🚀One-Day Hands-On Workshop: Build Enterprise AI Agents with Copilot Studio & Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI Foundry)

📅 Date: July 17, 2026
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
🏢 Venue: 11955 Freedom Dr · Reston, VA
🎯 Level: Beginners to Intermediate
Artificial Intelligence has moved beyond chatbots. Today's AI agents can reason, orchestrate workflows, interact with enterprise systems, retrieve knowledge, and automate business processes with minimal human intervention. Organizations across every industry are investing in AI agents to improve productivity, reduce operational costs, and create entirely new digital experiences. This intensive one-day bootcamp is designed to help developers, solution architects, enterprise architects, consultants, IT professionals, and technical leaders build enterprise-ready AI agents using Microsoft's modern AI platform. During this hands-on workshop, we will guide you through building intelligent agents using both Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry ( Azure AI Foundry ), giving you practical experience with Microsoft's complete AI agent ecosystem. Rather than focusing only on theory, you'll spend the day designing, building, testing, and deploying real AI agents while learning the architectural patterns and best practices used in enterprise environments.
Morning Workshop (9:00 AM – 12:30 PM)

## Building Enterprise Agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio

Learn how to rapidly create intelligent agents using Microsoft's low-code platform. Topics include:

• Introduction to Generative AI and AI Agents
• Agentic AI and autonomous agents
• Copilot Studio architecture
• Building conversational agents
• Prompt engineering best practices
• Enterprise knowledge integration
• Power Automate and workflow automation
• Agent actions and Tools
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Responsible AI principles
• Common enterprise agent architectures
• Evaluating AI use cases and ROI
• Hands-on labs building enterprise agents

Afternoon Workshop (1:30 PM – 5:00 PM)

## Building Enterprise Agents with Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI Foundry)

Take your AI agent development to the next level using Microsoft's developer-first AI platform. Topics include:

• Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI Foundry) Overview
• Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI Foundry) Agent Service
• Azure OpenAI Service
• Working with GPT, reasoning, and open-source models
• Leveraging Foundry IQ and Azure AI Search for intelligent, context-aware retrieval
• Knowledge grounding and embeddings
• Microsoft Agent Framework
• MCP integration
• Tool calling and enterprise orchestration
• Agent evaluation and observability
• Responsible AI and governance
• Hands-on labs building production-ready AI agents

What You'll Learn :
By the end of this workshop, you'll be able to:

• Understand modern AI agent architectures and enterprise design patterns
• Build conversational and autonomous AI agents
• Create enterprise copilots using Microsoft Copilot Studio
• Develop AI agents with Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI Foundry) and Microsoft Foundry Agent Service (Azure AI Agent Service)
• Connect agents to enterprise knowledge and business systems
• Use Azure AI Search and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Apply prompt engineering techniques that improve agent performance
• Integrate models, tools, workflows, and enterprise data
• Evaluate AI use cases and measure business value
• Apply Responsible AI practices throughout the development lifecycle

Workshop Resources

Every attendee will receive access to cloud resources for the hands-on labs, including:

• Microsoft Copilot Studio
• Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI Foundry)
• Microsoft Foundry Agent Service ( Azure AI Agent Service)
• Azure OpenAI Service
• Microsoft Foundry IQ (Azure AI Search)

Cloud resources valued at approximately USD $500 will be provided for the workshop. Participants are also welcome to use their own Azure subscriptions if preferred.

Who Should Attend?
This workshop is ideal for:

• Solution Architects
• Enterprise Architects
• Software Developers
• AI Engineers
• Cloud Engineers
• Technical Consultants
• IT Professionals
• Technology Leaders
• Anyone looking to build production-ready AI agents using Microsoft's AI platform

Attendee Requirements.

Please bring your own Windows or Mac laptop. Your workstation should include:

• A modern web browser (Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, or Safari)
• Camera, speakers, microphone, and reliable internet connectivity
• Access to Azure and Microsoft Copilot Studio
• (Recommended) Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2022, Rider, or another IDE capable of running Python or C#

Tablets are not suitable for the hands-on labs. Seats Are Limited. This is a fully hands-on bootcamp with instructor-led labs. To ensure every attendee receives individual guidance and support, registration is intentionally limited. Reserve your seat today and spend a full day learning how to design, build, and deploy enterprise AI agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry (Azure AI Foundry).