Microsoft Turns Copilot Dev Camp Into a Quarterly Summit Starting September 30
The announcement came in a September 23 post on the Microsoft 365 Developer Blog by Paolo Pialorsi, a Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft 365 Copilot. He calls it "the very first Copilot Dev Camp Summit" and says it begins a new quarterly event for what Microsoft calls the Copilot Extensibility community. The post lists Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cowork, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft IQ among the areas the series will cover.
The name builds on a learning program that already exists. Copilot Developer Camp is a self-paced learning resource, designed to help you extend Microsoft 365 Copilot. Its tracks separate two main ways of building agents. With declarative agents, you build your agents on the Microsoft 365 Copilot stack. You rely on the foundational model, orchestrator, and user experience of Copilot. With custom engine agents, you build your agents on any AI stack of your choice. You choose the foundational model, the orchestrator, and the user experience. The camp's labs now also cover skills and plugins to extend the capabilities of Copilot Cowork.
The summit is a different format. Earlier Copilot Developer Camp events on Microsoft Reactor were hands-on workshops. One series described a virtual workshop for professional developers who want to learn how to extend Copilot for Microsoft 365 or build their own copilots. The new summit is a scheduled livestream of talks and discussions, not a guided lab.
Microsoft Reactor lists the event as a livestream in English, tagged under the Agents topic. It runs 3:00–7:00 p.m. UTC on September 30. That converts to 8:00 a.m.–noon PDT, 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. EDT, 4:00–8:00 p.m. BST, 5:00–9:00 p.m. CEST and 8:30 p.m.–12:30 a.m. IST. In eastern Australia it runs from 1:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. on October 1. The Reactor page has a time-zone selector, so check the conversion there before you block out the time.
SharePoint Copilot UX, Declarative Agents and Microsoft IQ Split the Four-Hour Agenda
The agenda has three pairs of sessions. Each pair is a 45-minute presentation followed by a 30-minute product-group segment, which Reactor labels "Product Group Interaction, Q&A, and Quiz." Here is the schedule in Pacific Time as Reactor lists it:
| Time (PT) | Session | Format | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00–8:15 a.m. | Welcome | Pre-recorded/sim-live | Barnam Bora, Paolo Pialorsi |
| 8:15–9:00 a.m. | Beyond Text: The New SharePoint Copilot Apps Experience | Live | Paolo Pialorsi |
| 9:00–9:30 a.m. | Product group Q&A and quiz (Copilot UX components) | Live | Vesa Juvonen, Bert Jansen, Paolo Pialorsi |
| 9:30–10:15 a.m. | Declarative Agents Unleashed: What's New, What's Next | Pre-recorded | Rabia Williams |
| 10:15–10:45 a.m. | Product group Q&A and quiz (declarative agents) | Live | Rachit Malik, Rabia Williams |
| 10:45–11:30 a.m. | Inside Microsoft IQ: The Intelligence Platform Behind Agents | Live | Ayça Baş, Pamela Fox |
| 11:30 a.m.–noon | Product group Q&A and quiz (Microsoft IQ) | Live | Matt Gotteiner, Ayça Baş, Pamela Fox |
The first session has two titles. Microsoft's blog calls it "Beyond Text: The New Copilot UX components Experience," and Reactor calls it "Beyond Text: The New SharePoint Copilot Apps Experience." The two titles describe the same slot and the same speaker. The blog says the session covers building richer, interactive Copilot experiences that go beyond text-based conversation, using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and TypeScript. SPFx developers who build web parts and extensions should pay the most attention here, since the talk moves their existing toolchain into Copilot's interface. The 9:00 a.m. discussion with Vesa Juvonen and Bert Jansen is billed as a look at the latest developments in Copilot UX components and where they are heading.
The declarative agents talk promises the newest capabilities plus "a preview of what is coming next for developers and makers." The Microsoft IQ session is described as a closer look at how the platform supports "the next generation of agents." Neither description names specific features, so it is unclear before the day what will actually be announced.
Live Q&A Makes the Copilot Dev Camp Summit Worth Watching Live
The blog pitches the summit as a place to "learn live and directly from product experts." Reactor's schedule shows that not everything is live. The opening welcome is pre-recorded or simulated-live, and the 45-minute declarative agents presentation is pre-recorded. The other two presentations are live, and all three product-group segments are live.
