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.

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.

Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

Old production machines, little data – big potential. In this 25‑minute theater session, see how to retrofit non‑invasive sensing, unify signals in Microsoft Fabric, and apply Azure AI to boost yield, increase throughput, and cut warranty claims. We’ll live‑demo turning a low‑data line into actionable insights and service triggers in Dynamics 365 – then hand you a 30‑60‑90‑day blueprint, reference architecture, and checklists you can use right away.

Looking to take your Data & AI career to the next level? Join us for an insider’s guide to the Fabric Community, a powerful hub designed to help you grow, connect, and stand out. Discover how to unlock exclusive benefits, participate in challenges, attend free training, and build your network. Don’t just join the community, make it work for you.

The core of enterprise’s agentic transformation involves autonomous AI agents to handle complex tasks and a workflow logic that is dynamic/decision driven. The success of agentic transformation hinges on access to high-quality, trusted and well-governed data. Explore how Informatica, Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Fabric power agentic workflows through MCP and dive into an architectural blueprint/demo of metadata driven data discovery, automated data quality and enriched master data.

Unlock the next level of enterprise AI with Fabric data agents—now featuring integration with M365 Copilot, managed MCP server endpoints, and reasoning across structured and unstructured data in OneLake. Learn how these innovations empower your teams to unify data sources and deploy intelligent, interoperable AI solutions faster and more securely. With MCP support, Fabric data agents can streamline governance and connectivity across the enterprise, enabling data-driven decision-making at scale.

Join this hands-on lab to design and deploy a modern, cloud-native analytics and AI solution using Azure Databricks, Microsoft Foundry, and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Work with the Zava-Litware scenario to perform data ingestion, orchestration with Lakeflow, AI-driven insights via Genie, mirrored catalog in Microsoft Fabric, Copilot Studio low-code automation, and advanced reporting in Power BI. Build a scalable, cost-efficient solution showcasing AI-powered analytics for business transformation.

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See AI in action as we transform raw data into intelligent insights using Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI. This demo-driven session focuses on real-world scenarios that show the value of embedding intelligence directly into your data workflows. We’ll walk through how to: * Process and classify invoices automatically at scale. * Enable semantic search across OneLake for instant access to finance records. * Build a app that answers invoice queries in natural language and surfaces payment insights

What if your data migration process could work smarter, not harder? Discover how we collaborated with this client to successfully migrate over 12TB of data while maintaining cost-efficiency and performance, enabling 300+ Power BI reports in real-time mode for instant, actionable insights, and integrate seamlessly with platforms like Workday. Gain insights on cost optimization, data consistency, and driving business agility, while unlocking the potential of your data for smarter decision-making.

Learn how to embed AI across your Oracle estate, spanning apps and databases with Oracle Database@Azure. We’ll walk through blueprints that use Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Fabric to vectorize Oracle data, build task?specific copilots and agents, and operationalize analytics. Hear customer?proven integration patterns, cost considerations, and reliability tips, and leave with a pragmatic adoption roadmap and next?step resources.

As telcos become AI-native, Microsoft partners help transform workflows with agentic AI. Learn how to shift from AI-assisted tasks to autonomous operations using Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Copilot. Discover how to build intelligent agents that optimize networks, enhance customer care, and drive revenue—with real-world examples and guidance to differentiate your offerings.

Accelerate compliant Azure transformation for payers, providers, pharma, and research orgs with Aviatrix Cloud Native Security fabric. Learn proven strategies for zero trust architecture with end-to-end encryption, securing EHRs, claims systems, clinical trials, and R&D platforms while meeting HIPAA/regulatory requirements. Integrate deeply with the Microsoft stack including AI-first innovation to rapidly identify and triage cloud security issues in real-time with CoPilot and Sentinel.

Unlock the future of data productivity with a hands-on exploration of AI-powered Copilots! We’ll dive into GitHub Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Microsoft Copilot in Azure and Copilot for SQL Databases in Microsoft Fabric. With real-world demos and best practice tips along the way, you’ll leave ready to transform how you interact with SQL, anywhere.

