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Want to build Microsoft Foundry agentic AI solutions but don't know where to start and how to keep up with all the models, tools and best practices? What if you could get all the support you needed right in your IDE - and have a coding agent to assist you in discovering and implementing best practices? Join us as we talk to two experts from the Core AI product teams about what's new for building Foundry Agents with VS Code. First we talk to Junjie Li about the latest tools, features and capabilities coming to the Visual Studio Code extensions ecosystem to help you plan, build, and operate, your AI agents - right from your IDE!! Learn how the seamless integration with GitHub Copilot can help accelerate and inform your developer workflows!

Then, we talk to Filisha Shah from the Core AI product team about a new preview capability - Foundry Skills - available via the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension. Get a hands-on demo that shows you the power of the observe skill in accelerating the inner loop with support for tracing, evaluations, data generation and more.

dbt as a tool helps teams transform data in a clean, structured, and repeatable way using SQL. A dbt job is simply the mechanism that runs those transformations—whether on a schedule, after data arrives, or as part of a deployment pipeline.

AI tools like GitHub Copilot are accelerating development—but speed alone doesn’t guarantee sustainable code. Without clear signals and prioritization, teams risk accumulating technical debt faster than they can understand it. This talk introduces GitHub Code Quality, a developer-first approach to maintaining reliability and maintainability in AI-assisted codebases.

You’ll learn how Code Quality highlights the issues that matter most, avoids noisy backlogs, and enables automated fixes—helping teams ship faster while staying in control of long-term code health.

The second session in the FabCon and SQLCon recap series will cover the latest advancements in Microsoft Fabric that enhance the developer experience. Together, we will explore capabilities and best practices for job scheduling, proactive and reactive monitoring, troubleshooting, versioning, and deployments.

By attending this session, you will learn how these improvements can help you efficiently deploy, operate, troubleshoot and optimize jobs within your data solution.