Manufacturing leaders seeking autonomy need speed, quality, and safety while managing complexity. Hexagon's AEON humanoid, powered by Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA, brings Intelligent Manufacturing 4.0 to life with scalable AI training, governed deployment, and rapid simulation-backed adaptation to support new SKUs. From defect detection to validated updates, teams maintain real-time observability and compliance while scaling what works. The result: shorter cycles, fewer risks, and the ability to scale industrial robotics scenarios.

Discover how Pure partners with Microsoft to deliver a transformative, future-ready data management approach that empowers customers to innovate and efficiently scale from on-premises to cloud. This session will highlight Pure's latest capabilities and product offerings, specifically focusing on advancements in our SQL Server 2025 integration for FlashArray and Pure Storage Cloud Azure Native.

Engage in a deep technical discussion on how to achieve scale and performance for your application deployed in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) through a combination of architectural best practices, modern networking features, and premium SKUs.

Are your cloud ops teams drowning in noisy signals and slow root cause analysis? See how thousands of organizations such as yours use Azure SRE Agent to solve this by turning telemetry into precise actions using AI. It automates detection, diagnosis, and remediation across your stack—reducing MTTR, improving service health, and freeing engineers to focus on innovation. Outcome: faster recovery, fewer escalations, and resilient cloud services.

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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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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Join us for a hands-on workshop showcasing the latest Azure SQL innovations to supercharge your applications. Learn how to harness generative AI alongside Azure SQL Database to elevate your data strategies with AI concepts like language models, prompt engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and streamline with Microsoft Copilot. Whether you're a developer, architect, or IT professional, this workshop is your ticket to mastering SQL and AI to stay ahead in the data-driven landscape.

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See how Azure’s new AI-powered migration agents make moving to the cloud faster, easier, and more reliable. In this session, we’ll walk through a complete end-to-end migration of applications, databases, and dependencies to Azure IaaS and PaaS—covering discovery, assessment, planning, and execution. Learn how to reduce complexity, minimize risk, and modernize confidently with step-by-step guidance and real-world scenarios.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Modernizing legacy .NET apps just became easier end to end. Explore how Visual Studio 2026, .NET, and GitHub Copilot modernization tooling streamline the journey. Learn how new features in Azure App Service solve common compatibility challenges—delivering scalable, secure, AI-ready deployments with deep observability and cost efficiency.

Learn more about migration and modernization of Windows Server, SQL Server, and .NET apps. Learn how to assess and migrate Windows Server and SQL Server workloads using Azure Migrate and Azure Database Migration Service (DMS). This lab covers discovery, dependency mapping, migration execution, and post-migration optimization as well as leveraging Microsoft Defender for cloud for securing workloads post migration.

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In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to migrate traditional workloads to AKS using containerization and AKS Automatic, while enhancing functionality through integration with Azure PaaS services. We'll also explore how GitHub Copilot Application Modernization accelerates the process with AI-assisted coding and intelligent refactoring, helping teams streamline modernization and unlock cloud-native capabilities faster.

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In this session I will demo how you can migrate vm's from VMWare or Hyper-V to Azure Local using Azure Migrate. I will demo how you configure the Azure Migrate Project, how you deploy the Azure Migrate Appliance, how you enable synchronization and migrate and finalize the cutover. During this theater session you should have a good understanding on how you can migrate your vm's to Azure Local with a short down time for migration and for free without buying expensive third-party tools.

Discover how Microsoft Cloud empowers SAP customers to modernize their business with SAP Business Suite through the RISE with SAP journey. Explore infrastructure innovations like High SLA for RISE, AI-driven monitoring, and performance optimization. See how organizations deploy RISE with SAP on Azure, integrate SAP BTP and BDC, secure workloads with Defender and Sentinel, while meeting sovereignty and compliance needs.

SAP Databricks on Azure integrates Databricks Data Intelligence Platform with SAP Business Data Cloud, unifying SAP and external data for advanced analytics, AI, and ML. It enables building intelligent apps and actionable insights using trusted SAP and third-party business data. Available natively on Azure within SAP Business Data Cloud, it offers seamless access without data duplication via Delta Sharing. This session highlights automated forecasting, exploratory analysis, and BI use cases.

