Use Agents to Build Agents with Aspire + Microsoft Agent Framework

Room 7Wed 28 Oct • 16:00–17:00AI & AgentsIntermediate
Everyone’s being asked to build agents right now, but the tooling and workflows are changing constantly. Getting something running locally is one challenge, then getting it deployed is another. Aspire helps bring some structure to the chaos. It lets you run and debug full-stack, multi-service apps locally without stitching together scripts, env files, and infrastructure by hand. Your entire app model lives in source-controlled code, and the path from local dev to deployment stays consistent. Aspire also gives coding agents a much better environment to work in. Instead of guessing from screenshots and pasted logs, your AI agent can understand and interact with the full application stack directly. Join Maddy Montaquila and Tommaso Stocchi from Microsoft for a deeper look at building agentic apps with Aspire and the Microsoft Agent Framework.

About the speakers

Maddy Montaquila

Maddy Montaquila (formerly Leger) is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft and the product lead for Aspire. She’s been building dev tools at Microsoft since 2018 - before Aspire, she worked across the .NET stack and brought .NET MAUI to life. Maddy has been obsessed with making developers’ lives easier ever since her first dev tools internship, where she realized it perfectly combined her tech background with her passion for product development. These days, she’s focused on making modern distributed app development suck a whole lot less. Maddy’s an experienced speaker who’s presented everywhere from local user groups to major keynotes, known for bringing great energy and a genuine love for dev tools to every talk. You can find her on X and GitHub at @maddymontaquila and BlueSky @maddy.fm!

Tommaso Stocchi

Tommaso is a Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft's Application Innovation team. He supports developers in the adoption of Microsoft's technologies with a focus on Cloud Native Applications and DevOps.