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Microsoft Ignite 2025

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

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Innovation Session: Introducing Microsoft Agent 365: the Control Plane for AI Agents

Innovation Session: Introducing Microsoft Agent 365: the Control Plane for AI Agents

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Neta Haiby (Microsoft) , Mark Luquire (EY) , Tao Zhang (Manus) , Nirav Shah (Microsoft) , Monica Ugwi (Microsoft)

Discover how to hire, onboard, and train AI-powered digital labor that acts with autonomy, adapts to evolving business needs, and operates securely across environments. This session explores how intuitive tools and built-in controls enable you to manage these agents like real team members—scaling productivity while maintaining oversight and trust.

Microsoft Fabric: The data platform for the next AI frontier

Microsoft Fabric: The data platform for the next AI frontier

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Amir Netz (Microsoft)

As AI adoption accelerates, organizations are transforming their data platforms to keep pace. Without a unified, enterprise-ready foundation, even the most ambitious AI strategies can stall. Join Amir Netz, Technical Fellow and CTO of Microsoft Fabric, as he shares the latest data and analytics announcements, developments and demos for Fabric.

Partner acceleration in the Americas for Small and Medium Enterprise

Partner acceleration in the Americas for Small and Medium Enterprise

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Brian Matthews (CDW Canada) , Sanju Nair (Microsoft) , Pablo Rodriguez Leis (TD SYNNEX LATAM) , Jose Gomez Cueto (Microsoft) , Federico Charosky (Quorum Cyber) , Erwin Visser (Microsoft) , Harpreet Girn (Microsoft) , Alistair Butler (Microsoft)

Discover how Microsoft’s Americas leadership is empowering partners to drive transformation with Small and Medium Enterprise. ​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.

Recipe for success: How Kraft Heinz optimizes manufacturing with AI

Recipe for success: How Kraft Heinz optimizes manufacturing with AI

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Oliver Ganschar (The KraftHeinz Company) , Pat Nestor (Kraft Heinz) , Alkesh Ladva (Microsoft)

Explore the digital transformation and AI-enablement driving manufacturing optimization at Kraft Heinz. Discover how our digital core and Digital Twin provide real-time recommendations to plant operators powered by Azure Arc and Microsoft Foundry. This customer-led session offers actionable insights for scaling AI across industrial environments, envisioning an autonomous future of manufacturing, and advancing toward a self-driven supply chain.

Secure access for AI agents with Microsoft Entra

Secure access for AI agents with Microsoft Entra

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Alex Simons (Microsoft) , Sharon Chahal (Microsoft) , Ehud Itshaki (Microsoft)

Learn to discover, manage, govern, and protect agent identities and access to resources – just as you do for human identities—with enterprise-grade secure access for agents in Microsoft Entra.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

SI & Advisory Partner Readiness: Accelerating the Journey to Frontier

SI & Advisory Partner Readiness: Accelerating the Journey to Frontier

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Stephen Boyle (Microsoft) , Justin Slade (Microsoft) , Maisa Penha (Microsoft)

Our global systems integrators and advisory partners are vanguards on the path to break though innovation - and they are transforming their businesses with Microsoft! Learn how Microsoft is empowering our SI and advisory partners to accelerate frontier firm readiness for our Enterprise customers by driving AI transformation with agentic solutions and services.

Train, host and infer reasoning models on Microsoft Foundry

Train, host and infer reasoning models on Microsoft Foundry

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Vijay Aski (Microsoft) , Ankit Parag Shah (Accenture) , Vijay Aski , Wei Wei (Accenture) , Chris Lauren (Microsoft)

Step through training and deploying a custom reasoning model with Azure ML and Microsoft Foundry. See the magic happen in real time and learn how to bring it to your own projects with Foundry.

Transform business workflows with Microsoft Copilot and agents

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Craig McQueen (Softchoice) , Joe Berger (WWT)

Explore how Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and AI Agents are revolutionizing business workflows. Drawing on real-world enablement programs and customer cases, this session reveals strategies for scaling AI adoption, selecting impactful scenarios, operationalizing agents, and empowering IT leaders to drive sustainable transformation and value across organizations.

