2025 was a year of incredible progress for AI and our industry as a whole. At Microsoft and GitHub, we’ve innovated beyond isolated chats and prompts to building systems that collaborate with connected workflows and operational intelligence. This shift can be seen across the stack, from Microsoft Foundry, to GitHub Copilot in VS Code and Visual Studio, to the Cloud Agent on GitHub.com. AI is transforming the way we work internally, our customers are working, and developers more broadly are building. With this rapid era of change, we also recognize the vast amount of updates and training needed to keep up. That is why we’re excited to announce this year’s capstone virtual event: AI Dev Days. This incredible two-day virtual event brings together the best of Microsoft Ignite, GitHub Universe, and .NET Conf! Join us December 10-11 for engaging session and interactive, live workshops – you won’t want to miss it.

What is AI Dev Days?

AI Dev Days is a two-day virtual event that brings together all the latest announcements from GitHub Universe, Microsoft Ignite, and beyond into one place. We’ll cover the announcements and updates that every developer, builder, creator, startup, or enterprise should know to stay on the cutting edge of AI innovation. Whether you’re modernizing legacy apps, building with agents, or exploring the newest AI models, join us virtually and discover the latest innovations with live expert commentary, Q&A, and hands-on workshops.

Event Details

Dates: December 10-11, 2025

Time: Day 1 starts at 9:00 AM PT | Day 2 starts at 8:00 AM PT

Format: Streamed on YouTube, entirely free!

Day 1: Building AI Applications (December 10)

Day one is all about Azure, GitHub, and building AI applications. Join us at 9 AM PT for highlights from Microsoft Ignite and GitHub Universe 2025, plus a hands-on lab to help you put the latest product features into practice right away.

Watch live on YouTube: AI Dev Days – Day 1

Day 1: Sessions

Opening Keynote: Microsoft CoreAI’s Executive Vice President Jay Parikh and Principal Community Team PM Lead James Montemagno kick off the event with insights into the future of AI development.

Build and Manage AI Apps with Your Agent Factory, Yina Arenas, Amanda Silver, Sarah Bird, Marco Casalaina – Step into the era of modular AI. Join our engineering leaders to see how Microsoft Foundry lets you build, orchestrate, and manage intelligent agents using new workflow capabilities. Learn how to unify models, data, and tools with enterprise-grade security and observability.

AI powered automation & multi-agent orchestration in Microsoft Foundry, Shawn Henry – Build multi-agent systems the right way with Microsoft Foundry. Go from single-agent prototypes to fleet-level orchestration using the Microsoft Foundry Agent Framework (Semantic Kernel + AutoGen), shared state, Human in the loop, OpenTel, MCP toolchains, A2A, and the Activity Protocol. Bring frameworks like LangGraph and OpenAI Agents SDK, then deploy as containerized, governed, observable agents on Microsoft Foundry.

Unlock agentic workflows for your apps using MCP on Windows, Alexander Sklar, Roberth Karman – Learn how Windows enables agentic workflows via MCP, connecting native apps, tools, and AI agents. This session covers MCP server development—packaging, security, and MCP Registry integration—and how agents use built-in/custom MCP servers to automate tasks across Windows. Discover how MCP delivers secure, scalable, and extensible AI experiences for users and enterprises.

Aspire for AI Applications, David Fowler, Damian Edwards – Orchestrate front ends, APIs, containers, and databases effortlessly—no rewrites, no limits. Extend Aspire to power any project. When building AI applications developers need insights into their apps flow, token usage, and more. Join David & Damian as they show off the latest Aspire features that streamline AI app development.

Ship faster. Stress less. Idea to Ops with Azure and GitHub Copilot, Nir Mashkowski, Mandy Whaley – Explore how GitHub Copilot and intelligent agents streamline Azure application development from design to operations. This session covers how the Coding Agent, App Modernization agent, and cloud architecture agent accelerate planning and coding, while GitHub Copilot for Azure and the Azure MCP Server simplify deployment and diagnostics. Learn how the SRE Agent and testing agent extend automation into production and quality assurance, enabling end-to-end DevOps with AI-powered workflows.

