April 2025 Events, Training, and Workshops
Hello friends! We’re experiencing April snow showers where I’m at, so I’m imagining a warm spring day and hoping you’re enjoying the real thing.
We’re back with another month of learning opportunities from Microsoft, so take a look below!
And as a bonus, here’s my collection of the best announcements from the Fabric Community Conference, taking place in Las Vegas as I write this: Announcements from FabCon 2025
Azure Technical Events
April 4th
April 7th
- Build Intelligent Apps with Microsoft's Copilot Stack & Azure OpenAI
- Azure Virtual Machine and Compute
April 9th
April 11th
- Developing AI Applications with Azure AI Studio
- Mitigating Vulnerabilities with GitHub Advanced Security and Azure DevOps
- Lunch & Learn - Build Custom Copilot Application using Azure AI Foundry (EDT | CDT | PDT)
April 14th
April 16th
April 18th
- Building a resilient laaS architecture
- Developing AI Applications with Azure AI Studio
- Lunch and Learn - Developing a Multimodal RAG Solution (EDT | CDT | PDT)
April 21st
April 23rd
- GitHub Copilot Innovation Workshop
- Build Intelligent Apps with Microsoft's Copilot Stack & Azure OpenAI
April 25th
- Mitigating Vulnerabilities with GitHub Advanced Security and Azure DevOps
- Lunch & Learn - Get started with Azure OpenAI Service (EDT | CDT | PDT)
- Implement CI/CD with GitHub Actions
Azure Virtual Training Days
April 3rd
- Mastering Reliability, Security, and Performance on Azure
- Implement a Lakehouse with Microsoft Fabric
April 7th
April 9th
April 11th
April 14th
April 17th
April 22nd
April 28th
April 29th
Microsoft Discovery Hour
April 8th
April 9th
April 17th
Microsoft Virtual Briefings
April 1st
April 2nd
April 3rd
- Azure Copilot: Understanding Security & Privacy in Action
- A Day in the Life of a Developer in the Era of AI
- Proactive resiliency with Azure
April 7th
April 8th
- Transforming Cybersecurity: Leveraging Change for Strategic Investments
- Migrate to Innovate - Be Secure and AI Ready
April 16th
April 22nd
- Protecting Against Phishing and Social Engineering Attacks
- Defender for Cloud: Enhancing Server & AI Security
- Azure VMware Solution - Simplify your cloud migration and licensing
April 23rd
April 24th
April 30th
- Understanding M365 Copilot Agents & Copilot Studio
- Microsoft Datacenter Tour: Virtual Experience
- OpenAI on Azure - 2-hours hands on workshop
Microsoft Tech Brief
April 3rd
April 8th
April 9th
April 16th
April 22nd
April 23rd
April 29th
Microsoft Reactor
Note that all of these Reactor sessions are livestreamed on YouTube and recorded for later viewing.
April 1st
- Data Factory Connector Lifecycle and Upgrade
- Building AI Agents using Azure AI Agent Service
- Join the Microsoft Global Community Initiative (MGCI) - let's grow together!
- Learn Live: AI security fundamentals
April 2nd
- Art of Prompting 101
- Data Exploration with PySpark in Microsoft Fabric
- A Live Demo of Microsoft 365 Copilot in Action
- Learn Live: SecOps and AppSec fundamentals
April 3rd
- Service Now Action with Copilot Agent Natural Language
- WhatsApp Messaging and Azure Communication Services
- A Day in the Life of a Developer in the Era of AI
- Mastering Semantic Classification with Embeddings and Vector Similarity in .NET/C#
- Copilot Learning Hub: Azure AI Agent Service
April 4th
April 7th
- Build a Production-Scale Conversational AI Assistant with RAG
- Model Mondays - Hands-on with Fine-Tuning Models
April 8th
- AI102 - Building Custom Named Entity Recognition Models with Azure AI Language
- Register for the AI Agents Hackathon!
- Agents 101 / AI Agents Hackathon Kickoff! Agents 101 / AI Agents Hackathon Kickoff!
- GitHub Copilot: The agent awakens: Build applications with GitHub Copilot agent mode
- Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric – What’s New and Roadmap
- Design a Dream Destination with AI
April 9th
- AI in CMS: How to Get Started Today?
