Microsoft Adoption
As artificial intelligence continues to transform the way we work, collaborate, and address challenges, the Agent Build-A-Thon events provide teams from organizations worldwide with an opportunity to explore the capabilities of Microsoft Copilot Studio. Regardless of prior experience, participants are encouraged to engage with Copilot Studio, leveraging these events to innovate, acquire new skills, and develop agents that address practical business requirements.
Do you want to get building an AI agent for your own use case with Microsoft Copilot Studio in one day? Find a location close to you and register now.
The in-person Agent Build-A-Thons is a condensed, immersive event held onsite, where individuals and teams learn, build, and showcase agents for their real business use case in a single day. This action-packed day will also provide an opportunity to showcase your agents and share your lessons learned.
Pick a month that works best for your team and join us for one of our upcoming virtual, global Agent Build-A-Thons. We have limited spots each month, so pre-register now!
This is a hands-on, team-based experience delivered online over four weeks, designed to accelerate understanding and adoption of agentic AI – including instructor-led learning sessions, office hours, on-demand 1:1 technical advisory sessions, and an opportunity to show case your creations to other teams and Microsoft product leaders.
The Agent Build-A-Thon is an event hosted by the Power CAT Team. It invites organizational teams to learn with hands-on lab exercises, build up with expert guidance & showcase their agents for their real business use-cases.
Each monthly virtual Agent Build-A-Thon spans across ~4 weeks.
Week 1: Up to 8hours of instructor-led hands-on labs & use case envisioning
Week 2 & 3: Teams will work on building their agents during this week. They will be supported by technical experts through daily office hours and 1:1 session with the experts upon request.
Week 4: Showcase & Feedback session to demo your creations to other participants & technical advisors and obtain valuable real-time feedback from the experts.
Each in-person Agent Build-A-Thon event will be hosted for 1 day (~8hours). The day will comprise of guided learning, expert demos, solution walkthroughs, hands-on labs and experimenting with your real-world agent and showcase your builds.
The in-person Agent Build-A-Thons are hosted in a few locations across USA and are available for participants to sign up for the one most convenient to attend. Venue & dates for the in-person events can be found on the registration page.
Virtual Agent Build-A-Thons are hosted every month on Microsoft Teams. This is a fully virtual & global event.
For the in person events, individuals and teams from any from any small, medium or large size organizations may participate.
For the virtual events, teams from any small, medium or large size organizations may participate. Multiple teams from within an organization can also participate by submitting different use-cases. One key requirement to participate in this Agent Build-A-Thon is that you have access to Microsoft Copilot Studio in your work tenant and have any required licenses or message packs to be able to experiment in your Dev tenant.
There are several benefits to participating in this hackathon:
All team members should be employed by the same organization. A project team can range from 2 to 5 members.
Your project must include building an Agent using Copilot Studio. It may be a conversational or an autonomous agent. It should, preferably, use Gen-AI orchestration. It should address a real business need and demonstrate one or more compliance aspects of the agent for enterprise readiness.
While we provide temporary tenant access to work on your hands-on labs; we highly recommend that you build your real project in your work tenant and approved environment and ensure you have the necessary licenses and credits. If you do not have required permissions to build your agent in your work tenant, we suggest that you sign up for your own trial tenant to experiment with your team.
All in person events will have a dedicated 60 minutes during the end of the day where you will have an opportunity to share your prototypes.
In the virtual Agent Build-A-Thon, during week 4, we will host a Showcase & Feedback session, where your team will have the opportunity to showcase the agent you have built, its use case, and impact in front of the experts & other participants for real-time feedback. For the in-person event, participants can share their prototypes using direct screenshare.
For any additional questions about the Agent Build-A-Thon, please reach out to Agent BAT Support. For technical project-related questions, technical SMEs will be available during the Build-A-Thon days through a dedicated Teams channel.
