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Microsoft Ignite 2025

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

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The future of integration is here and it's agentic

The future of integration is here and it's agentic

2025-11-21 Watch
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Kent Weare (Microsoft) , Eric Summers (Cyderes) , Divya Swarnkar (Microsoft) , Pratik Shinde (Vertex Pharmaceuticals)

Enterprise integration is being reimagined. It’s no longer just about connecting systems, but about enabling adaptive, agentic workflows that unify apps, data, and systems. In this session, discover how to modernize integration, migrate from BizTalk, and adopt AI-driven patterns that deliver agility and intelligence. Through customer stories and live demos, see how to bring these workflows to life with Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps.

Azure Databricks in Action: Unified AI & Analytics Across Microsoft

2025-11-21
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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.

Connect, secure and manage hybrid, multicloud and edge with Azure Arc

2025-11-21
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Alex Frankel (Microsoft) , Quynh Trinh (Microsoft)

Join this hands-on lab to explore Azure Arc for hybrid and multicloud environments. You’ll onboard Windows VMs, enable monitoring with Azure Monitor, apply compliance with Machine Configuration, and strengthen security using Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Wrap up by enabling Arc agent auto-upgrade to keep resources secure and current.

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

Escape licensing traps and fast-track hybrid cloud

2025-11-21
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Jeff Adams (Nutanix)

Facing licensing changes, procurement hurdles, and tight deadlines? You're not alone. IT leaders are rethinking hybrid cloud strategies fast. Join this session to explore how Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure offers a smarter, faster path forward. Enable the seamless lift-and-shift of VMware workloads—no refactoring needed. Discover how to unify operations across private and public clouds with one unified platform. Say goodbye to complexity and hello to agility.

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

2025-11-21
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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.

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

Next-Gen AKS Operations with Models, and Agents, and MCPs (oh my!)

2025-11-21
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Pavneet Singh Ahluwalia (Microsoft) , Paul Yu (Microsoft)

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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Start, Get and Stay Resilient with Azure

2025-11-21
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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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Unlocking Intelligent Insights with AI in Microsoft Fabric and Azure

2025-11-21
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Alpa Buddhabhatti (Freelancer)

See AI in action as we transform raw data into intelligent insights using Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI. This demo-driven session focuses on real-world scenarios that show the value of embedding intelligence directly into your data workflows. We’ll walk through how to: * Process and classify invoices automatically at scale. * Enable semantic search across OneLake for instant access to finance records. * Build a app that answers invoice queries in natural language and surfaces payment insights

Community Connection Pod: Azure AI Insiders – Your Early Access Pass to AI

2025-11-21
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Amit Mukherjee (Microsoft) , Adrian Gonzalez Sanchez (Microsoft) , Esra Bakkalbasioglu (Microsoft)

Join us to learn about the Azure AI Insiders community and get an exclusive look at upcoming AI tech. Insiders connect with product teams, test new tools, share feedback, and help shape the future of Microsoft Foundry. Love being on the cutting edge? Learn how to get involved today!

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.

Accelerating migration and modernization in financial services

Accelerating migration and modernization in financial services

2025-11-20 Watch
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Pradeep Raman (Microsoft)

Join us to explore how financial services organizations are accelerating their cloud transformation journeys with Microsoft’s Cloud Accelerate Factory (CAF). Learn how CAF helps streamline migrations, modernize legacy applications, and deploy scalable solutions like Azure Arc and AI-powered monitoring. Discover how this framework is driving agility, resilience, and innovation across financial organizations' estates—and what it means for the future of financial services.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

AI use cases to transform your Oracle workloads in Azure

AI use cases to transform your Oracle workloads in Azure

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Rajya Laxmi Yellajosyula (Microsoft) , Sudhakar Dalavi (Talcott Financial Group) , Venkataraman Ramakrishnan (Microsoft)

Learn how to embed AI across your Oracle estate, spanning apps and databases with Oracle Database@Azure. We’ll walk through blueprints that use Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Fabric to vectorize Oracle data, build task?specific copilots and agents, and operationalize analytics. Hear customer?proven integration patterns, cost considerations, and reliability tips, and leave with a pragmatic adoption roadmap and next?step resources.

Architect resilient apps with Azure backup and reliability features

Architect resilient apps with Azure backup and reliability features

2025-11-20 Watch
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Gargi Banerjee (Microsoft) , Surya Sripathi Raju (Microsoft)

Learn to use self-serve tools to strengthen zonal resiliency for critical workloads. Assess and validate resilience across VMs, DBs, and containers. Explore enhanced data and cyber resiliency with immutability and threat detection to guard against ransomware. Discover expanded workload coverage and real-time insights to proactively protect your applications and infrastructure.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Envision global innovation at scale: Smart eyewear and connected retail

Envision global innovation at scale: Smart eyewear and connected retail

2025-11-20 Watch
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John R. Luna (EssilorLuxottica) , Alfredo Patron (TeamViewer)

From smart eyewear to connected retail, technologies like AI are redefining industries. TeamViewer empowers enterprises like Ray-Ban manufacturer EssilorLuxottica, and their new division Nuance Audio, to scale innovation globally – relying on intelligent services to remotely manage thousands of devices, ensure seamless operations and enable new customer experiences. Explore how secure, real-time connectivity based on Azure boosts efficiency while driving sales and growth across global markets.

