As organizations accelerate their cloud adoption, robust security for your Infrastructure as a Service platform is more critical than ever. This session will provide a comprehensive exploration of Azure’s security architecture, best practices, and innovations across four pillars: foundational security, compute security, network security, and storage security. Attendees will gain actionable insights to strengthen their cloud posture, ensure compliance, and protect sensitive workloads.

What happens when AI meets the frontline? Discover how to unlock productivity and efficiency with innovative AI-powered solutions tailored for frontline-specific workflows and mobile-first experiences, without compromising security and control. Learn practical approaches to modernizing your frontline through smart, simple, secure solutions with Microsoft 365, and simplifying IT complexity to deploy and manage at scale.

Discover how you can use AI for PowerShell and Azure CLI to boost automation and simplify complex commands. We’ll showcase how AI can generate scripts on demand, guide you through best practices, and help enforce governance and security policies confidently. Through practical demos, see how natural language prompts can automate tasks, apply guardrails, and secure your estate.

Discover how Microsoft and top media partners are reshaping Media & Entertainment with AI and the Microsoft Cloud. Learn how Azure, Fabric, and generative AI are powering faster content creation, smarter workflows, and immersive audience experiences—featuring real-world innovations in storytelling, distribution, and monetization.

Dive into the latest compute innovation at the core of Azure IaaS. This session highlights key compute advancements across performance, cost optimization, scalability, reliability, and security designed to make both new and existing workloads run faster, more efficiently, and more securely. Whether you're running mission-critical enterprise apps or scaling cloud-native services, discover how these innovations are unlocking new value for customers and get a preview of what’s coming next.

Learn to leverage agent-framework, the new unified platform from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen engineering teams, to build A2A compatible agents similar to magnetic-one. Use SWE Agents (GitHub Copilot coding agent and Codex with Azure OpenAI models) to accelerate development. Implement MCP tools for secure enterprise agentic workflows. Experience hands-on building, deploying, and orchestrating multi-agent systems with pre-release capabilities. Note: Contains embargoed content.

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Learn how to build an advanced AI agent using Azure Database for PostgreSQL and the new Microsoft Agent Framework. This hands-on lab walks you through integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic re-ranking, Semantic Operators, and GraphRAG (using Apache AGE) to enable intelligent legal question-answering using real case data. Gain practical AI implementation skills with your own PostgreSQL-backed applications.

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Learn how to create intelligent, task-oriented Copilot agents using the native Microsoft 365 Copilot stack. In this hands-on lab, you'll use TypeSpec, a type safe language to write agent specification and the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit to build Declarative agents that integrate seamlessly with third party as well as Microsoft 365 services.

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In this lab you'll help a coffee shop unify their operational and analytical workloads with Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric. You'll blend operational data with curated sources using cross-database SQL, stream and visualize real-time POS events, and create a gold layer for personalization. Finally, you'll implement reverse ETL to Cosmos for lightning-fast serving and train a lightweight Spark notebook model to deliver the right offer at the right time before your customer’s order is ready.

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Harness the power of real-time analytics and digital twins to achieve critical operational tasks. In this lab, you'll learn how to transform physical systems into dynamic digital replicas, enhancing simulations and optimizing operations. Discover how to build end-to-end solutions for event-driven scenarios, streaming data, and data logs. These practical steps will empower you to drive smart decision-making and foster innovation within your organization.

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In this hands-on lab, discover how to govern AI Apps & Agents using AI Gateway in Azure API Management. Learn to apply governance best practices by onboarding AI models, monitoring and controlling token usage, enforcing safety and compliance, and boosting performance with semantic caching. You’ll also govern MCP-based agent architectures by creating secure, efficient servers from APIs or connecting to backend MCP servers, equipping you to deliver responsible, resilient AI solutions at scale.

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As threats grow more complex, teams need improved visibility and context to defend threats faster. In this lab, we’ll explore how Microsoft Purview and Defender XDR integrate to help organizations investigate security incidents through a single pane.

