AI Builders
Where curiosity meets code. Join the journey with fellow builders, creators, and dreamers shaping the next wave of AI.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the way software is imagined, created, and brought to life. AI Builders is a dedicated series for developers who want to turn potential into practice. Each season unlocks a new layer of expertise. We begin with the foundations of AI, advance to applying solutions at enterprise scale, and then move into the frontier of multimodal innovation. This is your place to learn, experiment, and prepare for the future of development.
AI in Practice
In 2025, Season 1 dived into real-world applications, intelligent apps, and developer workflows, showing how AI can already reshape the way we build.
GitHub and Azure: Better Together!
Scaling and Maintaining AI Apps on Azure
Code-First LLMOps from prototype to production
Explore cutting-edge models: LLMs, SLMs, and more
Build a Retail Copilot Code-First on Azure AI
Build a multi-tasking assistant with Azure OpenAI
Leveraging cloud native infra for your intelligent apps
Platform engineering with GitHub
Preparing for your organization's AI workloads
Optimizing your AI costs
A Day in the Life of a Developer in the Era of AI
Code Security Reinvented: Navigating the era of AI
Data Security for AI
From Codebase to Care: Revolutionizing Healthcare with Generative AI
Evolving the Developer Experience
Season 2 now moves further into advanced practices, including prompt design, responsible AI, and the future of multimodal development. Together, they equip developers to learn, experiment, and prepare for what comes next in software.
Multimodal AI: Beyond Text to Vision, Speech and More
This session explores how multimodal AI is transforming the way developers design and build applications. You will learn how different input types can be combined for intuitive user experiences and more powerful workflows.
Customizing Models with Your Data
This session focuses on giving developers practical pathways to adapt AI models to their own data and domain needs. Discover the current tools, techniques, and best practices for making AI work in your context.
The Future of Software Development with AI
This session takes a forward view on how AI will reshape engineering teams, developer workflows, and the overall software lifecycle. Learn what is coming next and how to prepare for the shift.
Designing Human-AI Interfaces and Experiences
How to design interfaces and workflows where humans and AI collaborate effectively, with clear feedback, transparency, and control.
Operating AI at Organizational Scale
How organizations run AI as a long-term capability, including operating models, ownership, and the evolution from DevOps to MLOps and AgentOps.
When AI Fails: Designing for Breakage, Recovery, and Resilience
A practical look at failure modes in AI systems and how to design for resilience, safe fallbacks, and recovery in production.
Optimizing Prompts: From Art to Engineering
This session explores how tointegrate responsible AIprinciples directly intodeveloper workflows. Learnabout bias detection,transparency, and applyingMicrosoft’s Responsible AIStandard in real-world projects.
Scaling AI in the Enterprise: Move beyond pilots into production at scale
This session coversgovernance, performanceoptimization, and costmanagement whendeploying LLMs tothousands of users acrossan enterprise.
Beyond Code: Responsible AI in Practice
This session focuses on howto integrate responsible AIprinciples directly intodeveloper workflows. Learnabout bias detection,transparency, and applyingMicrosoft’s Responsible AIStandard in real-worldprojects.
The Developer Workflow Reimagined
Season 3 now moves further into the developer's daily craft, exploring how agentic AI is reshaping every stage of the workflow. Together, the sessions equip developers to plan, build, ship, and operate software in a new way.
The New Developer Day: How AI Is Reshaping Your Workflow
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July 15, 2026
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm | (GMT+01:00)
Walk through an agentic AI augmented workflow, from morning standup to evening deploy, and see what is genuinely different now.
The Token Mindset: Thinking in Context and Cost from Day One
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July 29, 2026
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm | (GMT+01:00)
Learn what tokens actually are, how context shapes both output quality and cost, and the habits that make every prompt land better. A foundational session for anyone working with Copilot, agents, or models in their daily workflow.
Coding in Flow: From Autocomplete to Agentic IDE
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August 26, 2026
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm | (GMT+01:00)
A practical session for developers who use Copilot autocomplete but have not yet explored further. Move from inline suggestions to Next Edit Suggestions, then to working with agents in VS Code and Visual Studio. Custom instructions, skills, MCP tools, and the small habits that compound into real time saved.
From Idea to First Commit: Planning and Scaffolding with Copilot
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September 16, 2026
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm | (GMT+01:00)
The earliest stage of the workflow, where most projects lose time before a single line is written. Use GitHub Copilot to turn ideas into user stories and acceptance criteria, generate specs, and bridge the gap between product intent and the first working commit. A look at how the connected developer platform shows up end to end.
The CLI Power User: GitHub Copilot in the Terminal
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October 7, 2026
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm | (GMT+01:00)
For developers who live in the shell. GitHub Copilot CLI for complex agentic tasks, multi-file refactors, repository-wide changes, and the workflows that do not fit inside an IDE. Where the CLI shines and how it complements the work you already do in VS Code.
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Code Review and Security Reinvented: From Bottleneck to Conversation
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October 28, 2026
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm | (GMT+01:00)
A look at how AI is changing the two most friction heavy stages of the workflow. GitHub Copilot code review, the Code Quality agent, Copilot Autofix, GitHub Advanced Security, and Microsoft Defender working together. How to ship faster and safer at the same time, with security as a continuous conversation rather than a gate.
