October Meetup

Topic: Don’t Panic: Building Copilot Agents for Planet Scale Business Processes

Speaker: Ryan McGee, President, Talos Software Solutions

Space is big. Really big. And when your organization builds custom planets on demand, traditional workflows break down fast.

In this session, we’ll explore Microsoft Copilot Agents through the lens of Magrathea Corporation, the legendary planet‑building company from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Using a Dataverse backed purchase order model for planetary construction, we’ll demonstrate how Copilot Agents can reason over business data, orchestrate actions, and collaborate with humans across complex enterprise systems.

You’ll see how agents differ from traditional automation, how they decide when to act versus when to ask, and how they stay grounded in real organizational data without panicking when requirements get cosmically complex. Along the way, we’ll map familiar enterprise patterns such as approvals, exceptions, audits, policies, and consumption costs to modern agent design in the Microsoft ecosystem.

Grab your towel, thumb a ride on the nearest starship, and join us for a journey to the frontiers of Copilot Agent innovation, where we’ll tackle planet-scale business challenges together and uncover practical strategies you can bring back to your own galaxy.

Schedule:
9 - 9:15 Welcome
9:15 - 9:45 Review of recent Microsoft announcements
9:45 - 10:45 Main Presentation
10:45 - 11:00 Closing