We are currently under way for Season 2 with a scheduled 12-episode series. Some of these topics may be modified or deferred based on product updates, so check back frequently.
Want to learn advanced techniques to improve AI's reasoning and problem-solving skills, enabling smarter and more efficient decision-making? Join us as we talk to Marlene Mhangami about her work building a Deep Researcher using Deep Seek R1 and LangChain.
- 1️⃣ | Register For The Livestream - Monday, Jun 16
- 2️⃣ | Register For The AMA - Friday, Jun 20
- 3️⃣ | Ask Questions & View Recaps - Discussion Forum
- 4️⃣ | Download Slides - Speakerdeck PDF
Want to learn how Model Context Protocol works and how to leverage MCP in a more effective way to extend the capabilities of your AI models and agents? Join us as we talk to Den Delimarsky about the MCP specification, security considerations and usage within Microsoft Azure.
- 1️⃣ | Register For The Livestream - Monday, Jun 23
- 2️⃣ | Register For The AMA - Friday, Jun 30
- 3️⃣ | Ask Questions & View Recaps - Discussion Forum
- 4️⃣ | Download Slides - Speakerdeck PDF
Reasoning models leverage inference-time scaling to execute complex tasks, but how can we use these in resource-constrained devices? Join us as we talk to Mojan Javaheripi about Phi-4 reasoning models that are redefining small language models (SLM) for the agentic era of apps.
- 1️⃣ | Register For The Livestream - Jun 30, 2025
- 2️⃣ | Register For The AMA - Jul 03, 2025
- 3️⃣ | Ask Questions & View Recaps - Discussion Forum
- 4️⃣ | Download Slides - Speakerdeck
How can we streamline the AI developer journey from model selection and usage to evaluation and app deployment? Join us as we talk to Leo Yao about the AI Toolkit and Azure AI Foundry extensions for Visual Studio Code – and the key capabilities they provide for generative AI app & agent development.
- 1️⃣ | Register For The Livestream - Jul 07, 2025
- 2️⃣ | Register For The AMA - Jun 11, 2025
- 3️⃣ | Ask Questions & View Recaps - Discussion Forum
- 4️⃣ | Download Slides - Speakerdeck PDF
Model customization is critical to ensuring the model is optimized for your application requirements. Join us as we talk to Dave Voutila about fine-tuning Azure OpenAI models, using distillation techniques for efficient knowledge transfer, and other best practices in Azure AI Foundry.
- 1️⃣ | Register For The Livestream - Jul 14, 2025
- 2️⃣ | Register For The AMA - Jul 18, 2025
- 3️⃣ | Ask Questions & View Recaps - Discussion Forum
Azure AI Foundry Labs is a hub to explore cutting-edge research from Microsoft. Join us as we talk to SeokJin Han and Saumil Shrivastava about two key projects – the MCP Server for Azure AI Foundry, and the Magentic-UI for advancing research on human-in-the-loop experiences with AI. We're also joined by Steve Frederickson, Head of Product and Zachary Meierhoffer, Product Manager at Capacity, who walk through how Capacity's Answer Engine uses Azure AI Foundry models to unlock insights from knowledge that exists across their organizations.
- 1️⃣ | Register For The Livestream - Jul 21, 2025
- 2️⃣ | Register For The AMA - Jul 25, 2025
- 3️⃣ | Ask Questions & View Recaps - Discussion Forum
Join us for this new segment where we talk to customers about real world usage of Azure AI technologies and solutions. We kickoff the first episode with our friends from Capacity!.
Speakers:
Steve Frederickson is Head of Product for Capacity’s Answer Engine, where he leads the strategy and development of AI-powered knowledge solutions. A serial entrepreneur and product innovator, Steve has pioneered Generative AI capabilities since 2021 to reshape how organizations access and use information.
Zachary Meierhofer is a product manager with a passion for turning complex AI into intuitive solutions. At Capacity, he builds tools that help teams access knowledge instantly and deliver smarter support. With over a decade of experience in AI and search, he blends technical depth with a strong focus on user impact.
Want to bring the power of AI-assisted development to Azure workflows? Join us as we talk to Sandeep Sen about two key tools – the Azure MCP server, and the GitHub Copilot Extension for Azure – that can help you understand, debug & build with Azure resources and services (beyond just Azure AI Foundry) with the power of natural language. We're also joined by Kurt DeMaagd, Chief AI Officer and co-founder at SightMachine, who walks us through how SightMachine's Filler AI streamlines operations on the manufacturing floor using Azure AI Foundry models.
