AI agents can reason, collaborate, and act - but what happens when an agent workflow runs for hours, encounters a failure, requires human approval, or must survive an application restart?

In this session, you’ll learn how Azure Durable Functions, Azure Durable Task Scheduler, and Microsoft Agent Framework work together to provide a resilient foundation for production-grade agent systems. We’ll begin with a brief introduction to Microsoft Agent Framework, then explore how Durable Agents and Durable Workflows apply durable execution patterns to long-running, distributed, and multi-agent applications.

Through practical demonstrations, you’ll see how to recover from failures, manage long-running workflows, and observe execution across a distributed system. We’ll also use .NET Aspire and Azure Durable Task Scheduler to create a streamlined local development experience and deploy an agent solution built to run reliably at scale on Azure.

You’ll leave with an understanding of the architecture, tools, and patterns needed to move agentic applications beyond prototypes and into production.

First presented at Global Azure Columbus on April 18, 2026.

Target audience: .NET developers interested in AI agents and Microsoft Agent Framework hosted on Azure.