AI Dev Days

5:00 PM - 10:00 PM (UTC)

The first day of AI Dev Days is all about Azure, GitHub and building AI applications. Topics will include Agentic DevOps, Azure SRE Agent, Microsoft Foundry, MCP, and Models. Join us for highlights from Microsoft Ignite and GitHub Universe 2025 and a hands-on lab to help you put the latest product features into practice right away. | Session Time | Session Title | Session Description | Speaker | | ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | | 9:00 AM PT | Welcome and Day 1 Keynote | Jay Parikh welcomes you to Day 1 of AI Dev Days | Jay Parikh | | 9:10 AM PT | Build and Manage AI Apps with Your Agent Factory | 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. | Yina Arenas, Amanda Silver, Sarah Bird, Marco Casalaina | | 9:40 AM PT | AI powered automation & multi-agent orchestration in Microsoft Foundry | 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. | Shawn Henry | | 10:10 AM PT | Unlock agentic workflows for your apps using MCP on Windows | 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. | Alexander Sklar, Roberth Karman | | 10:40 AM PT | Aspire for AI Applications | 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. | David Fowler, Damian Edwards | | 11:10 AM PT | Ship faster. Stress less. Idea to Ops with Azure and GitHub Copilot | 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. | Nir Mashkowski, Mandy Whaley | | 11:40 AM PT | Driving agentic innovation with MCP as the backbone of tool-aware AI | 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 | Maria Naggaga | | 12:10 PM PT | Building AI Agents with VS Code and GitHub | 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. | April Gittens, Rong Lu | | 12:35 PM PT | From prompt to production: Build real-world AI apps with Microsoft Foundry using models from OpenAI/Anthropic | 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. | Scott Addie, Arun Sekhar | | 1:00 PM PT | Hands-On Lab: Build a Pizza Ordering Agent with Microsoft Foundry and MCP | In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to build intelligent, domain-specific AI agents using Microsoft Foundry Agent Service. We’ll go step by step—from creating a basic agent to extending it with custom tools, external data, and live integrations. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have built your own Contoso PizzaBot. | Gustavo Cordido |

4:00 PM - 10:00 PM (UTC)

Day two of AI Dev Days is all about Azure, GitHub and using AI to make your coding better. Topics will include Agent HQ, VS Code, Visual Studio 2026, GitHub Copilot Coding Agent, and app modernization. Join us for highlights from Microsoft Ignite and GitHub Universe 2025 and a hands-on lab to grow your skills with the latest AI developer tools. | Session Time | Session Title | Session Description | Speaker | | ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 8:00 AM PT | Welcome and Day 2 Keynote | Martin Woodward welcomes you to Day 2 of AI Dev Days | Martin Woodward | | 8:10 AM PT | VS Code Release 1.07 | 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! | Olivia Guzzardo, Kai Maetzel, Brigit Murtagh, Connor Peet, Logan Ramos | | 9:05 AM PT | Introduction to GitHub Copilot CLI | Transform your terminal into an AI-powered development environment with GitHub Copilo't CLI, which brings the same runtime that powers GitHub Copilot coding agent directly to your command line. In this GitHub Universe 2025 demo, discover how you can use Copilot CLI to build, debug, and understand code through natural language interactions. Watch as the team demonstrates real-world terminal-first development workflows invoking a coding agent, while maintaining full transparency and control throughout.C27 | Ryan Hecht | | 9:20 AM PT | Scripting the Copilot CLI to Do Your Job for You | 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. | John Lindquist | | 9:50 AM PT | A Unified Agent Experience in VS Code | 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. | Josh Spicer, Osvaldo Ortega Valencia | | 10:20 AM PT | Build and Leverage Custom Agents | 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. | Harald Kirschner | | 10:35 AM PT | Leveraging the full MCP spec to help your daily development | 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. | Tyler Leonhardt, Connor Peet | | 11:05 AM PT | Using multi-agent workflows in the design process | 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. | Elijah King | | 11:20 AM PT | Tackling tech debt with the GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent | Before the age of agents, tech debt often went straight from the backlog to the graveyard. While it’s important to continually identify ways to improve your services, it can be difficult to prioritize those items over customer-facing enhancements. With the introduction of AI agents, that paradigm has shifted: you can now more easily modernize, refactor, and evolve your codebase, ensuring it never becomes the next legacy. 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. | Brittany Ellich | | 11:40 AM PT | Visual Studio 2026 - The Intelligent Development Environment | 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. | Mads Kristensen | | 12:05 PM PT | Plan, Specify, and Implement (Spec Kit & Plan Mode) | 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. | Den Delimarsky | | 12:35 PM PT | How I shipped more code and products than ever before with GitHub Copilot | 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. | James Montemagno | | 1:00 PM PT | Hands-On Lab: The Power of GitHub Copilot in VS Code | Get hands on with GitHub Copilot and coding agents all from VS Code! Go beyond the basics of agentic development and see how Copilot and VS Code's agent mode along side MCP servers and custom agents help you boost developer productivity. In this lab we will build and integrate new features into an existing app and see our changes live in minutes instead of days. You will learn how to customize your results from Copilot to get the high quality code based on your teams preferences and see how to run agents beyond VS Code in the background with the Copilot CLI or GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent that runs completely asynchronously in the cloud. | Harald Kirschner |