Ed Charbeneau
About
Ed is a Microsoft MVP and an international speaker, writer, online influencer, a Developer Advocate for Deepgram, and expert on all things web development. Ed enjoys geeking out to cool new tech, brainstorming about future technology, and admiring great design. Ed has shared his insights, experiences, and advice around collaboration, knowledge management, social computing, and training at many industry events around the United States. Highly ethical and engaging with an uncanny business acumen, he is a creative community builder and outside the box thinker. Long term business relationships throughout the world within internal communications, employee engagement and marketing as well as IT. Focusing on Financial, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Agency and Professional Services. He has defined, architected, implemented line of business solutions with a touch of style and UX best practices.
Sessions at .NET Conf 2026
1.00 PM – 1.30 PM
Kamis, November 12
1 PM - 1.30 PM PST
The Most Overengineered Pocketwatch Ever Made
Ed Charbeneau
This session is a retrospective on the engineering behind a pocket watch that runs a real-time voice agent. Built end to end in a single week with Claude Code, from product idea to working reality complete with its own product page, this project showcases an entirely agentic workflow for rapid prototyping and iterative development. We'll explore the ESP32-S3 audio pipeline, including capture, echo cancellation, and the barge-in system that lets users interrupt mid-sentence, then follow the audio into Deepgram's Voice Agent API, where speech-to-text, LLM reasoning, and text-to-speech run as a single unified agent. The device becomes actionable when we target it at Azure OpenAI, or at your own ASP.NET Core endpoint hosted in Azure, so the agent's reasoning, function calling, and business logic live in the .NET stack you already know while the device stays lightweight.
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