Microsoft Events hosts an advanced session on building and scaling AI agents with Microsoft Foundry, featuring insights on security, integration, and agentic workflows from Ignite 2025.

Accelerating AI Agent Development with Microsoft Foundry at Ignite 2025

Microsoft Foundry is positioned as an enterprise-grade Agent Factory, enabling rapid prototyping, testing, and deployment of intelligent AI agents. This session highlights how Foundry streamlines the process for developers, addressing common challenges and offering advanced features for agent orchestration:

Key Topics Covered

  • AI Agents as the New Operating Model for Work: Explore how agentic models are reshaping enterprise workflows and productivity.
  • Developer Challenges and Foundry’s Solutions: Foundry provides tools for memory, knowledge management, and multi-agent orchestration, addressing pain points in agent creation and deployment.
  • Foundry Models Catalog & Model Providers: Introduction to the new catalog, enhanced support for model providers, and sample integrations.
  • Workflow Feature & Demo: Demonstration of building and customizing agent workflows, including integrations with Microsoft 365 and external services.
  • Enterprise Use Case – Citrix: Insights on Citrix’s transformation using hosted agents for productivity improvements.
  • Compliance & Threat Protection: Foundry integrates with Microsoft Defender and Purview to ensure enterprise-grade security, governance, and compliance.
  • Industry Adoption: Performance metrics and success stories from various sectors using Foundry and AI workflows.
  • Evolution from Chatbots to Agentic Workflows: Transitioning from conversational bots to orchestrated agentic systems.
  • Capgemini Partnership: Collaboration highlights an industry-focused AI Studio powered by Foundry.

Integration and Security Features

  • Seamless Integration: Easily connect agents to Microsoft 365 and other enterprise systems for cross-platform solutions.
  • Bulletproof Security: Defender and Purview provide integrated security layers, ensuring compliant deployment across the organization.

Resources & Next Steps

Speakers

  • Yina Arenas
  • David Feldman
  • Mark Oost
  • Tina Schuman
  • Elijah Straight

This session delivers actionable insights for developers, architects, and IT professionals aiming to leverage Microsoft Foundry’s agent-centric platform for secure, scalable enterprise AI.