'm Gerjon, an incurable tech optimist with 25+ years of experience pushing the boundary between "can't" and "can" and then automating the boring bits. Today, I help organizations move from AI hype to real business impact. As AI Lead at Interstellar Group, my mission is simple: close the gap between AI ambition and AI results. I bring together AI expertise across the Interstellar ecosystem and help turn AI opportunities into practical solutions that deliver measurable business value. Alongside this role, I serve as CTO at RawWorks, where I help shape practical AI strategies, architectures, and ways of working that customers can actually use. As a Microsoft MVP in both M365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, I actively help organizations understand, adopt, and scale AI solutions that create real outcomes. A Microsoft MVP in AI, speaker, podcast host, and lifelong learner, I believe the gap between AI hype and AI results is closed through simplicity, trust, and execution. 🎤 Speaker Regular speaker at conferences, community events, and user groups, translating complex AI and technology trends into practical insights and actionable guidance. 🎙️ Podcast Host Co-host of Impact of AI: Explored, where together with James O'Regan I explore the opportunities, challenges, and real-world impact of AI.
The browser is no longer just a window to the web—it's becoming the runtime environment for AI agents. We're witnessing a fundamental shift from passive browsing tools to fully autonomous, agentic browsers that navigate, reason, and execute complex workflows at superhuman speed. In this session, explore the rapidly evolving AI browser landscape: from Microsoft Edge Copilot Mode's enterprise-ready AI integration, to Perplexity Comet's conversational task automation, to emerging fully-agentic browsers powered by LLMs and computer vision that can handle multi-step workflows across any website without breaking when pages change. Discover the three evolution phases of AI browsers: Assisted browsing – Search, summarization, content rewriting Integrated AI assistants – Copilot in the browser, tab management, smart workflows Fully agentic browsers – Autonomous navigation, form filling, research completion, task orchestration Learn about critical security and governance challenges: data aggregation risks, prompt injection attacks, compliance blind spots when sensitive data lives in browser memory, and how to implement Secure Enterprise Browsers (SEBs) with Zero Trust enforcement at the browser layer.
Read moreMicrosoft Recall is a groundbreaking, AI-powered feature in Windows 11 Copilot+ devices that captures snapshots of your PC screen every few seconds, creating a local, searchable archive of your activity. This revolutionary tool helps users quickly find and jump back to anything they've seen before — from documents to web pages — using natural language search and a timeline view for seamless productivity. This session will demystify how Recall works under the hood, leveraging Windows AI Foundry to analyze and index snapshots while respecting user privacy through on-device encryption. Attendees will learn practical strategies to tame the “beast,” balancing Recall’s powerful productivity benefits with sound security controls. Key security considerations will be examined, including risks of sensitive data exposure, threats from unauthorized access or malware, and the current limitations of auditability. We will explore best practices for enabling Microsoft Recall in customer environments—such as configuring policies to control snapshot storage, applying strict access controls, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and privacy standards. Join this session to gain expert insights on how to confidently deploy Microsoft Recall, mitigate its security risks, and empower users to reclaim control over their digital workspace history without compromising enterprise security.
Read moreSubtitle: Harnessing the Power of AI Browsers While Navigating the Security Minefield AI browsers are revolutionizing how we interact with the web—autonomous task completion, context-aware intelligence, form-filling automation, and seamless cross-tab awareness are just the beginning. But with great power comes great vulnerability. These tools don't just read pages; they remember sessions, interpret prompts, and process potentially sensitive data with minimal oversight. In this session, we'll explore the double-edged sword of AI browser technology. Discover what makes them genuinely game-changing: agentic automation that can navigate complex workflows, native AI search that replaces traditional links with intelligent summaries, and personalized AI assistants that understand your intent across multiple contexts. Then we'll pull back the curtain on the security nightmare nobody asked for—uncontrolled data flows to third-party APIs, session context leakage, accidental exposure of trade secrets, and the prompt injection vulnerabilities that could compromise your entire digital ecosystem. You'll walk away with: A realistic framework for evaluating where AI browsers fit (and don't fit) in your organization Practical governance strategies: when to disable AI features, where to audit activity, and how to align usage with data handling policies Real-world scenarios showing how confidential information leaks happen—and how to prevent them The critical questions to ask vendors about data retention, inference architecture, and auditability A responsible adoption roadmap balancing innovation with security and compliance Whether you're a consultant/engineer wrestling with how to safely deploy this technology or a security leader trying to contain the risk, this session cuts through the hype and gives you the strategies to tame the beast.
Read moreAI is everywhere—but how do you separate the hype from the truly transformative? In this session, we share a set of real-world AI use cases that have delivered measurable value across industries. From automated anomaly detection in IT operations to AI-powered customer insights, each example is grounded in practical implementation and business outcomes. We show you how they work and how we build them using Power Platform, Copilotstudio and Azure AI Foundry. You’ll learn: How to identify AI opportunities that align with your organization’s strategy. What it takes to go from proof-of-concept to production. How we build AI solutions for customers Lessons learned from deploying AI in environments How to build an AI roadmap that’s realistic, scalable, and secure. Whether you're a tech lead, architect, or decision-maker, this session will equip you with actionable insights to bring AI into your Microsoft ecosystem—without the fluff.
Read moreDescription Discover how Microsoft Entra Private Access revolutionizes secure access to private corporate resources by eliminating traditional VPN complexities with a modern Zero Trust approach. In this session, we will explore: What is Microsoft Entra Private Access? Learn the fundamentals of Microsoft’s cloud-delivered secure access solution, its key features such as identity-centric controls, conditional access, multi-factor authentication, and per-app adaptive access that provide seamless and secure connectivity for remote and on-premises users across hybrid environments. How to Implement Microsoft Entra Private Access at Scale Dive into a practical, real-world case study of deploying Entra Private Access in an enterprise with more than 1,000 users. Understand step-by-step how to configure enterprise applications, set up connectors, apply granular access policies, and roll out secure access without disrupting user productivity. Lessons Learned and Best Practices Gain invaluable insights from the implementation journey, including challenges encountered, strategies for effective segmentation and policy enforcement, user adoption tips, and integration with existing Microsoft 365 security frameworks to maximize security and usability. Whether you are planning to modernize your network access strategy or looking for proven solutions to secure your private applications, this session will provide a comprehensive roadmap and actionable takeaways to empower your organization’s Zero Trust journey with Microsoft Entra Private Access.
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