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Microsoft Ignite 2025

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

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Innovate your workspaces with AI

2025-11-20
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Stephen Richards (Yealink)

Join us for an exclusive look at our innovative 2025 solutions, where intelligent AI transforms your Teams rooms. Discover AI-powered devices that automate meeting routines, create seamless collaboration, and deliver personalized, immersive experiences. This is the new vision for smart workspaces, built on ten years of innovation. Celebrate a decade of Yealink-Microsoft partnership as we unveil the future!

Interactive Session: Accelerate workloads with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs

2025-11-20
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Anshul Fadnavis (NVIDIA)

Experience the power of the newly launched NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, designed to accelerate a wide array of workloads including video streaming, graphics rendering, product design, digital twins, and AI development. Explore the latest GPU offerings with Azure Cloud and learn how to leverage Azure Local for cost-effective hybrid deployments of cutting-edge use cases. We will also provide sizing recommendations and deployment options for various workloads.

Microsoft Azure AI streamlines patient requisition for North America’s top diagnostics lab

2025-11-20
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Vilas Sarangdhar (Tata Consultancy Services)

North America’s leading diagnostics laboratory partnered with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to reimagine its patient requisition management system using Microsoft Azure AI. Historically, lab requisition processes were fragmented and relied on manual steps, causing inefficiencies. TCS implemented an Azure AI-infused cloud solution automating workflows across 500+ patient centers, processing 20,000+ requisitions daily with 30% higher efficiency and <5 min SLA. This collaboration showcases how Azure AI drives innovation and digital transformation in healthcare diagnostics.

Model Router in Microsoft Foundry to slash costs and win big

2025-11-20
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Gustavo Azambuja (Perficient) , Sanjeev Jagtap (Microsoft)

What if you could always pick the perfect model, instantly? See Foundry Model Router make split-second decisions that save money and boost performance. Live demos, real results, and actionable takeaway, so you can start routing smarter with Microsoft Foundry, the competitive edge your AI team needs.

Modernizing Mission-Critical Databases: How a Large Enterprise Gained Data Control

2025-11-20
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Nirmal Kohli (Microsoft) , Animesh Pillai (Tessell)

Equinor, a $100B global energy leader partnered with Tessell to migrate 700+ Oracle and SQL Server databases to Azure - without re-architecting. With cloud-native HA/DR, automation, and cost visibility, they achieved 65% efficiency gains and cut provisioning from weeks to hours. Not theory: this is a real, enterprise-tested approach to modernizing mission-critical databases at scale. It’s secure, efficient, and built for the cloud.

Orchestrating Customer Experiences with Adobe AI Agents and Microsoft Foundry

Orchestrating Customer Experiences with Adobe AI Agents and Microsoft Foundry

2025-11-20 Watch
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Discover Adobe's AI-first strategy to get ahead of the challenges of surging content demands, evolving discovery and engagement, and disconnected technologies. Explore examples in this session that show how teams working on marketing specific use cases can leverage Adobe and Microsoft’s interoperable AI tools with Microsoft Foundry to connect workflows, expand team capacity, deliver personalization at scale with enterprise-grade trust and controls.

​Partner acceleration in the EMEA for Small and Medium Businesses

​Partner acceleration in the EMEA for Small and Medium Businesses

2025-11-20 Watch
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Brendan Murphy (Microsoft) , Piotr Tomasz Paszczyk (APN Promise S.A.) , Bart van der Knaap (Microsoft) , Ville Hemmilä (Fellowmind) , Sharon Schoenborn (Microsoft)

Discover how Microsoft’s EMEA leadership is empowering partners to drive transformation with Small and Medium Businesses. ​Learn how to align with FY26 priorities. This session will spotlight key initiatives, partner recognition, and actionable next steps to deepen engagement and fuel growth.

Partner: Unlocking the AI chat to agents for channel partners

Partner: Unlocking the AI chat to agents for channel partners

2025-11-20 Watch
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Sela Gu (Microsoft) , Arun Subramanian (Microsoft) , Matt Goddard (Microsoft)

AI is revolutionizing how work gets done, and you as a partner play a critical role in helping customers improve productivity and transform business processes with AI solutions. Join this session to learn about how to develop a comprehensive GTM strategy that enables you to successfully go to market and monetize across Copilot, Copilot Chat and agents.

Prompting Power: Enhancing Productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Prompting Power: Enhancing Productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot

2025-11-20 Watch
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Alina Fu (Microsoft) , Tiffany Ellis (Microsoft)

Discover how effective prompting and advanced models like GPT-5 elevate Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat into a smarter, context-aware productivity tool. This session highlights new capabilities—session memory, voice, and extensibility—and how Microsoft is responding to market shifts with trusted, differentiated innovation. Ideal for leaders integrating Copilot Chat into their AI strategy.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

The future of managing updates on Windows

The future of managing updates on Windows

2025-11-20 Watch
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Cassidy Fein (Microsoft) , Nevine Geissa (Microsoft) , John Cable (Microsoft)

Discover best practices for managing updates on Windows. Learn how to enable hotpatch updates—the recommended way to keep devices secure with the latest updates. See how easy it is to use Windows Autopatch for update deployment, management, and (now) update readiness and reporting! We also cover what it means for Windows to be an agentic OS and how you can manage AI capabilities for Windows in your environment today.

Unlock high-performance workplaces from meeting spaces and beyond

2025-11-20
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Jason Moss (Q-SYS) , Albert Kooiman (Microsoft)

Despite advances in workplace technology, many modern environments still come up short in delivering meaningful and connected employee experiences. Fragmented systems and limited interoperability between traditional AV and IT systems often result in disengaged teams and inefficient collaboration. This session explores how a Full Stack AV Platform connects Microsoft Teams Rooms with the rest of workplace unlocking real-time action and insight for holistic experiences across the enterprise.

