Learn about the resources and benefits available for software development companies across all stages of the build, publish and grow journey in MAICPP. Whether you’re developing a new agent solution or working toward a certified software designation, there are targeted skilling opportunities, technical resources, and GTM benefits to help. Tap into new investments for AI apps and agents and hear from your peers on how they’ve used rewards such as customer propensity scores and Azure sponsorship

AI deepfakes are enabling fraud now, not in the future. Jeremy Nelson shares real cases, including a $25M scam from a fake video call, showing how threat actors bypass identity checks. Learn how Verified ID secures support desk interactions and get practical steps to protect your organization from AI-driven impersonation attacks.

Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat makes Copilot the AI built for work. Join this session to learn about how we’ve enhanced core chat value for all with GPT-5, experience improvements, and new ways to access chat in your favorite apps. Additionally, we’ll cover how Copilot Chat transforms your day when combined with your work context and agents through new chat-first workflows, interaction modes, and ways to create files right from chat.

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In this hands-on lab, you'll build an advanced agent inspired by AgentWise, our internal learning assistant designed to help developers understand types of ways for building agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Using Copilot Studio, you’ll architect a multi-layered agent that adapts to user goals, personalizes guidance based on persona, and makes intelligent decisions using structured flows and real-time data. Along the way, you’ll learn how to combine retrieval and dynamic logic to go beyond Q&A.

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Deploy AVS and manage VMware vSphere environment as an Azure resources (B) Connect AVS private cloud secretly with Internet (C) Migrate VMs from on-premises to AVS using VMware HCX technology (D) Expand AVS private cloud storage with Azure NetApp Files or Azure Elastic SAN; scaling storage independently from compute (E) Manage AVS workloads VMs using Azure interfaces by Arc-enabling AVS private cloud and its VMs (F) Modernization workloads with Azure Services like Azure SQL Managed Instances and AI capabilities.

Note: this session will use demo environments instead of live environments due to complexity and time.

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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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Learn how agentic AI transforms operations into intelligent, adaptive systems. Learn about real-world industrial use cases, immersive C-level simulations, and a practical roadmap to AI-native enterprise success—powered by Microsoft’s secure and scalable AI capabilities.

Join Microsoft experts in discussing hybrid AI across cloud and edge. We’ll trade real world patterns for Surface and Copilot+ PCs, unpack NPU accelerated workflows, and explore how Microsoft Foundry on Windows supports model and dev ops, privacy, and performance. Expect candid Q&A in depth and practical next steps—real talk with people driving business transformation!

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.

Power Platform Community empowers makers, developers, and business users to innovate with low-code tools, Copilot Studio, and AI agents. This session explores global collaboration, peer learning, and agent-building strategies that drive impact across Microsoft 365 and beyond.

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.

Join us to learn how AI can transform your IT operations. Discover how to leverage AI to predict and prevent issues, automate remediation, and build a self-managing IT environment. Ensure business continuity and boost efficiency by making your IT infrastructure resilient, intelligent, and proactive.

Reimagine customer support with Foundry Agent Service. Learn how agent-based AI transforms support by triaging, resolving, and preventing issues—empowering human agents to focus on high-value interactions. See real-world use cases, best practices, and live demos to securely integrate AI for faster resolutions and deeper insights. Ideal for enterprise leaders scaling AI in support.

Explore insider risk management and adaptive protection with Microsoft Purview. In this lab you will learn how to configure policies to detect and respond to internal threats and apply dynamic protection based on user risk levels.

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Explore how to monitor and observe multi-agent systems in production using observability tools from Azure Monitor, integrated with Microsoft Foundry. Trace multi-agent pipelines, apply OpenTelemetry standards, and instrument business telemetry with dashboards. You’ll walk away with effective best practices to debug evaluation results and monitoring insights to secure and scale your AI agents.

Build confidence in managing AKS at scale with next‑gen ops tools. In this hands‑on lab, you’ll simulate a production service hit by traffic spikes, discover how AI‑driven alerts surface hidden bottlenecks, and deploy agents that self‑heal nodes. Using open‑source tools and the aks‑mcp server, you can automate cluster scaling, patch management, and real‑time troubleshooting—letting the AI orchestrate Kubernetes and Azure resources with natural‑language commands and pre‑built MCP integrations.

