Workshops

Bring Agent Academy to your team or your stage.

Agent Academy isn't just a self-paced curriculum, it's designed to be delivered live. Whether you're an MVP or community speaker running a conference workshop, or an organization looking to upskill your team, everything you need is here.

Find a workshop · Get facilitator resources · Request workshop badges

Facilitator resources

Planning a workshop? Start with a speaker deck and the facilitator guide. Choose the deck that matches the course your participants will follow.

Microsoft Copilot harness

NextGen Recruit speaker deck

A full-day workshop for building the Contoso IT Concierge with knowledge, tools, skills, and workflows. Includes facilitator notes and lab walkthroughs.

Download NextGen Recruit deckView source files on GitHubExplore the NextGen Recruit curriculum →

Microsoft Copilot harness

NextGen Operative speaker deck

A full-day advanced workshop for building a multi-agent hiring system with Dataverse MCP, Python skills, connected agents, workflows, and evaluations. Includes facilitator notes and lab walkthroughs.

Download NextGen Operative deckView source files on GitHubExplore the NextGen Operative curriculum →

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Facilitator guide

Start here for timing guidance, a setup checklist, troubleshooting, and tips from experienced facilitators.

Plan your workshop →

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All speaker decks

Choose Recruit or Operative on the Microsoft Copilot harness or standard harness to match your workshop.

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Agent Academy curriculum

The full self-paced curriculum your participants will work through. Familiarize yourself with the content before delivering it live.

View curriculum →

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Video walkthroughs

Mission-by-mission video walkthroughs you can use to supplement live delivery or share with participants for pre-work.

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Bring Agent Academy to your audience

🎤 For speakers & MVPs

Take the Agent Academy curriculum to your next conference session or community event. The material is structured, hands-on, and built to be delivered.

🏢 For organizations

Run Agent Academy as an internal workshop for your team. Get your developers, makers, and IT pros building real agents together with a facilitator guiding the way.

🤝 Better together

Live delivery changes the learning dynamic. Questions get answered in real time, peers learn from each other, and teams leave with shared context and working agents.

Workshop schedule

Agent Academy workshops happening around the world, delivered by MVPs and community speakers. Want to add yours? Get in touch.

Browse upcoming workshops or look back at past events. Workshops move to Past automatically after their scheduled date.

🏅 Free badges for your participants

When you deliver an official Agent Academy workshop, we provide free digital badges for everyone in the room, both participants and facilitators, issued through the Global AI Community.

	Badge	Who earns it
	Live Graduate	Every participant who completes the workshop
	Live Instructor	Facilitators who deliver an official Agent Academy workshop

How to get badges for your event

1. Email us at poweradvocates@microsoft.com to let us know you're delivering an Agent Academy workshop
2. We'll send you forms to collect participant and facilitator details
3. Badges are issued through the Global AI Community platform so participants will need to create a free account to receive theirs

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Let us know about your workshop as early as possible so we can get the forms to you in time to distribute to participants on the day.