azure Cosmos DB on X – twitter.com/AzureCosmosDB
• Follow Azure Cosmos DB on LinkedIn – linkedin.com/company/azure-cosmos-db
#AzureCosmosDBConf #AzureCosmosDB
Title: Build a RAG-based Retail Copilot Code-First on Azure AI Foundry
Abstract: Build a RAG-based Retail Copilot Code-First on Azure AI Foundry
Want to build a RAG-based custom chat AI code-first but don’t know where to start? We'll deconstruct Contoso Chat, an open-source sample teaching you to build a retail chat AI with product data in Azure AI Search and customer data in Azure Cosmos DB. Walk through the GenAIOps lifecycle and tools on the Azure AI Foundry platform, plus gain a sandbox sample to explore and extend!
Speaker: Nitya Narasimhan
Bio: Nitya Narasimhan is a Ph.D and Polyglot with 25+ years of software research and development experience spanning industry, academia and startups. She is currently a Senior AI Advocate at Microsoft, serving as 'developer zero' for the product teams, helping empower AI engineers to build intelligent apps on Azure by building skilling content and code samples at enterprise scale. Find her at #in/nityan and follow her visual storytelling adventures at @SketchTheDocs.
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Azure Cosmos DB Conf is a free virtual developer event co-organized by Microsoft and the Azure Cosmos DB community. This is our fifth Azure Cosmos DB Conf. Sessions are a combination of Microsoft and community delivered. Come and learn more about Azure Cosmos DB. See what others in the community are building.
April 15, 2025 9AM – 12PM PT
To explore all sessions, visit: https://aka.ms/AzureCosmosDBConf25Playlist
🔗 Useful Links
• Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2025 Website – https://aka.ms/AzureCosmosDBConf
• Evaluate Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2025 Sessions - https://aka.ms/EvalCosmosConf2025
• Subscribe to Azure Cosmos DB on YouTube – youtube.com/AzureCosmosDB
• Follow Azure Cosmos DB on X – twitter.com/AzureCosmosDB
• Follow Azure Cosmos DB on LinkedIn – linkedin.com/company/azure-cosmos-db
#AzureCosmosDBConf #AzureCosmosDB










