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Microsoft Ignite 2025

2025-11-17 – 2025-11-21 Microsoft Ignite Visit website ↗

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Community Connection Pod: Empowering Knowledge Discovery with SharePoint Knowledge Agent

2025-11-19
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John Mighell (Microsoft) , Adam Harmetz (Microsoft)

Discover how SharePoint Knowledge Agent uses AI to make enterprise knowledge easier to find and use. In this roundtable, we’ll explore integration with Microsoft 365, real-world scenarios, and best practices for deployment. Join the discussion to share ideas and learn strategies for maximizing knowledge management in your organization.

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.

Copilot and Converged Communications - a Magical Partnership

2025-11-19
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Martin Boam (Microsoft)

While many organizations are placing AI at the core of their business strategies, the role of Converged Communications is often underestimated. This session will show how combining AI with Converged Communications unlocks greater business impact. Discover the strategic and commercial benefits for partners in fiscal year 2026 and beyond..

Identity modernization builds the foundation for AI

2025-11-19
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Joe Tobias (Quest Software) , Tony Redmond (Office 365 for IT Pros)

In the AI era, identities involve more than authentication. Systems like Microsoft 365 Copilot depend on identities to understand the structure of the organization and how individuals connect to each other to enrich its responses. Join this session to understand how identity modernization builds the foundation for AI success.

In the AI era, IT matters more than ever

2025-11-19
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Brian Taylor (Lake Side Software)

As organizations navigate the surge of 'AI-powered' solutions in IT, and especially in EUC, distinguishing genuine innovation from 'AI washing' is critical. In practice, AI only performs as well as the data that feeds it. That means AI for IT needs more than accurate data—it needs data that is contextually relevant to the environment it serves. In this session, you'll learn about the new dynamics of digital employee experience that measurably improve MTTR and IT productivity.

Zero-Trust AI Agents: Secure Microsoft Foundry Workflows

2025-11-19
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David Okeyode (Charis Cloud)

As autonomous AI agents built with Microsoft Foundry take on critical tasks, security is non-negotiable. In this fast demo, we apply zero trust to agent chains: secure tool access with Entra ID, protect secrets and context with Key Vault, enforce real-time content filters, and capture auditable traces. Learn to stop prompt injection, data leaks, and agent hijacking using Azure’s native security controls. Walk away with a battle-tested checklist for hardening agents in Foundry!

Community Theater: Get Started with Copilot Adoption - Tools, Resources and Best Practices from the Microsoft Adoption hub

2025-11-19
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Karuana Gatimu (Microsoft)

Adoption.microsoft.com has the curated resources you need to help you deploy and drive use of Microsoft services including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. Get a quick overview of all our assets that you can download and customize for your organization, including our newly updated Customer Success Kit for Copilot and Agents. Use these tools to help your workforce transform and leverage AI in their daily habits.

Develop intelligent apps with Oracle Database@Azure

2025-11-19
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Kevin Deihl (Oracle) , Andrea Marchesini (Oracle)

Oracle Database@Azure provides the performance and flexibility of using Autonomous AI Database and Exadata Database Service, enabling you to build and deploy powerful Oracle AI Database apps natively in Microsoft Azure. In this session, we’ll discuss how the converged capabilities of Oracle AI Database, including AI Vector Search, combine with Azure AI Services to help accelerate the development of advanced AI-driven applications.

Drive AI adoption at scale with AI advisor agents on Microsoft Azure

2025-11-19
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Daragh Morrissey (Microsoft) , Varun Dubey (Tata Consultancy Services) , Susan Dikramanjian (Manulife)

As frontier firms move from single use case implementations to industry value chains transformation with agentic AI, they need to adopt AI at scale to drive growth, optimize costs and enhance customer experience. This path requires synthesizing enterprise knowledge and designing solutions that leverage responsible AI principles and human plus agent collaboration. Join TCS and Microsoft experts to learn how to bring agentic AI to life through a display of real-world use cases for industries & IT.

Partner: Build Grounded AI Agents with Microsoft Foundry & Onelake

2025-11-19
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Ilias Jennane (Microsoft)

Build standout AI products fast with Microsoft Foundry—LLMs and Agents. Learn patterns to ship apps grounded on enterprise data via OneLake and connected platforms (Fabric, Snowflake, CosmosDB, SQL, etc.). We’ll cover retrieval, tool-use, guardrails, and evaluation—plus a lean dev loop that turns experiments into production while meeting responsible AI standards.

