Dona Sarkar
@donasarkar.bsky.social
💞Chief Troublemaker for @Microsoft #AI #Copilot #Agents Extensibility + #CopilotLearningHub⚡️Code-blooded beast 🤷🏽♀️@FastCompany Most Productive 🧠NeurodivergentAF 😹 I WILL volunTELL you at some point
👀 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!
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.
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.
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 👀
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 😹
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 💝
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 😻
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)
Hello beautiful friends! I was creating some AI prompts for #PrimaDonaStudios and thought I’d share this basic one I made.
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 🥂
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:
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! 🎨
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:
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!
Well. I’m so excited to do what I do every night…watch Moo Deng vids and study more yet more Computer Science this weekend (cybersecurity!) while watching the fallout on Twitter 😹 #UnreasonableBehaviour
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Very late …by design 😹 I’ve been reflecting over the last “big” event of the year, #ESPC24 for the past week and a bit. I’ve been attending this conf the longest of any other conf, almost a full decade. Why is that, is my question. What makes this event so special?
Legit I was on a train in London last month wondering “How many Hams are there exactly” 😹
Helloooo Dutch friends! I am BACK in the Netherlands this week and so excited to do a spiel for you at Global AI Day on Tues on AI x Career. We will talk about defining: 1. Your principles around AI 2. Your niche around AI 3. The artifacts you’ll create You’ll emerge as an AI leader in 2025 👇🏼
Hello #ESPC24! Wed at 9 am, I’ll be doing a keynote for you where we will RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE LEARNING. I’ll show you nonsense things & ALSO some interesting AI jobs that you (& your people) are beyond qualified to do 👀 Hide yo wife Hide yo kids Hide yo AI talent See you tomorrow!
At least I’m in the right place this year 😹 Hello #ESPC24 & @espccommunity.bsky.social!! I’m so excited to see you this week! I’ll be yapping at: 👩🏽💻Mon - Prompt-A-Thon 💃🏻Tues - The Tortured Copilots Department 👀 Wed - (deets soon) 👀 👯♀️Thurs - Women in Tech mixer Who’s ready to cause trouble? 🙋🏽♀️
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the concept of “chosen family”. To all of you who’ve said, “Come over. Let’s talk. It’s going to be okay.” I’m so so grateful to you and I’m so excited to do this FOR you! Happy American Thanksgiving from my chosen family to yours 🍂🥘💝
Hello friends! TL;DR: On Dec 13th, I am doing a hands-on workshop (virtually) on how you can be an AI leader for your specific job and industry…aka an AI Power User.
Okay now we’re at the yearly @sethjuarez.com and @markrussinovich.bsky.social discussion about Microsoft, the industry and what’s coming up next. Did you know Mark has LOTS of titles? CTO for Azure Deputy CISO for Azure Technical Fellow Architect of SysInternals #MSIgnite
Day 3 of #MSIgnite!! We will be interviewing/hassling guests all day at the Hub stage and demanding demos 😹 What was your fave thing about #MSIgnite this year? Mine was the Community booth & the LOUD #MicrosoftLearn celebration when someone does the challenge! 💝
One of my fave #MSIgnite segments was this Microsoft + Partner + Customer story with my colleague @chuntingford.bsky.social and his customers at UK Legal firm Burges Salmon LLP on deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot.
