Building, Deploying, and Optimizing AI Agents with Microsoft Foundry | Arize Observe 2026
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Demonstrates building, deploying, and optimizing AI agents with Microsoft Foundry
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As organizations move from AI experimentation to production deployment, they need platforms that can support the full lifecycle of agent development—from creation and hosting to evaluation, optimization, and governance.
In this session, Sebastian from Microsoft demonstrates how Microsoft Foundry helps teams build, deploy, manage, and continuously improve AI agents at enterprise scale. Through a live demo, he showcases how developers can generate agents with GitHub Copilot, deploy them as hosted services, distribute them through Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365, and use automated evaluation and optimization workflows to improve performance over time.
The talk also highlights Microsoft’s latest announcements around hosted agents, agent optimization, agent frameworks, tool integrations, voice interfaces, observability, and evaluation tooling. Learn how Microsoft is building a complete platform for enterprise agent development and what it takes to operate production-grade AI systems at scale.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction to Microsoft Foundry
00:37 The New Era of AI Agents
01:00 Building Production-Grade Agents on Foundry
01:53 Core Components of the Foundry Platform
02:34 Live Demo: Building an Agent in VS Code
03:02 Generating Agents with GitHub Copilot
03:57 Creating a Vendor Management Agent
04:30 Deploying Hosted Agents to Foundry
05:22 Configuring Models and Infrastructure
05:55 Testing Agents in the Foundry Playground
06:18 Publishing Agents to Microsoft Teams
07:03 Closing the Loop with Agent Optimization
07:22 Introducing the Agent Optimizer
08:03 Running Automated Agent Experiments
08:28 Evaluations, Rubrics, and Performance Scoring
09:09 New Microsoft Foundry Announcements
09:26 Agent Harnesses and Agent Frameworks
09:41 Toolboxes and Tool Integrations
09:55 Voice Interfaces for AI Agents
10:15 Hosted Agents and Agent Service Updates
10:25 Scheduled Agent Routines
10:52 Tracing, Evals, and Procedural Memory
11:14 Enterprise Capabilities and Governance
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Chapters (23)
Introduction to Microsoft Foundry
0:37
The New Era of AI Agents
1:00
Building Production-Grade Agents on Foundry
1:53
Core Components of the Foundry Platform
2:34
Live Demo: Building an Agent in VS Code
3:02
Generating Agents with GitHub Copilot
3:57
Creating a Vendor Management Agent
4:30
Deploying Hosted Agents to Foundry
5:22
Configuring Models and Infrastructure
5:55
Testing Agents in the Foundry Playground
6:18
Publishing Agents to Microsoft Teams
7:03
Closing the Loop with Agent Optimization
7:22
Introducing the Agent Optimizer
8:03
Running Automated Agent Experiments
8:28
Evaluations, Rubrics, and Performance Scoring
9:09
New Microsoft Foundry Announcements
9:26
Agent Harnesses and Agent Frameworks
9:41
Toolboxes and Tool Integrations
9:55
Voice Interfaces for AI Agents
10:15
Hosted Agents and Agent Service Updates
10:25
Scheduled Agent Routines
10:52
Tracing, Evals, and Procedural Memory
11:14
Enterprise Capabilities and Governance
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