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Hands-on, instructor-led workshops for developers building AI agents with Microsoft Agent Framework and related tooling.

Agent Framework Dev Project

The Agent Framework Dev Project is a community initiative delivering instructor-led, hands-on, developer-focused training for building AI agents using modern frameworks and tooling.

Our current lab and presentation materials focus on instructor-led lab material for Agent Framework Dev Days with labs, decks, and supporting assets. Some of our current choices:

  • Using Microsoft Agent Framework (open source, first released as a preview in Oct 2025, release candidate as of March 2026, with GA expected soon) for building AI agents
  • Using Microsoft Foundry platform for running AI Agents with observability, safety, and other enterprise-grade features
  • Applying practical agent architectures, tools, and workflows, including human-in-the-loop
  • Applying useful real-world patterns for building, evaluating, and operating AI agents

Memories

Event memories

Highlights from recent Agent Framework Dev Days.

17-Apr-2026 - Agent Framework Dev Day at Akumina

Nashua, NH during NH AI Week: live labs, MCP discussions, and a little more than 200k processed inference tokens before pizza arrived.

View the token usage dashboard snapshot. More photos from the day can be dropped into this same event gallery as they come in.

Small group at the conference table reviewing repository and documentation details before the workshop started
A pre-workshop doc and repo review before the public hands-on session got underway.
Recreated code screenshot from Program.cs showing Lab0 step 1 where the instructor password placeholder is replaced with ThankYouAkumina
Lab0, step 1: before the agents, models, and tokens, the room had to get past the instructor password gate.
Azure Monitor chart showing a little more than 200 thousand processed inference tokens during the April 17, 2026 event
A little past the halfway point, the room had already burned through more than 200k processed inference tokens.
Attendees gathered around the conference table during the What is MCP portion of the workshop
The workshop underway during the Model Context Protocol discussion.
Small group discussion at the Akumina conference room during the April 2026 workshop
Small-group discussion time at Akumina, with laptops open and labs in motion.
Wide view from the doorway showing the April 2026 workshop in progress
A wide room view from the doorway while the session was in full swing.
Laptop screen showing guidance for fixing a NuGet source configuration issue during the workshop
One attendee working through a .NET NuGet source issue during lab environment setup.
Laptop screen showing guidance for fixing a Python package installation issue during the workshop
Another attendee debugging a Python package install problem while getting the labs running.
16-Jan-2026 - Agent Framework Dev Day

We burned more than 3 million inference tokens during the day at Microsoft in Burlington.

Dashboard showing three million tokens used during labs
3008.03k tokens - these were hands-on labs.
Event underway at Agent Framework Dev Day
The first 2026 event underway.
Jason Haley presenting at Agent Framework Dev Day
Jason Haley presenting during the Burlington workshop.
Udai Ramachandran presenting at Agent Framework Dev Day
Udai Ramachandran presenting during the event.
Bill Wilder presenting at Agent Framework Dev Day
Bill Wilder leading part of the day.

Attendee feedback

“The workshop was incredibly informative to understand Agentic Framework and gain practitioner's / builder's experience with hands down labs. I very much enjoyed doing labs on:”

  1. Agentic Workflows implementing sequential, concurrent, and human-in-the-loop workflows
  2. Agentic RAG scenarios with Azure AI Search and Agent Framework orchestration.

“One of the best days spent with community of like-minded friends and professionals!!”

Upcoming Events

Stay tuned

No upcoming events right now. Check back soon or follow us on Meetup to be notified when the next Agent Framework Dev Day is announced.

Agenda

What we'll cover

A full-day workshop broken into three parts:

  • Part 1: Overview, first agent (lab0), OpenTelemetry, Safety, Hosted Agents
  • Part 2: RAG, Agentic RAG, MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • Part 3: Workflows, MCP deep-dive

Presenters

Your instructors

Resources

Labs and materials

All labs are available in both .NET (C#) and Python:

Experimental

Experimental Tools

Tools and utilities we're experimenting with:

Community Partners

Our Community Partners

We're proud to collaborate with these amazing communities:

Boston Azure AI

Meetup community focused on Azure AI technologies and developer education.

Sponsors

Our Sponsors

We're grateful for the support of our sponsors who make these events possible:

Current Sponsors

Past Sponsors

Contact

Get in touch

For general questions: info@agentframework.dev
For sponsorship inquiries: sponsors@agentframework.dev