Academy Preview: Crafting Multi-Agent AI Systems & Autonomous Agents with Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, MCP, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, & Azure AI Foundry

In this hands-on academy session, taking place on Saturday, October 18 from 8 AM – 5 PM ET, Microsoft AI and Business Applications MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer, Prashant G Bhoyar, will cover how organizations can use the Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, MCP, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Azure AI Foundry, and Azure OpenAI services to build next-gen sophisticated enterprise-grade agents and custom copilots.

Day 1 will cover:

1. Agents and Copilots Key Concepts
2. Multimodal Apps and Autonomous Agents Key Concepts
3. ChatGPT key concepts
4. Azure OpenAI Key Concepts
5. Azure AI Foundry Key Concepts
6. Fundamentals of Prompt Engineering
7. Microsoft Copilot Studio Key Concepts
8. Authentication in Microsoft Copilot Studio
9. Copilot Studio Knowledge Sources
10. Copilot Studio Tools

Day 2 will cover:

1. Copilot Studio and MCP ( Model Context Protocol)
2. How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Azure AI Foundry, and Microsoft Copilot Studio?
3. Azure AI Foundry + Microsoft Copilot Studio
4. How to use DeepSeek R1 with Azure AI Foundry?
5. How to create multimodal agents and custom copilots?
6. How to create the multi-agent systems?
7. How to create Autonomous agents?
8. How to evaluate a use case and find the ROI?
9. Best Practices
10. Responsible AI: Delve into the ethics and responsible use of AI.
11. Enterprise-level applications, Custom Copilots, and AI Agents: Learn to develop robust, scalable multimodal applications, Custom Copilots, and AI Agents using Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and Azure OpenAI, focusing on industry requirements and best practices.

At the end of the hands-on academy session, attendees will have a working knowledge of Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, MCP, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and how to use them to create enterprise-grade intelligent Agents and custom Copilots.

Learning objectives include:

1. Microsoft Copilot Studio Overview: To create powerful AI-powered Agents and copilots for a range of requests—from providing simple answers to common questions to resolving issues requiring complex conversations 
2. Azure AI Foundry is a unified AI platform that includes both the Azure AI Foundry portal (formerly Azure AI Studio), and the Azure AI Foundry SDK, a unified SDK with pre-built app templates enabling developers to access the most popular models
3. How organizations can leverage Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure OpenAI services to build the next generation of advanced, enterprise-grade Agents and Copilots