Startup Spotlight

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the first episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Corey Harrison from Flip.AI to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the second episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Davit Buniatyan from Activeloop to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the third episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Nicolai Baldin from Synthesized to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the fourth episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Bria.ai to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the fifth episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Wallaroo.AI to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the next episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Chris Hazard from Howso to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC)

Join us for the fifth episode of the Startup Spotlight Live Series, a space where AI startups share their journeys, showcasing their innovative technologies and demonstrating live product use cases. In this episode, Gabriela de Queiroz sits down with Vitaly Gordon from Faros AI to explore how they’re leveraging Microsoft to grow, scale, and address real-world challenges.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC)

Learn how to instrument Azure-based cloud-native workloads using OpenTelemetry across logs, metrics, traces, RUM, and Kubernetes for complete observability.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Learn how to correlate data to get complete visibility and setup effective alerting to reduce noise.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Learn how to use Middleware's AI agent (opsAI) to auto detect and fix issues across infrastructure and applications.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

As AI agents take more of a leading role in crafting code, the “first user” of engineering productivity tooling is shifting from individual human developers to agents. With a human still at the helm of a fleet of agents in producing software, and increasingly less involved in the writing of individual lines of code, maximizing engineering value delivery means making every tool call faster, more token efficient, and more accurate. This session covers concrete cases where tool call efficiency can be harvested immediately: trigram index-based code search, lossless semantic tree access/manipulation patterns, mining data from chat transcripts, and exposing multi-repository commit/PR activity to agents. Learn more at (https://moderne.ai)[https://moderne.ai]

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

Learn how to enhance agentic systems with real, explainable context using Howso within the Microsoft ecosystem. This session walks through how to integrate Howso with Fabric, Copilot, and Power BI to ground agents in enterprise data. We’ll demonstrate how to use Howso's causal discovery, anomaly detection, and data-driven explainability to validate agent outputs, uncover key drivers in your data, and enable more reliable decision-making. Attendees will see how dynamic, data-driven context improves accuracy, trust, and actionability in agent workflows, with grounded examples in real-world use cases. Read more: Howso's 2025 White Paper - A Theory of the Mechanics of Information: Generalization Through Measurement of Uncertainty (Learning is Measuring)

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (UTC)

Most organizations aren't building on greenfield applications. They're building on decades of accumulated code, integrations, and undocumented business logic. As AI becomes a core part of software delivery, teams face a new challenge: how do humans and AI agents work effectively in systems nobody fully understands? This session explores the hidden costs of system ambiguity, compares common approaches to understanding legacy environments, and discusses how organizations can create a persistent intelligence layer with CoreStory that enables safer modernization, faster onboarding, and more confident AI-assisted development.

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (UTC)

Plenty of experienced developers don’t trust AI-generated code, and on a large codebase the agent has never understood they’re right not to. The problem isn’t the model; it’s the missing context. Without a structured, current understanding of the codebase, agents hallucinate, duplicate logic that already exists, and introduce changes no one asked for. This session takes the skepticism head-on and shows what changes when developers and their AI agents work from a persistent intelligence layer grounded directly in the code: fewer hallucinations, fewer regressions, and output a developer can actually review and trust. Built for the engineer who wants AI to earn its place in the workflow, not just be mandated into it. Series Info - https://aka.ms/StartupSpotlight/S-1443 [EventID:27460]

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (UTC)

GitHub Copilot is powerful, but its effectiveness depends on context. By connecting CoreStory to Copilot through MCP, developers give Copilot persistent intelligence about their codebase, architecture, dependencies, and business logic. The result: more accurate suggestions, fewer hallucinations, fewer regressions, and code that works the first time. Join us for a live demo showing how CoreStory helps Copilot deliver smarter, more trustworthy results, and why teams have seen up to 44% better task resolution when AI agents work from CoreStory’s intelligence.