New Breakpoint is a regular online show for Australian, Asian and New Zealand developers produced by local developers at Microsoft and in the community.
This repository hosts useful follow ups, links and other information from each episode.
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You can watch all our episodes via playlists on Microsoft ANZ's YouTube Channel - Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6
You will be able to re-watch any episode on YouTube as soon as it is broadcast but you can register to watch events via the Reactor New Breakpoint page
We would like to acknowledge that we record the show on the traditional lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and have guests from around Australia who join us from the traditional lands of their local people. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and future.
Season 6 kicked off July 2026. You will be able to register to watch the series via the Microsoft Reactor
In this season 6 premiere of New Breakpoint, Michelle Sandford sits down with Aaron Powell to explore the GitHub Copilot App - a new experience that brings agentic workflows directly into your day-to-day work on GitHub.
Rather than focusing purely on code, the Copilot App introduces a shift toward task-driven collaboration, enabling developers and broader technical teams to manage pull requests, issues, and backlogs through intelligent, agent-powered workflows.
Together, Michelle and Aaron take a hands-on look at how the app enables:
- Automations: creating scheduled workflows like daily pull request summaries or issue triage, tailored to your team’s needs
- Agent-driven sessions: working across repositories with isolated contexts, allowing multiple streams of work to run in parallel
- Backlog visibility: helping product owners and managers stay across issues and progress without needing to dive into code
- Interactive collaboration: reviewing changes, adding inline feedback, and steering agents in real time
- Extensibility: using skills, plugins, and canvases to customise workflows, visualise data, and even build lightweight apps
The episode also explores how the Copilot App bridges the gap between developers and non-developers, making it easier for entire teams to participate in modern, AI-powered workflows - whether you’re writing code, managing a sprint, or tracking progress on the go.
If you’re looking to understand how automations, agents, and real-world workflows come together inside GitHub, this is a great place to start.
Register to watch the broadcast: Live Broadcast
- Download the GitHub Copilot App
- Get Started with the GitHub Copilot App Learning Path
- Awesome Copilot
- Agentic Platform Engineering
- Spec-Kit
- GitHub Copilot Learning Path
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2026-08-13: New Breakpoint S6 Ep 2: Secure by Design: Building Security into Every Commit with GitHub Copilot
Security isn't someone else's job anymore. In this episode of New Breakpoint, Michelle Sandford (She/Her) sits down with George Coldham, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, to explore how developers can use GitHub and GitHub Copilot to make security a natural part of their everyday workflow. Through a live demo, George shows how to identify exposed secrets, detect vulnerable dependencies, improve code quality, and leverage AI-powered tools to address issues before they reach production. Whether you're an experienced developer or just getting started, you'll learn practical ways to build more secure applications while maintaining speed and productivity, and why human accountability remains critical in the age of AI-assisted development.
Register to watch the broadcast: Live Broadcast
- GitHub Repository
- GitHub Advanced Security
- Resolve GitHub Secret Scanning alerts using GitHub Copilot Agent
- Introduction to GitHub Advanced Security
- Secure development best practices on Azure
- Accelerate AI-assisted development by using GitHub Copilot
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