From TODO to Ta-Da: Agentic Engineering on GitHub
GitHub Copilot is far more than just an autocomplete tool: it can research and plan work, run in the background, collaborate across sessions, and automate repo maintenance. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore agentic engineering on GitHub: starting with research and planning, moving into async handoffs and parallel threads, customizing and steering multiple agents, skills and plugins and GitHub Agentic Workflows.
Attendees will learn how to structure work for agents, how to customize and personalize Copilot, preserve context across handoffs, orchestrate multiple agents safely, and keep humans in control while accelerating throughput.
About the speakers
Colin Dembovsky
Colin Dembovsky is the Director of Field Services for GitHub Copilot. He is a self-proclaimed DevOpsologist and was a Microsoft ALM MVP from 2011 to 2022. He is based in Spring, TX but remains proudly South African 🇿🇦!
After completing an MSc in Computer Science at Rhodes University, he worked as a developer and later systems architect, implementing DevOps “by feel” and in the trenches. In 2010, he left development to start consulting, using his experience, insight and strategic thinking to help organizations put DevOps into practice. By 2019, Colin was leading a DevOps practice at 10th Magnitude. In 2021, Colin joined GitHub as a Solutions Engineer.
Colin is passionate about helping teams improve the quality of their software and do it more efficiently and securely. Colin is a frequent guest speaker and regularly blogs at http://colinsalmcorner.com and can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/colindembovsky and on https://github.com/colindembovsky.
When he is not working, he is playing guitar, mandolin or drums, 3D printing, hacking an rPi, flying a drone, board-gaming, or entertaining his wife and 2 kids.