Gotta Catch 'Em All: Building Your AI Agent Team with Microsoft Foundry
Every Pokémon trainer knows you don't win with just one overpowered Charizard—you need a balanced team of specialized agents working together. Microsoft Foundry is your Pokédex and Battle System combined, helping you select, train, and orchestrate AI agents that complement each other's strengths.

The AI and Agentic AI stack is evolving quickly, with options from different vendors. In the blue corner, we now have Microsoft Foundry (formerly AI Foundry) as new kid on the block

In this session, I'll summarise real-world battle scars from building agentic AI solutions with Microsoft Foundry across charity fundraising (donor engagement and impact networks), medical research (literature analysis), and supply chain optimization (logistics and constraint management).

You'll learn:
What Microsoft Foundry actually is—your Professor Oak's lab for AI agents
How to build balanced teams: research agents (Psychic-type), optimization agents (Fighting-type), engagement agents (Fairy-type)
When to deploy which agent type for maximum effectiveness
Patterns for agent orchestration, evolution, and team coordination at scale
Integration with data in SharePoint, Fabric, RAG—teaching your agents new moves
The Team Rocket of AI: hallucinations, infinite loops in optimization, runaway costs
Real battles won and lost: what worked vs what didn't
When to use Foundry vs other tools

Preferred session duration 50 minutes
Target audience - Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Data Architects
First public delivery (material is fresh in the making)