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Education is entering a new era where agents and AI are not just tools, but trusted collaborators. In this session, we’ll explore how Microsoft is pioneering agent innovation in the education space—bringing intelligence into everyday workflows for educators, staff and students. Learn how AI-powered agents can simplify classroom tasks, surface actionable insights, and connect seamlessly with learning systems. We’ll highlight real-world use cases, early innovations, and what’s ahead on the roadmap. Whether you’re in K-12, higher education, or edtech, you’ll walk away with a clear vision of how agent-driven AI can transform learning and teaching.

Unlock the potential of accelerated AI workflows in this hands-on workshop, where participants will learn how to rapidly deploy and integrate NVIDIA’s Nemotron NIM models using Microsoft Foundry’s powerful cloud-native tools. Through guided exercises, you’ll explore model provisioning, configuration, and optimization techniques that streamline AI deployment from prototype to production. Ideal for developers, data scientists, and AI engineers looking to leverage high-performance models in scalable cloud environments.

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Mark Austin (AT&T) and John Maio (CSX) share how they are using data and AI to drive customer experience transformation and operational efficiency at scale. From AT&T’s enterprise-wide GenAI platform and data democratization to CSX’s modernization of its data estate and real-time analytics, this session, enabled by Infosys and Microsoft, explores how purposeful AI adoption turns complex operations into intelligent, adaptive enterprises..

On-device assistants are evolving from reactive helpers to proactive, self-reasoning agents, seamlessly integrating across devices and cloud platforms. To enable this shift, Intel AI Assistant Builder (Superbuilder) released v.2.0 at IFA 2025, as a reference design for multi-agent orchestration using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Experience how this framework supports seamless import/export of agents and servers, enabling flexible orchestration and hybrid AI (local + cloud).

Take a motivational tour through the healthcare AI sample repository and set yourself up for success with multimodal AI for Health & Life Sciences. Dive into notebooks and sample solutions for problems like image search, cancer grading based on radiology and pathology images, outlier detection, and exam parameter classification. Deploy a model, plug it into an agentic flow, and evaluate it with human feedback. A hands-on journey from setup to deployment and refinement.

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Experience the future of workforce development with AI Skills Navigator — our AI-powered skilling experience that helps learners everywhere build future-ready skills and organizations of all sizes accelerate industry transformation. Join us to see how AI Skills Navigator is redefining enterprise learning—making skilling more accessible, engaging, and impactful than ever.

Discover how Dynamo AI, a fast-growing AI security startup in financial services and government, uses Azure AI to confidently deploy generative AI at scale. Attendees will learn how Dynamo’s auditable guardrails, hallucination checks, and observability keep applications reliable and compliant, while gaining insights on building and deploying responsible AI solutions that balance innovation, trust, and speed.

Digital friction hinders workforce potential. In this session, TeamViewer demonstrates how real-time data, automation, and AI can eliminate friction at scale. You'll see how TeamViewer ONE turns remote support data into actionable insights, automatically deploying fixes to keep systems running smoothly. Learn how AI empowers IT to shift from reactive to proactive, and explore the future of agentic AI. Join us for a demo and discover how to enhance the digital employee experience.

Inventory Ops Agent, seamlessly integrated with Teams and Copilot, provides daily briefs, root cause analysis of insights, and Q&A to enhance planning activities. Planners can seamlessly switch between modes and gain intelligent insights without losing context. Start your day in any mode without worrying about transferring data or analysis—the solution manages the entire user journey!

Join us for a fast-paced, live theater session showcasing how IT admins can confidently manage agents and control costs using Copilot Control System (CCS). You’ll see how CCS empowers organizations to govern agent inventories, create billing policies, and gain visibility and control over usage and cost. Whether you're scaling agents across departments or fine-tuning consumption at the department level, this session will demonstrate how CCS brings clarity and control to your AI operations.

Accenture research shows 70% of customers spend more with companies that offer seamless experiences, reinforcing how the right blend of technology and empathy can turn every interaction into a moment of brand connection. Join us to explore how companies can turn cost centers into growth drivers using Microsoft Dynamics 365, Copilot Studio, intelligent IVR, and AI-guided workflows. Based on our work with 1-800-Flowers, we'll show how contact centers are building trust, relationships and growth.