Microsoft Reactor New York

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.

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The first session in the FabCon and SQLCon recap series will will cover how Fabric brings AI to your data using interoperable Data Agents that work across the AI ecosystem to unlock deeper insights.

You'll also learn how AI-powered data engineering and data science capabilities help teams create intelligent, enterprise-ready solutions.

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.