Join our leaders from ERP engineering to share about best practices for building custom agents for Dynamics 365 ERP using Copilot Studio and MCP server. Bring your questions and personal experience to participate in this collaborative session

Connection Pods accommodate up to 15 people. Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

Part connection lab, part playbook. This interactive session gathers women in IT management and allies to celebrate wins and surface today’s most effective strategies. Learn quick plays for influence, negotiation, and bias interruption, then turn insight into relationships through guided networking. You’ll leave with concrete next steps, curated resources, and new allies for the journey.

Connection Pods accommodate up to 15 people. Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

To meet the growing demand for resilient and high-performance infrastructure for AI workloads, Azure introduces key advancements across its networking stack. The new StandardV2 NAT Gateway delivers zonal resiliency and IPv6 support, now enhanced with flow logs in private preview for deeper traffic visibility. ExpressRoute continues to evolve with metro expansion, general availability of resiliency and scalable gateways, and upcoming support for high-capacity connections up to 1Tbps. Complementing these capabilities, a customer story highlights how DNS traffic is secured and visualized using DNS security policies and threat intelligence on Azure Virtual Networks.

Connection Pods accommodate up to 15 people. Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

Discover how Microsoft Planner and the Project Manager agent are transforming teamwork. Explore 10 powerful capabilities—from gathering tasks mentioned in Teams meetings and channels to generating comprehensive status reports in minutes. Learn how to unlock clarity, consistency, and productivity for complex projects and scalable processes.

Insurance carriers are rapidly adopting AI agents to tackle complex challenges—from customer engagement to claims management and underwriting. In this session, learn practical steps to build intelligent agents by applying agentic frameworks using Microsoft technologies like Copilot Studio. We’ll illustrate with an agent that automates the tedious tasks of an insurance claims analyst, boosting productivity and reducing error.

Passionate about sharing knowledge and making an impact in your community? Learn what it takes to become a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from those who’ve done it. Gain additional perspective from those who review the nominations: the Product Group Leads and MVP Program staff. Discover how to expand your influence, showcase your expertise, and glean practical tips for getting nominated. Walk away with a roadmap for growing your contributions and positioning yourself for MVP success.

Discover new out-of-box Microsoft Purview reports—covering label activities, DLP activities, and usage metrics—and learn how Purview reporting delivers a holistic view of your security posture for smarter, data-driven decisions.

Tech stack creep causes IT mayhem when different management tools provide different information. What if you could manage your endpoints using Intune, plus your macOS, network, and mobile devices all through a unified endpoint management platform that improves the day-to-day technician experience? Eliminate rework and improve end user experience with complete visibility. Join NinjaOne for a live demo to see how easy it is to work with Intune and your IT stack to monitor and manage any endpoint.

The Avanade Clienteling Accelerator empowers retailers with AI-driven personalization and Copilot-enhanced workflows. Leveraging Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure AI, and Power Platform, it delivers intelligent insights, task automation, and seamless integration for scalable, customer-centric experiences that transform in-store engagement and boost operational efficiency.

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

Hour 3 will feature:​ Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent updates: Jeremy Chapman​ Team Viewer: Sebastian Schrötel​ Responsible AI & Centru AI: Ana Welch​ Capgemini: Arnaud Balssa​ Cognizant: Manpreet Singh​ SAP: Dr. Walter Sun​ NTT DATA: Charlie Doubek, Geoff Newman​ Nasdaq: Secure Innovation with PostgreSQL on Azure: Charles Feddersen, Mohsin Shafqat

Software development companies: join us to learn more about partnering with Microsoft through the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, including upcoming changes to offers for software development companies and increased investments in software companies for FY26.

As development velocity increases, testing and operations teams must innovate or fall behind. AI-powered agents are reshaping how software is designed, tested, and deployed. Discover how UiPath and Microsoft are enabling organizations to integrate autonomous AI agents into Azure DevOps and GitHub to deliver faster, smarter, and more resilient applications. This session explores how agentic automation drives adaptive SDLC, continuous delivery, and measurable efficiency in application testing.

Discover how IT and operations teams can harness AI to create custom tools that fit their unique needs. In this 25-minute demo, we’ll show practical ways to integrate AI into workflows, automate tasks, and build adaptive solutions—no data science required. Walk away with actionable insights to transform IT operations today.

Drive faster lead-to-deal conversion with AI agents. Microsoft 365 Copilot and prebuilt agents in Dynamics 365 are freeing sellers to focus on building quality relationships by transforming critical sales processes. Lead qualification, deal acceleration, closing, and cross-selling are automized using real-time customer signals. Learn about new agents, seller use cases, and adoption strategies to drive revenue.

Enterprise teams are rapidly adopting AI agents to streamline operations and unlock new value. This panel brings together customers and partners to share how they’ve built and scaled AI apps using open frameworks and Azure services. Learn how they’ve tackled real-world production challenges—security, orchestration, reliability—and hear how they overcame blockers to deliver measurable business impact through agentic innovation.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Microsoft is enabling energy companies to tackle complex decarbonization challenges using AI-powered solutions. In this session we will highlight use cases like methane emissions detection, predictive maintenance, and generative AI for permitting workflows—demonstrating how agentic AI and copilots are helping reduce emissions, streamline compliance, and unlock operational efficiency.

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.

Experience how C3 AI Agentic Process Automation transforms enterprise work. Unlike rules-based RPA systems or rigid workflow engines, C3 AI Agentic Process Automation enables end-users to describe and execute sophisticated workflows. C3 AI Agentic Process Automation can leverage all data types — including both enterprise and external data. It can describe both fully automated and human-in-the-loop workflows with intelligence, reliability, and adaptability at scale.

This session addresses the top cost and efficiency challenges customers face across their infrastructure today and showcases what’s new across Azure IaaS to them. Learn how to design, build, and optimize cost-efficient infrastructure that reduces TCO and empowers you to make informed decisions supporting growth and innovation. Hear Morgan Stanley’s real-world success and gain a deer understanding of how Azure delivers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to optimize your cloud costs at scale.

Discover how an enterprise organization is decreasing AI risks while threats, data, and agents continue to increase. One essential element to powering secure Copilot use at scale is accurate and automated classification and labeling. Learn how security teams are effortlessly improving data protections for petabytes and hundreds of resources while reducing their workload.

Building a thriving partner ecosystem starts with service to the customer. Customers have high expectations of cloud solution providers in order for them to be considered as trusted advisors. Learn about the new authorization requirements, what to consider as you explore the best tier for your organization and steps you need to take to be ready.

Redefining endpoint security from onboarding to autonomous protection: learn how Defender's AI-powered endpoint security empowers you to do more, better, faster.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Windows 11 offers a suite of developer productivity tools designed to accelerate coding workflows and to align with enterprise IT priorities. In this session, you will learn about new experiences coming to WSL, Windows Terminal, and PowerToys boosting productivity. We’ll also cover how these tools are built with security and enterprise-grade manageability in mind—making Windows an enterprise-friendly platform.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Hear from the pioneers at Adobe, eClinicalWorks, CoStar Group, Sinyi Realty and more, who turned Microsoft Foundry models into game-changing solutions. If you want to see how code becomes impact, accelerating innovation, transforming productivity, and creating a better future, this Microsoft Foundry session is your front-row seat.

AI agents are reshaping modern workflows, unlocking new efficiencies while introducing new challenges for security and governance. In this deep dive, experience live demos of purpose-built security capabilities from Microsoft Security solutions. Leave equipped with best practices to confidently secure and govern AI agents in your organization.