Please Note: you MUST Register at this link to attend - Space is limited. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reactor/events/27103/
This in-person event is built for developers and cloud engineers who want to design, build, and deploy real-world AI solutions on Azure. Expect a hands-on, implementation-focused experience using Microsoft Foundry and GitHub Copilot with live demos, guided labs, and practical developer workflows.
#### Speakers
Randi Ratnayake - Beyond Prompts: Building Production-Grade AI with Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents
Traditional AI agents are great for chat experiences, but enterprise applications often require much more than prompts and tools. Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents enable developers to build code-first, containerised agent applications while Azure handles hosting, scaling, identity, and operational concerns. In this session, we'll explore the evolution from traditional Foundry Agents to Hosted Agents, compare the classic and new Foundry experiences, and demonstrate how Hosted Agents enable production-grade orchestration, multi-agent systems, and enterprise integration patterns. Learn when Hosted Agents are the right choice and how they can accelerate your journey from AI prototype to enterprise solution.
Dennis Vroegop - Engineering Agents that Reason, Act and Adapt
In this hands-on lab, you will build an AI agent that reasons, acts, and adapts while navigating a mission-based challenge in San Francisco. Using Microsoft Agent Framework with Microsoft Foundry capabilities, you will progressively add Model Context Protocol tools, agent-to-agent collaboration, knowledge retrieval, and memory plus logging to create a production-ready agentic workflow.
Bron Thulke - GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio: Agents That Debug, Profile, and Test
Explore how GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio helps professional developers debug complex issues, analyze performance bottlenecks, and improve test workflows using agent-powered experiences. We'll cover real-world scenarios across C# and C++ apps, highlight new capabilities coming to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, and show how AI can become a trusted part of your inner-loop development process.
Ahmed Muhi - The honest practitioner's take on agentic AI on Kubernetes
Agentic AI workloads are stateful, bursty, and multi-step, and they often span infrastructure beyond a single cluster. This breakout focuses on what it actually takes to run AI at scale on Kubernetes while keeping systems operable, including practical patterns for serving, training, orchestration, and fleet operations.
Stuart Dobson - One Package Away: Turning Azure Functions into AI Agent Tools with MCP
If you're already running Azure Functions, you're closer to having a working MCP server than you think.
In this session, we'll explore how one NuGet package and a few attribute decorations turns your existing Azure Functions into MCP tools, callable by GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry agents, and any MCP-compatible client. No rewrite. No separate server. Your blob containers, Cosmos collections, and Service Bus queues stay exactly where they are - you're just adding a new trigger type that knows how to talk to agents.
This is a live demo session. By the end, you'll have seen a working Azure Function exposed as an MCP tool, and tested against GitHub Copilot in Agent mode.
Danidu Weerasinghe - "Don't Just Migrate — Build a Migration Machine"
Cloud migration demos usually show a one-off success. This session shows how to build a repeatable migration machine. Starting from a real AWS workload, we use GitHub Copilot Agents plus reusable Skills to automate discovery, architecture design, IaC transformation, code refactoring, pipeline generation, and validation. The key shift is from prompt-heavy, single-use agents to a skills-first model where migration knowledge is modular, versioned, and reusable across projects. You will see how this approach improves consistency, reduces rework, and turns migration from a hero effort into an engineering system your team can scale.
Tama Waddell - Build, Ship & Run code-first Hosted Agents with Microsoft Foundry
You've spent this year building out your agent harness for your coding projects. Some of you have gone further and started automating your own workflows, business processes and SDLC.
How do you build capable agents requires more than just an Agent.md file? How can I get my current harness into the cloud to run automatically. How do you orchestrate agents to talk to one another? How can I use tokens on the cloud rather than my own?
Microsoft foundry provides these capabilities through prompt agents and hosted agents. Hosted Agents are Microsoft Foundry's code-first solution for agentic AI.
Come join Tama as he shares how to get your own fully capable agent deployed into the cloud as a hosted agent. How to build them, ship them and run them so you can automate business workflows for yourself, your team or the company.
Are you ready for the next generation of agents?
AJ Bajada - Roll for Vibes
In Roll for Vibes, I take you on a fast and fun 20 minute journey through how I vibe coded a full companion app for a tabletop RPG in just one day. No grand plan, no prophecy from the DM, just pure instinct and a willingness to let the dice (and the code) fall where they may.
I will show how that single day sprint created a character builder and a chat agent that helps players navigate rules, lore, and those classic moments of “wait, can I actually do that,” all connected to Foundry agents.
It is a real world example of how vibe coding, when done correctly instead of chaotically neutral, can solve real problems and bring a tabletop world to life with surprising speed and style.
James Westall & Akanksha Malik - Cooking up a special LAB (Watch this space)
#### Prerequisites
Space is limited for this event, as such we ask that you do not bring unregistered guests. So we can accurately anticipate guest count, cancel your registration if you do not plan on attending. Please be ready to present your registration confirmation email at the door if requested
