Copilot Studio Track

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 435-436

Copilot Studio Deep Dive - Hands On Workshop

Mark Rackley

Mark Rackley

Copilot Extensibility Practice Lead @ Protiviti

Copilot Studio is the go-to tool in your Power Platform arsenal to create agents and extend Copilot for Microsoft 365, but without proper understanding of the features or how to effectively connect the dots, makers can be left with a frustrating experience. Go beyond the marketing hype and theoretical and join this exclusive hands-on, full-day workshop filled with real world use-cases and discover:

  • How to get started building agents
  • What are the common pitfalls that prevent a great agent experience
  • How to use advanced features like Generative Answers, Prompts, and Agent Flows
  • How to create a multi-agent experience.
  • How does licensing work for Copilot Studio

You'll walk away eager and empowered to get started creating your own amazing solutions using Copilot Studio

Wednesday 8:30 AM - 9:40 AM · Ballroom 2

Keynote : Building What’s Next for Work

Jason Moore

Jason Moore

Vice President of Product Management – Copilot Studios

You’ve been using and building with AI. Now let’s talk about what’s actually possible at scale. In the opening keynote, Microsoft CVP Jason Moore takes a hands-on look at how business users, AI leaders and makers are rewriting the rules of work — improving personal productivity, transforming business systems, and orchestrating complex processes across people, applications, data, and agents. The Microsoft 365 community has always led in delivering value from productivity tools, and with AI now woven into every layer of the stack, what you can build and how fast you can build it has changed fundamentally. Live demos and real customer stories bring it all to life: how Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Cowork, Power Platform, and Copilot Studio come together to put serious capability in the hands of makers at every level. And because none of it matters without trust, you’ll also see how governance keeps it all running at enterprise scale. If you’re building with AI and wondering how far it can go, this is where you find out.

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 433-434

Demystifying Copilot Studio

Mark Rackley

Mark Rackley

Copilot Extensibility Practice Lead @ Protiviti

Copilot Studio offers the power of bringing Copilots to the masses! Now anyone can create their own Copilot and harness the power of Generative AI! Join this real-word, demo-packed session with Copilot veteran Mark Rackley and discover the truth beyond the marketing including:

  • What are the features of Copilot Studio
  • How does licensing work?
  • How can you extend Copilot for Microsoft 365?
  • How do you connect to your business data?
  • How to publish your agents to other channels
Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 431-432

Creating Multi-Agent Experiences with Copilot Studio

Mark Rackley

Mark Rackley

Copilot Extensibility Practice Lead @ Protiviti

One of the best practices when creating agents is to create multiple small agents that perform specific tasks well instead of trying to create one agent that does everything and then leverage the power of the multi-agent experience that is native in Copilot Studio. Join this informative demo-packed session as Mark Rackley explains the concept of the multi-agent experience, lays out your options for creating these agents, and even walk you through building a multi-agent experience in Copilot Studio.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 435-436

Integrating AI Applications with Copilot Studio Using Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Prashant G Bhoyar

Prashant G Bhoyar

7 x Microsoft AI MVP| 4 x Microsoft Business Applications MVP| Keynote Speaker| Author| Leading AI Architect | Microsoft Certified Trainer, AI Architect at AIS

Discover how to seamlessly integrate AI applications and agents into Microsoft Copilot Studio using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). In this session, we will explore how MCP enables direct connections to existing knowledge servers and APIs, allowing actions and knowledge to be automatically added and updated within your agents. Learn how this integration simplifies the agent-building process, reduces maintenance efforts, and leverages enterprise security and governance controls such as Virtual Network integration, Data Loss Prevention policies, and multiple authentication methods.

Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room 433-434

Beyond Built-In: Integrating Azure AI Foundry Models into Copilot Studio Agents

Samir Makwana

Samir Makwana

MVP (Copilot Studio)| Founder of Cloudtrify | Cloud Solution Architect | Angel Investor

Overview Copilot Studio provides powerful tools for building conversational agents, but what if you need more control over the models behind them? This session walks through how to bring custom and enterprise-ready models from Azure AI Foundry into your Copilot Studio agents—giving you flexibility, precision, and the ability to tailor AI behavior to your exact needs.

Why This Matters Built-in models work well for general scenarios, but enterprises often require domain-specific logic, industry compliance, or advanced reasoning capabilities. Integrating Azure AI Foundry models enables teams to maintain conversational experiences in Copilot Studio while leveraging specialized models tuned for their unique requirements.

What You Will See Live Demo and Practical Guidance

Select and register models from Azure AI Foundry Connect custom models into agent prompts Orchestrate model responses within multi-turn conversations Evaluate when to use a Foundry model over a built-in option

Use Cases Highlighted

Domain-specific logic and terminology Industry compliance requirements Advanced reasoning scenarios

The session includes real-world examples showing how this integration elevates AI solutions beyond out-of-the-box capabilities.

Who Should Attend Developers, solution architects, and Power Platform implementers who want to extend Copilot Studio agents with custom or enterprise-grade models from Azure AI Foundry.