From cloud to edge: Building and shipping Edge AI apps with Microsoft Foundry

From cloud to edge: Building and shipping Edge AI apps with Microsoft Foundry

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Sam Kemp (Microsoft) , Raji Rajagopalan (Microsoft) , Gautham Krishnamurthy (PhonePe) , Lior Kamrat (Microsoft)

Edge AI is changing where intelligence runs, and Microsoft Foundry streamlines building, shipping, and scaling these apps. This session explores Edge AI development with Microsoft Foundry, highlights new features in Foundry Local and everything you need to know to build client apps that run AI on-device. Discover how to use Azure Arc to deploy models on servers and edge devices, see live demonstrations, and learn how Foundry streamlines the transition of AI from cloud to edge efficiently.

Running AI on Azure Storage: Fast, secure, and scalable

Running AI on Azure Storage: Fast, secure, and scalable

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Saurabh Sensharma (Microsoft) , Vamshi Kommineni (Microsoft) , Natalie Mao (Rakuten Group)

AI workloads require a fast and secure data infrastructure that works seamlessly. Learn how Azure Blob storage scales for OpenAI, how Azure Container Storage and Blobfuse2 ensure GPUs never sit idle, how to simplify integration with Ray/KAITO for AI apps on AKS, and how Blob storage integrates with AI services and frameworks to securely convert your enterprise data to AI-ready data. You’ll leave with best practices to drive performance, security, and developer velocity with Azure Storage.

Secure the healthcare cloud: Zero trust and AI-powered Azure defense

2025-11-20
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Chris McHenry (Aviatrix)

Accelerate compliant Azure transformation for payers, providers, pharma, and research orgs with Aviatrix Cloud Native Security fabric. Learn proven strategies for zero trust architecture with end-to-end encryption, securing EHRs, claims systems, clinical trials, and R&D platforms while meeting HIPAA/regulatory requirements. Integrate deeply with the Microsoft stack including AI-first innovation to rapidly identify and triage cloud security issues in real-time with CoPilot and Sentinel.

Ship faster. Stress Less. Idea to ops with Azure and GitHub Copilot

Ship faster. Stress Less. Idea to ops with Azure and GitHub Copilot

2025-11-20 Watch
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Mandy Whaley (Microsoft) , Nir Mashkowski (Microsoft)

Explore how GitHub Copilot and intelligent agents streamline Azure application development from design to operations. This session covers how the Coding Agent, App Modernization agent, and cloud architecture agent accelerate planning and coding, while GitHub Copilot for Azure and the Azure MCP Server simplify deployment and diagnostics. Learn how the SRE Agent and testing agent extend automation into production and quality assurance, enabling end-to-end DevOps with AI-powered workflows.

Smarter SQL: GitHub Copilot + SSMS 22

2025-11-20
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Makena Watanabe Barickman (Microsoft) , Anna Hoffman (Microsoft)

Unlock the future of data productivity with a hands-on exploration of AI-powered Copilots! We’ll dive into GitHub Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Microsoft Copilot in Azure and Copilot for SQL Databases in Microsoft Fabric. With real-world demos and best practice tips along the way, you’ll leave ready to transform how you interact with SQL, anywhere.

Community Connection Pod: Meet your Azure Engineering Team - Azure Migrate Product Group

2025-11-20
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Ashish Babbar (Microsoft) , Raunak Pandya (Microsoft)

Discuss migration questions, challenges, and lessons learned with the Azure Migrate Product Group

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.

Accelerate BI with Azure Databricks in the era of AI

2025-11-20
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Santosh Perla (Microsoft) , Daniel Epstein (Microsoft) , Isaac Gritz (Databricks) , Bhagyashri Badgujar (Databricks) , Saurabh Shukla (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.

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

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

2025-11-20
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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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Migrate ASP.NET Apps using Managed Instance on Azure App Service

2025-11-20
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Gaurav Seth (Microsoft) , Mayunk Jain (Microsoft)

Effortlessly modernize classic ASP.NET apps with Managed Instance on Azure App Service. Enjoy frictionless migration, minimal code changes, and great control with custom software support. Get benefits of VMs with agility, security & scalability of PaaS.

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Multi-Agent Apps with Microsoft Agent Framework or LangGraph

2025-11-20
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Theo van Kraay (Microsoft) , Sandeep Nair (Microsoft)

Build a multi-agent application leveraging MCP (Model Context Protocol) with the Microsoft Agent Framework in C# or LangGraph in Python, integrated with Azure Cosmos DB for scalable and high-performance data persistence and retrieval. Define agents, functions, and external service integrations, implement memory, state management, and semantic search using Azure Cosmos DB. By the end, you’ll have a robust AI agent system designed for real-world applications.

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Building apps, agents & automations without coding with Replit Agent

2025-11-20
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Kody Low (Replit)

AI is transforming software development. What once required coding expertise is now done in plain language. This shift is redefining the Build vs. Buy paradigm by empowering anyone to rapidly prototype and create custom solutions to their own challenges—unlocking massive innovation. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to vibe code apps, agents, and automations with Replit Agent, seamlessly deploying them to your Azure backend. Ideal for Product Managers, Designers, and business teams.

Ubiquitous AI from Cloud to Edge: Unlock the Future of Vision-Based AI with Roboflow, Windows ML and Microsoft Azure.

2025-11-20
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Joseph Nelson (Roboflow)

Join Roboflow CEO Joseph Nelson to explore how RF-DETR is transforming object tracking across industries—from sports broadcasting at the US Open to monitoring 4.8 million carloads of freight at BNSF. In this live demo, see how Roboflow and Windows ML deliver fast, private, and cost-efficient cargo container tracking at the edge on Windows 11 PCs.