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Microsoft Ignite 2025

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

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Agentic AI in Practice: Partner Azure Direct Models + M365 magic

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Brian Kelly (Microsoft) , Maxime Villeger (Microsoft)

See agentic intelligence come to life with Azure Direct Models in Microsoft Foundry, “vibe coding” workflows, and Microsoft 365 integration. We’ll show how to ship responsive agents with Copilot Studio actions, Graph connectors, and Azure AI Search—plus telemetry, evals, and guardrails—for low?latency, enterprise?grade results. Demos cover autonomous tasks, multi?agent handoffs, and feedback loops. Leave with patterns, code, and a build checklist.

AI-Powered Data Science in Fabric: Copilot Hacks You Need to Know

2025-11-19
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David Patrick (DSA, Inc.)

Discover how Copilot is reshaping the data science experience in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. From transforming raw data into actionable insights to generating stunning visualizations and reports, Copilot brings powerful new capabilities to your fingertips. You'll learn how to unlock Copilot in Fabric, explore what it can do, and ensure it's ready to elevate your analytics game. These tips and tricks will help you harness AI to work smarter, faster, and with more impact.

Connect the Future with AI

2025-11-19
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Gilbert Gaw (Smart Communications, Inc.) , Mustafa Oyumi (Amdocs) , Mark Austin (AT&T) , Silvia Candiani (Microsoft)

This session highlights how Microsoft’s agentic AI and TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture empower telecom operators to rapidly deploy autonomous network operations agents—reducing resolution times, boosting efficiency, and unlocking new revenue opportunities.

Silicon to systems: Infrastructure for the agentic era at scale

2025-11-19
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Hanane Taffahi (Microsoft) , Sushant Gupta (Microsoft)

As AI agents evolve from tools to collaborators, Microsoft’s systems strategy is redefining AI infrastructure with full-stack optimization, from silicon to systems to services. This session explores advancement in the infrastructure – including cooling, network, power, and storage – to meet the speed, reliability, and efficiency demands of AI. Innovations like Fairwater, one of the largest AI training systems, networking, and purpose-built chips are enabling unprecedented performance and scale.

Build scalable AI apps with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale

Build scalable AI apps with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale

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Ravi Mantena , Anna Hoffman (Microsoft) , Ross Jenkins (Hexagon ALI / Octave) , Aditya Badramraju (Microsoft) , Britt Ewen (BlackRock) , Dmitry Borodin (Hexagon Asset Lifecycle Intelligence)

Build AI apps that run securely and scale with your needs with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. We’ll cover native vector indexes for semantic search, read scale out for low latency RAG, and secure model invocation with Microsoft Foundry, using the model of your choice, from T SQL. Hear directly from global technology company Hexagon and investment firm BlackRock who will join us to share their experience along with best practices, demos and more!

Community Connection Pod: AI MVP Community – Meet the Experts & Join the Journey

2025-11-19
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Promise Uche Nwachukwu (Capgemini) , Esra Bakkalbasioglu (Microsoft)

Ever wondered what it takes to be a Microsoft AI MVP? Here’s your chance to find out. Chat with current MVPs and program leads to learn how MVPs share their expertise, influence product direction, and support the AI community. Learn about the benefits of the MVP program, ask questions and explore how to get involved.

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.

Community Connection Pod: B2B Revenue Optimization: Using AI for a More Human Sales Process

2025-11-19
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Jennifer Brown (AppMeetup)

Is it AI versus people - or AI with people? Join AppMeetup for an engaging conversation on how AI tools like Copilot are transforming B2B sales. Learn how founders, sales leaders, and teams are using AI to gain deeper customer insights, strengthen communication, and close deals faster—while staying human at the heart of every interaction.

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.

Connected, managed, and complete agentic apps with Microsoft Foundry

Connected, managed, and complete agentic apps with Microsoft Foundry

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Mike Hulme (Microsoft) , Robert Finlayson (KPMG) , Balan Subramanian (Microsoft) , Shawn Henry (Microsoft)

Agentic applications are transforming how organizations innovate with AI, but building production-ready agents requires more than just powerful models. It demands a unified, AI-native application platform. In this session, discover how Microsoft Foundry enables developers to build, deploy, and scale agents enriched with real-time business context, custom tools, and comprehensive governance. Hear from KPMG on how they’re accelerating AI innovation and delivering business impact with Microsoft.

