Microsoft AI Tour 2026: Improving Ops with Copilot in Azure and GitHub Copilot

Session Overview

This hands-on workshop walks through common operational challenges such as incident investigation, resiliency validation, and secure deployment practices. You’ll see how Copilot in Azure helps teams interpret logs and system signals faster, while GitHub Copilot supports stronger build and deployment workflows with less manual effort.

Session Details

• Event: Microsoft AI Tour New York City 2026 
• Session Code: WRK570-NY 
• Session Title: Improving Ops with Copilot in Azure and GitHub Copilot 
• Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2026 
• Time: 2:45 PM – 4:00 PM EST 
• Location: Javits North, Workshop 3 | Level 4 
• Speakers: Kanwal Khipple | CEO & Founder, 2toLead | Microsoft MVP

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Resources Available Now

What you can access now: the Workshop Slide Deck, Session Delivery Recording, and other resources

Resources & Access:

• 📽 Session Recording: Watch On Demand
• 📊 Workshop Slide Deck: Download
• ✅ Prompt Checklist: Download
• 📋 Proctor Cheat Sheet: Download

What You’ll Learn

By the end of this session, learners will be able to:

• Use Azure Copilot to streamline operational tasks and provides actionable insights
• Develop Infrastructure resilience through AI-driven recommendations
• Guide GitHub Copilot to enhance CI/CD security and reduces manual configuration effort
• Build effective prompts for AI assistance to accelerate both operational troubleshooting and infrastructure

Who This Session Is For

Security-minded engineering teams looking to modernize operations with Copilot in Azure and GitHub Copilot

• IT leaders
• Cloud operations teams
• Platform engineering teams
• DevOps practitioners

Workshop Flow

Module 1: Operational Analysis with Copilot in Azure

This workshop includes operational analysis activities in the Azure portal using Copilot in Azure. You will practice tasks that help you review changes, validate health, and examine monitoring signals such as resource usage and logs.

What you will do hands-on in the Azure portal:

• Use Resource Group Analysis steps to query recent changes, check service health, and check AKS health (initial)
• Perform AKS-specific analysis to check cluster health, discover workloads, and find public services
• Practice operational monitoring steps including generating a failure detection query, monitoring resource usage, accessing application logs, and understanding health checks

Module 2: Infrastructure Resilience with AI-Driven Recommendations

This workshop includes infrastructure resilience analysis activities in the Azure portal. You will complete zone redundancy checks and request AKS resilience recommendations as part of the guided steps.

What you will do hands-on in the Azure portal:

• Complete a zone redundancy assessment by returning to the resource group and checking zone redundancy
• Return to the AKS resource to get resilience recommendations, check availability of zones, and learn about zone enablement

Module 3: CI/CD Security Enhancement with GitHub Copilot

This workshop includes a GitHub Copilot segment focused on CI/CD enhancement. You will follow steps that include environment setup, container security improvements, and deploying the enhanced pipeline.

Why This Matters

Real Problems, Practical Solutions

⚡ Incidents don't wait.

Manual log analysis slows response when every minute counts. Azure Copilot delivers faster clarity through AI-assisted operational analysis.

🛡 Resilience gaps hide until they don't.

Zone redundancy issues surface during outages—not before. Get AI-driven recommendations to identify and close gaps proactively.

⏱ Security hardening takes too long.

Pipeline configuration consumes engineering hours. GitHub Copilot reduces manual effort while strengthening your CI/CD workflows.

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