Your AI Intern: Unlocking Daily Productivity with Copilot
Wed Feb 04 2026
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In this episode, Edine Olijve-Watkinson explores practical ways Microsoft 365 Copilot, Loop, Planner and emerging AI agents improve daily productivity, collaboration and decision making. It highlights real use cases, evolving tools and the shift toward AI supported workflows across organisations.
🎙️ Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/796
👉 What you’ll learn
• How Microsoft 365 Copilot supports personal efficiency
• How AI agents extend productivity across meetings and workflows
• How Loop, Copilot pages and notebooks support flexible collaboration
• How metadata and information architecture improve Copilot performance
• How professionals can upskill across Copilot Studio, agents and Azure AI Foundry
✅ Highlights
• “My area of specialty is Microsoft 365 and then especially the collaboration and the productivity side of things.”
• “We see a lot of shifts towards agents.”
• “Using Microsoft 365 Copilot for personal efficiency, just as your little personal intern.”
• “The facilitator agent… joins your meeting and keeps track and then takes your meeting notes for you.”
• “The knowledge agent is also very good at adding metadata columns to your SharePoint sites.”
• “I completely started to learn where Loop stores something, how you can retain it, how you can save it.”
• “I use Loop in your daily work, and not just Loop, but also Copilot pages and Copilot notebooks.”
• “You can make some really nice infographics with it.”
• “Everything you create gets created in your company’s style.”
• “I definitely want to learn how to use agents more in my workflow.”
• “I also want to dive deeper into Azure AI Foundry.”
• “It was completely new to me… I never really touched Azure in any way.”
🧰 Mentioned
• Microsoft 365 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365
• SharePoint - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration
• Microsoft Copilot - https://copilot.microsoft.com/
• Microsoft Copilot Studio - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/microsoft-copilot-studio/
• Azure AI Foundry - https://ai.azure.com/
• Microsoft Loop - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-loop
• Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf0yupPbVkqdRJDPVE4PtTlm6quDhiu7
✅ Keywords
microsoft 365, copilot, agents, loop, planner, sharepoint, metadata, productivity, azure ai foundry, collaboration, meetings, workflows
Support the show
If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.
Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith
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Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM In this episode, Edine Olijve-Watkinson explores practical ways Microsoft 365 Copilot, Loop, Planner and emerging AI agents improve daily productivity, collaboration and decision making. It highlights real use cases, evolving tools and the shift toward AI supported workflows across organisations. 🎙️ Full Show Notes https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/796 👉 What you’ll learn • How Microsoft 365 Copilot supports personal efficiency • How AI agents extend productivity across meetings and workflows • How Loop, Copilot pages and notebooks support flexible collaboration • How metadata and information architecture improve Copilot performance • How professionals can upskill across Copilot Studio, agents and Azure AI Foundry ✅ Highlights • “My area of specialty is Microsoft 365 and then especially the collaboration and the productivity side of things.” • “We see a lot of shifts towards agents.” • “Using Microsoft 365 Copilot for personal efficiency, just as your little personal intern.” • “The facilitator agent… joins your meeting and keeps track and then takes your meeting notes for you.” • “The knowledge agent is also very good at adding metadata columns to your SharePoint sites.” • “I completely started to learn where Loop stores something, how you can retain it, how you can save it.” • “I use Loop in your daily work, and not just Loop, but also Copilot pages and Copilot notebooks.” • “You can make some really nice infographics with it.” • “Everything you create gets created in your company’s style.” • “I definitely want to learn how to use agents more in my workflow.” • “I also want to dive deeper into Azure AI Foundry.” • “It was completely new to me… I never really touched Azure in any way.” 🧰 Mentioned • Microsoft 365 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365 • SharePoint - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration • Microsoft Copilot - https://copilot.microsoft.com/ • Microsoft Copilot Studio - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-copilot/microsoft-copilot-studio/ • Azure AI Foundry - https://ai.azure.com/ • Microsoft Loop - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-loop • Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf0yupPbVkqdRJDPVE4PtTlm6quDhiu7 ✅ Keywords microsoft 365, copilot, agents, loop, planner, sharepoint, metadata, productivity, azure ai foundry, collaboration, meetings, workflows Support the show If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin. Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith