Unless you've been hiding under a giant space rock for the last year, you will be aware of the huge levels of hype around agents, agentic AI and Copilots. Very soon, every time that you open your Teams, Copilot, Dynamics - or pretty much any Microsoft app - you will be presented with different agents, whether published by Microsoft, your own organisation, or even buttons inviting you to create your very own agent. You will be encouraged to add them like adding apps on a smartphone, you'll be encourage to use them, to build them and to talk about them to anyone who will listen. But what are agents? How are they managed? How do we define the job that they do? And how do you know they do what was intended, and that they do so in a safe and responsible way? How can Ben Affleck save us?

This workshop will dive into what you need to do about agents and how you can get started building them - but more importantly, we'll cover the framework to follow to ensure you're being responsible and effective when building and using agents and you don't want to miss a thing!

As three people who have been at the cutting edge of the agentic journey in Copilot and beyond, we will share with you experience from our own organisations and our clients. Plus, we'll bring the fun and energy of the potential of agents when done right, not just the doom mongering, end of days agentageddon that could happen!

In this workshop, we will:
- Explain what agents are and the different ways to build one
- Share the key things you need to consider when building and deploying agents, regardless which technology you use
- Provide you with ways to ensure responsible usage of agents
- Show you how to red team your agents and break the hell out of them
- Help you understand how to implement processes to comply with regulations like the EU AI act

In this session, you will get to see (and hopefully build if the demo gods allow) SharePoint agents, Copilot Studio agents and pro code agents as well as the tools available to monitor them right now. Be the saviour for your organsiation.