Cloud Infrastructure and AI Agents

SAVE THE DATE! - August 10th 2026, 7:30 pm -8:40pm
AGENDA

7:30 pm - Welcome and House Keeping

Speakers - Anders Eide - Full time cloud junkie and Microsoft Azure MVP

Making the right decisions, combined with the eager to always be at the front of innovative technology, is why Anders Eide loves his job as Director at Sopra Steria. He is focusing on helping organizations implementing Microsoft technologies like Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure, and sharing his knowledge and experience from the field with the community

Session: Building Cloud Infrastructure with AI — and how to avoid disaster

Development using AI agents may lead to great disasters. Well-Architected Frameworks is as close to being a lifesaver when building modern cloud platforms. In combination with next generation AI coding agents, and smart usage of tools like Azure Verified Modules, and Context Engineering, I will demonstrate how you can achieve the best possible collaboration in organizations that require full end-to-end control over cost, security, resilience, management, and performance.

Speaker - Anand Rao: @ WPP Team lead Azure Platform Engineering | Microsoft MVP

I bring over 15 years of IT experience, with the last 7 years focused on Azure Cloud Technologies. I’ve worked on a wide range of Azure projects, from IaaS enterprise-scale landing zones to advanced PaaS architectures, collaborating with global stakeholders.

I’m especially passionate about teaching, breaking down complex ideas, and enabling others to succeed in their Azure journey. Looking forward to sharing and learning with the amazing Global Azure community!

Session: From Zero to AI Agent :Developing your first Azure AI agent from Azure Foundry for Non-Developers

In this session, I will introduce the concept of AI agents and demonstrate how Azure AI Foundry enables users to create and run intelligent agents using natural-language instructions.

I will showcase a live demo where AI agents are built and executed without writing any code, using Foundry’s agent and tool orchestration capabilities.

This session is especially useful for non-developers and IT professionals who want to begin their AI journey and understand how enterprise-grade AI agents can be created, managed, and extended using Azure AI Foundry.