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Don Scott is the GM of Azure AI Product at Microsoft, where he leads portfolio strategy and marketing for Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft’s agentic platform, bringing frontier models and tools to developers and businesses worldwide. He collaborates with engineering, research, partner, and field teams to translate breakthroughs into measurable customer outcomes while upholding Responsible AI principles. A builder and operator at heart, he has led high-growth cloud and data platform businesses, scaled product-led motions across the AI and data cloud, and speaks with customers about modern AI architectures, safety, and ROI.
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The session will highlight the most popular market trends and use-cases in building apps and agents for customers, and how partners can use the full Azure tech stack - app, data, and AI platforms, with the world's most popular developer tools, to offer their customers the solutions they need. The session will cover resources made available to partners to be successful.
In this technical deep-dive, Maria and Don unveil how Microsoft is shaping the future of agent-tool interactions through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). As AI agents evolve from simple task runners to autonomous collaborators, MCP emerges as the preferred communication mechanism—enabling secure, scalable, and OS-agnostic tool orchestration across platforms like Microsoft Foundry, GitHub, and VS Code.