Atos had a need for some services to remain on-prem and had numerous VMWare clusters coming to end of life. Azure Local was the selected solution, and in this talk we look at why Azure Local was chosen, the benefits it delivered, and how we achieved a migration off VMWare in short timescales, saving money and delivering new capabilities to our internal IT services.

Simplify and accelerate your Azure Local deployments with Lenovo ThinkAgile MX, a fully integrated solution designed for Azure Local. With Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOCA), you can automate the deployment of entire clusters in just a few clicks—making it easy for IT teams or even field technicians to set up systems at the edge. In this session, you’ll see a live demonstration of how ThinkAgile MX and LOCA reduce complexity and enable consistent, reliable outcomes every time.

Explore how Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry work better together to accelerate AI development and achieve business outcomes. This session dives into real-world use cases, integration strategies, and how combining these tools empowers teams to build intelligent, scalable solutions faster.

Building intelligent AI agents is no simple task. With Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, you can rapidly create and deploy robust agents with the security, scalability, and integrations of Azure. In this walkthrough, we’ll build an agent that combines live data, reasoning, and dynamic tool usage. Using Azure Functions for real APIs and W&B Weave for detailed tracking, you’ll learn setup, tool registration, data endpoints, and Python-based interaction.

Cloud providers deliver powerful security capabilities, yet most organizations struggle to fully leverage them to ensure their environment is secure-by-design. In this session, we’ll explore how to harness the Azure native security controls to accelerate a prevention-first model. Learn how Native brings order to preventive policies across cloud providers, allowing you to safely achieve a secure-by-design environment in minutes.

Discover how Nerdio Manager empowers enterprise IT teams to streamline cloud desktop and endpoint management at scale. Nerdio Manager for Enterprise is a powerful platform that helps IT professionals take control of Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, and Intune management with ease. In this demo, we'll show you how Nerdio Manager for Enterprise can save you time, reduce costs, and streamline your entire virtual desktop infrastructure.

Enterprises are unlocking new levels of efficiency and innovation with Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based VMs. Learn how businesses across industries are achieving better performance, reduced TCO, and greater scalability for critical workloads. This session highlights customer adoption stories, business outcomes, and resources to accelerate your organization’s migration and modernization journey with Arm-powered Azure.​

Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will fail by 2027, despite AI transformation being a top industry priority. The cause is a classic "last-mile problem": AI agents require step-by-step instructions, but key workflows are undocumented. This session demonstrates how to create a roadmap for your AI transformation by developing living blueprints of your processes or architecture with tools like the Lucid Suite, Microsoft Teams, and Azure DevOps.

Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, and Scott Guthrie, EVP of Cloud and AI at Microsoft, discuss the plans for deep integration between Azure Databricks and Microsoft OneLake. Learn how unified data access, seamless interoperability, and trusted governance empower organizations to break silos, accelerate AI, and innovate across the Microsoft ecosystem. They’ll also discuss new Azure Databricks integrations being featured at Ignite including SAP Databricks on Azure, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Foundry.

In the era of AI-driven innovation, organizations need databases that are flexible and powerful while also being secure and scalable. This session explores how MongoDB empowers to rapidly build, deploy, and manage intelligent applications through the lens of a developer persona. Diving into our integrations with AI Foundry, Microsoft Sentinel, and Azure Landing Zones, we’ll showcase a complete developer journey—from prototype to production—while ensuring security, and operational excellence.

Dell Technologies and Microsoft harness AI's potential to transform hybrid cloud environments efficiently and securely. Explore the Dell AI Factory and experience Copilot+ in Dell AI PCs, boosting dynamic workflows. Learn how Dell PowerScale for Azure simplifies storage with enterprise-grade solutions tailored for today’s workloads and discover how private cloud with Azure Local reimagines infrastructure with efficiency and control.

DevEx 2.0 means giving developers guardrails that accelerate delivery instead of slowing it. This session shows how continuous security integrates with Azure and GitHub pipelines. You’ll see IDE coaching and SAST at commit. With Microsoft Copilot and Azure OpenAI using GPT-5, developers can cut through false positives and receive actionable fixes directly in the code. Builds include SBOM generation, container scans, and dependency checks. Staging environments add DAST and API testing.

Discover how Pure Storage Cloud enhances Azure VMware Solution by simplifying operations and boosting agility. This session explores the technical foundations of resilient storage with enterprise features and shows how customers can reduce costs across cloud migration, disaster recovery, and hybrid deployments.

Modernizing enterprise applications often stalls in prolonged assessments, opaque dependencies, and unclear ROI. In this on‑demand Microsoft Ignite session, learn how Simform NeuVantage's AI capabilities compresses the path from discovery to production on Azure. We’ll show how AI‑driven portfolio analysis identifies modernization candidates, recommends the right path (rehost, replatform, refactor), and automates some of the key app modernization tasks using safer AI workflows.

Enterprise leaders are driving continuous transformation to stay at the forefront of real-time intelligent growth. Join us to learn how Forza Steel collaborated with Kyndryl and Microsoft to build a unified AI platform with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Azure IoT to drive real-time insights, automation, and predictive analytics across manufacturing, logistics, and finance, as well as migrate their on-prem SAP to RISE on Azure.

This demo showcases Finout’s ability to manage and optimize cloud spend across Azure and services like Kubernetes, Datadog, and OpenAI. It highlights Finout’s unified “MegaBill” view for exploring Azure resources, subscriptions, and tags. The session introduces Virtual Tags for dynamic, rules-based cost allocation and covers shared cost distribution, dashboards, anomaly detection, and alerting—empowering teams to improve Azure cost efficiency.

Oracle Database@Azure empowers organizations to simplify cloud adoption by running mission-critical Oracle workloads with the reliability of Oracle Exadata Database Service and Autonomous AI Database, directly inside Microsoft Azure. In this session you’ll learn how enterprises are modernizing applications, leveraging existing Azure investments, and unlocking new business opportunities through AI-driven insights.

Step into the future of application innovation with Azure AI and autonomous agents. This session explores how intelligent systems can be designed to sense, decide, and act in ways that unlock new levels of adaptability, efficiency, and impact. From apps to agentic workflows, discover real-world strategies for building scalable AI-powered solutions.

Discuss Azure commitment tools, highlight challenges with traditional reservations and savings plans, and show how Archera makes savings simple, automated, and flexible.

Join Mohsin Shafqat (Nasdaq) and Charles Feddersen (Microsoft Azure) as they reveal how Nasdaq Boardvantage leverages Azure Database for PostgreSQL to build secure, scalable governance data management. Discover how this foundation enables high-volume workloads, tenant-level isolation, and AI-driven features – accelerating innovation without compromising compliance.

Azure is redefining the next generation of cloud infrastructure for the AI era - built to power the world’s most ambitious AI workloads and designed for intelligent, automated operations. With innovations like Fairwater AI Super Factories and Azure Copilot, customers can modernize, scale workloads, and operate securely with greater efficiency and resilience. With Azure, organizations have the world’s most advanced cloud for AI and modern infrastructure at their fingertips, to power today and invent tomorrow.

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.

Learn how to build an advanced AI agent using Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Semantic Kernel. 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.

This lab provides a comprehensive overview of building, deploying, and securing AI agents. We will start by creating a single agent with Azure Functions and Foundry Agent Service in Microsoft Foundry, then enhance it with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and add data grounding with Azure Cosmos DB. You will also combine the single agents to form a multi-agent system. You will then deploy, manage and secure the application on a Flex Consumption plan.

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.