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Azure IaaS can deliver excellent performance and scalability across a broad range of workloads. With high-throughput storage, low-latency networking, and intelligent auto-scaling, Azure supports demanding apps with precision. Learn how to optimize compute, storage, and network resources to meet performance goals, reduce costs, and scale confidently across global regions. Dive into the latest capabilities Azure Boost, Compute Fleet, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage and Networking offer.

Join this session to learn the best practices and tools to build highly available and scalable agents to tackle critical workloads. As AI agents increasingly drive critical workflows—from frontline operations to executive decision-making—ensuring continuous availability at scale.

Dive into the advancements and capabilities for powering your agents with the most comprehensive suite of knowledge sources. Learn how Copilot Studio enables you to build intelligent agents using native knowledge source integrations, connectors, APIs, and MCP servers which enable agents to authenticate, coordinate, and execute workflows.

Run open-source AI models of your choice with flexibility—from local environments to cloud deployments using Azure Container Apps and serverless GPUs for fast, cost-efficient inferencing. You will also learn how AKS powers scalable, high-performance LLM operations with fine-tuned control, giving you confidence to deploy your models your way. You’ll leave with a clear path to run custom and OSS models with agility and cost clarity.

本セッションは、日本からご参加の方向けに、Microsoft Igniteの主要なアナウンスについて日本語で解説を行います。ぜひご参加ください。 This session is designed for attendees joining from Japan and will provide Japanese-language explanations of the key announcements made at Microsoft Ignite. Each topic will be covered in depth by subject matter experts, offering detailed insights and context. *This session will be delivered in Japanese.

AI and cyber regulations are accelerating worldwide. Learn how Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, Regulatory Navigator, and Defender for Cloud align controls to laws like the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, and DPDP India; monitor posture in real time; and embed Responsible AI—turning regulatory resilience into cyber resilience and trusted innovation.

Whether you have basic or mature cloud cost management practices in your organization, AI workloads add specific considerations. Learn how AI usage correlates to cost, what to monitor, and how to drive accountability for your AI investment, with Azure tools and industry best practices.

Learn how the Microsoft Federal team is modernizing SAP ERP with RISE on Microsoft Cloud. This includes High SLA infrastructure on Azure Government, SAP BTP integration, and AI-powered monitoring. Discover how Defender and Sentinel secure workloads, and how sovereignty solutions support compliance. Gain practical lessons and insights from a real-world deployment for regulated industries.

AI is redefining how customers work, secure, and manage their digital environments—and partners are key to unlocking that transformation. In this session, we’ll explore how Cloud and AI Endpoints across Windows 365, AVD, and Intune Suite are reshaping service delivery and customer value. Join us to gain actionable insights to evolve your practice, align with Microsoft’s strategic investments, get go-to-market guidance, and hear from partners achieving success in the Cloud-first, AI era.

Energy and resources companies are using AI and agents to shape the new energy future by unlocking new levels of efficiency, resilience, and innovation. In this session, we will dive into Microsoft and partner solutions powering AI transformation and how energy and resource companies are becoming Frontier Firms.

Explore how Microsoft 365 and Copilot empowers small businesses to grow and adapt. Learn about flexible licensing, streamlined device management, and seamless integration with key SMB apps. Discover real-world Copilot use cases and get practical guidance to roll out AI across your organization. Help employees start using Copilot effectively to stay agile, work smarter, and transform your business.

This session presents proven security frameworks for private wireless networks, showing how field-tested strategies and AI-powered defenses have cut incidents by 63%, reduced costs, and safeguarded critical infrastructure against advanced cyber threats.

In this session, we'll deep dive into how Azure Monitor delivers end-to-end observability across your cloud and hybrid environments, helping you detect issues early and reduce mean time to recovery. We'll also share how new Copilot in Azure agents can extend this visibility into actionable cost and carbon efficiency insights—helping you identify optimization opportunities, validating recommendations, and streamlining resource performance for business impact.