From prototype to production build and run agents at scale | BRK241
Microsoft positions Foundry as an operating system for running self-improving AI agents at enterprise scale.
“agents are teammates, not tools.”
At Microsoft Build session BRK241, Foundry CVP Tina Sharkey and Partner Director Jeff Holland argued that building agents is no longer the hard part; the challenge has shifted to running them reliably at enterprise scale. They positioned Foundry—integrated with Azure, GitHub, M365, and Security—as a complete operating system for coordinated, long-running, self-improving agents that act as teammates. This matters as a signal of Microsoft's enterprise agent platform strategy moving from prototype tooling to production operations.