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AI Agent and Copilot Summit 2025: Microsoft, partners focus on agent-led scenarios

by Jason Gumpert
Editor, MSDynamicsWorld.com

MSDW Insight: Microsoft's push to build critical mass with AI tools and services in the Business Applications realm (with help from partners) will require a careful blend of customer conditions including data-readiness, compelling use cases, and executive buy-in. For long-term success, performance and ROI will have to then deliver on the claims.

At least 2.1 million users of Microsoft Business Applications are already engaging with Copilots on a monthly basis, according to the company.  And as product leaders make the case for even broader adoption of pre-built Copilots and AI agents, they will be looking to build momentum with both customers and partners. 

Lots of attention at this week’s AI Agent and Copilot Summit NA 2025 event went into helping Microsoft customers understand better ways to build business use cases and investment plans around AI. Partners, Microsoft, and early-adopter customers shared perspectives on how technology like Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry can be deployed and how it will impact different job functions. 

Speaking to the event audience, Microsoft CVP Bryan Goode used the example of compiling research from internet sources, as an AI-based task that few people want to take the time to do themselves. Without an agent, they may never do such work when other pressing matters take up their time and attention. But setting a research agent to compile data from one or more high volume public sources becomes relatively easy with the right prompts, he pointed out.

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About Jason Gumpert

As the editor of MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason oversees all editorial content on the site and at our events, as well as providing site management and strategy. He can be reached at jgumpert@msdynamicsworld.com.

Prior to co-founding MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason was a Principal Software Consultant at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), where he implemented solutions, trained customers, managed software development, and spent some time in the pre-sales engineering organization. He has also held consulting positions at CSC Consulting and Monitor Group.

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