Microsoft Events presents a session featuring Yina Arenas, Sarah Bird, Amanda Silver, and Marco Casalaina on building modular AI agent solutions with Microsoft Foundry, showcasing secure orchestration, scaling, GitHub Copilot integration, and best practices for developers.

Innovation Session: Build & Manage AI Apps with Your Agent Factory

Speakers: Yina Arenas, Sarah Bird, Amanda Silver, Marco Casalaina
Event: Microsoft Ignite 2025

Overview

Join engineering leaders as they introduce Microsoft Foundry’s approach to modular AI development. This session covers how to build, orchestrate, and manage intelligent agents using new workflow features, with a special focus on unifying models, data, and tools under strong enterprise security and observability.

Key Topics

  • Modular AI with Microsoft Foundry: Approaches for assembling and orchestrating AI agents within scalable, secure workflows.
  • Enterprise-Grade Security & Observability: How Foundry delivers robust security guardrails and advanced monitoring for agent operations.
  • Model and Tool Unification: Strategies for leveraging diverse models and integrating different data sources for flexible solutions.
  • Scalability and Agent Management: Techniques for managing hundreds of agents at scale using the Foundry Hub.
  • Demonstrations:
    • Workflow and agent integration using LangGraph.
    • Inventory analysis agent set up with a human-in-the-loop workflow.
    • Showcasing Lufthansa’s use of the Microsoft Agent Framework for scalable operations.
  • Developer Enablement:
    • How GitHub Copilot is integrated for agent evaluations.
    • CI/CD integration to streamline agent testing and deployment.

Detailed Agenda Highlights

  • The importance of trust, security, and runtime guardrails in AI applications.
  • Implementing defense measures against attacks within agent workflows.
  • Model diversity and the flexibility of the Foundry platform.
  • Real-world success stories demonstrating AI agent factory deployment.
  • Best practices for evaluation using developer tools.

Additional Resources

Tags

MS Ignite 2025, Microsoft Foundry, Agent Factory, AI, GitHub Copilot, CI/CD, DevOps, LangGraph, Workflow Automation

Presented by Microsoft Events – Session BRK1706, Intermediate (200)