Discover how to supercharge analytics and AI workflows using Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. This hands-on lab explores native AI/BI features in Azure Databricks, including ML-powered insights and real-time analytics. Learn multiple ways to serve data to Power BI, with a deep dive into Direct Lake mode with Fabric. Ideal for developers, data scientists, data analysts, and engineers modernizing BI with lakehouse architecture in the AI era.

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In this session, we will explore how to integrate your SQL Server/Azure SQL into Microsoft Fabric, addressing one of the most common challenges for data professionals: bridging the gap between operational and analytical workloads. You will learn best practices for setting up seamless integration, understand the potential impacts on your current architecture, and discover how to achieve near real-time data synchronization without the need to build complex interfaces

Join Microsoft’s product team for a hands-on lab where you'll design and deploy an AI-powered application using SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric. This session dives into HTAP capabilities, enabling seamless transactional and analytical processing. You'll provision a SaaS-native SQL Database, use Copilot to generate schema and queries, and implement advanced patterns like RAG with vector search. Walk away with practical skills and a working solution you can apply immediately.

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Join us at Microsoft Ignite for a fast-paced technical session on integrating Esri’s Maps for Fabric Workload within Microsoft Fabric. Discover how to embed geospatial intelligence into your data workflows, visualize location-based insights, and drive smarter decisions. We'll cover setup, performance tips, and real-world use cases that showcase how Fabric and Esri together unlock powerful spatial analytics for modern data teams.

Cloud security must evolve beyond static scans. In this session, learn how a runtime security fabric unifies CSPM, DSPM, and workload protection to deliver context-rich defense for modern applications. See how runtime insights, tied to AI and posture data, help cut noise, speed root cause analysis, and strengthen resilience across multi-cloud environments.

In today’s data-driven world, organizations must deliver results with speed and precision. Explore how trustworthy AI—combining transparency, reliability, and ethics—is transforming decision-making. Learn how SAS and Microsoft empower Azure and Fabric users to boost productivity, generate synthetic data, accelerate model development, and deploy decision flows that drive impact.

Discover how to supercharge analytics and AI workflows using Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. This hands-on lab explores native AI/BI features in Azure Databricks, including ML-powered insights and real-time analytics. Learn multiple ways to serve data to Power BI, with a deep dive into Direct Lake mode with Fabric. Ideal for developers, data scientists, data analysts, and engineers modernizing BI with lakehouse architecture in the AI era.

Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

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.

Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

AI is only as good as the data it runs on. With data spread across multiple platforms, it’s a challenge to ensure quality and security. As the first Iceberg-based OneLake integration partner, we’re enabling seamless, bidirectional data access between Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric. Join this session to see how the Onelake integration and Snowflake’s robust features for the Microsoft ecosystem unlock endless possibilities, from building better AI to developing powerful business applications.

Dive into the evolving multi-agent capabilities in Copilot Studio. Learn how to extend Copilot Studio agents to build scalable, enterprise ready, multi agent systems - with MCP servers and agents from Microsoft Foundry, Fabric Data Agents, the M365 Agents SDK, and A2A.

See how Cosmos DB in Fabric makes it easy to power AI-driven applications at scale. In this session, you’ll learn how to process customer data with Real-Time Intelligence, use Apache Spark to train ML-based recommendation engines, and combine vector search with Cosmos DB to deliver high-performance, personalized experiences. We’ll also cover collaborative filtering algorithms, blue-green deployments, User data functions, and Notebooks to build, test, and ship AI-enabled apps in real time.

In this fast-paced theater session, discover how Microsoft Fabric simplifies data unification with Mirroring and Shortcuts. Instantly connect to any data source—cloud, on-prem, structured or unstructured—without duplication or ETL. Learn how OneLake and its catalog turn connected data into actionable insights for BI and AI at scale.