GitHub Copilot Mastery Take Control of Your AI-Powered Development

Main Speaker

Learning Tracks

Course ID

42939

Date

22-06-2026

Time

Daily seminar
9:00-16:30

Location

Daniel Hotel, 60 Ramat Yam st. Herzliya

Overview

Teams using AI heavily are seeing something: developers accept code without understanding it, juniors skip learning steps, seniors stop writing code themselves. Skills that aren’t practiced fadequietly, slowly. By the time you notice, it may be hard to fix.   But teams that avoid AI fall behind. So what do you do – miss the benefits, or risk digging a hole you can’t climb out of?   This seminar introduces Controlled AI-Assisted Development – a practical way to use AI tools while keeping code quality high and helping your team grow. You’ll learn all of GitHub Copilot‘s customization features: instructions, slash commands, custom agents, skills, MCP tools, and hooks. For each one, you’ll see how it works, when to use it, and when to skip it.   We use VS Code and GitHub Copilot for demos, but the ideas work for Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding tools too.   This isn’t just a lecture. In the discussion parts, we’ll figure out the opportunities and risks together – mixing the instructor’s experience with your real questions. The goal is to leave with a practical approach that works for real teams.

Who Should Attend

  • Teams using AI coding assistants – (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or others) who want to go deeper
  • Teams considering AI adoption – who want to understand the opportunities and risks before deciding
  • Tech leads and architects – who make decisions about AI tools for their teams

Prerequisites

  • Technical background (any language/stack)
  • No prior Copilot experience required

Course Contents

Part 1: AI Coding Assistants – How They Work

  • How it works inside: LLM vs Agent, what Copilot really is, and what it can’t do
  • How companies use AI assistants today
  • The risks teams take – and don’t always notice
  • What is Controlled AI – Assisted Development?

Part 2: Copilot Customization – A Deep Look

Live demo + discussion for each feature:
  • Copilot Chat basics: prompts, context, and good conversations
  • Instructions files: teach Copilot your project’s rules
  • Slash commands: reusable prompts your whole team can share
  • Custom agents: AI helpers built for specific tasks
  • Skills: package knowledge the AI can use
  • Tools and MCP servers: connect Copilot to other systems
  • Hooks: run actions when Copilot events happen

Part 3: Putting It All Together – Real Scenarios

  • Example scenarios from daily development work
  • For each scenario: which features help? How do we set them up?
  • Summary discussion: Do’s and don’ts to take away
 

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