“On Air at Microsoft Ignite” will deep dive into key announcements with expert interviews, demonstrations, and real-world applications for all the latest news. ​​

Hour 2 will feature:​ Azure Infrastructure: Jeremy Winter ​ AI Skills Navigator: Kavitha Radhakrishnan​ Varonis: Shawn Hays​ NVIDIA: Andrew Hester​ GitHub Copilot: Martin Woodward​ AMD: Arjun Oberoi & Daniel Kim

The future of AI depends on seamless connectivity across clouds and regions. Learn how Equinix and Microsoft enable distributed AI with hybrid multicloud interconnection. Learn how enterprises are optimizing infrastructure to support real-time inferencing, ensuring low-latency access to Azure AI services, and futureproofing innovation with secure, global connectivity.

Discover how HID is helping enterprises scale passkey adoption with Microsoft Entra ID—seamlessly and securely. In this demo, we showcase how HID’s FIDO credentials with converged access, combined with enterprise-grade passkey management and enhanced capabilities amplify your existing Azure and Entra investments.

Whether you're exploring what's next, seeking fast implementation wins, or learning from industry best practices, this session will show you how to deploy passkeys at scale.

Join Intel, Microsoft Azure, and Bosch as they explore how TDX empowers secure AI, digital sovereignty, and multi-party analytics—all built on a foundation of verifiable trust. This is more than a technology launch; it’s the beginning of a new era in trusted digital ecosystems.

Learn how a major US health company conquered legacy tech debt with Publicis Sapient. This session details an AI-powered modernization effort that transformed thousands of COBOL screens and utilized Microsoft's Azure cloud platform and Sapient Slingshot, resulting in a 3x faster migration and improved overall efficiency.

Discover how enterprises are moving from automation to true AI autonomy. This session explores the vision for scalable, agentic platforms that deliver measurable business impact.

See Microsoft's Agent Framework in action, watch how autonomous agents orchestrate complex Know Your Customer processes while ensuring compliance and audit traceability. Experience seamless integration with Copilot Studio and Azure AI, showcasing rapid development of autonomous production-ready agentic workflows.

Downtime is expensive, and every minute counts when incidents hit. Yet valuable engineering time is lost to troubleshooting, instead of driving design and innovation. NeuBird’s Agentic AI SRE delivers real-time RCA and remediation, while ensuring enterprise-grade security and governance. It correlates telemetry across Azure Monitor, observability tools, and multi-cloud, helping reduce MTTR up to 90%. Join this session to see Hawkeye by NeuBird in action.

Explore how Veeam Data Cloud for M365 goes far beyond backup, leveraging Azure and Azure AI to interact with your data. These new features offer high-throughput data discovery and Veeam's patent-pending advanced malware and ransomware detection. See a live demo of natural language queries, threat evaluation, and AI-driven management via MCP server. Learn how IT Admins, SOC Leads and CISOs can quickly identify threats and prioritize mitigation- empowering security teams to act faster and smarter.

Join Rackspace as we explore the "Power of Three", Microsoft Co-pilot in Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure OpenAI. Through real-world use cases, discover the potential of agent-based solutions, using conversational AI assistants to revolutionize knowledge management, customer service, and business process automation that can integrate, retrieve, and act on data securely from diverse enterprise systems. See Rackspace Intelligent Technology Assistant (RITA) in action.

Capgemini introduces the Agentic Industry Studio, combining deep industry expertise with Microsoft’s agentic platforms to turn AI ambition into measurable impact—fast. You’ll see how multi channel knowledge creation and domain grounded agents orchestrate work across Microsoft 365, GitHub, and Azure, and how the AI Powered Service Desk elevates customer and employee experiences with intelligent, proactive operations. Built for enterprise scale with “human–AI chemistry” felt across sectors.

Discover how Azure Accelerate empowers organizations to migrate, modernize, and innovate - fast. Join Cyril Belikoff for a dynamic Q&A that spotlights real-world customer success and the transformative impact of Azure Accelerate. Hear how customers like Thomson Reuters achieved breakthrough results with our powerful offering that provides access to Microsoft experts and investments throughout your Azure and AI journey. Don’t miss your chance to hear about Azure Accelerate in action.​