Connect everything, achieve anything, and transform your enterprise

Connect everything, achieve anything, and transform your enterprise

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Learn how SAP and Microsoft Cloud can accelerate your Cloud-ERP transformation. Experience how Business Data Cloud (BDC) and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) can unlock leading Business AI capabilities by delivering a trusted end-to-end foundation built for innovation. This session will be brought to life with demos, use cases, and tools that help you connect everything so you can achieve anything.

Driving agentic innovation with MCP as the backbone of tool-aware AI

Driving agentic innovation with MCP as the backbone of tool-aware AI

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Maria Naggaga (Microsoft) , Don Scott (Microsoft)

In this technical deep-dive, Maria and Don unveil how Microsoft is shaping the future of agent-tool interactions through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). As AI agents evolve from simple task runners to autonomous collaborators, MCP emerges as the preferred communication mechanism—enabling secure, scalable, and OS-agnostic tool orchestration across platforms like Microsoft Foundry, GitHub, and VS Code.

Enhance data security investigations with Microsoft Purview

Enhance data security investigations with Microsoft Purview

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Christophe Fiessinger (Microsoft) , Katerina Athanasiou (Microsoft) , Daniel Gawarecki (Toyota Motor North America) , Caroline Lee (Microsoft)

Use AI to scale deep content analysis both proactively and reactively with Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations. Learn more about DSI and the robust Purview-Defender integrations, which bring the SOC and data security teams closer together.

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Microsoft Teams: the AI-powered platform for work ​

Microsoft Teams: the AI-powered platform for work ​

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Kerry Perez Heffernan (Microsoft) , Justin Hamilton (Ford Motor) , Ilya Bukshteyn (Microsoft)

Teams continues to innovate across communication, collaboration, and workplace - with AI at the heart of that innovation. Learn about the latest features in Channels, Chat, External collaboration, Meetings, Events, Rooms, and more. Across all new features, Teams is focused on making customer and admin experiences that are simple, smart, and secure.

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Partner: Empower Frontier Firms with Copilot and agents services

Partner: Empower Frontier Firms with Copilot and agents services

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Pascal Brunner-Nikolla (Campana & Schott) , Ginny Hoban (Microsoft) , Sven Röhl (KPMG) , Ananthram Balakrishnan (Microsoft) , Matt Firestone (Microsoft)

Copilot and agents are reshaping the enterprise AI landscape, with the emergence of the Frontier Firm signaling a bold new phase of transformation in how enterprises operate, innovate, and compete—scaling transformation across every business function. In this session, discover how to build a winning partner practice that delivers customer impact and enterprise growth, align with Microsoft’s go-to-market strategy, and leverage partner GTM investments, alongside best practices from your peers.

Partners: Choose the best Azure DB for every customer scenario

Partners: Choose the best Azure DB for every customer scenario

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Jesse Sullivan (Microsoft) , Mike Thomsen (Microsoft) , Shireesh Thota (Microsoft)

Microsoft's database portfolio offers a range of options for your customers to achieve any goal. Come to this session to learn about the top use cases for each of our managed database products and how to pitch customers on the value of co-locating databases on Azure with other workloads including AI, analytics, or applications. Whether your customers are migrating and modernizing enterprise applications from on-premise solutions to the cloud or building AI applications, Azure has you covered.

Secure agents in Microsoft Foundry with Microsoft Security

Secure agents in Microsoft Foundry with Microsoft Security

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Neta Haiby (Microsoft) , Shravana Mukherjee (Microsoft) , Peter Simones (Microsoft)

As organizations rapidly build AI and innovation accelerates, so do the risks. Deep dive to learn how to safeguard AI agents across their lifecycle by managing identity, data access, posture, and applying governance at scale.

Secure & Manage the Most Productive, Intelligent OS: Windows 11

Secure & Manage the Most Productive, Intelligent OS: Windows 11

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Cassidy Fein (Microsoft) , Kurt Stevenson (Microsoft)

For 40 years, Windows has powered work. Now, Windows 11 redefines productivity and manageability - combining secure-by-design architecture, energy-efficient silicon, and seamless M365 and Copilot integration. Experience how Copilot+ PCs and agentic capabilities streamline workflows, automate tasks, and give IT leaders greater visibility, control, and operational intelligence for AI-powered future.

