GitHub Copilot Dev Days - NYC
Join us for the GitHub Copilot Dev Days - NYC!
Get a chance to visit the Microsoft campus, code alongside your peers in the workshop, and hear Senior Engineers share their vibe coding projects.
All skill levels welcome, just bring your laptop and curiosity.
✨ What to Expect
🍕 Food & beverages provided
🧑💻 Live demos from local engineers
🤝 A friendly, social space to connect with fellow developers
🎤 Speakers
Gareth Bland, Chief Data Scientist at Microsoft
Todd Toler, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
Nitya Narasimhan, Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft
📅 Agenda — April 22, 2026
Note the agenda is subject to change
1:30 PM — Doors Open
Arrive, settle in and sign in.
2:00 PM — Keynote (30 min)
Presenter: Gareth Bland
GitHub Copilot keynote
2:30 PM — Zero to Agents delivery (60 min)
Presenter: Todd Toler
Focus on moving teams from basic GitHub Copilot usage to effective, real‑world use of agentic development—not just tools, but behaviors, workflows, and leadership alignment.
3:30 PM — Build Agentic AI On Microsoft Foundry with GitHub Copilot (60 min)
Presenter: Nitya Narasimhan, PhD
Building trustworthy AI agents requires end-to-end observability - from tracing to evaluations and red-teaming. But how do you get started - and how can you simplify your development workflow?
Join us for this 60-minute workshop where we'll show you how to use GitHub Copilot with new Foundry skills to streamline your development process - and learn best practices by observing and guiding the coding agent workflow.
Walk away with a sandbox repo you can use for building your own intuition for the platform and processes with experiments at home.
4:30 PM — Close Out (30 min)
Recaps, Networking
✅ What to Bring
GitHub Copilot (free) → aka.ms/get-github-copilot-devdays
Your laptop with VS Code + Copilot extension installed
Signed in to your GitHub account