Dennis Adolfi

As of September 2025, I'm a Microsoft MVP in Azure AI Foundry! This enables me to continue to focus broadly on my contributions to the Microsoft AI ecosystem and not having to worry about not having enough contributions in one very specific narrow genre to maintain the award. I will of course continue Responsible and Trustworthy AI strategies and advisory since this is a topic close to my heart, alongside my other more implementation-focused AI contributions. …

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of hosting a Fika Fast Talk at our office in Gothenburg on Microsoft’s latest (preview) solution for running AI models locally on-device: Foundry Local.…

Humbled and honored to share that I’ve been awarded Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) in the AI Platform award category. Thank you Microsoft for this continued honor and being part of this lovely community.…

In a recent article, I covered how to set up Foundry Local to run on your own local machine to access it from your terminal. In a follow-up article I also covered how to give your local model a friendly user-interface using Open-WebUI. Now, let's take the next logical step and bring your local AI model development directly into the place where we developers spend most of our time: Visual Studio Code.…

Honestly, it's getting harder and harder to impress me these days. There's just so much awesome new stuff coming out around AI, but this latest release from Microsoft really caught my attention. Trust me, this is something you' need to keep an eye on.…

What a night! Yesterday’s "AI in Action: What’s next?" event in Gothenburg was packed with inspiration, insights and engaging conversations. …

Yesterday at Microsoft AI Stockholm was an incredible experience! I had the chance to connect with so many amazing partners and clients, discussing the future and potential of AI together with my lovely colleagues Teresa Thorsson, Pernilla Vinneby, Sara Ingvarsson, Dan Jacobsson, Stefan Andersson Nystedt and Dr Peter Stiernstedt.…

Yesterday, we hosted a fantastic Microsoft Trustworthy AI meetup in Gothenburg, named Fika Fast Talk, bringing together 35 professionals for an insightful evening. The session dived into the principles of Microsoft’s Trustworthy AI framework for responsible AI, exploring topics such as security, privacy, and safety in AI solutions.…

This week, I had the pleasure of hosting a Microsoft Community Lunch Session at Knowit, with an audience of about 100 people. The focus of the session was on getting started with Azure AI Studio - a platform that has been generating a lot of buzz since it was release at Microsoft Build in May 2024.…

A few months ago, at the Microsoft Build 2024 Developers Conference in Seattle, Azure AI Studio was made generally available after being in preview since November 2023. In this blog post I will guide you through getting started with Azure AI Studio and demonstrate how to send a prompt to a GPT model using the OpenAI API.…

I'm extremely grateful and proud to share that I’ve been awarded Microsoft MVP for the 3rd time in my career. Thanks Microsoft for this honorable recognition and this amazing community. Also congratulations to all you new and renewed MVPs out there!…

I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at Dev Day Gothenburg. I’ll be hosting a session on Machine Learning with ML.NET and SLM (Small Language Models) with a workshop on Azure AI Studio based on my tutorial on the same topic.…

Last week, I had the opportunity to host a Lightning Talk at Knowit Experience Gothenburg, introducing the team to the basics of ML.NET and how to get started with machine learning.…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we develop applications. As a .NET developer, you can use ML.NET from Microsoft to integrate machine learning (ML) into your .NET applications. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through creating a simple AI application using ML.NET in less than 5 minutes.…

Better late than never I guess. The other day it dawned on me that I’m actually a Microsoft MVP. Like for real!…

Last week I opened my email and got a very pleasant surprise: I've been awarded Microsoft MVP 2022!…