Build Once, Ground Everywhere: Developing Agents with the WorkIQ API | ESPC26

Great enterprise agents need more than access to documents. They need the context of work. Work IQ provides a workplace intelligence layer that enables agents to reason over Microsoft 365 data while preserving existing permissions, compliance, and governance controls. In this developer-focused session, explore how the Work IQ API can provide secure enterprise grounding for custom agents and AI-powered applications. Learn how developers can work with organizational context across content, communication, people, and collaboration signals using flexible interaction models including REST, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Agent-to-Agent (A2A). We’ll examine architecture and development patterns for building agents that can reason across work rather than operating within a single application silo. Leave with a practical understanding of where Work IQ fits in the Microsoft 365 extensibility model and how to use it as a foundation for richer enterprise agent experiences

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