Here’s my TOP items from this year’s Build from the front lines:

🎤 The keynote by Microsoft’s CEO was inspiring — a bold vision for the future of AI, developers, and the agentic era.

https://youtu.be/0kyZkPW7XIY?si=a6ti5VmlbrOc53FJ

💡 The Hub area was an amazing space to learn, share, and connect with Microsoft PMs/Engineers, Microsoft Partners, and customers.

🧪 The Labs were another highlight — hands-on, interactive, and packed with learning across multiple topics.

✨ A few more gems I loved diving into:

🔥 1. GitHub Copilot:
Microsoft Copilot can writes features, fixes bugs, and improves your source code while you sleep. GitHub Copilot drafting pull requests — smart, contextual, and time-saving. Copilot isn’t just a helper anymore — it’s a teammate.
https://youtu.be/KqWUsKp5tmo?si=0-FF3LvjUodVgOi_

🛠️  2. SRE Agent and Agentic DevOps & Beyond — automating reliability like never before.
The SRE Agent is now in public preview! Learn how to use natural language to describe intent, which is then translated by the AI agent into a series of tasks that the agent can execute with developer approval. It iterates through target applications and carries out the requested task(s), all without the need for developers to remember myriad CLI commands and syntaxes.
https://youtu.be/bK3SIQoE_Nc?si=0GkygB4cxIgNzIl0

💾  3. Storage Actions: Data + AI — bridging infrastructure and intelligence.
Azure Storage Actions is a serverless framework that you can use to perform common data operations on millions of objects across multiple storage accounts. The current release of Azure Storage Actions enables you to create storage tasks that can perform operations on blobs in Azure Storage accounts based on a set of conditions that you define.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage-actions/storage-tasks/

🏭  4. Azure AI Foundry – The Agent Factory + Foundry Local
Foundry gives you everything to design, test, and ship agents.
Foundry Local lets you run agents securely on Windows/macOS — offline, fast, and dev-friendly.
https://youtu.be/DUdRdeUtuZQ?si=bd15gTm1sh59uoJh

🌐  5. MCP – Model Context Protocol
MCP is the glue of the agentic web — if you’re building apps in 2025, you need to be thinking about it.
https://youtu.be/7AHj1azyPwc?si=Y1lna7XOkgNQfmsW

🌧️☕ Seattle gave us rain, coffee, and a whole lot of developer energy.

📍 Can’t wait to share what I’ve learned with my client and our Metro Toronto Azure Community — and I’m already looking forward to #MSIgnite later this year in San Francisco!
https://ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/home

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