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For everyone looking to stay ahead of agentic change, this season of The Shift explores our rapidly evolving world from a full stack perspective, connecting technical professionals to the teams and tools that are here to help. Each week we create space for top questions from the community, bringing you unscripted conversations about critical cloud, data and AI concepts, so we can all level up together.
Microsoft hosts The Shift: Your open questions about agents, honest discussions, a technology show with 23 episodes published.
As AI agents become more capable—and more autonomous—one question rises fast: How do we draw agentic borders? For many organizations, this is also a sovereignty question: what stays in-country, who can access it, and how
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As AI agents move from experimentation into real-world operations, many IT leaders are asking a new kind of workforce question: Should your IT team hire agents? In this episode of The Shift Podcast: Agentic Edition, memb
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Postgres has long been a favorite of developers—but is it also the right foundation for the next generation of AI applications and agentic systems? In this episode of The Shift Podcast: Agentic Edition, members of the Mi
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For AI agents to move from reasoning to action, they need more than text alone. But what “senses” actually matter? In this episode of The Shift Podcast: Agentic Edition, members of the Microsoft Foundry team discuss how
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As retrieval augmented generation (RAG) matures, teams are asking a new question: Is context engineering becoming more important than RAG itself? In this episode of The Shift Podcast: Agentic Edition, members of the Micr
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The Shift, Agentic Edition connects the people building AI tools with those creating agents, so we can all level up together. In this episode, members of the Microsoft Azure Database team, Nikisha, James, Debbi and Jared
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As teams build AI agents, many discover a surprising requirement along the way: Yes—your agent still needs a database. In this episode of The Shift Podcast: Agentic Edition, members of the Microsoft Azure Database team d
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Single agents can be useful—but many real-world applications rely on multiple agents working together. So how does that actually work? In this episode of The Shift Podcast: Agentic Edition, members of the Microsoft Found
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The Shift, Agentic Edition connects the people building AI tools with those creating agents, so we can all level up together. In this episode, members of the Microsoft Foundry team, Takuto, Shawn, Amanda and Victor explo
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As AI agents take on more responsibility, one foundational question keeps surfacing: Are my agents hunting for data? In this episode of The Shift Podcast: Agentic Edition, members of the Microsoft Fabric team explore how
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For everyone looking to stay ahead of agentic change, this season of The Shift explores our rapidly evolving world from a full stack perspective, connecting technical professionals to the teams and tools that are here to
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The Shift, Agentic Edition connects the people building AI tools with those creating agents, so we can all level up together. In this episode, members of the Microsoft Fabric team, Ron, Dipti, Cillian and Josh explore a
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For everyone looking to stay ahead of agentic change, this season of The Shift explores our rapidly evolving world from a full stack perspective, connecting technical professionals to the teams and tools that are here to
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AI technologies are some of the most sophisticated and powerful we’ve seen in our lifetimes. With data at the center, this transformative shift brings both the potential to solve complex problems and new challenges aroun
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Scott Hanselman, VP of Developer Community at Microsoft, joins the pod to offer his unique perspective on the evolution of technology, share what he heard from developers at Microsoft Build 2025, and discuss the critical
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Water is fundamental to our existence, but only a tiny fraction of fresh water on Earth is available to sustain life. How can we become better stewards of this precious resource? In this episode, Susan speaks with Jairo
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From cave painters to digital creators, artists continually discover new ways to express themselves and connect. That connection is so important, because some people find art intimidating. And, let’s face it, a lot of pe
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Maribel Lopez, Founder of Lopez Research, is one of the people you most want in your corner as a technology leader. She’s a trusted advisor to senior executives from startups to the largest global businesses, and has dee
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Great minds think alike—or do they? In this episode, Susan speaks with Hiren Shukla, Global Neurodiversity and Inclusive Value Leader, Ernst & Young LLP, about how neurodiversity—the idea that there is no single “right”
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Basketball is life. And like life, it’s fast, fluid, and hard to measure. It’s about movement, split-second decisions, team dynamics, fan engagement and running a great business. In this episode, Susan talks with Charlie
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