Beyond the Basics: What GitHub Can Do Today

Microsoft Developer presents a lightning talk that rapid-fires practical GitHub capabilities teams often overlook, spanning collaboration features and modern delivery workflows, plus newer AI and agentic workflow concepts you can apply in day-to-day engineering work.

Overview

The video highlights a set of GitHub features beyond basic repo hosting, focusing on how teams can collaborate on code and ship changes using GitHub’s platform capabilities.

Key areas covered include:

• GitHub collaboration and code workflow features (team-oriented ways of working around code changes)
• GitHub Actions for CI/CD-style workflows
• AI and agentic workflow concepts in the GitHub ecosystem

The goal is to provide a grab bag of concrete ideas viewers can take back to their teams and incorporate into their existing GitHub usage.