- 1️⃣ | Register For The Livestream - Jul 28, 2025
⁉️ - 2️⃣ | Register For The AMA - Jul 31, 2025
- 3️⃣ | Ask Questions & View Recaps - Discussion Forum
In this new segment, we continue talking to customers about real world usage of Azure AI technologies and solutions. In this episode we're joined by Kurt DeMaagd, Chief AI Officer at SightMachine!.
Speakers:
Kurt DeMaagd is is Chief AI Officer and Co-founder at Sight Machine. He has developed AI agents and ML applications for manufacturing predictive maintenance, prescriptive energy optimization and waste reduction, decision support tools for quality, and schedule optimization. Kurt has presented on manufacturing AI/ML at conferences such as the Microsoft Ignite, NVIDIA GTC, Qatar Economic Forum, Automate, the American Society for Quality, multiple presentations at the ASQ Statistic Division conference, plus 30+ academic publications. Previously, Kurt was a professor at Michigan State University. He has a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business; and a BS in Computer Science from Hope College..
On-device inference is critical if you want to run AI models locally, on your own hardware, e.g., for edge computing needs. Join as as we talk to Maanav Dalal about Foundry Local – a solution built on ONNX Runtime (for use in CPUs, NPUs & GPUs) & taking you from prototype to production.
- 1️⃣ | Register For The Livestream - Aug 04, 2025
- 2️⃣ | Register For The AMA - Aug 08, 2025
- 3️⃣ | Ask Questions & View Recaps - Discussion Forum
In this new segment, we talk to customers about real world usage of Azure AI technologies and solutions. In this episode we're joined by Marilyn Morgan Westner, Co-founder and Chief Experience Officer, and Alex Westner, Co-founder and CEO at Xander!.
Speakers:
Marilyn Morgan Westner is is Chief Experience Officer (CXO) and Co-founder at Xander. As a researcher and educator in language and history, Marilyn earned a Ph.D. in history, focusing on underrepresented groups, culture, and technology. She spent 14 years working with older adults and their families, capturing stories, curating collections, and lecturing at Harvard University and UMass. She spent six years as a research associate at Harvard Business School, writing case studies about entrepreneurship, frontier tech, and corporate trust, and she co-created two new elective courses. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Publishing, Founder’s Journey, the Journal of Popular Culture, and several academic book collections.
Alex Westner is is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Co-founder at Xander. Alex spent 20+ years leading product strategy at iZotope, Gibson, and Fidelity Labs, Fidelity Investments' innovation incubator. He began his career in engineering, focused on microphone arrays and the “cocktail party problem.” At the MIT Media Lab he trained computers to differentiate individual voices from other sounds. He spent 18 years as a product leader in audio and music technology companies, where he developed and shipped software products that analyzed and separated sound and speech. He led several successful audio products including iZotope RX, which won an Engineering Emmy Award. In 2018, he became a product leader at Fidelity Labs. Working in fintech, he gained experience protecting online privacy and led a team that successfully developed and launched a software platform that helped financial advisors introduce sustainable investing practices to their clients.
Want to build agentic AI applications but looking for resources to learn configuration and design patterns? Join as as we talk to Mona Whalin about the Azure AI Foundry Agent Catalog – open-source samples you can explore to accelerate your agent development by integration into projects!
- 1️⃣ | [Register For The Livestream](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reactor/events/26128/ - Aug 11, 2025
- 2️⃣ | Register For The AMA - Aug 15, 2025
- 3️⃣ | Ask Questions & View Recaps - Discussion Forum
In this ongoing segment, we continue talking to customers about real world usage of Azure AI technologies and solutions. In this episode we're joined by Sukrit Chatterjee, AI Research Engineer at Atomicwork!.
Speakers:
Sukrit Chatterjee is an AI Research Engineer at Atomicwork, designing integrated AI systems that learn from their environment and adapt to task context. With a background in applied AI and system integration, he works at the intersection of research and engineering to advance agentic, context-aware applications.
We’re joined by Mistral AI, the European AI innovator behind Mistral Doc AI, now available as a direct from Azure model in Azure AI Foundry. We’ll dive into how this multimodal, multilingual document processing model unlocks complex unstructured content—turning scanned PDFs, images, and handwritten forms into structured, actionable data. From AI sovereignty to real-world use cases across industries, Mistral will share how Doc AI is helping organizations transform their document workflows at scale.