- AI-Driven Agent Development with Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Agents, Agents, Agents! What AI agents are, and when (not) to build one
- Microsoft JDConf 2025 (Americas)
- Build your code-first app with Azure AI Agent Service (EMEA/US offering)
- AI Agents for Java using Azure AI Foundry and GitHub Copilot
April 10th
- Evaluations – How to choose the best model for your applications needs
- Exploring SMS Capabilities with Azure Communication Services
- Sematic Kernel with NEON DB: A powerful duo for your AI Solutions
- Build and extend agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Transforming Business Processes with Multi-Agent AI using Semantic Kernel
- Build your code-first app with Azure AI Agent Service (.NET)
April 14th
- Building custom engine agents with Azure AI Foundry and Visual Studio Code
- Model Mondays - Hands-on with Synthetic Data Generation
- Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric – What’s New and Roadmap
April 15th
- Your First AI Agent in JS with Azure AI Agent Service
- Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2025
- Building Agentic Applications with AutoGen v0.4
- Learn Live: Plan and Prepare to Develop AI Solutions on Azure
- What’s New with Database Mirroring
- Learn Live: Manage AI Data Security Challenges with Microsoft Purview
- AI Agents + .NET Aspire
- Prototyping AI Agents with GitHub Models
April 16th
- Untangling Copilot Chat
- Practical Applications with AI Agents: Building the Future, One Idea at a Time
- Semantic Kernel with C# to build multi-agent AI applications powered by Azure Cosmos
- Building Declarative Agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio & Teams Toolkit
- Prompting is the New Scripting: Meet GenAIScript
- VS Code Live: The latest updates
- Building agents with an army of models from the Azure AI model catalog
- Multi-Agent API with LangGraph and Azure Cosmos DB
- Mastering Agentic RAG
April 17th
- Build your own agent with OpenAI, .NET, and Copilot Studio
- Maximizing Email Insights with Logs and Events on Azure Communication Services
- Building smarter Python AI agents with code interpreters
- Building Java AI Agents using LangChain4j and Dynamic Sessions
- Agentic Voice Mode Unplugged
April 21st
- Model Mondays - Hands-on with Open Source and AI Models
- Knowledge-augmented agents with LlamaIndex.TS
April 22nd
- What’s New with Database Mirroring
- Building a Personalized Agent with Azure AI Agent Service & Local SLMs
- Real-Time Analytics Made Easy with Microsoft Fabric
- Building a AI Agent with Prompty and Azure AI Foundry
- .NET Conf: Focus on Modernization (Day 1)
- Multi-Agent solutions with SignalR, gRPC, and HTTP using Semantic Kernel
- Learn Live: Fundamentals of AI agents on Azure
- Deep Dive on OPDG and VNET
- Learn Live: Manage compliance with Microsoft Purview with Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Demystifying Agents: Build an AI Agent from Scratch on Your Own Data using Azure SQL
- VoiceRAG: talk to your data
April 23rd
- Effortless Automation: Creating Power Automate Flows with Copilot
- Build custom agent with vectorize text in Azure AI Search
- .NET Conf: Focus on Modernization (Day 2)
- Building Multi-Agent Apps on top of Azure PostgreSQL
- Financial Sector Best Practices with Terraform & Azure Verified Modules
- Agentic RAG with reflection
- Multi-source data patterns for modern RAG apps
April 24th
- Agents and Agentic Frameworks
- Add Audio Video Calling Into Your Apps
- Engineering agents that Think, Act, and Govern themselves
- Build AI Agents using Semantic Kernel
- Extending AI Agents with Azure Functions
- Build real time voice agents with Azure Communication Services
- Bringing Robots to Life: Real-Time Interactive Experiences with Azure OpenAI GPT-4o
April 28th
- Building Maintainable Agent Workflows with Semantic Kernel and Prompty
- Model Mondays - Hands-on with Forecasting Models
- Deep Dive on OPDG and VNET
- Irresponsible AI Agents
- Securing AI agents on Azure
- Learn Live: Develop an agent with Azure AI Agent Service
- Learn Live: Identify and Mitigate AI Data Security Risks
- Evaluating Agents