Building and deploying production grade AI agents with Microsoft Foundry with Edgar McOchieng [MVP]

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on building and deploying production-grade AI agents using Microsoft Foundry with guest Edgar McOchieng.

In this deep-dive episode of the M365 FM podcast, Mirko Peters welcomes Edgar McOchieng for an extensive conversation about enterprise AI architecture, Microsoft Foundry, scalable AI agents, and the real-world challenges organizations face when deploying production-grade AI systems. Edgar shares his journey from discovering Microsoft Azure during university in Kenya to becoming a Microsoft MVP focused on Microsoft Foundry, Business Applications, data engineering, and AI-driven enterprise solutions. He also talks about his passion for mentorship and community building through “Ochieng Labs,” where students and early-career developers gain hands-on experience with Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Copilot Studio, and modern AI engineering practices. BUILDING REAL-WORLD ENTERPRISE AI APPLICATIONS The conversation explores how organizations can move beyond AI experimentation and start building reliable, secure, and scalable AI applications that deliver measurable business value. Edgar explains how his team created an enterprise AI platform capable of connecting to SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Microsoft Graph, AWS, and Google Cloud environments to help employees retrieve…

People in this episode

Host: Mirko Peters

Guest: Edgar McOchieng

Topics covered

• enterprise AI architecture
• Microsoft Foundry
• scalable AI agents
• production-grade AI systems
• mentorship
• community building
• data engineering

Keywords

• AI agents
• Microsoft Foundry
• enterprise AI
• data silos
• RAG
• semantic indexing
• enterprise search

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Foundry, Ochieng Labs, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Copilot Studio, AWS, Google Cloud

Places: Kenya

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