Ken Muse

Speaking Events

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

  • (3:30 PM PDT) What happens between pressing Enter and getting a response from GitHub Copilot GitHub Universe 2026

    What are AI credits, and why does typing a few words consume thousands of them? Every GitHub Copilot interaction assembles a layered prompt before anything reaches the model. Most developers never see this process, which makes slow or irrelevant responses hard to diagnose.

    In this 90 minute workshop, Ken Muse and Mickey Gousset open up the pipeline: how VS Code builds these prompts, how the prioritization engine decides what stays in the context window and what gets silently dropped, and what real-world patterns look like in the debug logs. You’ll leave knowing how to engineer your interactions for maximum signal and minimum waste.

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  • (9:00 AM PDT) Stop prompting, start delegating: Configure Copilot to own the work GitHub Universe 2026

    Your repository’s Copilot configuration may be all that stands between you and trusting AI to handle complex tasks on its own. In this session, Ken Muse and Mickey Gousset demonstrate how to enhance a TypeScript app by layering GitHub Copilot’s full stack, showing how each capability reinforces the last.

    You’ll see exactly how Copilot spends context and tokens, with before-and-after comparisons that make the efficiency gains measurable. You’ll leave with a working project and an understanding of which Copilot capability fits which task, so you can delegate more and prompt less.

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  • (8:30 AM EST) VSM03 Workshop: Team Development for the Future with Agentic AI & GitHub Live! 360

    Most developers use GitHub Copilot daily — but when it produces the wrong output, hallucinates, ignores your instructions, or just stops being useful, most reach for trial and error. This full-day workshop changes that. Join GitHub forward-deployed engineers Mickey Gousset and Ken Muse as they take you deep inside how AI coding tools actually work — and how to get the most out of them.
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  • (2:00 PM EST) VSW11 The Irresponsible AI Initiative Live! 360

    AI has made its way into every corner of software development – from generating code and making decisions to powering user-facing products. But with great power comes the great potential for a spectacular failure. Join Ken Muse and Mickey Gousset as we present a series of real-world case studies showcasing some of the most cringe-worthy, harmful, and avoidable mistakes developers and organizations have made with AI.
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  • (8:00 AM EST) AIH02 Building the Perfect Beast: Customizing Your AI For Maximum Impact Live! 360

    AI tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude are powerful out of the box – but are you truly leveraging their full potential? Do you trust what the AI is suggesting, or are you constantly double-checking and tweaking its output? The difference between a helpful suggestion engine and a genuine AI collaborator that accelerates your development comes down to how well you’ve configured your environment.
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  • (11:00 AM EST) Artificial Intelligence Live! Panel Discussion: Governance for Agentic AI Live! 360

    AI agents are designed to be persistent, goal-seeking systems – and without guardrails, that tenacity leads to runaway costs, denial-of-service-level demand on data systems, and malware-like probing of sensitive resources. Most of the industry’s attention has gone to agent capabilities, not controls. This panel brings together experts confronting these issues directly.
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