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Microsoft

Connect, Manage and Scale Your Copilot Agents

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Watch this 10-minute conference talk from Microsoft Ignite 2025 featuring IBM's Nigel Cain demonstrating how enterprises can build, manage, and orchestrate teams of AI agents to maximize productivity and ROI. Learn how IBM Consulting helps clients deploy agentic AI solutions that transform complex workflows from time-consuming manual processes into automated, efficient operations. Discover IBM's hybrid cloud approach that integrates data, infrastructure, and AI services, and see how AI augmentation follows a "shovel to tractor" evolution in business transformation. Observe live demonstrations of agent orchestration that reduces task completion time from hours to just 12 minutes, including automated generation of PowerPoint presentations with complete slide decks and speaker notes. Explore the capabilities of IBM's Advantage Agent handling complex research queries and understand how internal pilot programs successfully scaled from 50 to 5,000 users. Gain insights into managing siloed agents effectively and learn strategies for optimizing AI deployment across enterprise environments to unlock greater speed, increase productivity, and improve time to value in digital transformation initiatives.

Syllabus

0:00 - Introduction and Guest Welcome – Seth Juarez introduces Nigel Cain from IBM.
00:00:45 - IBM Hybrid Cloud Overview – Discussion of how IBM integrates data, infrastructure, and AI services.
00:03:01 - Discussion on AI as augmentation – the 'shovel to tractor' analogy
00:04:50 - Final output: summarized insights and data ready for presentation
00:05:36 - Generating digital transformation data and summary table for PowerPoint
00:06:17 - Delivering a complete slide deck with notes for seamless client delivery
00:07:16 - Productivity improvement: task time reduced from hours to 12 minutes and preview of next-generation intelligent agents
00:07:51 - Demonstration of Advantage Agent handling a complex research query
00:09:02 - Overview of internal pilot expansion from 50 to 5000 users

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Microsoft Ignite

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    Kamalanathan J
    This course does a great job of explaining how to connect, manage, and scale Copilot agents in a clear and practical way. The examples are easy to follow, and the structure makes even complex concepts feel approachable. I feel much more confident about building and deploying agents after completing it.

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