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Silo Busting for Nonprofits: Unifying people, processes and technology

Silo Busting for Nonprofits: Unifying people, processes and technology

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Colin Corbin (Microsoft) , Bob Benoit (Gates Foundation)

AI adoption in nonprofits often stalls not due to lack of vision, but because of fragmented data environments systems, siloed teams, and uneven digital readiness. This session explores how strategic skilling initiatives can unify data, people, and processes to accelerate AI transformation. Learn how nonprofits are using AI-focused training to bridge gaps between IT and program teams, streamline data migration, and foster a culture of collaboration.

Accelerate agentic AI innovation: MongoDB integrates with Microsoft Foundry

2025-11-19
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Priyanshi Verma (Microsoft) , Gaurab Aryal (MongoDB)

Discover how to leverage AI Foundry and MongoDB to enable the next generation of intelligent, data-driven, context-aware agents. This session demonstrates how AI Foundry’s agentic workflow integrates with MongoDB’s MCP Server to deliver secure, contextual, and scalable access to enterprise data. Through a demo of an industry use case, see how a complex business process is utterly simplified by intelligent agents — showcasing a practical path from integration to innovation.

Accelerate digital transformation with Atos Polaris AI Platform

2025-11-19
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Rubina Umarji (Atos) , Brian Ray (ATOS)

Learn how the Atos Group is accelerating digital transformation with agentic AI. In this session, you’ll see how the Atos Polaris AI Platform introduces autonomous data & AI engineer agents that reshape how programs are delivered. Discover how agile squads that combine human engineers with autonomous AI engineers can accelerate time-to-value.

Ambient Evidence Automation at the Point of Care

2025-11-19
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Neil Sanghavi (Atropos Health)

Discover how Atropos Health surfaces real-world evidence directly into clinical workflows based on patient specific data. Atropos Health will share how Atropos Evidence™ Agent proactively delivers personalized evidence to clinicians based on patient notes from ambient AI and reason for visit. Also, see how their ChatRWD™ answers complex questions in minutes—supporting faster, evidence-based decisions at the point of care.

Build your custom AI Agent with Microsoft Foundry

2025-11-19
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Henk Boelman (Microsoft) , Dona Sarkar (Microsoft)

You are hearing a LOT of TALK about AI and Agents but how do you step-by-step build an Agent that you can ACTUALLY DEPLOY in your business? Come and learn how you can build a voice-activated Agent that caters to what your business does and what your business does NOT do. You’ll learn about build tools, governance and Responsible AI in Microsoft Foundry and how you can use them today!

Power agentic AI in real-world IT, software, and support with Rovo

2025-11-19
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Jeremy Dodd (Atlassian)

Join us to explore how teams can design and implement systems that self-manage complex workflows and drive organisational impact without disrupting existing processes. Atlassian will walk you through how IT, software, and support teams are leveraging Rovo Studio to build powerful action-driven AI agents without writing a single line of code.

Unlock AI Success: Skilling Your Team with Training Partners

2025-11-19
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Raahil Aggarwal (Koenig Solutions Pvt. Ltd.) , Geoff Hirsch (Microsoft) , Elisa Graceffo (Microsoft)

Is your AI strategy missing the mark? Nearly 75% of executives believe their AI rollouts are successful, but less than half of employees agree. This session explores how Microsoft Training Services Partners deliver tailored, locally relevant skilling solutions to bridge this gap and empower your team to unlock AI and Copilot success and drive business outcomes.

Manage AI capabilities for Copilot+ PCs and Windows 11

2025-11-19
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Eric Moe (Microsoft) , Ken Goossens (Microsoft)

Get hands-on experience with enabling and managing AI experiences for Windows. Explore the customizations available to users and the controls available to IT admins. Learn how to use Microsoft Intune or Group Policy to fine-tune popular features like Recall, Copilot, Click to Do, and Image Creator. We’ll also walk through managing privacy and compliance, and end user readiness.

Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

Speed to deployment: Hands on with NVIDIA Nemotron NIM on Microsoft Foundry

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

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.

Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.