Register for The Compugen Hour: What’s New and Next

On the third Tuesday of every month, our experts bring you what's new across Microsoft AI, what's coming next, and what it means for the way your organization works. Typically, our experts cover product updates, expert-led discussions, practical demonstrations, and live Q+A, in one hour. 

Each session is built for business and IT leaders alike and spans Copilot, Agents, Security, Data, Governance, and Cloud. Register once and you are in for every session, with a reminder ahead of each one. 

Our aim is simple: help you understand, adopt, and govern Microsoft AI with confidence, and turn innovation into results for your organization. Our goal is to help organizations realize new possibilities.

Upcoming Sessions

Agents for Everyday Users: Enabling the Line of Business 
 
October 20, 2026 
12:00–1:00 PM ET

Presented by Salman Ahmad 
Managing Principal Consultant, CxMSB 
  
AI agents are changing how work gets done by helping employees automate tasks, streamline processes, and access information more efficiently. In this session, we’ll explain what AI agents are, share practical business use cases, and show how organizations can start creating value with simple, approachable agent experiences.

• What an agent is: the difference between Copilot and agents

• Where agents fit in everyday life; use cases like answering repeat policy questions, guiding someone through an intake or approval, and pulling order or status information from a trusted sources

• Built by the business: how Copilot Studio enables non-developers to build an agent without coding or AI expertise

• Live demo: a short demo of an active agent
  
  

Agents You Can Trust:  Governing and Managing What You Deploy 
 
November 17, 2026 
12:00–1:00 PM ET 

Presented by Salman Ahmad 
Managing Principal Consultant, CxMSB 

As organizations expand their use of AI agents, governance becomes critical to maintaining security, compliance, and control. Learn key considerations for managing agent deployment, access, oversight, and lifecycle management while enabling users to innovate responsibly and confidently.

• What actually changes once agents start showing up across the business: agent sprawl, access issues, data leakage and "who owns this?"

• How Agent 365 acts as the control plane: seeing every agent, setting guardrails, and protecting the data agents can touch

• What "good" looks like: a simple governance starting point

Agents on a Budget: Keeping Control of Your AI Spend

December 15, 2026 
12:00–1:00 PM ET 

Presented by Shawn Crabtree 
Managing Principal Consultant, CxMSB 

As AI adoption grows, organizations need visibility into usage, consumption, and associated costs. This session will explore practical approaches to monitoring AI investments, managing spending, and ensuring AI initiatives deliver measurable business value while remaining scalable and sustainable.

• How agent and Copilot costs accrue and what's included vs. metered

• FinOps for AI: the controls that keep spend predictable and surprise-free

• Token cost management and optimization

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