Why it matters
AI Engineer session on Build, Evaluate and Deploy a RAG-Based Retail Copilot with Azure AI: Cedric Vidal and David Smith. It adds practical context for how teams are building and operating AI systems in production.
My takeaway: Build, Evaluate and Deploy a RAG-Based Retail Copilot with Azure AI: Cedric Vidal and David Smith is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.