Growth at all costs no longer works. Direct sales alone no longer works. To compete today, companies must design AI and partnerships into their business model. In this session, learn how leading software and services organizations use AI and partner ecosystems to deliver customer outcomes at scale. Whether you’re new to partnerships or scaling an existing motion, you’ll walk away with practical steps to grow efficiently and sustainably in the AI economy.

Discover how Copilot+ PCs and Microsoft 365 deliver the most intelligent, trusted, and efficient productivity experiences for people and organizations. See new end-user features and learn how hybrid AI - combining local and cloud processing - enables real-time, ambient, and privacy-preserving productivity, even offline. All this on devices with stellar battery life, top performance, modern management, and robust data protection - ideal for IT leaders optimizing ROI in the AI era.

Learn how to seamlessly modernize a Linux application stack in Azure. Participants will be able to step through the migration process with a Linux/Postgres/Java application and utilize infrastructure as a code (IaC) for scale migrations.

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Discover how Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations uses AI-driven deep content analysis to surface key risks fast, so you can act with confidence and protect what matters most.

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 manufacturers and supply chain leaders navigate the dual pressures of operational efficiency and sustainability, geospatial intelligence (GSI) is emerging as a transformative force. This lab session explores how the integration of Earth observation data, AI, and cloud-scale analytics is enabling smarter, faster, and greener decision-making across industrial ecosystems.

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This lab introduces key data classification and protection tools in Microsoft Purview. Participants learn to create and customize sensitive information types to identify sensitive data, and apply sensitivity labels to enforce encryption, access controls, and content marking. Gain hands-on experience in building and managing policies that secure data across Microsoft 365.

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The new world of software promises to be teeming with agents and AI powered tools… but how will that impact financial institutions? You've built the POCs and seen the demos, but scaling to production demands answers. What's the real cost per outcome? Which use cases deliver provable ROI? As financial services companies race to deploy AI agents and chatbots, boards are demanding quantifiable business value metrics. The hype era of "trust me, it's working" is ending, and in its place, you'll need the tools to manage the workforce of tomorrow.

“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 Accelerate in action: Confidently migrate, modernize, and build faster: Cyril Belikoff​ Cisco: Patrick Eustace​ Dell: Kenny Lowe​ Build secure agentic AI apps with SQL Server 2025: Sirjad Parakkat & Anna Hoffman​ IBM: Nigel Cain​ PwC: Scott Sikorski

Small and mid-sized businesses face enterprise-grade threats with lean budgets and limited staff. This L100 session shows Microsoft partners how to package, price, and deliver outcome-based security offers customers can adopt fast. We’ll translate Zero Trust into three motions: protect identities, secure devices & data, and detect/respond—anchored in Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Defender for Business, Entra, Intune, and Secure Score.

Understand the Start, Get, and Stay Resilient journey. Get equipped with tools & insights to architect mission critical applications with Azure’s Resiliency and Configuration experiences. Assess your resiliency posture, apply recommendations, validate your posture and orchestrate recovery. With the Essentials Machine Management bundle from Azure, manage and maintain the state of your resources, enforce configurations across devices and ensure resilience is not a one-time goal but an ongoing state.

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Secure your tenant with Conditional Access aligned to Zero Trust. In this hands-on lab, learn safe rollout patterns and use the CA Optimization Agent–Security Copilot in Entra–to scan daily, flag gaps, and remediate with one-click and phased enforcement.

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Looking to add on-device AI to your apps? Not sure how to get started? Join our lab to learn how to integrate local AI capabilities into your Windows apps using Windows AI APIs. Discover how to implement Semantic Search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to power intelligent information retrieval, and use Phi Silica for on-device text processing. This lab will walk you through key APIs, and best practices to build on-device AI solutions for Copilot+ PCs. Developers of all levels welcome.

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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.

Apollo Hospitals unlocked faster performance and sped up innovation by migrating to Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Ready to move beyond your legacy databases? Join us to learn how to make the move seamless with AI-assisted migration for Oracle workloads. Plus, hear how a move to Azure enables innovation and explore the latest features that deliver the resilience and extensibility needed to bolster your databases to support more intelligent applications and demanding workloads.

Build and bring your own agent into Microsoft 365 Copilot with the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit. Explore Declarative and Custom Engine Agents, use the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, and extend with Copilot APIs to ground answers securely in Microsoft 365 data. Discover the powerful flexibility we offer to build the right agent for your needs.

The session will highlight the most popular market trends and use-cases in building apps and agents for customers, and how partners can use the full Azure tech stack - app, data, and AI platforms, with the world's most popular developer tools, to offer their customers the solutions they need. The session will cover resources made available to partners to be successful.

Discover low-code and pro-code tools that help you build agents specialized for healthcare. Streamline workflows, surface timely insights, and advance patient care with agentic AI powered by unified data and built-in security.

Discover how organizations can simplify operations and reduce costs with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on ARO—running containers and virtual machines together on a unified platform. Then hear from Bradesco, who will share how they are advancing their AI strategy with Microsoft Foundry on ARO, leveraging Microsoft's enterprise-grade AI capabilities to innovate securely and at scale.

The latest innovations across Windows—from client to cloud—are designed to improve your security posture and protect users, devices and data. Join this session to learn about the newest security capabilities across Windows 11 and Windows 365 to protect users and data, including features like password and identity management, protecting against malware, hotpatching, hardware updates and more. We will also discuss how Cloud PC devices like Windows 365 Link are changing the game in Windows endpoints.

Learn how to build a digital twin using Sight Machine’s platform in this hands-on session for developers. We’ll cover the foundational steps—from defining roles and selecting assets to integrating data and building the application. You’ll walk away with practical insights, technical guidance, and a clear understanding of how digital twins deliver measurable impact across operations.

AI agents need tools to take actions and complete their workflow; tools that can parse documents, transcribe call recordings, do custom translation--all with LLMs wrapped within them. In this session, we are introducing a new suite of production-ready tools in Microsoft Foundry, designed to seamlessly plug into your agentic AI apps, either using APIs or as MCP servers.

Dive into how Microsoft Sovereign Cloud addresses a spectrum of digital sovereignty needs. Engineering leaders will highlight features ranging from keeping data, operations, access, and encryption secure and under your control to enabling critical workloads in hybrid and regulated environments—helping you navigate regulatory complexity, strengthen digital resilience, and innovate with confidence.

Discover how to enhance collaboration, optimize joint efforts, and drive success in shared initiatives. Gain insights into improving interactions with Microsoft sellers and leveraging opportunities, along with guidance on proactive co-selling to align your goals with Microsoft's for sustained growth.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.