Curious about how to go from prompt engineering to production-grade AI-powered apps? In this hands-on, code-first session, we’ll explore how to build intelligent applications using the Azure AI Agent Service.

You’ll learn how to go beyond basic chat completions and leverage Azure OpenAI Assistants, function calling, vector stores, and multi-turn memory to build AI agents that reason, retrieve, and act. We’ll walk through how to:

🧠 Understand the architecture of the AI Agent Service and assistant orchestration ⚙️ Define tools and functions for your assistant to interact with external systems 📦 Integrate vector search and documents using Azure AI Search and data stores 🧪 Use the GitHub repo to spin up assistants locally or deploy via Azure 🧩 Extend assistants with your own tools, APIs, and memory 🚀 Accelerate your app development lifecycle with ready-to-use code templates

Whether you're a developer, solution architect, or AI enthusiast, this session will equip you with the skills to build real-world AI copilots and task-oriented assistants using Azure’s latest AI platform features.