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Testing with Agentic AI: From Coverage Theater to Real Confidence
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November 18, 2026
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm | (GMT+01:00)
Testing is the part of the workflow developers love to skip. Generate meaningful tests with Copilot, explore agentic test design, and learn patterns that make testing feel like a tool rather than a tax. What works, what does not, and where agentic AI still misleads you.
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Platform Engineering with AI: Building the Inner Loop for Your Team
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December 9, 2026
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm | (GMT+01:00)
The inner-loop developer experience for engineering platforms. Internal developer platforms, golden paths, Copilot custom instructions at organization scale, and how platform teams use AI to make every developer in the company faster. Patterns across Azure DevOps and GitHub.
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Shipping at the Speed of AI: GitHub Actions and the Agentic Pipeline
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Jan 20, 2027
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm | (GMT+01:00)
CI/CD when AI helps write both the code and the pipeline. GitHub Actions workflows, agentic YAML authoring, intelligent build optimization, and the practices that keep velocity high without sacrificing trust in what ships.
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Operating Agentic AI in Production: Observability, Cost, and Reliability
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February 10, 2027
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm | (GMT+01:00)
The operational discipline behind agentic systems that last. Context engineering at scale, cost control across teams and organizations, observability patterns for non-deterministic systems, site reliability practices for AI, and monitoring with Microsoft Defender. What separates a working demo from a durable system.
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Modernizing Legacy Code: AI as the Refactoring Partner, Guardrails as the Net
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March 3, 2027
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm | (GMT+01:00)
The hardest and least glamorous part of real engineering work. Use Copilot and agentic tooling to understand unfamiliar codebases, refactor legacy systems, migrate frameworks, and reduce technical debt. Paired with deterministic guardrails that catch what agentic systems miss.
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Measuring What Matters: DevEx Metrics and the Real Impact of Agentic AI
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March 24, 2027
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10:00 am – 12:00 pm | (GMT+01:00)
A value-focused session with real-world examples. The DevEx metrics that capture agentic AI's impact on productivity, the patterns leading teams use to measure and prove it, and what to do when your metrics tell a different story than the demo. Featuring engineering leaders who have run this exercise inside production teams.
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FutureDev Podcast
FutureDev is where EMEA builders talk straight about shipping with AI. Each episode puts real developers, tech leads, and community organizers in the spotlight to show how GitHub Copilot, Azure AI, and modern DevOps turn ideas into production. Expect pragmatic patterns you can reuse today, from secure pipelines to community playbooks, plus the metrics that actually drive behavior. Binge the season, jump to the topics you need, and check back as new episodes roll out across the region.
Banking on AI at Investec: GitHub Copilot in the Real World
David (Investec) joins host Rory to unpack what it takes to bring GitHub Copilot and Azure AI into a regulated banking environment. We cover change management, secure DevOps, developer experience, and pragmatic patterns that move AI from demo to delivery.
Hackathons to Impact: Building Developer Communities in South Africa
Tiyani shares the Geekulcha playbook: inclusive hackathons, mentorship, and pathways from first commit to real-world impact. Rory and Tiyani compare what actually sustains dev communities and how to turn events into skills and jobs.
From Docs to Delivery: Patterns for AI-Enabled Engineering
Warren and Niel walk through practical ways teams are weaving GitHub, Copilot, and Azure AI into everyday engineering—documentation, info flows, and review processes included. Expect tactics you can adopt this sprint.
Shipping in Regulated Environments: Cloud, Security & Scale
Ben and Vishal (G42) go deep on cloud architecture, security, and scaling teams across industries. We discuss what “good” looks like for developer velocity when compliance is non-negotiable.
Data to Decisions: Practical AI Patterns Teams Reuse
Rami and Naiyarah connect the dots from data and model choices to outcomes. Where does Copilot help, when do you fine-tune, and how do you keep quality high while you move fast?
Agentic AI After Build: What To Use Now, What To Watch
Post-Build, Hatim, Ben, and Rami break down the agentic AI pieces worth adopting today, from Azure to Copilot, and where they’d experiment next. Clear, tactical guidance for dev leads and architects.
DevOps, Security & the Metrics That Matter (Poland)
Lukasz and Mateusz share how Polish teams are tightening DevOps loops, baking in security, and choosing metrics that actually change behavior—plus what’s new for developers building with AI.
Platform Thinking: Operating Models for AI-Ready Teams
Mario and Sebastian explore platform engineering and what an AI-ready developer platform looks like: golden paths, paved roads, and the right abstractions so teams ship faster with fewer papercuts.
DevOps in Practice: Shipping Faster Without Breaking Everything
In part two, Mario and Sebastian get concrete on DevOps practices that endure—feedback loops, testing, and the glue between product and platform—so teams can move fast and stay sane.
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Microsoft Reactor
Ready to get started with AI and the latest technologies? Microsoft Reactor provides events, training, and community resources to help developers, entrepreneurs and startups build on AI technology and more. Join us!
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Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Learn Hub offers tailored AI resources for both technical and business roles, supporting skill growth at any expertise level. Access curated training on topics such as Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and boosting productivity with Microsoft Copilot.
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Microsoft events for Developers
Explore special events and learning opportunities created to help you expand your expertise, learn new skills, and build community.
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AI Learning - Empower Tomorrow’s Innovators
Build your AI literacy and gain the capabilities needed to thrive in an AI-driven world - because readiness should be accessible to everyone, not just a select few. Be part of shaping tomorrow and join the next generation of confident, responsible AI users.