v0.3.0

This release covers the two-speaker consolidation, four-pillar (Operate) AgentOps model, Build 2026 alignment, AgentOps branding cleanup, embedded per-pillar demo videos, and track renames.

Highlights

• Two-speaker (SP1 / SP2) narration end to end across the short workshop deck, video, and speaker script.
• Four-pillar AgentOps operating model (Evaluate -> Ship -> Observe -> Operate) replaces the prior Own pillar everywhere - slides, diagrams, site pages, and narration.
• Per-pillar demo slides plus the four embedded demo clips (Evaluate, Ship, Observe, Operate) directly in the narrated short video.
• Build 2026 alignment in speaker notes (ASSERT, ACS, Adaptive Evaluations, Microsoft Agent 365 references).
• Standalone AgentOps branding on the opening slide and across GitHub Pages (parent-program wording removed from the public materials).
• Cleaner public track names: AgentOps Briefing (1h) and AgentOps Value Delivery Workshop (VBD, full day).

Artefacts

• Regenerated short/slides.pptx (30 slides, four-pillar model with Operate).
• Regenerated short/agentops-short-video.mp4 (84 MB after compression, two-speaker narration with embedded demos).
• Regenerated short/images/agentops-four-pillars.png and other diagrams.

Follow-up

• Mirror PR opened against the parent program: tbhamidipati/prod-readiness-workshop#2.
• Full-day AgentOps Value Delivery Workshop content (long/slides.md, long/labs/lab-01..06, long/labs/capstone, long/images/) is still planning-only.

Contributors: Paulo Lacerda, Richard Healy, Copilot

v0.2.1

This release reorganises the short-workshop narrative around a single AgentOps operating model, polishes the Agent Foundations section, and fixes several rendering bugs in the Marp -> PPTX pipeline.

Highlights

• New AgentOps operating model. The deck now tells one story end to end - Evaluate, Ship, Observe, Own - replacing the older six-step loop that confused learners.
• Stronger Agent Foundations section. New complexity vs anatomy slide and updated narrative make the why agents need a new operating model pitch land more cleanly.
• Cleaner slide rendering. Subtitles no longer show a stray >, the four-pillar diagram renders full-width instead of as a corner thumbnail, and diagrams no longer overlap their subtitles.

Content - Agent Foundations (Richard Healy)

• Add a new complexity vs anatomy slide and accompanying anatomy-complexity.png diagram, and re-order the surrounding slides so the foundations story flows from what an agent is into why production is hard. Narratives updated to match.
• Refresh production-gap.png to align with the new ordering.
• Polish speaker notes throughout the deck so each slide intros its topic cleanly and sets up the next one.

Content - Four-pillar operating model (Paulo Lacerda)

• Replace the six-step loop (Evaluate, Gate, Observe, Diagnose, Ship, Improve) with a single four-pillar model (Evaluate -> Ship -> Observe -> Own) as the primary AgentOps story across the short track.
• Retitle the operating-model slide and its visual, rename the section dividers to Evaluate/Ship/Observe/Own, rewrite affected speaker notes, and reframe the 30-day adoption path around the four pillars.
• Update speaker-script.md, agenda.md, run-of-show.md, and index.md so all delivery materials present the four-pillar model consistently.

Diagrams

• New agentops-four-pillars diagram in make_diagrams.py and rendered short/images/agentops-four-pillars.png. (Paulo)
• New model-lifecycle diagram and a full regeneration of every short/images/*.png without embedded headers, so the slide title no longer competes with the diagram title. (Richard)

Tooling - Marp -> PPTX converter (Paulo Lacerda)

• Strip the leading > from Markdown blockquote subtitles in _extract_body_text.
• Register agentops-four-pillars.png in DIAGRAM_IMAGES so it renders centered and full-width.
• Push diagram images down to Inches(2.3) whenever a slide has both a blockquote subtitle and an inline diagram, so the diagram no longer overlaps the subtitle textbox.

Artefacts

• Regenerated short/slides.pptx from the updated slides.md.

Follow-up

• short/agentops-short-video.mp4 is now out of sync with the revised script and should be re-rendered via build_production_video.py + compress_production_video.py.
• Mirror the deck to the upstream program repo at presentations/04-agentops/.

Contributors: @placerda, Richard Healy

v0.2.0

Mixed-mode narrated video and Pages-embed fix.

• Regenerated short/agentops-short-video.mp4 (45:42, 69 MB).
• Intro slides 1-3 keep the SP1/SP2 jogral with avatar crossfades.
• Core slides 4-23 use one alternating avatar per slide with merged
  SSML so the walkthrough is calmer.
• Video is committed to the repo and embedded directly from the
  Pages site (private Release URLs return 404 to

See CHANGELOG.md for the full list of changes folded into v0.2.0.

v0.1.0

Initial instructor kit for the short AgentOps workshop.

Asset

• agentops-short-video.mp4 - 46-minute dual-voice narrated walkthrough of the 23-slide deck (1920x1080, H.264 + AAC, ~101 MB).

How to use

This release exists so the GitHub Pages site can link to a large MP4 that cannot be tracked in git. Instructors should download the video here:

• https://github.com/Azure/agentops-workshop/releases/download/v0.1.0-short/agentops-short-video.mp4

Everything else (PowerPoint deck, speaker script, agenda, run of show) lives on the instructor site:

• https://azure.github.io/agentops-workshop/

Source

The video is built from short/speaker-script.md and short/slides.pptx using the scripts in prep/tools/. See prep/README.md for the rebuild commands.