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.

This comprehensive session covers the complete lifecycle of intelligent data agents in Microsoft Fabric, from initial configuration to enterprise-wide deployment. Learn proven best practices for building context-aware agents with curated data sources and effective instructions. Discover how to implement robust CI/CD pipelines powered by Git for managing configurations and deployments. The session also demonstrates consumption patterns of data agents across the AI ecosystem.

This session tackles one of the biggest post-pilot challenges with Microsoft Copilot: turning initial enthusiasm into sustained, measurable adoption. With over 13 years of real-world Microsoft 365 adoption experience, I’ll share a proven framework brought to life through live demos and customer results that equips attendees to scale Copilot successfully, reduce shadow AI, and demonstrate clear business impact. Fast, practical, and repeatable. Attendees will walk away ready to act the next day.

We are entering a new era for AI in banking—defined by collaboration between people and machines, not just automation. Banks now ask: How can we move faster without risking core systems? How do we unlock value while staying in control? And how do we apply AI purposefully? This session examines what banks will need to thrive, showing how transformation becomes an advantage and how human + AI collaboration is the new frontier—balancing automation, judgment, and governance.

As modern cloud and AI applications continue to be built at rapid speed, organizations must ensure their cloud deployments are secure and compliant with the latest regulatory standards. Join us to learn how the new and improved controls Microsoft cloud security benchmark v2 can help Azure users and security teams create baselines to secure cloud services and keep environments compliant.

Enterprises are racing to operationalize AI, but connecting agents to live, trusted data remains a major architectural challenge. In this session, Alok Pareek, co-founder and EVP of Product and Engineering at Striim, will explore how Striim MCP Agentlink enables secure, real-time data movement from operational systems to AI agents. Learn patterns for inference, vector embeddings, and predictive analytics built on Microsoft data products with end-to-end encryption, lineage, and PII protection.

KPMG’s AI-driven platform transforms insurance claims management using Microsoft Azure and OpenAI. Informed by live client use cases, the solution analyzes large datasets, identifies high-value opportunities, and generates actionable insights. The solution improves operational efficiency, accelerates decision-making, and helps insurers unlock hidden value across complex claims portfolios.

Ride the agent revolution with Microsoft Foundry, the one and only enterprise-ready Agent Factory. See how Foundry empowers you to build, test, and launch intelligent agents in record time, then scale them across your enterprise with bulletproof security and seamless integration. From prototype to leveraging tools, memory, knowledge and multi-agent orchestration, to integrate with Microsoft 365, this session is your shortcut to agentic success.

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.

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With its unrivaled extensibility, PostgreSQL is a top choice for accelerating AI innovation. Now Azure is allowing developers to move even faster with Azure HorizonDB. Discover why Azure HorizonDB, which is AI-enabled out of the box, is the ideal launchpad for your apps and agents. We’ll demo the latest features, like AI Model Management and DiskANN Advanced Filtering, that make Postgres easy to provision and AI-aware on Azure.  See how you can build solutions faster with PostgreSQL.​

Enterprises are racing to deploy AI agents but scaling them requires more than powerful models. In this fireside chat, leaders who have deployed agentic systems in complex enterprise environments will share what it means to be “Copilot ready” and how to scale agents from pilots to production. From data foundations to security, governance and user trust, we’ll explore the pitfalls to avoid, what worked, and how innovative agent solutions are delivering measurable business value across industries.

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Discover how Microsoft Purview delivers the most comprehensive approach to securing and governing your data. Learn how organizations can protect, manage, and unlock value from their data while meeting regulatory and business goals.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is transforming productivity but unlocking its full potential requires more than just turning it on. Rafsan Huseynov, SHI AI Solutions Architect and Microsoft MVP, shares how SHI helps organizations deploy Copilot securely, responsibly, and with measurable impact. Learn how SHI’s proven strategies maximize ROI, ensure compliance, and confidently scale Copilot across the enterprise.

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.

The Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is the primary way we engage and invest in our partner ecosystem.  The program brings everything together across the whole of the partner lifecycle, including onboarding, skilling, go-to-market, incentives, and co-selling. In this session, learn about our Partner Program, its evolution, exciting new offers and how it enables partners drive growth.

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Get guidance on how to monetize your AI apps and agents by listing them in Microsoft Marketplace. This session shares strategies to get your solution discovered by global buyers 24/7, integrated into Microsoft products like Copilot and Microsoft Foundry, and distributed through Microsoft’s powerful channel ecosystem—making adoption easier to accelerate growth.

The future of AI is hybrid - running inference on a PC and in the cloud. Discover applications and vertical use cases that leverage local AI through Microsoft Foundry on Windows while running on Copilot+ PC, for improved latency, data privacy, and cost

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.

Effective physical AI allows for safe collaboration with people and technology that powers reasoning and action in real time, moving beyond scripts to make on‑the‑fly decisions like moving materials and assembling parts. Understand end‑to‑end workflows with NVIDIA Isaac and Omniverse: data collection, curation, digital twins, training at scale, high‑fidelity simulation, and deployment. You'll experience proven toolchains and OpenUSD examples to accelerate smarter, more adaptable AI for robotics.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Forget chatbots. Think intelligence. This breakout session reveals how TD SYNNEX is delivering real agentic AI that solves real MSP challenges—from service management and security to billing and automation. Discover how partners are deploying AI agents in help desks, supply chain, retail, and process integration, backed by proprietary market research. Learn how to monetize AI—from tools like Copilot Chat to full agentic AI revenue streams—powered by StreamOne® and Destination AI™ enablement.

SQL Server 2025 redefines what's possible for the enterprise data platform. With developer-first features and seamless integration with analytics and AI models, SQL Server 2025 accelerates AI innovation using the data you already own. Build modern apps with native JSON and REST APIs and harness AI with built-in vector search. Increase application availability with optimized locking and use Fabric mirroring for near real-time analytics. Join us to see why this is the most advanced SQL Server.