AI is no longer a research topic — it's a production engineering discipline. But before you can build, you need to understand the landscape: what AI actually is today, how it evolved from machine learning models into autonomous agents, and which Microsoft platform fits which problem.

This full-day session starts from the foundations and builds up to a working agent deployed to Microsoft Teams — entirely through the no-code and low-code capabilities of Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio.

You will learn when Copilot Studio is the right tool and when Microsoft Foundry is the better choice — a decision that is less obvious than it looks. You will then go hands-on: creating MCP servers using the Azure Function MCP Extension and using Data API Builder, grounding your agents with knowledge bases, and shipping those agents directly to Teams.

No prior agent experience required. By the end of the day, you will have built and deployed a real agent — and you will know exactly why every architectural decision was made.