Community Theater: AI MVP Panel – Unblocking Customer Innovation

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Marco Casalaina (Microsoft) , Martina Grom (atwork) , Prashant G Bhoyar (Applied Information Sciences, Inc) , Dux Raymond Sy (AvePoint)

Join Marco Casalaina as he moderates a technical panel with AI MVPs who share how they help customers overcome real-world challenges. Learn how MVPs use Microsoft Foundry and agentic AI to deliver solutions and provide critical feedback to product teams. Expect practical insights and examples of how MVPs accelerate innovation and unblock customer success.

Accelerate business securely with AI and data intelligence

2025-11-18
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Shane Coleman (Cyera)

Data is what powers AI, but AI is only as secure as your data. As businesses leverage AI at unprecedented speed, building a data protection backbone to deploy AI with confidence remains critical to success. Learn how Cyera and Microsoft are helping CISOs leverage AI and data intelligence to: Unify governance in multi-cloud, decentralized environments Stay compliant & future-proof with secure AI adoption for tools like Copilot Strengthen data protection across Azure, M365, OneDrive, & SharePoint

Innovate on Azure with Intel Xeon 6 to drive scale, security and speed

2025-11-18
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Radhika Rao (Intel Corporation) , Elyse Ge Hylander (Microsoft)

Discover how Microsoft Azure and Intel are redefining cloud infrastructure with the launch of Azure’s virtual machines on powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 processors. This session explores the architectural innovations behind Intel Xeon 6—including performance and efficiency cores, built-in AI acceleration, and enhanced memory and network capabilities—and how they enable scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud services on Azure.

Make backups an assets activating Azure data for AI and analytics

2025-11-18
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Liore Shai (Eon)

The explosive growth of cloud data—and its importance for analytics and AI—demands a new approach to protection and access. Traditional backup tools weren’t built to handle hyperscale workloads, such as Azure Blob Storage and Cosmos DB, resulting in costly silos. Discover how a cloud-native platform delivers hyperscale protection, automates operations, reduces TCO, and turns backups into a live, queryable data lake for analytics in Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure OpenAI.

Manage agents like a pro with Foundry Control Plane

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Mohammad Abuomar (Microsoft CoreAI Responsible AI) , Peter Simones (Microsoft)

Tour the Foundry Control Plane, the unified management hub that connects Entra Agent ID, guardrails, observability, and runtime security, and see how easy it is to register, monitor, and govern agents. Get hands-on tips for scaling with confidence using Microsoft Foundry.

Modernize Microsoft 365 and Entra ID migrations without downtime

2025-11-18
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Conrad Murray (PowerSyncPro) , Eric Franklin (BitTitan)

Migrations are often complex, spanning tenant consolidations, M&A, and hybrid-to-cloud transitions. In this session, learn practical methods to reprovision M365 apps, move devices from Hybrid AD or Workgroup to Entra ID, and maintain user profiles without Fresh Start. BitTitan & PowerSyncPro will walk through techniques for minimizing disruption, preserving apps & settings, and streamlining cross-tenant moves, ensuring users stay productive while IT teams manage large-scale change efficiently.

Reshaping digital operations with AI from cloud and edge

2025-11-18
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Anthony Girolamo (Microsoft) , Gurleen Kaloty (Microsoft)

Join us to learn how to digitize your operations and scale AI workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will learn how to secure and scale your IoT operations data and use Microsoft Fabric as your single data platform to reduce downtime, improve asset tracking, and address operational simulation scenarios.

Community Connection Pod: Building Agents with Microsoft 365 Copilot vs Copilot Studio

2025-11-18
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Mariana Prudencio (Microsoft) , David Abu (Microsoft)

Copilot Studio offers two ways to build AI agents: a lite experience (integrated into the Microsoft 365 Copilot app) and a full experience (a standalone Copilot Studio application). Both experiences enable you to create powerful agents, but they serve different needs.

