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.

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.

Discover how you can make the most of your IT estate migrations and modernizations with the newest AI capabilities. This session guides IT teams through assessing current environments, setting goals, and creating a business case with Azure Migrate for all of your workload types like Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET, Linux, PostgreSQL, Java, and more. We’ll explore tools to inventory workloads, map dependencies, and create actionable migration roadmaps.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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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.

Discover how AI is transforming cloud operations in Azure. In this lab, you’ll use AI to investigate anomalies, correlate telemetry, and strengthen your monitoring posture. With Copilot's new agentic capabilities for optimization, you’ll identify and validate cost and carbon savings opportunities while advancing FinOps and sustainability practices. Together, these capabilities help you align workload health, streamline operations, and deliver lasting efficiency and sustainability.

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

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.

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The future of work is here. See how Windows combines security, adaptability, cloud, and AI to empower organizations and people to create, decide, and grow.

Discover how Microsoft is transforming nursing workflows and what it takes for organizations to successfully adopt AI solutions. It’s more than flipping a switch, it’s a purposeful evolution that demands thoughtful planning and change management.

As AI workloads grow, infrastructure must keep pace. This session covers Azure’s silicon-to-systems optimization, hardware-software codesign, and datacenter advances in cooling, power, network, and security. Learn about Azure’s latest AI infrastructure powered by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchips and Quantum-2 InfiniBand, including ND GB200/GB300 VMs with exascale performance and 860K+ tokens/sec on LLAMA 70B. We’ll also cover NC H100 and NC RTX Blackwell VMs for enterprise inferencing.

Step into a new era of secure, AI-powered productivity with Edge for Business. Streamline workflows and boost productivity with AI that transforms the browser into a proactive, context-aware partner—through innovations like Copilot Mode and multi-tab reasoning. And while you seek AI transformation, you can't relax security. Edge for Business is the leading secure enterprise browser, delivering both AI productivity and enterprise-grade security—no trade-offs required.

The emergence of Agentic AI is not just another technology trend; it's a fundamental shift in how businesses will operate and compete. This session is for the leaders, the strategists, and the innovators who need to prepare their organizations for what's next. We'll explore the strategic implications of a world where every employee has a team of AI agents, and business process is orchestrated by a network of intelligent systems built on Kore.ai's platform and Microsoft's trusted cloud.

Ever wanted to tour the Surface labs in Redmond? We’re bringing highlights of the tour to Ignite! Discover how Microsoft’s engineering excellence and human-centered design deliver innovative devices that drive productivity, inclusivity, and secure AI-powered experiences. See how our commitment to quality and accessibility transforms technology for every user—straight from the engineers behind the innovation.

In today’s AI-driven economy, data isn’t just an asset, it’s your differentiator. Join us for major announcements across Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure SQL, and Azure PostgreSQL, and see how these innovations come together to deliver a unified, intelligent data foundation for AI. Experience customer success stories, live demos, and an inside look at the roadmap shaping the future of analytics, transactional workloads, and real-time insights all in one integrated experience.

In the agentic era, digital trust is paramount. Join our security leaders to see how Microsoft builds security into every layer for a world woven with AI and agents. Through demos and customer stories, learn how protection is unified across identities, data, agents, apps, endpoints, and more. Get actionable steps to secure AI innovation at scale.

Open models are essential for accelerating AI innovation, providing transparency, flexibility, and adaptability across enterprise use cases. They empower organizations to fine-tune, customize, and deploy AI solutions securely while retaining control over data. Discover how NVIDIA AI Foundation models, available on Azure platforms as NVIDIA NIM, power technologies and use cases. Learn how NVIDIA Nemotron, open reasoning models, are used to build powerful enterprise research agents that synthesize hours of research in minutes. Also, explore how NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models are used to simulate, reason, and generate data for downstream pipelines in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and industrial vision systems.

Get ready to explore how Azure Copilot is transforming the way IT, DevOps, and Developers manage, secure, and optimize cloud environments—ushering in an era of agentic AI that goes beyond simple automation. This session unveils powerful new capabilities that enable AI to act more independently and collaboratively with users, streamlining tasks like incident response, infrastructure provisioning, security posture management, and beyond.​