---
title: "Using AI tools to teach old apps new tricks"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-29"
time: "2:25pm-2:45pm"
track: "Track M"
room: "Track M"
speakers: ["Maria Bledsoe"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Track M"
scheduleRoom: "Track M"
scheduleLabels: ["Track M", "Track M", "sponsor", "confirmed"]
---
# Using AI tools to teach old apps new tricks

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 2:25pm-2:45pm
- Track/room: Track M · Track M
- Speaker(s): Maria Bledsoe
- Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed

- Track: Track M
- Room: Track M
- Session type: sponsor
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
Becoming AI-ready starts with modernizing your legacy systems and technical debt — and keeping them modernized. We’ll show how you can use agentic AI to take on the hardest parts of modernization: analyzing large codebases, mapping dependencies, planning upgrades, refactoring safely, while doing it all at scale with enterprise controls. With GitHub Copilot modernization capabilities, you can move from legacy complexity to modernized apps in days, not months.

## Media Evidence
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## Evidence Graph
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### Media Signals
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## Transcript Status
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## People
- [[maria-bledsoe]]

## Notes
- Pending transcript synthesis when an official recording or confirmed matching video is available.

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Using AI tools to teach old apps new tricks ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 2:25pm-2:45pm - Track/room: Track M · Track M - Speaker(s): Maria Bledsoe - Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed - Track: Track M - Room: Track M - Session type: sponsor - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Becoming AI-ready starts with modernizing your legacy systems and technical debt — and keeping them modernized. We’ll show how you can use agentic AI to take on the hardest parts of modernization: analyzing large codebases, mapping dependencies, planning upgrades, refactoring safely, while doing it all at scale with enterprise controls. With GitHub Copilot modernization capabilities, you can move from legacy complexity to modernized apps in days, not months. ## Media Evidence No related AI Engineer channel video found yet.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[maria-bledsoe|Maria Bledsoe]] — General Manager, Product Marketing at [[microsoft|Microsoft]].

### Topics Covered
- [[agent-security]]
- [[coding-agents]]

### Derived Links And Source Material

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
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