Greetings, data enthusiasts!

Our March meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 9th, at 5:30 pm! We will meet in person at: Rensselaer Chamber of Commerce, 90 4th Street, Troy, NY.

Please RSVP if you are attending, so we can purchase an appropriate amount of food for everyone. Food is TBA and will be announced closer to the meeting date. For this meeting, we are welcoming Rajaniesh Kaushikk, who is joining us from New York City! Thank you for taking the time and energy to join us and share your knowledge!

Our meeting schedule is as follows:

5:30 PM: Food, soft drinks, and networking 6:15 PM: Chapter news and announcements 6:30 PM: Presentation

We usually wrap up between 7:30 PM and 8:00 PM. Rajaniesh will be presenting on a topic that tied closely with data integrity & quality: "Autonomous Data Agents: Driving Intelligent Workflows with Azure AI and Semantic Kernel".

Session Details: The future of enterprise intelligence is autonomous. In this session, discover how data agents powered by Azure AI and Semantic Kernel are redefining the way organizations design and execute smart workflows.

You’ll learn how autonomous agents can plan, reason, and collaborate to handle complex tasks such as data exploration, anomaly detection, pipeline automation, and real‑time decision support. We’ll explore how Semantic Kernel provides memory and orchestration capabilities, while Azure AI powers the intelligence that drives meaningful outcomes.

Through a live demo, watch autonomous data agents transform raw data into actionable insights—delivering efficiency, scalability, and governance without manual intervention.

By the end of this session, you’ll understand how to design and deploy agentic AI workflows that elevate your organization’s ability to move from data to decisions at speed and scale.