Building Bulletproof AI Agents (for real this time)

The agent landscape is rapidly evolving beyond simple RAG. Today's most sophisticated agents have self-directed planning, multi-agent handoffs, and external tool integration. We're here to cut through the noise with practical patterns and strong opinions on how to build reliable, production-grade agents.

Azure

Cloud

Programming Languages

Security

GenAI

In this talk, we'll dive into the brand-new Durable Agents features, showing you how to build resilience directly into your agent-to-agent and tool calls. We'll also cover how to deploy powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and secure them with OAuth and Entra. Finally, we'll demonstrate how to achieve extreme scale and cost efficiency using Azure Functions' Flex Consumption plan. You'll leave with a clear roadmap for building serious, durable, and scalable AI agents.

Thiago Almeida

Thiago has worked on a variety of companies as a developer, architect, and team leader building applications and experiences. He is a former Microsoft MVP and joined Microsoft in 2011 and since then has been working directly with customers driving adoption and development of industry leading applications and services. He's now part of the Azure Functions product group as a technical PM in the developer platform division.

Paul Yuknewicz

As a lead product manager for Azure Developer Compute at Microsoft, I am responsible for the PM team that designs the developer experiences for serverless and microservices applications in the cloud. This includes Azure Functions and also Microsoft's contributions to Dapr (a CNCF incubations project for building microservices). In my role I'm very passionate about helping developers succeed building high-scale distributed applications, and building a strong collaboration with customers so we're in tune with their needs. We're having fun learning and challenging the status quo in a breadth of technologies and languages, e.g. Linux, Windows, Python, Node, Go, Java, .NET, Serverless, containers, service meshes, and application observability. Recently I have become Dapr member, maintainer for quickstarts, and steering and oversight committee. @paulyuki99