AI agent

Concept

A software system that uses an AI model to pursue a goal on its own: it plans steps, calls tools or APIs, reads data and acts, often with a human approving critical steps. Agents go beyond chatbots because they take actions, not just answer questions.

Sessions on this topic (60)

• Don’t Just Ask AI — Let It Act: Building AI Copilot Agents with Power Automate · Shiv Sharma · M365Con 2027
• The Thirteenth Floor of Dynamics 365: When AI Agents Hit the Edge of the Simulation. · Fortunato Di Donato · M365Con 2027
• Agents Everywhere: Building the agentic future of Business Central, from built-in to beyond · Stefano Demiliani · M365Con 2027
• Power BI Is Not Dead—It’s Getting Agents! From Copilot to AI-Powered Power BI Development · Jasmin Simader · M365Con 2027
• Are AI Agents Taking Over the World? Value, Trust, and Human Responsibility · Bülent Altinsoy · M365Con 2027
• Worth Every Credit: FinOps for Copilot and Agents · Adam Bezance · M365Con 2027
• Master the 4 Levels of Agent Management to Unlock Enterprise-Grade Confidence in AI Agents · Griffin Lickfeldt · M365Con 2027
• Build your first agent in 5 min - Getting started with Copilot Studio · Shane Young · M365Con 2027
• Agent, Identity, and AI Model: Governance, Lifecycle, and Support · Isha Kapoor · M365Con 2027
• Implement Agent 365 to observe, govern, and secure Al apps, Copilot & Agents · Lalit Rawat · M365Con 2027
• From Clicks to Agents: How AI Is Rewriting the traditional Windows Apps · Christiaan Brinkhoff · M365Con 2027
• SharePoint Admin Agent: Govern and manage your Tenant End-to-End · Juan Carlos González Martín · M365Con 2027
• SharePoint Advanced Management: When Your SharePoint Debt Comes Back to Haunt Your AI Deployment · Laurent Carlier · M365Con 2027
• The Org Chart Has Agents In It: How AI Changes the Way We Work · Femke Cornelissen · M365Con 2027
• Hey Cowork! Do some magic - all you need to know why & how to delegate your work · Pascal Brunner-Nikolla · M365Con 2027
• Copilot Cowork in Practice: Real Work, No Hype · Vesa Nopanen · M365Con 2027
• Copilot & Agents Adoption: Wins, Challenges, and Lessons from the Front Lines · Edyta Gorzoń · M365Con 2027
• Cloud to Device: Local-First AI Agents as a new Compliance Strategy? · Ragnar Heil · M365Con 2027
• From CoPilot to Coworker - What We Learned Turning AI Assistants into Team Members · Steve Gerstner · M365Con 2027
• How Coding Agents Actually Work: Tools, MCP, and the Agent Loop · Tore Nestenius · M365Con 2027
• Another AI Model Just Dropped, and I Can't Keep Up: Hyperproductive and Exhausted in the AI Era · Alan Buscaglia · M365Con 2027
• CLI Tools with .NET for Humans and agents as well. · Gabor Ruzsinszki · M365Con 2027
• Give Your Agent Hands, Not the Keys: Building an Agent Harness in .NET · Saeed Esmaeelinejad · M365Con 2027
• The Agentic SDLC: Orchestrating AI Across Software Engineering · Mohamed Radwan · M365Con 2027
• Microsoft Foundry for IT Pros: From Zero to Your First Production AI Agent · Jannik Reinhard · M365Con 2027
• Your AI Agent Has a Production Problem. Architecture Patterns for Reliable Agents · Tiago Costa · M365Con 2027
• MCP + Microsoft Foundry: Connecting AI Agents to the Enterprise · Smita Nachan, Nanddeep Nachan · M365Con 2027
• AgentRat: The Art of Building a Copilot While Being Financially Allergic to SaaS · Javier Menendez Pallo · M365Con 2027
• Build in Microsoft Foundry, Run in Logic Apps: Agentic Automation for Enterprises · Rafsan Huseynov · M365Con 2027
• From AI Agents to Governed Digital Workers: Microsoft Agent 365, Foundry & Purview · Karthikeyan VK · M365Con 2027

Glossary

Experts and companies for this topic

• Mirko Peters ✔ · Microsoft MVP