Accelerate BI with Azure Databricks in the era of AI

2025-11-19
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Santosh Perla (Microsoft) , Daniel Epstein (Microsoft) , Isaac Gritz (Databricks) , Bhagyashri Badgujar (Databricks) , Katie Cummiskey (Databricks) , Spencer Cook (Databricks)

Discover how to supercharge analytics and AI workflows using Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. This hands-on lab explores native AI/BI features in Azure Databricks, including ML-powered insights and real-time analytics. Learn multiple ways to serve data to Power BI, with a deep dive into Direct Lake mode with Fabric. Ideal for developers, data scientists, data analysts, and engineers modernizing BI with lakehouse architecture in the AI era.

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Build A2A and MCP Systems using SWE Agents and agent-framework

2025-11-19
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Govind Kamtamneni (Microsoft) , Mark Wallace (Microsoft)

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.

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Build Agentic Knowledge Bases: Next-Level RAG with Azure AI Search

2025-11-19
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Ayca Bas (Microsoft) , Pamela Fox (Microsoft)

In this hands-on lab, you’ll build a Knowledge Base using agentic RAG, the next evolution of retrieval in Azure AI Search. Connect your agentic retrieval engine to your data through smart source selection across multiple indexes and storage systems. Learn how to enhance planning using natural language guidance and generate grounded responses with citations or extractive answers tailored to your use case. By the end, you’ll have a fully functional Knowledge Base that responds over enterprise data.

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Building collaborative agents in Microsoft Teams with Teams SDK

2025-11-19
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Ricky Castaneda (Microsoft) , Prem Mathiyalagan (Microsoft)

You’ve built a great agent that your customers love—now it’s time to scale. By bringing your agent to Microsoft Teams with the Teams AI Library v2, you can reach 330 million users and unlock rich collaborative experiences across chats, meetings, and channels.

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Deep Dive into Teams Admin Center & Security Innovations

2025-11-19
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Marina Hayrapetyan (Microsoft) , Snigdha Chaturvedi (Microsoft)

This hands-on lab is designed to equip IT professionals and technical decision-makers with the latest tools and capabilities in Microsoft Teams administration and security. Participants will explore new diagnostic, monitoring, and protection features that enhance operational efficiency and safeguard collaboration.

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Deploy reasoning vision language models: NVIDIA Cosmos Reason on Azure

2025-11-19
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Dimitri Maltezakis (NVIDIA) , Alex Zeltov (NVIDIA)

Join us to learn how to deploy the #1 Physical Reasoning vision language model, NVIDIA Cosmos Reason on Azure. Discover how to use Cosmos Reason across 3 main use cases for: - Data curation and annotation to accelerate the creation of high-quality training datasets - Robot planning and reasoning to train robot vision language action models - Video analytics to analyze live or pre-recorded content

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Extending Dragon Copilot with Partner Built AI Solutions

2025-11-19
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Brandon Pollett (Microsoft) , Jegan Lingam (Microsoft)

This hands-on lab guides you through how developers and partners can build solutions, agents and extensibility features that can be delivered through Dragon Copilot, leveraging Microsoft’s scale to expand reach and engagement.

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Fast track your Linux and PostgreSQL migration with Azure Migrate

2025-11-19
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Jack Tracey (Microsoft) , Andy Slivinschi (Microsoft)

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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Govern identities with confidence using Microsoft Entra

2025-11-19
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Reid Schrodel (Microsoft) , Rodrigo Castillo (Microsoft)

Gain the skills to govern identities at scale with Microsoft Entra. Get hands-on experience automating provisioning, streamlining access, enforcing governance policies, and configuring Face Check for identity validation to reduce risk and ensure compliance.

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Governing AI Apps & Agents with AI Gateway in Azure API Management

2025-11-19
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Annaji sharma Ganti (Microsoft) , Galin Iliev (Microsoft)

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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Mitigating cloud threats with Microsoft Defender for Cloud

2025-11-19
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Alex Steele (Microsoft) , Drew Nicholas (Microsoft)

Attendees will learn to enable Defender for Cloud, navigate its dashboard, and interpret regulatory compliance and workload protection insights. The labs also cover secure score analysis, security recommendations, inventory management, pricing models, and governance rule assignment. By the end of the series, participants will be equipped to proactively identify and mitigate threats, strengthen cloud security posture, and align with organizational governance standards.

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Prototyping multimodal agents with Microsoft Foundry and the AI Toolkit

2025-11-19
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Carlotta Castelluccio (Microsoft) , David Smith (Microsoft)

In this lab, you'll get hands-on with the AI Toolkit (AITK) and Microsoft Foundry in VS Code to explore and compare the latest multimodal and reasoning models from the Model Catalog. Learn how to augment models for a real-world business scenario, using prompt and context engineering. Prototype an agent using the AITK Agent Builder, and equip the agent with the right tools via the Model context Protocol (MCP).

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Start, Get and Stay Resilient with Azure

2025-11-19
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Steven Bucher (Microsoft) , Akarsh Prabhu (Microsoft)

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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AT&T and Microsoft: Leading AI innovation through powerful connectivity

2025-11-19
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Dror Ergaz (AT&T) , Brad Grissom (Microsoft)

Edge computing is revolutionizing industries by enabling real-time data processing, reducing latency, and powering smarter decision-making. AT&T’s robust 5G and fiber networks, integrated with Microsoft Azure Edge solutions, provide the infrastructure for innovations like smart factories, predictive maintenance, and hybrid work environments. Together, these capabilities are driving efficiency and transforming operations across diverse sectors.