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AI Dev Days: Using AI to Enhance Developer Productivity

11 December, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 10:00 PM (UTC) Coordinated Universal Time

Format:
Livestream

Topic: Coding, Languages, and Frameworks

Language: English

Day two of AI Dev Days is all about Azure, GitHub and using AI to make your coding better. Topics will include Agent HQ, VS Code, Visual Studio 2026, GitHub Copilot Coding Agent, and app modernization. Join us for highlights from Microsoft Ignite and GitHub Universe 2025 and a hands-on lab to grow your skills with the latest AI developer tools.

Session Time	Session Title	Session Description	Speaker
8:00 AM PT	Welcome and Day 2 Keynote	Martin Woodward welcomes you to Day 2 of AI Dev Days	Martin Woodward
8:10 AM PT	VS Code Release 1.07	Join the VS Code team as they break down all the new big features in the latest release available right now! There will even be some special guests along the way, so you don't want to miss it!	Olivia Guzzardo, Kai Maetzel, Brigit Murtagh, Connor Peet, Logan Ramos
9:05 AM PT	Introduction to GitHub Copilot CLI	Transform your terminal into an AI-powered development environment with GitHub Copilo't CLI, which brings the same runtime that powers GitHub Copilot coding agent directly to your command line. In this GitHub Universe 2025 demo, discover how you can use Copilot CLI to build, debug, and understand code through natural language interactions. Watch as the team demonstrates real-world terminal-first development workflows invoking a coding agent, while maintaining full transparency and control throughout.C27	Ryan Hecht
9:20 AM PT	Scripting the Copilot CLI to Do Your Job for You	Ready for a deep dive in the Copilot CLI? Go beyond the basics as John shows you advanced ways of thinking about and using the Copilot CLI to help script and automate your daily development activities.	John Lindquist
9:50 AM PT	A Unified Agent Experience in VS Code	Local, background, and cloud agents all come together in a new unified experience to help you create, manage, and organize tasks. Josh and Osvaldo break down the latest features in VS Code enabling you to do more by managing a fleet of agents running on your machine or in the cloud.	Josh Spicer, Osvaldo Ortega Valencia
10:20 AM PT	Build and Leverage Custom Agents	Local, background, and cloud agents all come together in a new unified experience to help you create, manage, and organize tasks. Josh and Osvaldo break down the latest features in VS Code enabling you to do more by managing a fleet of agents running on your machine or in the cloud.	Harald Kirschner
10:35 AM PT	Leveraging the full MCP spec to help your daily development	Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI models use external tools and services through a unified interface. See how you can leverage MCP servers in VS Code to provide tools for tasks like file operations, databases, or interacting with external APIs.	Tyler Leonhardt, Connor Peet
11:05 AM PT	Using multi-agent workflows in the design process	Agents in Visual Studio Code chat help you execute complex coding tasks autonomously. Leverage the new plan agent for detailed research and track progress with the built in todo list, and so much more. Elijah shows you some of the best practices in leveraging these and other agents in your developer workflow.	Elijah King
11:20 AM PT	Tackling tech debt with the GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent	Before the age of agents, tech debt often went straight from the backlog to the graveyard. While it’s important to continually identify ways to improve your services, it can be difficult to prioritize those items over customer-facing enhancements. With the introduction of AI agents, that paradigm has shifted: you can now more easily modernize, refactor, and evolve your codebase, ensuring it never becomes the next legacy. This talk will cover how to embrace the process of modernizing legacy software and how to leverage AI agents, like Copilot coding agent, to keep your codebase up to date.	Brittany Ellich
11:40 AM PT	Visual Studio 2026 - The Intelligent Development Environment	Visual Studio 2026 is here and is a huge lead forward for AI-driven development. Join Mads as he goes beyond the basics of code generation and shows the power of Visual Studio with advanced agents to help you debug and profile your applications with AI.	Mads Kristensen
12:05 PM PT	Plan, Specify, and Implement (Spec Kit & Plan Mode)	Spec Kit is an open-source toolkit that allows you to focus on product scenarios and predictable outcomes instead of vibe coding every piece from scratch. Den shows off what it is, how to get setup, and how to get started with spec drive development with GitHub Copilot.	Den Delimarsky
12:35 PM PT	How I shipped more code and products than ever before with GitHub Copilot	From prototypes to production to advanced migrations, this year, like many, I have shipped more code and created more products than ever before. Thanks to Copilot across GitHub, VS Code, and Visual Studio I have streamlined and optimized my workflows to build some astonishing apps. I have learned many lessons along the way, so let's dive into them.	James Montemagno
1:00 PM PT	Hands-On Lab: The Power of GitHub Copilot in VS Code	Get hands on with GitHub Copilot and coding agents all from VS Code! Go beyond the basics of agentic development and see how Copilot and VS Code's agent mode along side MCP servers and custom agents help you boost developer productivity. In this lab we will build and integrate new features into an existing app and see our changes live in minutes instead of days. You will learn how to customize your results from Copilot to get the high quality code based on your teams preferences and see how to run agents beyond VS Code in the background with the Copilot CLI or GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent that runs completely asynchronously in the cloud.	Harald Kirschner