Reimagining a day at the office: AI-Powered workplace experiences

2025-11-19
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Irena Andonova (Microsoft) , Brennan McReynolds (Microsoft)

Step into the future of the workplace with Microsoft’s AI-fueled solutions. Explore how the AI-Powered Workplace can help organizations modernize in-person work using Microsoft Places, Teams Rooms, and Teams Events to coordinate collaboration, modernize spaces with transformative technology, and optimize collaboration at scale. Learn how to get more out of time in the office, and how IT admins can harness workplace signals to gain actionable insights.

Security Copilot in Action: From Alert to Remediation in 25 Minutes

2025-11-19
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Ugur Koc (glueckkanja AG)

Watch Microsoft Security Copilot tackle a live incident end-to-end. In this demo-driven session, we’ll triage alerts, investigate suspicious activity, generate KQL queries, and remediate threats, all with AI assistance. See how Copilot empowers SecOps teams to cut investigation time from hours to minutes and leave with real-world use cases to apply immediately.

The agentic AI scaling paradox: Why more agents don’t mean more value

2025-11-19
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Nikhil Malhotra (Tech Mahindra) , Joseph Gollapalli (Enbridge)

Enterprises are rushing to deploy agentic AI everywhere, but there is a problem: without getting the basics right first, enterprises are set up for failure. This session cuts through the hype to talk about the real challenges leaders face and the decisions they must make. Find solutions to struggles like thinking that because something works in a demo, it'll work in production. Understand the risks of treating security and governance as something to worry about later.

Unlock potential by learning in the flow of work

2025-11-19
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Vishaal Gupta (Pearson PLC)

What if learning experiences lived where work happens, and enterprise tools understood people as well as data? Discover how Pearson is partnering with enterprises to reduce learning barriers and rethink skilling. Learn how organizations are moving from guesswork to precision and explore how verified credentials, ambient assessments, and AI-driven insights embedded in Microsoft 365 and Copilot are transforming how organizations hire, develop, and deploy talent—unlocking billions in productivity.

Accelerate Partner Impact in Every Industry with AI

Accelerate Partner Impact in Every Industry with AI

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Kathleen Mitford (Microsoft) , Satish Thomas (Microsoft) , Ihab Foudeh (Microsoft) , Sunil Senan (Infosys LTD) , Colin Fleming (ServiceNow)

Join us for a session on how Microsoft and partners are driving industry innovation with AI. Hear Microsoft’s FY26 Industry Strategy and how engineering enables partners to build and integrate AI agents for faster time-to-value. A panel with Microsoft leaders and partners will share real-world examples of co-innovation, co-sell, and go-to-market success delivering measurable business impact.

Advancing accessible AI-learning experiences

Advancing accessible AI-learning experiences

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Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft) , Jeana Jorgensen (Microsoft)

Learn how Microsoft is advancing accessibility through two key lenses: helping professionals build expertise in accessibility, and designing learning experiences that are accessible to all. We’ll share how our learning platforms support multimodal engagement, integrate accessibility content from partners like Teach Access, and enable virtual coaching/in-person skilling events. Gain insights into how accessibility is being embedded into our skilling strategy, product design, and delivery.

AI Playbook for ROI with Microsoft Foundry

AI Playbook for ROI with Microsoft Foundry

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Rakhee Langer (healow LLC) , Marco Casalaina (Microsoft) , Ian Wells (Microsoft) , Sethu Raman (Microsoft) , Nikhil Kumar (Adobe Inc) , Mike Gozzo (Ada.cx)

Stop guessing, start winning. Get the metrics, case studies, and strategies that prove Microsoft Foundry delivers real business impact. AI success isn’t about how many models you try, it’s about measurable business outcomes. This executive-focused session provides a practical playbook for defining, measuring, and maximizing ROI from Foundry Models. We’ll highlight metrics and proven strategies for scaling adoption across teams while maintaining governance and compliance.

AI powered automation & multi-agent orchestration in Microsoft Foundry

AI powered automation & multi-agent orchestration in Microsoft Foundry

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Christof Gebhart (BMW Group) , Tina Manghnani (Microsoft) , Mark Wallace (Microsoft) , Shawn Henry (Microsoft)

Build multi?agent systems the right way with Microsoft Foundry. Go from single?agent prototypes to fleet?level orchestration using the Foundry Agent Framework (Semantic Kernel + AutoGen), shared state, Human in the loop, OpenTel, MCP toolchains, A2A, and the Activity Protocol. Bring frameworks like LangGraph and OpenAI Agents SDK, then deploy as containerized, governed, observable agents on Foundry.

