🤖 From open‑source models to enterprise‑ready AI agents Join us on March 30 for a live Reactor session exploring what it really takes to build, deploy, and govern AI at scale. 🔹 Partner Spotlight: Hugging Face Learn how to build AI apps using the latest open‑source models for text, audio, images, and more—and how to deploy them securely in your Azure environment using Microsoft Foundry. 🎙️ Jeff Boudier (Hugging Face) 🔹 Technology Spotlight: Agent 365 & Work IQ Building agents is easy. Governing and trusting them in real work? That’s the challenge. Discover how Agent 365 acts as a control plane for enterprise agents, and how Work IQ MCP servers turn productivity systems into fully governable tools—unlocking real productivity without sacrificing control. 🎙️ Srikumar Nair (Microsoft) If you care about agents that actually get work done at enterprise scale, this is the paradigm shift that matters. 🗓️ March 30, 2026 ⏰ 10:30–11:30 AM PT 👉 Register now: https://msft.it/6045QU58P #MicrosoftReactor #AI #Agents #EnterpriseAI #HuggingFace #Azure #DeveloperCommunity
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🚀 The March edition of Reactor Pulse is here! Your monthly roundup of can’t‑miss events, workshops, and developer learning across Microsoft Reactor. This month is packed with some of the biggest developer moments of the year — and you’re invited. Here’s what’s inside ⬇️ 🎓 Microsoft JDConf 2026 — deep dives, expert talks, and everything new in Java, cloud, and AI. 🪐 Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 — the global conference for building scalable, intelligent apps. ⚙️ Gateway API for AI on AKS — modern traffic management patterns for AI workloads. 🍕 Build a Pizza Ordering Agent — yes, really. Create your own AI PizzaBot using Foundry + MCP. 💻 VS Code Live: 1.110 Release — see what’s new, what’s updated, and what’s next. Plus → must‑see on‑demand sessions to level up your AI + cloud skills. Let’s learn, build, and grow — together. 👉 Read the full newsletter & explore all events #MicrosoftReactor #LearnConnectBuild #ReactorPulse #Developers #AI #Cloud
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In this BONUS finale, we graduate from single agents to full multi-agent systems. We'll explore 8 patterns that power production AI: chain agents like an assembly line, fan-out for parallel expert opinions, loop until a critic approves, and route requests to the right specialist. Then unlock Supervisor agents that delegate like project managers and Human-in-the-Loop gates when humans need the final say. Finally, explore goal-oriented planners that find optimal paths and peer-to-peer meshes where agents collaborate as equals without a boss. 📌 This event is a part of a series, learn more here: https://lnkd.in/ghHXFcaR #microsoftreactor #learnconnectbuild
Agentic Patterns with LangChain4j
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Azure shouldn’t feel overwhelming—let’s decode it. Azure Decoded is our weekly, hands‑on livestream series where Microsoft experts break down real‑world Azure scenarios—from AI agents and cloud security to migration and modernization. 🎥 Watch past episodes on‑demand 🗓 Join us live Wednesdays at 12 PM PT 💡 Walk away with skills you can apply immediately 👉 Explore the series & register for upcoming shows: https://msft.it/6048QUeAK
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Start your journey to secure AI workloads in the cloud. Learn how Defender for Cloud provides foundational protection for your AI solutions and why it’s essential for modern security strategies. What you’ll learn: - Identify the layers that make up AI workloads in Azure - Recognize security risks unique to AI, including prompt injection, data leakage, and model misuse - Explain how Microsoft Foundry provides guardrails and observability for AI models - Describe how Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Entra ID work together to secure and govern AI workloads - Summarize how these services align to create a unified, defense-in-depth strategy for AI security in Azure Who should attend: Developers, Security Engineers, and technical professionals who want to learn how Defender for Cloud provides foundational protection for AI solutions and why it’s essential for modern security strategies. 📍 https://lnkd.in/gQ_Phwcm 📍 https://lnkd.in/gBX_jjCP 📌 This session is a part of a series - learn more here: https://lnkd.in/g6JQY6NN #MicrosoftReactor #learnconnectbuild
Azure Decoded: Kickstart AI Security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
