What an amazing first edition of AgentCon Vienna!
AgentCon World Tour rolls across the globe, with community chapters organizing events worldwide to bring people together to learn and collaborate on AI technologies. The intention of AgentCon is to explore agents from different perspectives - understanding how to adopt them, how to develop them, and how to control them.
As the Vienna chapter leads, Toni and I wanted to organize an event with an agenda that appealed to everyone interested in this space. Everything we selected was deliberately hand‑picked - from an awesome location that combines modernity and history in one place, to the sessions, all the way down to the food. And it was absolutely worth the effort: the energy, the people, and the insights made this event truly outstanding.
Here’s a short recap of a great afternoon full of Agents and AI.
What an incredible afternoon at AgentCon Vienna!
About 200 AI enthusiasts gathered on January 29, 2026, at the fantastic Prisma | by Lumia event location in Vienna’s central 2nd district to explore how developers can leverage modern AI services and agent‑based architectures to unlock the next wave of innovation with Microsoft Foundry and other cutting‑edge AI platforms. The energy across the rooms was both inspiring and truly remarkable.
AgentCon Vienna Agenda
| Time | Sky Forum | Garden Gallery | 360 Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 pm | The Rise of the Agent Manager (50 min)Dona Sarkar | ||
| 2:00 pm | Preserving expertise and driving innovation: ANDRITZ empowers employees with AI agents (45 min)Juergen Podritschnig, Christopher Rolke | What if we could design Agents that don’t hallucinate? (45 min)Zaid Zaim | Increase your quality with the power of Agentic Engineering (Spec-Driven Development) (120 min)Thomas Stangl, Manuel Juran |
| 2:45 pm | Easy Agents, Real Impact: Supporting Daily Work in a Large European Railway (45 min)Mercédès Orasch, Jan Hilmar, Cornelia Falkner, Muhammet Güclü, Marc Tautschnig | Foundry IQ for Developers: Agentic Retrieval Without Building Your Own RAG Pipeline (45 min)Christian Glessner | |
| 3:30 pm | Grafana Assistant: how to build agents that work (30 min)Maurice Rochau | Building Trust: Compliance & Security in Microsoft AI Foundry (30 min)Martina Grom, Toni Pohl | |
| 4:30 pm | Voice Agents? The Next Step After Chat (45 min)Peter Paul Kirschner | From Agents to Systems: Building MCP Servers for Practical AI Agents (45 min)Matthias Liebeck | Build a Pizza Ordering Agent with Microsoft Foundry and MCP (120 min)Henk Boelman |
| 5:15 pm | Teaching an LLM to review code… like a Senior Engineer! (45 min)Kesha Mykhailov | Agents Need to be Paged, Not Prompted if we Truly Want AIOps (45 min)Randy Bias | |
| 6:00 pm | From Zero to Agent: Creating Your First AI in Microsoft Foundry (30 min)Patrick Wahlmueller | Building MCP server using Python (30 min)Nicholas Chang | |
| 6:30 pm | Networking |
Thank you
Huge thanks to all speakers, sponsors, partners and community members who made this event what it was. Your passion, expertise and curiosity are exactly what keeps the global AI community moving forward.
Special shout‑out to the speakers:
Dona Sarkar, Henk Boelman, Christian Glessner, Christopher Rolke, Cornelia Falkner,
Jan Hilmar, Jürgen Podritschnig, Kesha Mykhailov, Manuel Juran, Martina Grom, Matthias Liebeck, Maurice Rochau, Mercédès Orasch, Muhammet Güclü, Nicholas Chang, Patrick Wahlmueller, Peter Paul Kirschner, Randy Bias, Thomas Purrer, Thomas Stangl, Toni Pohl, Zaid Zaim
Thank you to our customers from ANDRITZ and ÖBB who shared their real-life exeperience with AI. These sessions help understand how every organization can adopt AI. If you are interested to learn more about ANDRITZ knowledge preservation agent, read the story!
Two great workshops were made available for free - thanks to the Team of Tech Talk: Increase your quality with the power of Agentic Engineering (Spec-Driven Development).
Henk from Microsoft showed how to build a cool pizza‑ordering agent using Microsoft Foundry and MCP.
Many thanks to everyone who contributed on and off stage and to our great team at atwork that supported us with all the things, huge or tiny that need to be done in events like this:
Sandra Tangl, Janine Teufl, Werner Wopienka, Thom Kunz, and the team at the event site.
Sponsors
We especially want to thank all sponsors of AgentCon Vienna, who made it possible to host it in such a great location, including drinks and snacks!
You this event possible:
The Global AI Chapter Vienna is still looking for sponsors:
Our intention is to offer 3–4 AI events in Vienna per year. Every event needs a great venue, food, drinks, and of course, sponsors. So if you know someone who’d love to support the community, we’d love to hear from you!
Impressions
The best part? Developers left inspired, connected, and already preparing for what’s next.
Thanks to everyone who joined us in Vienna - you made it unforgettable.
See some snapshots below. 📸
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- Global AI Community
- Martina´s post
- Patrick´s post
- and many more. ;)
Global AI Community
The Global AI Community brings together developers, professionals and enthusiasts from around the world to learn, share and collaborate on real‑world AI technologies. As part of this global network, the Global AI Vienna chapter provides a local space for learning, community‑driven events, and meaningful connections across Austria’s growing AI ecosystem.
Join us!
Missed it? Join the Global AI Vienna community and see you at the next event!
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Keep innovating & CU!