Builders Foundry is London-based meetup for people who actually build software.
Expect practical talks, real architectures, production lessons, and uncomfortable trade-offs. If you care about best practices, but only when they survive contact with reality, you’ll fit right in.
Agenda below:
6 PM Doors Open & Networking, Pizza and drinks as always6.30 Talks start6.30 PM First talk- Architecting multi agent solutions using Copilot Studio(Reshmee Auckloo, Workplace manager @ Avanade, Microsoft MVP & Varsha Mahesh, Senior consultant @ EY)7.00 PM 5 min break7.05 PM Second talk - what i actually do as a forward deployed engineer (Nicholas Greenwood, FDE @Aries Global)7.35 PM Third Talk - Building Intelligent Agent with Microsoft Agent Framework ( Renato Romao, Microsoft MVP & MCT)8.15 PM Networking & Wrap up
Talk Details:-
Architecting multi agent solutions using Copilot Studio(Reshmee Auckloo, Workplace manager @ Avanade, Microsoft MVP & Varsha Mahesh, Senior consultant @ EY)
This session explores how Copilot Studio enables intelligent, purpose‑built agents, and how to combine them to create coordinated, resilient, and scalable multi‑agent systems inside your organisation.
The session breaks down the architectural patterns behind multi‑agent design, from orchestration and delegation to context‑sharing and guardrails. Through real‑world scenarios and live demos, you’ll see how Copilot Studio empowers developers to build deeply customised, pro‑code agents using capabilities, knowledge, tools/actions, etc.
Designed for architects, developers, and power users, this session goes beyond documentation to offer practical decision frameworks, integration strategies, and implementation guidance.
What i actually do as a forward deployed engineer(Nicholas Greenwood, FDE @ Aries Global)A forward deployed engineer does not know your companythey do not know your customers, your codebase, which tests lie, which weird process exists for a good reason or who remembers why that table has 40 columns. they still need to be useful quickly
i do this across our group companies at aries global. i work with the engineers, learn how the product actually runs, find what is slowing them down and change it. sometimes it is the code. sometimes it is the way work gets planned, tested or reviewedThe session covers what to do in the first few weeks, how to decide where to start, what to change, what to leave alone and the mistakes made
Building Intelligent Agent with Microsoft Agent Framework ( Renato Romao, Microsoft MVP & MCT)The rise of AI agents is redefining how applications reason, act, and collaborate, but building them in a structured, scalable way requires more than prompt engineering. In this session, you’ll discover how the Microsoft Agent Framework provides a robust foundation for designing, orchestrating, and governing intelligent agents across enterprise environments. We’ll explore how the framework enables agents to reason over context, use tools, collaborate with other agents, and integrate seamlessly with platforms like Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365, and Azure services.
We’ll walk through core concepts of the Agent Framework, including agent roles, memory, planning, tool invocation, and multi-agent coordination.
