May 6
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Learn GitHub Actions from scratch — what events, workflows, jobs, runners, and steps are — then watch a live demo using Claude Code and GitHub Copilot's new Agentic Workflows to automate a shopping cart app's CI pipeline. Presented by Ahmed Muhi (Principal Consultant & Microsoft Azure MVP at LAB³) at GitHub Copilot Dev Days — Melbourne Edition, 31 March 2026. Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:28 - What is GitHub Actions? 1:03 - GitHub as more than code hosting 2:26 - The mental model: Events, Workflows, Jobs & Steps 4:55 - Reading a workflow YAML file 7:08 - What is a Runner? 8:03 - Filtering events (paths & activity types) 9:36 - Demo: The shopping cart app 10:00 - App walkthrough & test file overview 12:19 - The .github/workflows directory 13:59 - Live demo: Adding an item with AI & triggering CI 16:44 - Reviewing the GitHub Actions run 17:07 - Live demo: Creating a branch & pull request via AI 19:00 - Pull request workflow with linting 20:50 - Merging the pull request 21:22 - Introduction to Agentic Workflows 22:30 - Writing a workflow in Markdown (natural language) 23:55 - The generated 1134-line workflow behind the scenes 25:30 - Agentic Workflow in action: auto-updating the README 26:55 - GitHub's sample agentic workflow repo 27:06 - Q&A