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.
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 members of the Copilot Acceleration Team at the Power Platform Community Conference for a full-day workshop and sessions on building, operating, and governing the agentic enterprise.
Go beyond the platform tour to engineer enterprise agents, long-horizon orchestration, reusable skills, autopilots, MCP apps, and reliable human-in-the-loop workflows.
Speakers: 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.
Speakers: 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.
Speakers: 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.
Speakers: 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.
Speakers: 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.
Speaker: 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.
Speakers: Alicja Gilderdale, Giorgio Ughini
View session details PPCC26 sessionUse evaluation, analytics, A/B testing, and production monitoring to improve quality throughout the complete AI asset lifecycle.
Speakers: Efrat Gilboa, Ilana Kantorov, 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.
Speakers: 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.
Speakers: 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.
Speakers: Gregg Barker, Lane Swenka, Reza Dorrani, Sanket Vasa
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