From Concept to Control Plane: A Hands-On Guide to Microsoft Foundry Agent Service
October 20 — Workshops Day · 12:30 PM · 3 hours · Microsoft Offices
Moving an AI agent from a fragile prompt playground to a production-ready cloud deployment requires a solid architectural foundation. Microsoft Foundry changes the paradigm by introducing a managed, containerised runtime for custom agent code via Hosted Agents, alongside centralised runtime tool discovery with Foundry Toolboxes.
This 3-hour, hands-on workshop is designed for engineers, architects, and technical leaders who want to learn how to stand up, secure, and scale production-grade agent environments. Leveraging pre-built, community-vetted labs, we will step through local verification, configure centralized toolboxes via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and ground our agents using Foundry IQ retrieval. Best of all, we will focus heavily on architecture, configuration, and control-plane deployment — meaning no deep, from-scratch coding is required.
Jerome Brown
Principal Consultant
Mantel
Jerome is a highly experienced Cloud Architect, with more than 10 years experience in designing, building, and migrating workloads in the cloud. He has experience in both Azure and AWS cloud platforms enabling him to strategically evaluate the best option for a specific situation and deliver excellent results.
He firmly believes that automation is the key to successfully embracing cloud computing, as automation unlocks the full cloud advantages. It also ensures processes are repeatable, which is a foundation of cost-optimised architectures.
His ability to take complex topics and explain them simply is one of the reasons he is part of the Microsoft MVP program. He also holds numerous certifications across all the major hyperscalers and cloud-native technologies.