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| With Gareth Bland (Principal Data Science, Microsoft), Nitya Narasimhan (Dev Advocate, Microsoft). |
| Venue, 300 Lafayette St |
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Apr 22 (Wed) , 2026 @ 01:30 PM
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Join us for the GitHub Copilot Dev Days - NYC!
Get a chance to visit the Microsoft campus, code alongside your peers in the workshop, & hear Senior Engineers share their vibe coding projects.
All skill levels welcome, just bring your laptop & curiosity.
What to Expect
Food & beverages provided
Live demos from local engineers
A friendly, social space to connect with fellow developers
Speakers
Gareth Bland, Principal Data Science Manager at Microsoft
Todd Toler, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
Nitya Narasimhan, Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft
Agenda - April 22, 2026
Note the agenda is subject to change
1:30 PM - Doors Open
Arrive, settle in & sign in.
2:00 PM - Keynote (30 min)
GitHub Copilot keynote
2:30 PM - Zero to Agents delivery (60 min)
Focus on moving teams from basic GitHub Copilot usage to effective, realworld use of agentic development-not just tools, but behaviors, workflows, & leadership alignment.
3:30 PM - Build Agentic AI On Microsoft Foundry with GitHub Copilot (60 min)
Instructor: Nitya Narasimhan, PhD
Building trustworthy AI agents requires end-to-end observability - from tracing to evaluations & red-teaming. But how do you get started - & how can you simplify your development workflow?
Join us for this 60-minute workshop where we'll show you how to use GitHub Copilot with new Foundry skills to streamline your development process - & learn best practices by observing & guiding the coding agent workflow.
Walk away with a sandbox repo you can use for building your own intuition for the platform & processes with experiments at home,
4:30 PM - Close Out (30 min)
Recaps, Networking
What to Bring
GitHub Copilot (free) aka.ms/get-github-copilot-devdays
Your laptop with VS Code + Copilot extension installed
Signed in to your GitHub account
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