Microsoft Reactor New York

Partner Spotlight: Hugging Face - How to build AI with Hugging Face in Microsoft Foundry
With open source models, you can build your own AI applications for text, audio, images and more. How do you deploy them securely within your enterprise environment? Join Jeff Boudier from Hugging Face to learn about the latest and greatest open models, and how to easily deploy them in your Azure account with Microsoft Foundry.

Technology Spotlight: Agent 365 & Work IQ - Building enterprise agents that you can trust your data with
Agents are easy to build but hard to govern, scale, and trust in real work. In this conversation, we unpack why Agent 365 as a control plane is the critical missing layer, and how Work IQ MCP servers turn productivity systems into efficient, fully governable tools for agents. Learn how moving from prompt‑level hacks to platform‑level design unlocks real productivity gains, all of this without sacrificing control.

If you care about agents that actually get work done at enterprise scale, this is the paradigm shift that matters. Join Srikumar Nair from Microsoft to learn more about this topic.

What if you could go from a spark of an idea to a fully working AI agent—complete with reasoning workflows, evaluation, and deployment—in the same place you write your code? With the AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry extension for VS Code, that’s now real.

In this session, we’ll walk through an end‑to‑end developer experience that makes AI development feel intuitive, visual, and incredibly fast: explore cutting‑edge models, generate and refine agents with GitHub Copilot, visualize and debug complex workflows, replay agent events to pinpoint issues instantly, evaluate quality with built‑in tools, and deploy directly to Foundry—all without ever leaving VS Code.

If you’re building AI apps or agentic systems, this talk will show you how to turn your ideas into intelligent, production‑ready experiences with surprising speed and confidence.

In this episode of Azure Decoded, our team breaks down what Fabric IQ unlocks: a shared semantic foundation that helps teams and AI reason over data. You’ll see a practical demo of how Fabric IQ unifies business semantics across data, models, and rules; then powers data agents that ground natural-language questions in consistent definitions of entities, relationships, and metrics for more trustworthy answers. We’ll also cover how these agents can be used inside and outside Fabric (including via Microsoft Foundry), so data engineers, developers, and AI devs can move faster from insight to action with less prompt wrangling.

What you’ll learn:
• How Fabric IQ creates a shared semantic foundation that unifies business entities, relationships, and metrics across data, models, and systems
• How to build and use Fabric IQ–powered data agents that ground natural‑language questions in business context and return more accurate, trustworthy insights across tabular, graph, and real‑time data.
• How to apply Fabric IQ in real-world developer workflows, including a live demo showing how data engineers and AI developers can move faster from data to decisions using Fabric, Foundry, and agent-ready architectures.

Who should attend: Developers, AI Developers, Data Engineers, solution architects, and technical professionals

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