Pamela Fox

Pamela Fox

Pamela Fox

Principal Cloud Advocate · Microsoft

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Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft focused on Python and Azure; previously worked in developer advocacy/engineering roles at Google, Coursera, and Khan Academy, and taught computer science at UC Berkeley.

Sessions (7)

Day 19:00am-10:15amTrack M
Get Started with Models in Microsoft Foundry to Build AI Apps
Day 410:45am-11:05amTrack M
Diagnosing agent failures in production
Day 111:05am-12:05pmTrack 4
The model swap workshop
Day 211:40am-12:00pmTrack M
Use Copilot across CLI, dev, and cloud workflows to move faster end-to-end
Day 311:40am-12:00pmTrack M
OpenAI, Anthropic, or agent frameworks: choose the right AI stack
Day 11:15pm-2:15pmTrack 6
The model swap workshop
Day 12:20pm-3:35pmTrack M
Observe, optimize and protect your hosted agents in Microsoft Foundry

Pamela Fox is a Principal Cloud Advocate in Python at Microsoft and a prolific educator who has spent the last year delivering hands-on series on MCP, agent frameworks, and RAG — from Microsoft Reactor livestreams to PyBay and POSETTE. Her work on MCP server design, security considerations (SQL injection, auth/OBO flows), and agent quality evaluation gives attendees immediately applicable patterns for building and deploying AI-powered Python applications.

Recent talks (6)

An MCP for your Postgres DBPOSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 · Jun 2026Host your agents on Foundry: Microsoft Agent FrameworkMicrosoft Reactor · Apr 2026Just because AI can write your tests - should it?PyBay 2025 · Oct 2025Python + MCP: Building MCP servers with FastMCPMicrosoft Reactor · Dec 2025Python + MCP: Deploying MCP servers to the cloudMicrosoft Reactor · Dec 2025PyCon US 2026 Tutorial Sneak Peek: Build your first MCP server in PythonPyCon US 2026 · May 2026

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Recent writing (5)

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