Microsoft Azure Zürich User Group

IN-PERSON meetup at Digicomp

Note: This meetup takes place on the 5th floor!

Please note:

• Please do only reserve a seat, if you really plan to attend.
• Seats are not limited. No need to "block" a seat.
• If you will attend, please register quickly
• Please unregister if you cannot make it.

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AGENDA

• 18:00 Welcome
• 18:05 Session 1: "No Slides, Just Copilot: Build a Real-Time Adoption, Observability & Agent Governance Platform" by Arindam Mitra
• 19:00 Drinks, Food and Networking
• 19:30 Session 2: "Secure AI Agents on Azure: Agent Identity & Governance Insights" by Dr. Alexander Wachtel
• 20:30 end

Session 1: "No Slides, Just Copilot: Build a Real-Time Adoption, Observability & Agent Governance Platform" by Arindam Mitra

Organizations are rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot and building AI agents—but once the licenses are assigned, a new set of questions quickly emerges: Who is actually using Copilot? How is it being adopted? What agents exist across the organization? Who created them? And how do we manage, govern, register, and publish them?

This is not a PowerPoint session.

In this hands-on, live session, we’ll build a practical starting point for Copilot adoption, real-time observability, and agent governance. We’ll explore how to surface Copilot usage through a live observability platform, discover agents being created across the organization, and establish an agent registry to bring visibility and control to the growing agent ecosystem.
We’ll then move from observing agents to building them—working with Agent Builder and SharePoint agents, registering and unregistering agents, managing the agent registry, and publishing agents into SharePoint for users to consume.
The goal is simple: move beyond “We bought Copilot” toward an environment where you can see, build, manage, govern, and operationalize Copilot and AI agents in real time.

Expect live demos, real environments, real telemetry, and working implementations—not architecture slides..

About Arindam:

I am Arindam Mitra | Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies | Azure Cloud Solutions & DevOps Architect | Technical Blogger | Speaker | Traveler | Citizen of the World

You can look me at:
- https://github.com/arindam0310018
- https://dev.to/arindam0310018
- https://sessionize.com/arindam0310018
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/arindam-mitra-28981095/
- https://twitter.com/arindam0310018

Session 2: "Secure AI Agents on Azure: Agent Identity & Governance Insights" by Dr. Alexander Wachtel

This session shows how to run AI agents on Azure not just functionally, but securely and with full governance. The focus is on Azure AI Agent Identity, treating agents as first‑class identities in Microsoft Entra ID - from blueprints and roles to policies and access patterns. In a two‑part demo, the speaker covers how agents appear in Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry, and how they use identities to call tools and access data, as well as how Azure Identity, agent identity blueprints, RBAC, policies, and governance enforce least privilege, auditability, and lifecycle control. Optionally, the session closes with a short look at Agent 365 for enterprise agent governance and Microsoft Purview insights into conversations and data usage for transparency and compliance.

About Alex

Dr. Alexander Wachtel has been recognized as a Microsoft AI MVP since 2020 for his community work in AI area. During his Ph.D. research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), he has published several AI papers in the area of Human-Computer-Interaction, Natural Language Processing & Cognitive Services. Furthermore, he is still teaching agile software engineering at the KIT using Azure DevOps. Due to his teaching activities at the KIT, he was also awarded as a Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) expert from 2016 to 2019. Due to his many years of experience, he has been also honored as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 2013. He provides Microsoft consulting for the industry and public sector and teaches classes for Microsoft Certified Exams.

The event is, as always, free of charge and held in English.

Please reserve a seat and cancel if you cannot make it. Thank you!

This event is sponsored by Digicomp
Thanks a lot for supporting the Swiss Azure Community!