AI Dev Days 2025
2025-12-10..2025-12-11
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who it's for
software engineers, ai engineers, platform engineers, developer experience engineers, devops engineers, engineering managers, site reliability engineers
topics
multi-agent orchestration; Model Context Protocol (MCP); model router for staging; Microsoft Foundry model catalog; local on-device registry; agent workspace containment; GitHub Copilot coding agent; Playwright agent; retrieval-augmented generation vector stores; Durable Functions hosting
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome and Top of Mind | Jay Parikh | 15m |
Day one overview shows product-level specifics: Microsoft Foundry adds Anthropic to its model catalog, exposes a model router for side‑by‑side staging, and… | ||
| Build and Manage AI Apps w/ Your Agent Factory | Yina Arenas, Amanda Silver, Sarah Bird, Marco Casalaina | 22m |
Microsoft Foundry claims to unify models, data, and tools with enterprise SLAs and governance while already running in over 80,000 organizations. It ties… | ||
| AI powered automation & multi-agent orchestration | Shawn Henry | 26m |
Microsoft announces a unified Microsoft Agent Framework (Semantic Kernel + AutoGen successor) that connects to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock and local… | ||
| Unlock agentic workflows for your apps | Alexander Sklar, Roberth Karman | 23m |
Windows is shipping a local platform for agentic workflows that registers and isolates MCP servers, showing an end-to-end demo of packaging, installation… | ||
| Aspire for AI Applications | David Fowler, Damian Edwards | 26m |
Aspire adds an MCP server now runnable from the CLI so coding agents get full app context (logs, traces, config) and can execute commands like restart or… | ||
| Ship faster. Stress less. Idea to ops | Nir Mashkowski, Mandy Whaley | 26m |
Azure demonstrates end-to-end agentic DevOps: the Azure MCP server (GA, covers 47 services, ships in Visual Studio 2026 and VS Code) gives LLMs access to… | ||
| Driving agentic innovation w/ MCP as the backbone of tool-aware AI | Maria Naggaga | 16m |
Microsoft describes the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a standardized, secure connector letting LLM-driven agents call tools like GitHub, Playwright, Figma… | ||
| Building AI Agents | April Gittens, Rong Lu | 25m |
Walks through building a working agent that moves from VS Code prototype to Azure deployment using AI Toolkit and GitHub Copilot, with live model… | ||
| From prompt to production: Build real-world AI apps | Scott Addie, Arun Sekar | 23m |
Shows how Microsoft Foundry exposes 11,000+ models via the OpenAI Responses API and official SDKs for .NET, Python, JavaScript, Java and Go, and demos… | ||
| Build a Pizza Ordering Agent | Gustavo Cordido | 01h 03m |
Live workshop shows how to deploy a GPT40 model on Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, create a Python agent and thread, and add RAG by uploading documents into a… | ||
| Scripting the GitHub Copilot CLI - Deep Dive | John Lindquist | 26m |
Dives into the Copilot CLI workflow: runs Copilot from the terminal with -p (prompt) and allow tools to emit standard out, uses command substitution and… | ||
| Tackling tech debt | Brittany Ellich | 16m |
Claims that AI agents let teams clear backlog items faster with less manual work and demonstrats it by assigning a GitHub issue to GitHub Copilot’s coding… | ||
| Plan, Specify, and Implement | Den Delimarsky, James Montemagno | 36m |
An open-source toolkit called SpecKit packages prompts, scripts and a small CLI to turn product scenarios into executable specs, plans and tasks, integrating… | ||
| The Intelligent Development Environment | Mads Kristensen | 23m |
Visual Studio 2026 claims 30% faster startup, nearly 2x faster solution load and hang time reduced by over half, after fixing 5,000 user reported issues and… | ||
| How I shipped more code and products than ever before | James Montemagno | 18m |
Claims fast delivery and concrete results: multiple apps (Scorekeeper, Bingo, Pod Stats, Trim Tally) plus a production tool Feedback Flow that pulls threads… | ||
| Building AI Applications | Jay Parikh, James Montemagno, Yina Arenas, Amanda Silver, Sarah Bird, Marco Casalaina, David Fowler, Damian Edwards, Nir Mashkowski, Mandy Whaley | 05h 17m |
Claim: Microsoft Foundry and its Agent Framework run production agents now — teams deploy models, orchestrate multi‑agent flows and observe + govern them… | ||
| Using AI to Enhance Developer Productivity | Martin Woodward, Olivia Guzzardo, Kai Maetzel, Brigit Murtagh, Connor Peet, Logan Ramos, Tyler Leonhardt | 06h 22m |
VS Code 1.07 shows concrete results: a unified Agent HQ that runs local, background and cloud agents; background agents use isolated git work trees so… | ||
| A Unified Agent Experience | Josh Spicer, Osvaldo Ortega Valencia | 25m |
A single VS Code workflow unifies local, background, and cloud agents so you can run multiple sessions concurrently, delegate a task to the GitHub Copilot… | ||
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