Live event: Integration like it’s 2026
Gothenburg · 8 October 2026
Integration like it’s 2026
An afternoon about AI in integration and automation work. On stage we migrated a BizTalk solution, built an agent from scratch, and automated a business process from nothing but a description, with the people who build Azure Logic Apps at Microsoft.
This event has taken place. Two short films summarise what the sessions covered, the articles below go deeper, and more is on the way.
Two films so far. Then the articles that came out of the afternoon.
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Two films from the afternoon
We did not record the sessions. Instead we made a short film for each track that walks through what the session actually covered, step by step.
Two films
One per track · more on the way
Azure track
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Build like it’s 2026, with Ahmed Bayoumy and Amanda Orrbeck
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BizTalk + Azure
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Automate like it’s 2026, with Divya Swarnkar and Jennie Zhou
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More is on the way. Articles, reflections and further recordings follow over the coming weeks. Keep an eye out.
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What came out of the afternoon
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The programme
Two tracks that met in the middle
All three sessions were about AI, and in all three something got built while the room watched. Two rooms at 14:30, one room at 16:00, and at 17:00 everyone picked a room again and built something themselves.
No slide marathon. No clean demo tenant. When the tooling got something wrong on stage, the room saw that too. And no sales pitch.
14:00
Doors opened. Coffee, and a chance to work out which room to be in at 14:30.
14:30 to 15:30
Two tracks in parallel · pick one
BizTalk track
Migrate like it’s 2026
Let AI agents help you migrate from BizTalk
Harold Campos
Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft
with Björn Larsson
Integration Specialist, Contica
The question every BizTalk owner is asking right now: can AI actually speed up your migration? We ran the Logic Apps Migration Agent live against real artifacts, read what came out the other end, and showed what it got right and what it got wrong. Then how you test and tune the result, because reading the output is the new job.
Logic Apps Migration Agent
VS Code
Logic Apps Standard
BizTalk Server
Context
Microsoft on the Logic Apps Migration Agent, and what it takes to bring an existing integration platform over to Logic Apps Standard.
The room left with
A clear view of what the Migration Agent does to an estate like theirs, what it cannot decide for you, and what a first wave would look like.
Azure track
Build like it’s 2026
Build your agentic process in your own Azure tenant
Ahmed Bayoumy
CTO and Microsoft MVP, Contica
with Amanda Orrbeck
Integration Specialist, Contica
AI that does something rather than answers something. We built an agent in Microsoft Foundry from nothing, gave it tools, and got to the part that matters: it has its own identity in your tenant, so it reaches exactly the systems you allowed and nothing else.
Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Agent Framework
Entra ID
VS Code
Context
Amanda spent a full day building agents in Microsoft Foundry and reflected on what actually worked.
The room left with
What it takes to build an agent you would actually let near production, and where the real work sits.
15:30
Break. Both rooms met over coffee, and the two audiences met each other.
16:00 to 17:00
Both tracks together · one room
BizTalk + Azure
Automate like it’s 2026
If you can describe a business process, you can automate it
Divya Swarnkar
Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft
with Jennie Zhou
Integration Specialist, Contica
Not integration this time, automation. Logic Apps Automation is a new Logic Apps SKU, open to anyone who can describe a process. You say what should happen in plain language and the AI assistant drafts the workflow, the actions and the expressions. Underneath sits the same Logic Apps platform, so identity, networking and governance are there from day one instead of bolted on later. Agents are first-class actions, including the ones built in Foundry.
Logic Apps Automation
AI assistant
Agents as actions
Sweden Central
Context
Divya wrote this at Microsoft Build, on why automation just became a team sport.
The room left with
The pattern you would reuse for the next twenty, and a straight answer on what is ready for production and what is still preview.
17:00 to 19:00
Hands on · pick a track again
BizTalk track
Migration tooling
Everyone ran the Migration Agent themselves against a prepared estate, with people who do this for a living at the table.
Azure track
Agents and automation
Others built something of their own in Microsoft Foundry or Logic Apps Automation, several of them on a process from their own job.
All six of them stayed for the hackathon. So the people who build these products were in the room while everyone tried it themselves. We provided the environment, the accounts and the cases.
19:00
The evening ended. And then it did not, for those who wanted to stay on.
Who was in the room
Two from the product team, four from ours
Harold and Divya are Principal Product Managers on the Azure Logic Apps team. They are the people who decide what the product does next.
Harold Campos
Principal Product Manager, Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft
BizTalk track, 14:30
with Björn Larsson
Integration Specialist, Contica
Ahmed Bayoumy
CTO and Microsoft MVP, Contica
Azure track, 14:30
with Amanda Orrbeck
Integration Specialist, Contica
Divya Swarnkar
Principal Product Manager, Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft
Both tracks, 16:00
with Jennie Zhou
Integration Specialist, Contica
Why we did it
Still migrating, building and automating like it’s 2025?
AI is not a question any more. It is in the tooling. The distance from an idea, to a proposal, to something running in production has collapsed, and integration work is no exception.
So we built the afternoon around the three things we know best. AI on a BizTalk migration. An agentic flow where the limit is your imagination rather than your backlog. And automation where you do not need to write code, only to describe your process. AI has moved into our world and it is staying, and together with Microsoft we wanted to show where it wins ground in the war on manual work.
The room went home with a pattern to run on Monday, a straight answer on what is production ready and what is still preview, and six people who do this every week.
Watch something you do by hand get built while someone describes it.
Next time
[NASTA_GANG. Till exempel: We do this once or twice a year. Mail me and I will tell you when the next one is set.]
Who we are
Contica has built Microsoft integrations from Gothenburg since 2010. More than thirty specialists, on BizTalk and on Azure.
Questions
Robin Wilde, robin.wilde@contica.se
Microsoft Solutions Partner. Contica holds the specialisation for migrating enterprise applications to Microsoft Azure.
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