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Best practices to modernize your apps and databases at scale

Best practices to modernize your apps and databases at scale

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Mike Hulme (Microsoft) , Amit Shah (Ahold Delhaize USA) , Marc Gunter (CIBC) , John Yokim (Microsoft)

Learn how leading enterprises have transformed legacy systems into agile, cloud- and AI-ready solutions—at scale. Through real customer stories and proven best practices, you’ll discover the latest Azure App, Data, and AI innovations that fuel app modernization and deliver measurable business impact. Walk away with practical tips, inspired by real-world results, that you can start applying from day one.

Community Theater: Scaling Demand: The Fastest Path to Your Next 1,000 Customers

2025-11-19
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Michelle Pruitt , Chaitra Vedullapalli (Women in Cloud & Meylah) , Karen Fassio (AbundantMC)

Most partners treat Microsoft Copilot and AI agents like shiny toys. The smart ones treat them like a customer-acquisition machine. In this session, we’ll rip open the playbook that shows MSPs and ISVs how to turn Copilot, AI apps, and agentic business applications into repeatable GTM systems that attract, convert, and retain 1,000 customers with real OPULIS strategies, the 4P colaunch model, campaign ideas, packaging tactics, proof, and a rinse-and-repeat formula

Foundry IQ: the future of RAG with knowledge retrieval and AI Search

Foundry IQ: the future of RAG with knowledge retrieval and AI Search

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Pablo Castro (Microsoft)

Agents need context. How should we connect data to our agents for optimal context? In this session we will introduce Foundry IQ, the knowledge layer for agents, and the latest developments from Azure AI Search and Microsoft Foundry. Learn about multi-source RAG orchestration, retrieval steering, dynamic security controls and agentic RAG.

From prompt to production: Scale agentic AI with NVIDIA and Azure

From prompt to production: Scale agentic AI with NVIDIA and Azure

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Matheen Raza (NVIDIA)

Agentic AI is redefining how enterprises operate—automating complex workflows and unlocking value across business functions. In this session, explore how NVIDIA and Azure are accelerating the development, deployment, and orchestration of agentic AI applications at scale. Learn how NVIDIA’s key offerings such as NVIDIA Nemotron models, NVIDIA NIM, and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit on Azure AI platform equip organizations to boost innovation and fully realize the promise of agentic AI.

Innovation Session: Agents at work: Shaping the future of business

Innovation Session: Agents at work: Shaping the future of business

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Aghogho Biakolo (Microsoft) , Dan Lewis (Microsoft) , Bryan Goode (Microsoft) , Kendra Springer (Microsoft)

The rise of AI agents marks a turning point in how organizations operate. These agents don’t just work individually to automate tasks —they collaborate, orchestrate processes, and adapt dynamically to business needs. Preparing for that agentic future means rethinking roles, processes, and the very architecture of your business. Enterprise-grade platforms will be critical to this functional transformation, providing the security, compliance, and scalability needed to deploy agents responsibly and at scale. Join us to discover what this shift means for your organization and how to start preparing today.

Meet the performance-enhanced next gen Azure SQL Managed Instance

Meet the performance-enhanced next gen Azure SQL Managed Instance

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Aditya Badramraju (Microsoft) , Craig Henninger (Hexure) , Troy Brovold (Hexure) , Anitha Adusumilli (Microsoft)

Get 2X performance and 5X database capacity with Azure SQL Managed Instance. The new next-gen General Purpose tier sets a new standard of value for fully managed SQL solutions. Get started quickly with AI-assisted tooling that can complete an end-to-end migration in days. See this come to life with insurance services organization, Hexure who rebuilt their platform with Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure App Service and delivered a better CX in one highly performant, scalable and efficient platform.

Microsoft Fabric IQ: Turning unified data into unified intelligence

Microsoft Fabric IQ: Turning unified data into unified intelligence

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Chafia Aouissi (Microsoft) , Truman seto (ENMAX Power) , Tony de Bos (KYNDRYL) , Yitzhak Kesselman (Microsoft) , Tessa Kloster (Microsoft)

Discover how Fabric IQ transforms your data into a live, semantic model of your business. Learn how teams and AI agents can collaborate from a shared understanding of entities, relationships, and rules -- enabling real-time insights, smarter decisions, and autonomous operations. See how Fabric IQ works seamlessly within Microsoft Fabric to power the next generation of intelligent enterprise.

Monitor, optimize and scale with AI Observability in Microsoft Foundry

Monitor, optimize and scale with AI Observability in Microsoft Foundry

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Sebastian Kohlmeier (Microsoft) , Sam Naghshineh (Microsoft) , Abhi Bhatt (CarMax)

Ready to manage every agent, everywhere? Don't fly blind, get total visibility into your agent fleet. Foundry Control plane and Observability gives you the dashboards, diagnostics, and optimization tools to run AI with confidence. If you care about uptime and impact, this Foundry session is for you.