{"id":49666,"date":"2026-03-09T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/?p=49666"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:26:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:26:05","slug":"unpacking-your-top-questions-on-agentic-ai-the-shift-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/unpacking-your-top-questions-on-agentic-ai-the-shift-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking your top questions on agentic AI: The Shift podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every day in the hallways at Microsoft, I hear product teams discussing where agents are headed and how software is forever changed. Many of us come into the office more now, and I didn&#8217;t realize how much I missed the in-between moments where natural chat gives us energy\u2014coffee and hot takes on the way to meetings and debating at a lunch no one scheduled, but somehow nobody wants to leave. The people who work on <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Azure<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/products\/ai-foundry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Foundry<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-fabric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Fabric<\/a> care deeply about what they&#8217;re building\u2014about how cloud and AI platforms can be better for those with hands on keyboards\u2014it\u2019s when we\u2019re unscripted that some of our best insights surface. 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Grounded in questions we heard from you after announcements at <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/actioning-agentic-ai-5-ways-to-build-with-news-from-microsoft-ignite-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ignite<\/a>, we\u2019re releasing eight episodes this spring\u2014one each week\u2014that bring engineering, product, and strategy perspectives together. Across levels and backgrounds, this season\u2019s agentic theme explores agents up and down the stack. 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They depend on how your data is unified, how your cloud handles scale, how your applications orchestrate across systems, and ultimately, how this serves people. At Microsoft, we see agents as catalysts for innovation across your entire environment, performing best when layers of the stack work together. That\u2019s where the toughest challenges for technical teams emerge: observability, governance, security, optimization, and quality. It&#8217;s a team sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fabric.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/onelake-your-foundation-for-an-ai-ready-data-estate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Your data strategy<\/a> determines what your agents can reason over. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-iaas-series-explore-new-resources-for-building-a-stronger-more-efficient-infrastructure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cloud foundation<\/a> determines what you can do reliably. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/agent-factory-designing-the-open-agentic-web-stack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">agents and AI app experiences<\/a>&nbsp;deliver business outcomes. Our colleagues and friends featured on The Shift are solving for these interdependencies. And what they all have in common is conviction that none of this works in pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our first episode, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/Shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Are my agents hunting for data?<\/a>\u201d drops tomorrow. We\u2019ll sit with Ronald Chang, Dipti Borkar, Josh Caplan, and Cillian Mitchell from the Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft OneLake teams to cover why data preparation is essential to fueling agents with knowledge. And it\u2019s perfect timing with <a href=\"https:\/\/fabriccon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Fabric Community Conference<\/a> next week in Atlanta. 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