Microsoft's annual developer event. Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, and the M365 Copilot roadmap.
Microsoft Build is the company's annual developer conference, held in Seattle each May and simultaneously streamed globally. Build is where Microsoft announces its most significant product launches for developers and enterprise architects — including Azure AI services, Copilot Studio enhancements, Power Platform AI capabilities, and GitHub Copilot advances. The conference has become increasingly AI-centric since 2023's OpenAI partnership announcements.
For enterprise teams deeply integrated with the Microsoft 365 and Azure ecosystems, Build is the most important annual event for planning AI capability roadmaps. The 2025 edition featured the introduction of Copilot+ PC requirements, Azure AI Foundry (the enterprise model deployment hub), and significant enhancements to Microsoft Fabric's AI layer for data analytics. APAC-specific implications typically lag US announcements by one quarter as regional data-centre capacity for new services scales up.
AIMenta clients who have standardised on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 receive a post-Build briefing that maps newly announced capabilities against their specific AI roadmaps — identifying which Build announcements are immediately deployable in their APAC region and which require a 3–6 month wait for service availability.