AI-3026: Develop AI agents on Azure
Overview
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming more functional and accessible, and AI agents are a key component of this evolution. This one-day training course will help you understand the AI agents, including when to use them and how to build them, using Azure AI Agent Service and Semantic Kernel Agent Framework. By the end of this course, you will have the skills needed to develop AI agents on Azure.
Who should attend
This course is designed for developers, data scientists, and IT professionals who want to build intelligent AI-driven solutions using Azure's powerful AI Agent Service. It is ideal for individuals with a basic understanding of programming and cloud technologies looking to enhance their skills in creating scalable and interactive AI agents for business or personal projects.
Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with fundamental AI concepts and services in Azure.
What you'll learn
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Provision an Azure AI Vision resource
- Analyze an image
- Generate a smart-cropped thumbnail
- Create a custom Azure AI Vision classification model
- Understand image classification
- Understand object detection
- Train an image classifier in Vision Studio
- Identify options for face detection, analysis, and identification
- Understand considerations for face analysis
- Detect faces with the Azure AI Vision service
- Understand capabilities of the Face service
- Compare and match detected faces
- Implement facial recognition
- Read text from images using OCR
- Use the Azure AI Vision service Image Analysis with SDKs and the REST API
- Develop an application that can read printed and handwritten text
- Describe Azure Video Indexer capabilities
- Extract custom insights
- Use Azure Video Indexer widgets and APIs
Course content
- Describe core concepts related to AI agents
- Describe options for agent development
- Create and test an agent in the Azure AI Foundry portal
- Lab: Explore AI Agent development
- Describe the purpose of AI agents
- Explain the key features of Azure AI Agent Service
- Build an agent using the Azure AI Agent Service
- Integrate an agent in the Azure AI Agent Service into your own application
- Lab: Build an AI agent
- Describe the benefits of using custom tools with your agent.
- Explore the different options for custom tools.
- Build an agent that integrates custom tools using the Azure AI Agent Service.
- Lab: Build an agent with custom tools
- Use Semantic Kernel to connect to an Azure AI Foundry project
- Create Azure AI Agent Service agents using the Semantic Kernel SDK
- Integrate plugin functions with your AI agent
- Lab: Develop an Azure AI agent with the Semantic Kernel SDK
- Build AI agents using the Semantic Kernel SDK
- Develop multi-agent solutions
- Create custom selection and termination strategies for agent collaboration
- Lab: Develop a multi-agent solution
Common questions
When does AI-3026: Develop AI agents on Azure next run?
The next date is Tue, 29 Sept 2026, and there are 2 further dates scheduled. Delivered ACE Training Wellington, live online, ACE Training Auckland. Every date and its format is listed on this page.
How much does AI-3026: Develop AI agents on Azure cost?
From $895 + GST per person. Pricing can differ by date and location, so check the option you want before booking.
Do I need any prior experience?
Students should be familiar with fundamental AI concepts and services in Azure.
Can I attend online, or does it have to be in a classroom?
Both. Some dates run live online and others in-class — each date on this page shows its format, so pick whichever suits.
Can you run this course for my team?
Yes. Any ACE course can be delivered in-house at your workplace and tailored to your team's tools and goals — quote course code AI3026 when you enquire.