AI Dev Days: Building AI Applications

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. Day 1: Sessions 00:10:44 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. 00:27:39 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. 00:50:43 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. 01:21:38 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. 01:51:05 Aspire for AI Applications, David Fowler, Da