Still wrangling legacy code and applications? Analyze, upgrade, and migrate apps to Azure services with autonomous AI agents in GitHub Copilot— drastically simply your modernization effort, unlocking the full power of the cloud with confidence and staying in full control during each step.

Dive deep into the power of GitHub Copilot within VS Code. This hands-on lab will guide you through maximizing GitHub Copilot's potential for your daily coding tasks. Get firsthand experience at how Copilot can transform your workflow with agent mode, boost productivity without sacrificing code quality, model selection strategies and which models to leverage for your specific scenarios. Perfect for those looking to master GitHub Copilot in VS Code and drive impactful results within their teams.

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Agentic DevOps is shaping the future of software engineering, driving productivity and innovation through automation and intelligent collaboration. Learn how AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure are empowering developers at Microsoft to innovate faster and more securely. Gain practical insights and strategies from Microsoft’s journey to empower your own DevOps transformation.

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.

Enterprises modernizing core systems on Azure face a familiar set of challenges: legacy mainframes, complex code refactors, and fragmented DevOps pipelines. Join Cognition to get a practical view of how autonomous AI agents like Devin help engineering teams accelerate large-scale modernization efforts. Witness how engineers used Devin to refactor COBOL applications, automate migration pipelines into Azure DevOps and GitHub, and validate migrated workloads for production.

Modernize your DevOps strategy with Agentic DevOps by migrating your Azure Repos to GitHub while continuing to leverage the investments you’ve made in Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines. We’ll walk through real-world patterns for hybrid adoption, show how to integrate GitHub, Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines, and share best practices for enabling agent-based workflows with the MCP Servers for Azure DevOps, Playwright and Azure.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Discover how AI, cloud, and robotics are transforming digital engineering across industries. Learn how Microsoft and its partners are enabling faster design, smarter simulation, and scalable automation—from PLM modernization to autonomous systems. See how Azure, GitHub, and agentic AI are powering the next wave of industrial innovation.

Security standards often live in policy documents but aren’t consistently enforced. Learn how Azure Policy and Machine Configuration let you deploy built-in CIS benchmark templates for Linux and Windows, customize them to your needs, and apply them across Azure and hybrid / multi-cloud servers (via Azure Arc). We’ll also show how to integrate these policies into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) for continuous compliance checks, turning written guidelines into real-world security posture.

See how GitHub Copilot streamlines app modernization for .NET and Java—using AI to assist upgrades, then containerize and deploy to AKS Automatic with ease. Accelerate development and reduce complexity with intelligent guidance.

The teams that have strong DevOps practices are the ones best positioned to take advantage of the power of AI. See how you can use GitHub Copilot and AI Agents to bring speed, scale and security across the software development for your organization.

Want to ship applications faster? This demo shows you how to dramatically accelerate time to market with a high-velocity vibe coding workflow. We'll build a complete app with Azure Cosmos DB from scratch using GitHub Copilot as our AI pair programmer. We'll make use of the new Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator and VS Code extension for local development to create a frictionless, end-to-end experience that helps you deliver features faster than ever before.

In this talk we’ll learn Infrastructure-as-Code by automating the world’s most popular game: Minecraft. Using Packer, Terraform and GitHub Actions, we’ll build a server, configure Linux, provision cloud infrastructure and operate it through GitOps. Finally, we’ll demonstrate how to go beyond automating traditional cloud control planes—automating the Minecraft world itself by using Terraform to build and demolish structures like castles and pyramids before our very eyes!

This demo-heavy session highlights the enhanced MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, now more robust than ever with new AI-driven enhancements to streamline your SQL development experience. With GitHub Copilot, you can move faster from schema to code, generate sample data, explore relationships, and help your app and backend stay in sync. With our latest mssql-python driver, you can develop with ease, security, and performance, across SQL Server, Azure SQL and SQL database in Fabric.

Before the age of agents, tech debt often went straight from the backlog to the graveyard. While it’s important to continually identify ways to improve your services, it can be difficult to prioritize those items over customer-facing enhancements. With the introduction of AI agents, you can now more easily modernize and evolve your codebase, ensuring it never becomes the next legacy. Learn how to embrace the process of modernizing and how to leverage AI agents to keep your codebase up to date.

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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Modernizing legacy .NET apps just became easier end to end. Explore how Visual Studio 2026, .NET, and GitHub Copilot modernization tooling streamline the journey. Learn how new features in Azure App Service solve common compatibility challenges—delivering scalable, secure, AI-ready deployments with deep observability and cost efficiency.

In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to migrate traditional workloads to AKS using containerization and AKS Automatic, while enhancing functionality through integration with Azure PaaS services. We'll also explore how GitHub Copilot Application Modernization accelerates the process with AI-assisted coding and intelligent refactoring, helping teams streamline modernization and unlock cloud-native capabilities faster.

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“On Air at Microsoft Ignite” will deep dive into key announcements with expert interviews, demonstrations, and real-world applications for all the latest news. ​​

Hour 2 will feature:​ Azure Infrastructure: Jeremy Winter ​ AI Skills Navigator: Kavitha Radhakrishnan​ Varonis: Shawn Hays​ NVIDIA: Andrew Hester​ GitHub Copilot: Martin Woodward​ AMD: Arjun Oberoi & Daniel Kim

Our very own (not so secret) agent, Martin Woodward, takes us through the latest developments in GitHub Copilot with a deep dive into all the announcements from the keynote. You will not only learn how to get started with all the latest and greatest AI enhanced development features across VS Code and GitHub, but you will also learn how to take the best advantage of them in your day-to-day development work.​

Capgemini introduces the Agentic Industry Studio, combining deep industry expertise with Microsoft’s agentic platforms to turn AI ambition into measurable impact—fast. You’ll see how multi channel knowledge creation and domain grounded agents orchestrate work across Microsoft 365, GitHub, and Azure, and how the AI Powered Service Desk elevates customer and employee experiences with intelligent, proactive operations. Built for enterprise scale with “human–AI chemistry” felt across sectors.

In the age of AI, SAP supercharges it’s portfolio with natively embedded AI features, AI agents, access to 40+ LLMs, and tools for developers to increase productivity. Developers find GitHub Copilot in VS Code invaluable in assisting with code writing in popular languages. With SAP's domain-specific Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) language, developers can work in its ecosystem through writing code in ABAP. SAP is now making a fine-tuned ABAP AI model available to help developers

DevEx 2.0 means giving developers guardrails that accelerate delivery instead of slowing it. This session shows how continuous security integrates with Azure and GitHub pipelines. You’ll see IDE coaching and SAST at commit. With Microsoft Copilot and Azure OpenAI using GPT-5, developers can cut through false positives and receive actionable fixes directly in the code. Builds include SBOM generation, container scans, and dependency checks. Staging environments add DAST and API testing.

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.

AI agents run on non-human identities: service principals, managed identities, tokens. If you can’t see them, you can’t govern them. Oasis gives Microsoft-native guardrails: discover every agent across Entra, Azure, M365, and GitHub; right-size roles; eliminate long-lived secrets; and automate lifecycle with owners, purpose, TTL, rotation, and evidence. Same developer speed, far less standing privilege.

Slalom shows how enterprises can transform the SDLC by giving GitHub Copilot a “memory bank” of project context, standards, and design rules. Learn how context frameworks, Mermaid diagrams, and MCP servers help Copilot deliver code aligned with enterprise practices. We’ll share real-world results, including how one client boosted code quality and consistency through this approach.