CollabDays Hamburg 2026

27/06/2026, Ahfs
Hamburg, Germany

From Zero to Agent: Building Your First Copilot Studio Agent

Learn how to go from a blank screen to a working Copilot Studio agent that talks to Dataverse, uses knowledge, and actually gets work done, all in under an hour. You have heard the buzz about Copilot Studio, but where do you start if you have never built an agent before In this session we walk through Copilot Studio from scratch and build a simple, real world agent together. We will design its purpose, write its instructions, connect it to Dataverse, add tools for create and read operations, plug in a small knowledge source, and then see how it can reason across all of those pieces to complete tasks, not just answer questions. The focus is practical and hands on. We keep the data model intentionally simple and spend our time where it matters most. How to describe your agent so it behaves itself. How to structure topics and tools so the experience is predictable. How to split responsibilities between Dataverse actions and knowledge. And how to think about agent to agent patterns once you are ready to grow beyond a single assistant. You will leave with a mental model for Copilot Studio, a repeatable recipe for your next agent, and the confidence to take your own idea from sketch to working solution. By the end of the session you will have seen: - What a Copilot Studio agent is and how it fits into the wider Microsoft ecosystem - How to define a clear agent description that sets expectations for your users - How to write effective agent instructions that anchor behaviour, tone and guardrails - How to design a very simple Dataverse data model and use it as your source of truth - How to add tools and actions that create and query rows in Dataverse - How to create topics that guide users through common journeys in a predictable way - How to plug in a small knowledge source for policies, FAQs and reference information - How Copilot Studio can use reasoning to combine knowledge and tools to complete task