We are the Copilot Acceleration Team (CAT), part of the Copilot engineering team at Microsoft. Our mission is to accelerate the adoption and success of Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio.
We empower organizations to achieve agentic transformation at scale with resources, tools, programs, and guidance developed from real-world customer experience.
Accelerate and enable successful adoption with resources and tools developed and curated by CAT, based on real-world customer experience.
Resources to help you on your journey to agentic transformation through effectively building, deploying, and managing agents with Microsoft tools and platforms.
Insights, patterns, and best practices from the CAT team on building custom engine agents and extending Microsoft Copilot.
A skill for AI-coding tools to build and edit Microsoft Copilot Studio agents as YAML — with schema validation, templates, and AI-powered skills.
Explore sample agents, components, and solutions that demonstrate what you can build with Microsoft Copilot Studio.
Discover ideas for Copilot Studio agents and workflows from the community, learn from working examples, and submit your own.
Find skills, plugins, and automations contributed by the community. Download a submission and add it to Cowork, Copilot Studio, or Scout.
Gain skills and knowledge to successfully adopt and deploy impactful solutions using Power Platform and Copilot Studio with programs from CAT and our partner teams.
Hands-on, step-by-step exercises led by an instructor to build agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio.
Gain the knowledge and skills needed to thrive with Copilot Studio agents in this series of interactive virtual sessions.
Monthly hackathons hosted by CAT to accelerate your understanding and adoption of agentic AI.
An intensive 3-day training program to upskill architects in implementing scalable solutions with Copilot Studio.
Build practical Copilot Studio skills through hands-on labs for creating and extending Microsoft Copilot agents.
Drive successful adoption and implementation of agentic AI, Power Platform, and Copilot Studio with comprehensive guidance and proven practices.
Design solutions using established patterns and practices on Power Platform and Copilot Studio.
Principles and patterns for architecting agents — covering fit for purpose, operability, trust, search and tool use, and multi-agent patterns.
Create and implement the business and technology strategies for successful adoption of Copilot Studio.
Build an organization-wide strategy for adopting agentic AI responsibly, from preparing your people and processes to measuring value at scale.
Explore technical guidance for designing, building, deploying, and managing solutions with the GitHub Copilot harness for Copilot Studio.
Compelling customer stories highlight the diverse and creative ways agents transform organizations.
Join Microsoft experts at the Power Platform Community Conference for full-day workshops and sessions on building, operating, and governing the agentic enterprise.
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Explore how to securely manage and govern enterprise agents at scale with Agent 365.
Rahul Ranjit Kannathusseril, Sravani Seethi
View workshop details PPCC26 full-day workshopBring apps, automations, and agents together to build intelligent business processes.
Jay Padimiti, Nikita Polyakov, Olivier Conort, Rasika Chaudhary
View workshop details PPCC26 sessionExplore how organizations can manage the risks of shadow AI agents across the enterprise.
Sravani Seethi
View session details PPCC26 sessionMake AI assets more transparent with observability that helps teams understand how they behave.
Chris Garty
View session details PPCC26 sessionLearn best practices for building production-ready solutions with Power Apps and Power Automate.
Christopher Moncayo, Ilya Fainberg, Olivier Conort, Sonali Panda
View session details PPCC26 sessionExplore how agent templates, skills, and plugins can turn a blank canvas into business value.
Chris Garty, Clint Williams, Dakota Shafer, Giorgio Ughini, Sravani Seethi
View session details PPCC26 sessionJoin the Women in Power panel for a conversation about owning your power and claiming your seat.
Sravani Seethi
View session details PPCC26 sessionExplore how to build, secure, and scale Power Apps and workflows with AI agents.
Ravi Chada, Rui Santos, Yasin Mukadam
View session details PPCC26 sessionHear real-world stories about becoming a frontier firm through apps and agents.
Henry Jammes, Lisa McKee, Phil Topness, Sally Shi, Sarah Goodwin
View session details PPCC26 sessionExplore the shift from shadow AI to tightly managed agentic tools.
Sravani Seethi
View session details PPCC26 sessionExplore how to govern Copilot Credit consumption while empowering everyone to use AI at scale.
Chris Garty, Doug Bellingeri, Elaine Ansell, Rahul Ranjit Kannathusseril, Stuart McCarthy
View session details PPCC26 sessionDiscuss where work should happen as apps and agents come together in the agentic era.
Christopher Moncayo, Olivier Conort
View session details PPCC26 full-day workshopModernize legacy business processes with agentic coding on Power Platform and Copilot Studio.
Ankita Chopra, Giorgio Ughini, Reza Dorrani, Yasin Mukadam
View workshop details PPCC26 full-day workshopGo beyond the platform tour to engineer enterprise agents, long-horizon orchestration, reusable skills, autopilots, MCP apps, and reliable human-in-the-loop workflows.
Bobby Chang, Doug Bellingeri, Henry Jammes, Remi Dyon, Roel Schenk
View workshop details PPCC26 sessionA technical deep dive into the harness's reasoning loop, reusable skills, tool orchestration, memory, workflows, and migration from the standard harness.
Alicja Gilderdale, Giorgio Ughini, Roel Schenk
View session details PPCC26 sessionA candid roundtable on autonomous agents, agentic workflows, computer use, and turning real business processes over to the new Copilot Studio.
Doug Bellingeri, Giorgio Ughini, Rahul Ranjit Kannathusseril, Roel Schenk
View session details PPCC26 sessionClarify when to use Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cowork, Work IQ, and Agent 365—and how to communicate those choices across your organization.
Bobby Chang, Karima Kanji-Tajdin, Remi Dyon, Roel Schenk
View session details PPCC26 sessionCompare retrieval patterns for structured and unstructured data using RAG, SharePoint, Dataverse, connectors, MCP, and modern orchestration.
Betty Le, Doug Bellingeri, Karima Kanji-Tajdin, Remi Dyon
View session details PPCC26 sessionCustomer executives share what it takes to prepare data, manage consumption-based costs, and prove durable value from production AI agents.
Srini Raghavan, with customer executives
View session details PPCC26 sessionLearn how plugins, tools, skills, workflows, and external integrations can turn Copilot Cowork into a customizable engineering companion.
Alicja Gilderdale, Giorgio Ughini
View session details PPCC26 sessionDefine readiness criteria, design meaningful evaluations, and apply low-cost production checks to earn trust before go-live and maintain it afterward, with live demos.
Hannah Garmise, Karima Kanji-Tajdin
View session details PPCC26 sessionExplore emerging architecture patterns, tradeoffs, and lessons from more than 1,000 enterprise agent engagements and real customer deployments.
Clint Williams, Dan Stevenson
View session details PPCC26 sessionA practical playbook for the structures, roles, guardrails, and operating rhythms needed to scale agents across the enterprise.
Aamer Kaleem, Saurabh Pant
View session details PPCC26 sessionBuild reporting, inventory, automated controls, and agentic governance on the Power Platform API as the CoE Starter Kit retires.
Gregg Barker, Lane Swenka, Reza Dorrani, Sanket Vasa
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