LIVE SESSION - PART 1

Building Enterprise AI Agents That Actually Work - Part 1

Foundations: agent architecture, enterprise data, actions, and the gap between a demo and something people can use

M365 Show · August 17, 2026

Building Enterprise AI Agents That Actually Work - Part 1
  • Delivered live on Monday 17 August 2026, 16:00-18:00 CEST
  • Two hours, interactive, with audience Q&A throughout
  • Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Microsoft 365
  • Part 1 of 2 - Part 2 follows on 27 August
  • With Mirko Peters, hosted by M365 Show

About this session

What does it actually take to move from an impressive AI agent demo to something that works reliably inside a real enterprise? This is the first of a two-part live deep dive with Mirko Peters on M365 Show, and it stays on the foundations: how to approach agent architecture, how to connect agents to business processes and enterprise data, how to design actions that are genuinely useful, and how to avoid the gap between a great prototype and a solution people will actually adopt. We look at where Copilot Studio fits into an enterprise AI strategy, what makes an agent worth building at all, how integrations and data sources shape the architecture around it, and what a team should settle before it starts thinking about production. Part 2, on 27 August, picks up from there and takes the same agents toward scalable, governed, production-ready deployments.

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Elliot Margot

Microsoft MVP - M365 Copilot & Copilot Studio