Driving agentic innovation with MCP as the backbone of tool-aware AI, Maria Naggaga – In this technical deep-dive, Maria unveils how Microsoft is shaping the future of agent-tool interactions through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). As AI agents evolve from simple task runners to autonomous collaborators, MCP emerges as the preferred communication mechanism—enabling secure, scalable, and OS-agnostic tool orchestration across platforms like Microsoft Foundry, GitHub, and VS Code

Building AI Agents with VS Code and GitHub, April Gittens, Rong Lu – In this interactive session, you’ll build and deploy an AI agent using the latest AI Toolkit and GitHub Copilot features inside VS Code. You’ll start with a prototype setup, where Copilot connects to the AI Toolkit through an MCP server to suggest models, open the model playground, instrument code for tracing, enable viewing traces, and finally deploy the agent to Azure. You’ll leave with a functioning, traced, and deployed agent — plus a repeatable local-to-cloud workflow.

From prompt to production: Build real-world AI apps with Microsoft Foundry using models from OpenAI/Anthropic, Scott Addie, Arun Sekhar – Unlock the power of Microsoft Foundry Models to deliver enterprise-ready AI solutions. In this session, you’ll learn how to integrate OpenAI and Anthropic models into your apps using Microsoft’s AI ecosystem. Whether you’re modernizing workflows or creating intelligent experiences, this session equips you with practical guidance and demos to accelerate your AI journey.

Day 1: Live Hands-On Workshop

Build a Pizza Ordering Agent with Azure AI Foundry & MCP: Get practical experience building real-world AI applications in this interactive workshop.

Day 2: Enhancing Developer Productivity with AI (December 11)

Day two focuses on developer productivity tooling to make your coding better. Join us at 8 AM PT for highlights from Microsoft Ignite and GitHub Universe 2025, plus hands-on labs to grow your skills with the latest AI developer tools.

Watch live on YouTube: AI Dev Days – Day 2

Day 2: Sessions

Keynote: Martin Woodward, VP of Developer Relations at GitHub, will open day two with a discussion of how GitHub and Visual Studio Code are revolutionizing the developer experience.

VS Code Release 1.07, Olivia Guzzardo, Kai Maetzel, Brigit Murtagh, Connor Peet, Logan Ramos – Join the VS Code team as they break down all the new big features in the latest release available right now! There will even be some special guests along the way, so you don’t want to miss it!

Introduction to GitHub Copilot CLI, Ryan Hecht – Transform your terminal into an AI-powered development environment with GitHub Copilot CLI, which brings the same runtime that powers GitHub Copilot coding agent directly to your command line.

Scripting the Copilot CLI to Do Your Job for You, John Lindquist – Ready for a deep dive in the Copilot CLI? Go beyond the basics as John shows you advanced ways of thinking about and using the Copilot CLI to help script and automate your daily development activities

A Unified Agent Experience in VS Code, Josh Spicer, Osvaldo Ortega Valencia – Local, background, and cloud agents all come together in a new unified experience to help you create, manage, and organize tasks. Josh and Osvaldo break down the latest features in VS Code enabling you to do more by managing a fleet of agents running on your machine or in the cloud.

Build and Leverage Custom Agents, Harald Kirschner – Local, background, and cloud agents all come together in a new unified experience to help you create, manage, and organize tasks. Josh and Osvaldo break down the latest features in VS Code enabling you to do more by managing a fleet of agents running on your machine or in the cloud.

Leveraging the full MCP spec to help your daily development, Tyler Leonhardt, Connor Peet – Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI models use external tools and services through a unified interface. See how you can leverage MCP servers in VS Code to provide tools for tasks like file operations, databases, or interacting with external APIs.

