Discover how Elasticsearch’s powerful vector database capabilities and the robust Azure AI Foundry Agent Framework combine to power smarter agents. View how to synthesize information from diverse data sources and how to use A2A and MCP for orchestrating complex tasks. Learn how to design and apply intelligent agents for scalable information retrieval, task coordination, and integration across systems.

Join us for a session to wrap up Azure Data announcements & road map track with an Ask Me Anything session with Azure Data Senior Leadership. This is your opportunity to ask follow-up questions for all the things you want to know, ask those future looking road map questions or even “help us understand why you chose X?”

Discover how to reduce your containerized application’s vulnerability footprint by leveraging the Azure Linux stack end-to-end. In this session, you’ll learn how to build distroless Azure Linux containers and deploy them on AKS nodes running Azure Linux. We’ll show you how this integrated approach minimizes CVEs, simplifies security management, and delivers a hardened environment for your workloads—all without sacrificing agility.

Exclusive event research focus group to share specific feedback about event experience.

Continuing to install applications into desktop images erodes the benefits of modern Windows technologies, including Intune, Windows 365, and Azure Virtual Desktop.

Discover how AI packaging alleviates the most significant application headaches IT faces when adopting modern Windows desktops platforms, including legacy app compatibility issues, slow deployment times, the frequency of updates, image sprawl, and disk storage consumption.

Turn "turn on Copilot" into business outcomes. This session maps the MSP-ready path: standardize Microsoft 365, harden identity and endpoints, govern data, then deliver outcome-based AI services. We'll demonstrate live use cases and show how to make your customers more secure, boost customer retention and deliver new services.

As AI agents scale from pilot to production, organizations face challenges around trust, compliance and governance. This session shows how Microsoft Foundry embeds responsible and trustworthy AI practices aligned with Microsoft’s Responsible AI principles. Learn how to evaluate agents, monitor behavior in production and automate quality and safety checks to deliver insights that speed approvals, reduce risk and build customer trust.

Presenting Cognizant® Intelligent Claims Adjudication, a patent-filed, agentic AI solution that seamlessly integrates with any claims adjudication platform to address the claims that fall out of the system. Powered by Agentic AI and built on Cognizant’s deep industry expertise with advanced technology from Microsoft Azure, it automates complex claims decisions while keeping human experts involved, learning from the decisions taken each time. Using a proven approach that blends data analysis, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning, the solution delivers fast, accurate, and scalable claims outcomes.

Over the past few years, we’ve explored using large language models with external data and tools, facing many challenges. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) addresses these by standardizing how data and tools connect. In this session, we’ll demystify MCP, its purpose and architecture, and show how it enables precise tuning of models, contextual reuse, and safe delegation. While designed for developers and leads, it will help anyone assess if MCP fits their LLM projects.

Our Customer Engineering teams work to make sure you have templates and communities to accelerate your use of Copilot Studio and Power Platform services. Join us for this fun session where we demo the resources and solutions that we have to get you started and keep you moving as you use our tools to deliver your business outcomes.

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.

In today’s tech-driven world, change isn’t just inevitable, it’s constant. From market shifts and restructuring to global disruptions and emerging technologies, leaders are being called to navigate uncertainty with clarity, courage, and compassion. We’ll explore how to foster engagement, maintain momentum, and lead with authenticity in environments that demand agility - illuminating what it truly means to lead through change with confidence and purpose.

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.

The "tyranny of the default" refers to a phenomenon where people tend to stick with preselected or default options rather than actively choosing alternatives. Unfortunately, this phenomenon also occurs in Microsoft 365 and results in weak security posture. Continuous evaluation of you Microsoft 365 security posture is critical to staying ahead of evolving cyber threats. As attackers constantly develop new tactics, techniques, and vulnerabilities, a static security strategy quickly becomes obsolete. In this session I'll provide some guidance on how to evaluate your tenant security posture, build a secure baseline configuration and continuous evaluate your Microsoft 365 security posture.

