Join us for a community-led developer event focused on AI-assisted coding with GitHub Copilot. This event brings together developers to explore practical workflows, real-world use cases, and hands-on experiences using GitHub Copilot.

Whether you are new to GitHub Copilot or already using it, this event will help you better understand how to apply AI-assisted coding techniques in everyday development.

Agenda
- 5:30pm: Doors open, Food, and Networking
- 6:00pm: Tech Talk and Q&A, by Reynald Adolphe (Microsoft)
- 6:30pm: Tech Talk and Q&A, by Marcelo Lewin (Cigna)
- 7:00pm: Hands-on lab, led by Maira Wenzel (Microsoft) & Katie Savage (Microsoft)
- 8:00pm: Open discussion and wrap up

Tech talk: GitHub Copilot: Your AI Companion for Every Workflow
Speaker: Reynald Adolphe (Microsoft)

Tech talk: Agent Skills Foundations and Best Practices
Speaker: Marcelo Lewin (Cigna)
Abstract: Agent skills are quickly becoming one of the most practical ways to give AI agents new capabilities, domain expertise, and repeatable workflows. In this workshop, you’ll get a clear introduction to what agent skills are, how they work, and why they matter for non-developers, product thinkers, and anyone building with AI. We’ll walk through the core concepts behind skill design, including metadata, progressive disclosure, folder structure, discovery, integration, and best practices, so you leave with a strong foundation for making AI more useful, focused, and reliable. The session will also include a live demo where we’ll create an agent skill from scratch, showing how to take a simple workflow, turn it into a skill idea, structure it properly, write the SKILL.md file, and keep the skill focused, composable, and usable in real-world scenarios.

Hands-on Workshop
Instructors: Maira Wenzel (Microsoft) | Katie Savage (Microsoft)

Speakers/Topics:
Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Venue:
Microsoft L.A, 13031 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90094.

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community.  Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 5,000+ AI developers in L.A and 500K+ worldwide.

Local and Global AI Community on Discord
Join us on discord for local and global AI tech community:
- Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees;
- Learning AI: events, learning materials, study groups;
- Startups: innovation, projects collaborations, founders/co-founders;
- Jobs and Careers: job openings, post resumes, hiring managers;