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: Maximizing Partner Profitability with Microsoft Commerce Incentives

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Brittney Saultman (The Partner Masters)

Join this interactive roundtable to explore how Microsoft Commerce Incentives (MCI) can be a powerful lever for partner profitability. We’ll discuss real-world strategies, common challenges, and how to align your business model to maximize returns. Whether you're optimizing for today or planning for tomorrow, this session is all about turning incentives into impact.

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: Microsoft Sentinel Data Ingestion: Challenges, Solutions and Best Practices

2025-11-18
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Sasha Kranjac (Kloudatech)

Join this interactive roundtable discussion on the challenges and solutions of data ingestion in Microsoft Sentinel. We’ll dive into real-world scenarios, explore practical solutions, and share best practices to help optimize data onboarding, management and reduce cost.

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.

Azure Databricks in Action: Unified AI & Analytics Across Microsoft

2025-11-18
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FNU Shiv Shankar Kumar (Infosys) , Jason Pereira (Microsoft Corporation) , Isaac Gritz (Databricks) , Saurabh Shukla (Databricks) , Sanjay Soni (Microsoft) , Ranavikrant Chouhan (Microsoft)

Join this hands-on lab to design and deploy a modern, cloud-native analytics and AI solution using Azure Databricks, Microsoft Foundry, and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Work with the Zava-Litware scenario to perform data ingestion, orchestration with Lakeflow, AI-driven insights via Genie, mirrored catalog in Microsoft Fabric, Copilot Studio low-code automation, and advanced reporting in Power BI. Build a scalable, cost-efficient solution showcasing AI-powered analytics for business transformation.

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

Build a Pizza Ordering Agent with Microsoft Foundry and MCP

2025-11-18
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Gustavo Cordido (Microsoft) , Henk Boelman (Microsoft)

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to build domain-specific AI agents with Foundry Agent Service. Starting from a simple agent, you’ll add system prompts, custom instructions, and knowledge with RAG. You’ll extend it with tool calling (like a pizza calculator) and connect external services via MCP for live menu and order handling. By the end, you’ll have a working Contoso PizzaBot that can answer questions, recommend pizzas, and manage orders.

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

Building agentic solutions with Copilot Studio

2025-11-18
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Daniel Laskewitz (Microsoft)

This hands-on lab with Microsoft Copilot Studio guides you through the full agent lifecycle—from purpose-driven design to advanced capabilities. Learn how to build, integrate, automate, and deploy a fully functional agent using tools like Agent Flows and MCP. Walk away with practical skills to customize agents for real-world business needs.

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

Building and deploying digital twin applications with Omniverse Kit app streaming and Microsoft Azure

2025-11-18
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Elizabeth Tang (NVIDIA)

Learn to build, containerize, deploy, and extend interactive 3D digital twin applications using NVIDIA Omniverse Kit App Streaming. This hands-on course walks you through creating a streaming-ready Kit app, deploying it for web clients, and enabling real-time, bi-directional data interaction—empowering scalable, remote visualization and collaboration across digital twin workflows.

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

Build real‑time analytics with Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric

2025-11-18
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Mark Brown (Microsoft) , Jasmine Greenaway (Microsoft)

In this lab you'll help a coffee shop unify their operational and analytical workloads with Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric. You'll blend operational data with curated sources using cross-database SQL, stream and visualize real-time POS events, and create a gold layer for personalization. Finally, you'll implement reverse ETL to Cosmos for lightning-fast serving and train a lightweight Spark notebook model to deliver the right offer at the right time before your customer’s order is ready.

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

Extending Dragon Copilot with Partner Built AI Solutions

2025-11-18
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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.

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

Makers in action: crafting Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents for real-world

2025-11-18
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Paolo Pialorsi (Microsoft) , Rabia Williams (Microsoft)

In this hands-on lab, makers will learn how to create intelligent agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot using topics, MCP Tools, and autonomous behaviors. Attendees will explore agent fundamentals, build custom workflows, and gain practical experience with Copilot Studio’s capabilities to streamline real-world tasks, boosting efficiency across Microsoft 365.

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