Events / Chicago

Getting the Most of GitHub Copilot for Development and Modernization

AI Collective Chicago and the Chicago Java Users Group host an evening meetup on using GitHub Copilot for day-to-day development and legacy app modernization, aimed at working engineers and architects.

Wed, Jun 17, 5:00 PMChicago Loop, Chicago, IL

Why it matters

Copilot's agentic features now handle dependency upgrades, build fixes, and containerization — exactly the unglamorous maintenance work where AI coding tools either prove ROI or quietly burn budget.

The tokenmaxxing angle

Modernization jobs are long-context, multi-file workloads — the expensive end of code-assistant inference. How Microsoft prices and routes that compute under Copilot's subscription is a live token-economics question.

From the organizers

Speaker is Bruno Borges, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft; the page shows a 5:00-7:45 PM agenda, approval-required registration, and 29 attendees registered.