Using multi-agent workflows in the design process, Elijah King – Agents in Visual Studio Code chat help you execute complex coding tasks autonomously. Leverage the new plan agent for detailed research and track progress with the built in todo list, and so much more. Elijah shows you some of the best practices in leveraging these and other agents in your developer workflow.

Tackling tech debt with the GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent,  Brittany Ellich – This talk will cover how to embrace the process of modernizing legacy software and how to leverage AI agents, like Copilot coding agent, to keep your codebase up to date.

Visual Studio 2026 – The Intelligent Development Environment, Mads Kristensen – Visual Studio 2026 is here and is a huge lead forward for AI-driven development. Join Mads as he goes beyond the basics of code generation and shows the power of Visual Studio with advanced agents to help you debug and profile your applications with AI.

Plan, Specify, and Implement (Spec Kit & Plan Mode), Den Delimarsky – Spec Kit is an open-source toolkit that allows you to focus on product scenarios and predictable outcomes instead of vibe coding every piece from scratch. Den shows off what it is, how to get setup, and how to get started with spec drive development with GitHub Copilot.

How I shipped more code and products than ever before with GitHub Copilot, James Montemagno – From prototypes to production to advanced migrations, this year, like many, I have shipped more code and created more products than ever before. Thanks to Copilot across GitHub, VS Code, and Visual Studio I have streamlined and optimized my workflows to build some astonishing apps. I have learned many lessons along the way, so let’s dive into them.

Day 2: Live Hands-On Workshop

GitHub Copilot Customized – Shaping Copilot for Your Workflow: Learn how to customize GitHub Copilot to work exactly the way you do, maximizing your productivity.

Who Should Attend?

AI Dev Days is designed for:

• Developers looking to integrate AI into their applications
• Emerging AI developers wanting to learn from the best
• Technical decision makers exploring AI tools and platforms
• DevOps professionals interested in agentic workflows
• Anyone curious about the latest from Microsoft Ignite and GitHub Universe

Why Attend?

This event is your opportunity to catch up with the latest AI announcements and best practices of 2025. Not only is the event completely free, but you’ll gain access to:

• 12+ hours of live and on-demand content
• 15+ technical sessions
• 2 hands-on training workshops
• Live Q&A with experts
• Access to all source code and demos on GitHub

Learn from the Experts & Gain Hands-on Experience

The event includes sessions led by Microsoft and GitHub experts, plus industry leaders including, Jay Parikh, Amanda Silver, Sarah Bird, Martin Woodward, Shawn Henry, Marco Casalaina, Yina Arenas, David Fowler, Maria Naggaga, and more!

Each day caps off with a free training opportunity. We’ll run two, hands-on workshops give you practical experience with the latest AI tools and platforms. All workshop materials and source code will be available on GitHub for you to reference later.

Join us December 10-11

Don’t miss this opportunity to accelerate your AI development skills, learn about the latest tools and features, and set yourself up for success heading into 2026.

But Wait There’s More… Global AI Dev Days Events

Can’t make the December 10-11 event? We’re bringing AI Dev Days to developers around the world!

AI Dev Days China

Dates: December 16-17, 2025 Registration: AI Dev Days China

Join our colleagues in China for localized content in Simplified Chinese, featuring the same great sessions and hands-on workshops adapted for the region.

Regional Events Coming in January 2026

We’re committed to serving global developers where they’re at. In addition to our main event and China edition, we’re hosting local-language versions of AI Dev Days workshops in January 2026 for:

• LATAM (Latin America)
• EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa)
• APAC (Asia-Pacific)
• GCR (Greater China Region)

Stay tuned for registration links and specific dates for these regional events!

Thank You for an Amazing 2025!

We hope you join us December 10-11 to cap off 2025 with AI Dev Days – your gateway to mastering AI development with Microsoft Azure, Foundry, and GitHub. It’s been an incredible year of innovation, and we’re excited for even more building and learning in 2026.