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Partner Spotlight: Hugging Face - How to build AI with Hugging Face in Microsoft Foundry With open source models, you can build your own AI applications for text, audio, images and more. How do you deploy them securely within your enterprise environment? Join Jeff Boudier from Hugging Face to learn about the latest and greatest open models, and how to easily deploy them in your Azure account with Microsoft Foundry. Technology Spotlight: Agent 365 & Work IQ - Building enterprise agents that you can trust your data with Agents are easy to build but hard to govern, scale, and trust in real work. In this conversation, we unpack why Agent 365 as a control plane is the critical missing layer, and how Work IQ MCP servers turn productivity systems into efficient, fully governable tools for agents. Learn how moving from prompt‑level hacks to platform‑level design unlocks real productivity gains, all of this without sacrificing control. If you care about agents that actually get work done at enterprise scale, this is the paradigm shift that matters. Join Srikumar Nair from Microsoft to learn more about this topic. 🔎 Explore the repo: https://lnkd.in/eugEFQCA 📢 Continue the conversation on the Discord: https://lnkd.in/gWjs8Bw6 📌 This session is a part of a series! Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gYVJa8Ee #MicrosoftReactor #learnconnectbuild
Build Enterprise AI Agents with Hugging Face + Agent 365 + Work IQ
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Learn how the GitHub Copilot App Modernization Agent brings agentic automation to .NET modernization. We’ll walk through assessing apps at scale through the CLI, generating modernization plans, and executing upgrades in IDE workflows—accelerating the path to Azure-ready apps. 📌 This session is a part of a series! Learn more here - https://lnkd.in/g_nqg59T #MicrosoftReactor #learnconnectbuild
Modernizing .NET at Scale with the GitHub Copilot App Mod Agent
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Partner Spotlight - Running Open Models at Scale: Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry Choosing a model is easy. Scaling it reliably is the hard part. In this Model Mondays session, join Shaunak Godbole, Field CTO at Fireworks AI, for interactive demos and a deeper look at how developers can run best‑in‑class open models at scale without managing infrastructure, including bringing the models they already trust through bring‑your‑own‑weights with Fireworks on Microsoft Foundry. Tech Spotlight - Microsoft Foundry MCP Server The Foundry Tools provide a central hub for agents to discover and integrate MCP Servers to extend their capabilities. Join SeokJin Han as he demonstrates the Model Context Protocol integration. Learn how agents can discover and utilize tools through MCP Servers, extending their capabilities with a standardized interface and growing ecosystem 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gphmf7uS 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gtTdJNBP 🔎 Explore the repo: https://lnkd.in/eugEFQCA 📢 Continue the conversation on the Discord: https://lnkd.in/gWjs8Bw6 📌 This session is a part of a series! Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gYVJa8Ee #MicrosoftReactor #learnconnectbuild [eventID:26834]
Model Mondays- Open Models with Fireworks AI & Microsoft Foundry MCP Server
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Extend Azure SRE Agent: Custom Runbooks and Ecosystem Tools for Proactive Reliability Take Azure SRE Agent beyond out-of-the-box capabilities by extending it with custom runbooks and ecosystem tools. This session covers how to tailor automation for your environment, integrate with your existing toolchain, and build proactive reliability workflows that prevent, diagnose, and mitigate issues before they escalate. We'll walk through real-world examples of extending the agent to handle complex operational scenarios and orchestrate advanced workflows for resilient architectures. 📌 This session is a part of a series! Learn more here - https://lnkd.in/g_nqg59T #MicrosoftReactor #learnconnectbuild
Azure SRE: Custom Runbooks and Ecosystem Tools for Proactive Reliability
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🚀 Modernizing .NET at Scale Just Got Easier Join us on March 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM PT for a hands‑on look at how the GitHub Copilot App Modernization Agent brings agentic automation to every step of .NET modernization. In this livestream, you’ll learn how to: ⚙️ Assess .NET apps at scale through the CLI 🧭 Generate modernization plans tailored to your codebase 💡 Execute upgrades directly inside your IDE ☁️ Accelerate your path to Azure‑ready applications If you’re working on .NET modernization—or planning to—you don’t want to miss this one. 🔗 Register now: https://msft.it/6044Q3VEO
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