That split tells you where the value is. Pre-recorded content can be released later. A live exchange with the people who own declarative agents or Microsoft IQ cannot be replayed in the same way. If you have a specific problem, such as an agent manifest behaving oddly or an SPFx component not rendering in Copilot, the 30-minute Q&A windows are the parts to plan around. Come with the question already written down.
Reactor's own event description goes further. It promises a curated set of sessions, live demos, and real-world insights covering topics such as declarative agents, custom engines, and integration patterns—alongside inspiring stories from the community, plus practical guidance, hands-on learning, and opportunities to connect with experts and peers worldwide. The Meetup listing from Microsoft Reactor Redmond repeats the same text. The published agenda does not match that description: there is no custom engine agents session, no community-stories slot and no hands-on lab. Expect the three tracks in the table above.
GitHub Copilot and Cowork Are Named in the Pitch but Absent From the Agenda
The blog's summary mentions GitHub Copilot and Cowork next to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft IQ. The Fall Edition agenda has no session dedicated to either. Developers hoping to hear about GitHub Copilot's agent features or Copilot Cowork plugins should treat those as possible topics for later editions, not this one. The broader list reads as the scope of the whole quarterly series, not a promise for September 30.
Microsoft IQ also needs some care. Microsoft's material describes it only as "the intelligence platform behind agents." The self-paced camp separately covers Work IQ, which it says can provide access to the organizations' intelligence (email, meetings, files, people context, search, memory, reasoning signals) to every agent. The summit materials do not explain how Work IQ relates to Microsoft IQ. Admins and architects who want that answered should ask during the 11:30 a.m. Q&A.
The summit is not a product launch either. The session descriptions promise previews and a sense of direction. Anything shown on September 30 should be treated as a plan until it appears in Microsoft 365 release documentation or the Microsoft 365 roadmap, especially if you are planning a tenant rollout around it.
Reactor Registration Asks for More Than an Email Address
"Free" means free of charge, not free of data collection. The Reactor registration page lets you sign in with a Microsoft account or register with an email address. Registrants must agree to the Reactor Code of Conduct and to Microsoft's collection and use of the personal information needed to register. The form asks for name, email, company name and size, job title, and country or region. Marketing consent is a separate, optional checkbox. The page also warns that registering may involve transferring personal data to other countries where Microsoft operates.
Most individual developers won't mind. Contractors, public-sector staff and anyone working under strict data-handling rules should know what the form asks for before they fill it in. Leave the marketing box unticked unless you want follow-up email. If your plans change, the Reactor event page has a cancellation control.
Recordings are not confirmed. The event is part of a Reactor series whose landing page lists upcoming and on-demand events, and the series page describes the Fall Edition as a global, community-driven event designed for developers and makers to explore the latest innovations in Microsoft 365 Copilot and extensibility. Neither the blog nor the event listing promises that this summit's sessions will be posted on demand. The listing also gives no capacity limit.
What This Means for Copilot Extensibility Developers
If you build on Microsoft 365 Copilot, register now and decide which Q&A blocks you will attend live. If you only follow the space casually, you can probably wait for any recordings Microsoft publishes. SPFx developers get the most specific content. Declarative-agent builders get a pre-recorded roadmap talk plus live access to the product group. Architects evaluating Microsoft IQ get the only session aimed at them, at the end of the day.
- The Copilot Dev Camp Summit Fall Edition runs September 30, 2026, 8:00 a.m.–noon PT (15:00–19:00 UTC) as a free English-language livestream on Microsoft Reactor.
- The agenda covers three topics: Copilot UX components built with SharePoint Framework and TypeScript, declarative agents, and Microsoft IQ, each followed by a live 30-minute product-group Q&A and quiz.
- The declarative agents presentation and the welcome are pre-recorded, so the live Q&A segments are the main reason to watch in real time.
- GitHub Copilot, Cowork and custom engine agents appear in promotional descriptions but have no dedicated session in this edition's agenda.
- Registration requires your name, email, company details, job title and country, and marketing consent is an optional, separate choice.
- Microsoft has not confirmed that this summit's sessions will be available on demand, so bring your questions to the live event rather than planning to catch up later.
The summit shows where Microsoft is focusing its Copilot developer outreach: SPFx-built UX inside Copilot, declarative agents as the default way to build on the Copilot stack, and Microsoft IQ as the data layer beneath them. Microsoft has committed to a quarterly schedule but has not dated the next edition. The session titles and the promised "what's next" previews on September 30 are the best current guide to which Copilot extensibility features Microsoft plans to ship in the coming quarters.