Building an AI agent that works in a demo is the easy 20%: the part that earns applause and the word “transformative.” The other 80%, the boring load-bearing engineering that decides whether the thing survives a Tuesday in production, is what this full day is about. Framework names keep changing (Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Agent Framework, Foundry, whatever ships next quarter), but the production problems are stubbornly eternal.
Across the day we build a genuinely agentic C# system the way a grown-up .NET application is built, and face every question teams hit the moment the prototype stops being cute: where the agent lives, what's allowed to call what, how tools get their dependencies, how to keep business rules out of your prompts and in code you can actually test, how to log prompts without building a surveillance swamp or a future legal exhibit, what happens when the model times out or loops or is talked into something foolish by a malicious support ticket, and the one every demo dodges: how do you test a thing that answers differently every time?
We assemble it all into a deliberately boring, sturdy reference skeleton you take home, because boring, in production, is the highest compliment there is. For C# developers who know .NET well and AI patterns barely, and who would very much prefer their agent didn't become an expensive, confident accident

Full day (half-day and conference-length versions available) · hands-on C# · .NET 10 · has sold out on first outing

Attendees need laptops with a .NET 10 SDK; room with power and reliable internet. Half-day version covers architecture, tools and testing; conference-length distillation also available.