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 growing customer demand for faster, more intuitive troubleshooting of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) networking, Azure supports deep pod level metrics, logs and visualization for AKS clusters which enables users to understand their network architecture. This session introduces how advanced container networking services with Hubble enhances AKS troubleshooting workflows, helping teams identify and resolve issues efficiently. Attendees will learn how to leverage these capabilities to streamline diagnostics, reduce operational overhead, and improve the overall reliability of their AKS deployments.

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 Wandelbots, Microsoft and NVIDIA for a discussion on the next era of physical AI. Explore how simulations, powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and accelerated by NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and frameworks, Microsoft Azure, and OpenUSD are rapidly accelerating robotics development. Learn how digital twins, synthetic data generation, and closed-loop data integrations reduce risk, speed up skill acquisition, and ensure robust performance for advanced industrial and AI for robotics.

Join Heather Gordon (Chief Partner Office, Asia) on the Partner opportunity - highlighting regional initiatives and actionable guidance to deepen collaboration, accelerate co-sell momentum, and drive scalable growth.

Followed by Mark Iles (Chief Analyst, APAC Channels) from Omdia for an exclusive discussion on the evolving global channel market — combining macro trends with Asia-specific insights— guiding partners on how to anticipate disruption and align with Microsoft’s strategic direction.

This session dives into advanced agent development with Microsoft Copilot Studio. It's designed for makers and developers ready to move beyond the basics and orchestrate intelligent, autonomous agents at scale. Whether you're streamlining operations, enhancing customer service, or transforming internal processes, this session will equip you with the tools and strategies to build agents that deliver real business impact.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Build, operate, and scale AI agents with Foundry Agent Service. Learn how to author agents, connect tools and data, evaluate performance, and deploy to a secure runtime for production. See how to bring OpenAI API–based projects into Foundry with minimal changes while gaining enterprise-grade governance, observability, and interoperability through the Model Context Protocol and agent-to-agent capabilities.

AI agents are now a core part of production environments, delivering real impact. Explore how Azure App Platform supports secure, scalable AI agent deployment and lifecycle management. You'll explore how agents use MCP tools and how built-in observability, access controls, and policy enforcement ensure reliable operations. Leave with a clear understanding of how to manage AI agents with governance and performance at scale.

As a follow-up to the breakout session "Know every agent. Govern every action. Secure every connection", we'll answer your questions about visibility, identity governance, and access management of agents for your organization with Microsoft Entra identity and network access solutions.

Citrix and Microsoft futurists explore how AI will transform work by operating existing apps alongside humans. See the 7-stage progression from today's shadow AI to tomorrow's agent orchestration. Learn what changes when AI uses your interfaces, why this path beats waiting for "AI-native" apps, and how to prepare now without blocking innovation.

Join us to hear how Levi’s transformed its global IT estate—including Windows Server, SQL Server, SAP, Oracle, and more—through a comprehensive migration and modernization strategy. Learn how they combined data and app modernization with infrastructure re-platforming to unlock agility, scalability, and cost savings. This real-world story will highlight the strategy, lessons learned, and tangible business outcomes that came from taking an end-to-end approach to migration and modernization.

Organizations face mounting cyber, regulatory, and AI governance challenges. Learn how Microsoft empowers innovation through trust—integrating governance, compliance, and AI accountability across Microsoft Purview, Compliance Manager, and Regulatory Navigator. Discover how compliance becomes a growth accelerator—turning regulation into readiness and trust into innovation.

Join Mark Russinovich, CTO and Technical Fellow of Microsoft Azure. Mark will take you on a tour of the latest innovations in Azure architecture and explain how Azure enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises, and on the edge.

AI dominates headlines—but how do we cut through the noise? In this candid session, tech leaders share how they’re navigating AI’s biggest promises and toughest realities. Learn how they balance innovation with responsibility, turn hype into action, and shape the future of work. Expect real challenges, lessons, and defining moments—not just theory.

AI performance extends beyond chip metrics; it relies on integrated hardware, software, and infrastructure. Traditional benchmarks fall short, so NVIDIA DGX Cloud Benchmarking offers a standardized framework to evaluate large-scale AI workloads. NVIDIA and Azure present an end-to-end benchmarking workflow, sharing optimization strategies for deploying and tuning production-ready LLMs on Azure.