Visual workflows take you far. But some agent systems are too complex, too dynamic, or too tightly integrated with existing code to be defined declaratively.

When the platform reaches its limits, Agent Framework is where you go next.

This session explores the code-first path to multi-agent orchestration. You will understand when Agent Framework is the right choice over Foundry's visual tools, and what that decision actually costs and gains in terms of control, flexibility, and complexity. From there, the session goes deep into the techniques — how agents are structured in code, how they communicate, how tools are integrated, and how multi-agent coordination is implemented programmatically.

The session closes with Hosted Agents: the production deployment target for everything you have built. Rather than managing containers and infrastructure yourself, Hosted Agents gives your code-first agent system a fully managed runtime with enterprise-grade identity, scaling, and observability — the bridge between local development and production.