Agentic Azure Insights 2026

About Agentic Azure Insights 2026

Agentic Azure Insights is a free, online event running for seven days, from Monday, October 19 to Sunday, October 25, 2026. It centers on agentic AI, Azure technology and real-world AI systems, and a call for papers is listed.

The official site lists 27 speakers and 35 sessions. Titles include GitOps for Microsoft Foundry - From PR to Prod, When AI Agents Work Together: A2A, MCP, and Connected AI, Agents Decide, Containers Execute: Building Agentic Workloads with Azure Container Apps Jobs, and an Ask Me Anything with Peter De Tender. Speakers named include Bernhard Merkle, Udaiappa Ramachandran and Minseok Song.

Agenda

Monday, October 19

• 05:00–06:00 · The Rise of Agentic Workflows: AI That Understands, Decides & Codes — Bernhard Merkle
• 05:00–06:00 · When AI Agents Work Together: A2A, MCP, and Connected AI — Udaiappa Ramachandran (Udai)
• 05:00–06:00 · GitOps for Microsoft Foundry - From PR to Prod — Elliott Leighton-Woodruff
• 05:00–06:00 · Peter De Tender Ask Me Anything: Azure, AI & Your Questions
• 05:00–06:00 · Agents Decide, Containers Execute: Building Agentic Workloads with Azure Container Apps Jobs — Minseok Song

Tuesday, October 20

• 05:00–06:00 · Build the Next-Generation Multi-Source Knowledge Base Agent with Microsoft IQ in Foundry — Cihan Cinar
• 05:00–06:00 · Semantic Cache on Azure: 12× Faster LLM Responses — JingJing (Chris) Bao
• 05:00–06:00 · Do You Trust Your AI Agents? Verify with AgentEval — Jose Luis Latorre Millas
• 05:00–06:00 · Scaling to Production your Agents with Azure Landing Zone & Microsoft Foundry — Rubén Toribio Gallardo
• 05:00–06:00 · The Autonomous Cloud: Building Self-Healing Azure Systems with AI Agents — Anurag Dutt

Wednesday, October 21

• 05:00–06:00 · Agents for Healthcare: MedNexus as a Case Study for A2A in High-Stakes Work — Konstantinos Passadis
• 05:00–06:00 · Your Data, Your Agents: Building a Multi-Agent Workflow with Microsoft Fabric — Hanna Schwab
• 05:00–06:00 · The Industrial Brain: From Alarm to Root Cause with Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs and AI Agents — Mihail Mateev
• 05:00–06:00 · The Next AI Infra Layer: Company Brain — Roey Zalta
• 05:00–06:00 · Autonomous AIOps: Self-Healing Operations on Azure — Anu Arora

Thursday, October 22

• 05:00–06:00 · Building an Enterprise SRE Platform on Azure — Monika Mundra
• 05:00–06:00 · Observability of multi-agent systems with OpenTelemetry and Azure Monitor — Luis Beltran
• 05:00–06:00 · Automatic Incident Response with Azure SRE Agent — Lester March
• 05:00–06:00 · Calling SRE Agents for the Rescue! — Elkhan Yusubov
• 05:00–06:00 · Enterprise-Grade AI Agentic Coding with Azure Container Apps Sandboxes — Zahhar Kirillov

Friday, October 23

• 05:00–06:00 · Create Durable AI agents with the Microsoft Agent Framework — Erik van Appeldoorn
• 05:00–06:00 · Agents Build It. You Ship It. — Nicole Enders
• 05:00–06:00 · Building Intelligent Search Solutions with Azure Retrieval-Augmented Generation — C R Bhargavi
• 05:00–06:00 · Autonomous Document Agents: Transforming Insurance Claims with Azure AI — Rajaniesh Kaushikk
• 05:00–06:00 · Composite Semantic Layer: Governed Multi-Agent AI on Azure — Sayeeram Gundu

Saturday, October 24

• 05:00–06:00 · Hardening RAG System Against Hallucinations — Zahhar Kirillov
• 05:00–06:00 · From code to hosted agent in Foundry with Azure Developer CLI — Tidjani Belmansour
• 05:00–06:00 · Designing Context First AI Systems — Shubhangi Goyal
• 05:00–06:00 · The Agent Can Propose; the Platform Must Decide: Governing Azure Infrastructure Operations — Jeleel Muibi
• 05:00–06:00 · When AI Agents Can Act: Building Secure Agentic Systems on Azure — Heamandeep Kaur

Sunday, October 25

• 06:00–07:00 · Trust and Guardrails: Governing Autonomous AI Agents on Azure — Sandeep Gusain
• 06:00–07:00 · Agentic Identity Orchestration: Autonomous AI Agents for Azure IAM Policy Reconciliation — Aditi Mallesh
• 06:00–07:00 · Strengthen AI cyber resilience for your Microsoft cloud data — Vanessa Toves
• 06:00–07:00 · Agents Framework with Purview SDK: Integration for DLP — Konstantinos Passadis
• 06:00–07:00 · Securing Agentic Azure: Detection, Automation, and Cloud-Native Resilience — Surya Lankalapalli

Speakers

• Bernhard Merkle
• Udaiappa Ramachandran (Udai)
• Elliott Leighton-Woodruff
• Minseok Song
• Cihan Cinar
• JingJing (Chris) Bao
• Jose Luis Latorre Millas
• Rubén Toribio Gallardo
• Anurag Dutt
• Konstantinos Passadis
• Hanna Schwab
• Mihail Mateev
• Roey Zalta
• Anu Arora
• Monika Mundra
• Luis Beltran
• Lester March
• Elkhan Yusubov
• Zahhar Kirillov
• Erik van Appeldoorn
• Nicole Enders
• C R Bhargavi
• Tidjani Belmansour
• Sandeep Gusain

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