- 1️⃣ | Register For The Livestream - Aug 18, 2025
- 2️⃣ | Register For The AMA - Aug 22, 2025
- 3️⃣ | Ask Questions & View Recaps - Discussion Forum
Keeping in with today's theme, we're sharing a prior session with Srinivas Gadde, Senior Director of Sotfware Engineering at Oracle Health, who shares how fine tuning helps improve quality and reduce latency in a clinical AI setting!.
Speakers:
Sri Gadde is a seasoned technology leader with over 15 years of experience in AI-driven software development. As Senior Director of Software Development at Oracle, he leads efforts in conversational AI and AI-powered clinical workflows—advancing healthcare efficiency and patient safety through cutting-edge modeling techniques and responsible AI practices.
Want to explore natural language and speech capabilities (like text to speech, speech to text, translation etc.) in your browser before switching to code? Try the Azure AI Foundry Speech playground. Join us as we talk to Utkarsh Maheswari about the Speech resource and how we can use it today to transform the user experience in generative AI applications.
- 1️⃣ | Register For The Livestream - Aug 25, 2025
- 2️⃣ | Register For The AMA - Aug 29, 2025
- 3️⃣ | Ask Questions & View Recaps - Discussion Forum
Keeping in with today's theme, we're sharing a prior BUILD 2025 session with Sidd Shah, Vice President at Healow, who shares how Healow uses multimodal AI to enhance healthcare experiences!.
Speakers:
Sidd Shah, Vice President at healow, leads consumer engagement tech with 20+ years in health IT, product strategy, business growth and transformative healthcare solutions.
Observability is about instrumenting AI apps to collect signals that provide insight into model behavior & performance across the GenAIOps lifecycle. Join us as we talk to Han Che about evaluations, red-teaming & end-to-end observability in Azure AI Foundry – for trustworthy AI!
- 1️⃣ | Register For The Livestream - Sep 08, 2025
- 2️⃣ | Register For The AMA - Sep 12, 2025
- 3️⃣ | Ask Questions & View Recaps - Discussion Forum
In this ongoing segment, we continue talking to customers about real world usage of Azure AI technologies and solutions. In this episode we're joined by David Johnston, CTO and Co-founder at Saifr, and Brett Trainor, Head of Partnerships at Saifr who share how Saifr's AI solutions help financial service developers create compliant apps, services and agents!.
Speakers:
David Johnston (Jono) is the CTO of Saifr, a Fidelity Labs company.
Jono is a hands-on technologist and full-stack developer with a record of leading highly skilled teams and fueling business growth in consulting and corporate environments. He has deep technological experience and an entrepreneurial heart with experience founding and leading startups as Chief Technology Officer. His company experiences include Fidelity Investments, Putnam Investments, Sallie Mae, and Safran.
Brett Trainor is the Head of Partners of Saifr, a Fidelity Labs Company.
Over a 16-year career at Fortune 100, Fortune 500, and industry leaders such as Liberty Mutual, State Street and most recently at Fidelity Investments, Brett has held key roles across Risk, Compliance, Strategic Negotiations/Procurement and Enterprise Relationship Management. With a customer first mindset, Brett looks to drive value and solutions at scale through tightly aligned strategic partnerships. Brett holds an MBA from Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.
Hugging Face Models in Azure AI Foundry with Jeff Boudier VP of Product Hugging Face
Did you know the Hugging Face collection on Azure AI Foundry Models currently has over 10K options? When should we use them and how do we select the right one? Join us as we talk about getting started with Hugging Face models on Azure AI – and how you can request new additions.
- 1️⃣ | Register For The Livestream - Sep 15, 2025
- 2️⃣ | Register For The AMA - Sep 19, 2025
- 3️⃣ | Ask Questions & View Recaps - Discussion Forum
In this episode we're sharing a BUILD 2025 segment from James Ding, CEO and Co-founder at DraftWise, sharing how AI models are revolutionizing legal contracting!.
Speakers:
James Ding is the CEO and co-founder of DraftWise, an AI contract drafting, review, and negotiation platform powered by your legal knowledge.
Before founding DraftWise, James led product teams at Palantir, building AI and big data solutions for clients in manufacturing, finance, and cybersecurity. He is an inventor with multiple patents in data security, machine learning, and cloud computing.
