With models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Black Forest Labs, Mistral AI, Meta, xAI and more, Microsoft Foundry brings the world’s most advanced AI models together in one secure, unified platform. Learn how to select, evaluate, and intelligently route models to achieve the right balance of cost, latency, and accuracy—all while maintaining enterprise-grade security, responsible AI practices, and built-in governance across every workload.

Discover how the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace is reshaping the future of cloud and AI innovation. In this session, we’ll explore how Microsoft Marketplace—unifying Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource—empowers organizations to become Frontier Firms by streamlining the discovery, purchase, and deployment of tens of thousands of cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents.

As AI evolves from passive tools to autonomous agents, the stakes for accessibility and responsibility are rising. Join Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer, and Natasha Crampton, Chief Responsible AI Officer, to explore how Microsoft is shaping the future of agentic AI, creating systems that are safe, and trustworthy. Drawing on real-world technologies, they'll share how Accessibility and Responsible AI are not just parallel priorities but deeply interconnected imperatives.

Discover how to optimize Windows Server workloads with Azure infrastructure and agentic management tools to maximize your investment. Learn how to use Azure administration tools, including WAC, Azure Copilot, and AI Shell to manage Windows Server workloads in Azure.  Configure and leverage AI tools with BCDR, Monitoring, Compliance, Software Updates and security for Windows Server workloads, and simplify Windows Server identity in Azure with Entra Domain Services.

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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.

As organizations adopt AI to boost productivity and creativity, concerns grow about data security and possible leaks through generative AI tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Microsoft’s Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI helps organizations monitor AI activities, enforce data protection policies, and meet regulatory standards, allowing safe, productive AI use without compromising sensitive information.

Get an overview of the next generation of Microsoft Power Platform. See how agents, AI-assisted plans, and modern workspaces are transforming the maker experience. Build and deploy apps your way—whether through natural language prompts, visual designer, or custom code. Pair speed with enterprise-grade scale and security and modernize your core systems into intelligent solutions powered by apps and agents.

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This session explores Windows as the canvas for AI, including development in MCP (Model Context Protocol), Computer Using Agents (CUAs), and upcoming platform-level security enhancements. Learn how these technologies shape a more intelligent and secure Windows experience.

Explore how Microsoft 365 Copilot unifies Chat, Search, Agents, Notebooks, and Create into one secure workflow. With all five capabilities in a single interface, you can automate tasks, manage content, generate assets, and find information—without switching tools. See how having one AI solution built for work reduces context switching, streamlines workflows, and boosts efficiency.

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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 session, we’ll introduce the latest capabilities across compute, storage, and networking. Uncover the advancements in Azure IaaS, driving performance, resiliency, and cost efficiency. We will present how Azure’s global backbone, enhanced capabilities, and expanding portfolio can support mission-critical, cloud native and AI workloads —while built-in security and flexible tiering help right-size app deployments and accelerate modernization.

Moving massive datasets to the cloud for AI and analytics is often harder than expected. Join this conversation to unpack the biggest challenges—network bandwidth, migration tools, governance, and cost optimization. We’ll discuss strategies for using Azure Storage Mover, third-party tools, and storage options like Object Storage, ADLS Gen 2, and Azure NetApp Files to accelerate migration while ensuring compliance and performance. Bring your experiences and questions to shape best practices together.

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.

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.

Stop letting Wi-Fi limit your potential. Traditional connectivity constraints costs time and risks data loss. Discover the powerful duo of Verizon 5G and Microsoft Surface Copilot+ PCs. Together, Microsoft & Verizon help create the blueprint for the AI-powered, zero-trust enterprise. In this discussion, we'll demonstrate how Microsoft Surface powered by Verizon 5G delivers AI acceleration, always-on security, and commercial transformation across key industries.

Discover how Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager drives compliance, security, and AI readiness by simplifying regulatory complexity into clear actions. Learn about new capabilities like AI Regulations Onboarding, an enhanced Regulatory Navigator without template limits, and Microsoft Foundry integration. See how compliance scoring is embedded into AI workflows to reduce adoption friction and build trust in responsible AI.

AI-driven cyberattacks are growing in sophistication, threatening your business critical Entra ID and Microsoft 365 data. In this session, explore how these threats are evolving, and how to prepare for incident response. Learn why clean recovery, not just data recovery, is essential to strengthening your organization’s cyber resilience.

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.

Discover how to launch serverless workspaces in seconds, power Data & AI apps with Lakebase, and analyze unstructured data without coding using Agent Bricks. With AI/BI Genie + Copilot Studio, ask natural language questions directly in Microsoft Teams. Join this session to see how Azure Databricks makes AI simple, actionable, and enterprise-ready.

The next major leap in software engineering is happening at the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence. We’ll explore what’s working, what’s not, and what “good” really looks like when organizations strive to integrate AI into their engineering cultures, workflows, and strategic priorities. From fostering alignment across teams to overcoming governance challenges, this session goes beyond the hype to uncover the lessons learned from early adopters and outline the critical considerations for those just beginning the journey. Insights into how tech organizations are evolving their culture, structure, and SDLC with AI Understand roadblocks to adoption, from technical readiness to talent resistance Align with peers on emerging best practices and success metrics for AI-enhanced engineering

Manufacturing leaders seeking autonomy need speed, quality, and safety while managing complexity. Hexagon's AEON humanoid, powered by Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA, brings Intelligent Manufacturing 4.0 to life with scalable AI training, governed deployment, and rapid simulation-backed adaptation to support new SKUs. From defect detection to validated updates, teams maintain real-time observability and compliance while scaling what works. The result: shorter cycles, fewer risks, and the ability to scale industrial robotics scenarios.

Are your cloud ops teams drowning in noisy signals and slow root cause analysis? See how thousands of organizations such as yours use Azure SRE Agent to solve this by turning telemetry into precise actions using AI. It automates detection, diagnosis, and remediation across your stack—reducing MTTR, improving service health, and freeing engineers to focus on innovation. Outcome: faster recovery, fewer escalations, and resilient cloud services.

Voice on Windows is evolving from commands to a true companion—listening, adapting, and helping ideas flow. Discover how natural speech, smarter dictation, and lifelike voices reduce cognitive load, boost accessibility, and enable seamless, hands‑free work. See how AI subtly elevates your flow and unlocks a new voice era: expressive in, natural out, ready for work.

“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 3 will feature:​ AI, public sector and healthcare: Kees Hertogh​ NVIDIA: Ganesh Sivaraman & Donald Ferguson​ Citrix: Nancy Hart​ New agent experiences and management controls: Jeremy Chapman & Caroline Stanford Insight: Parker Johnston​ AMD: Andrew Ruffin​ Copilot in the Flow of Office: Ryan Roslansky

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.

What does it take to turn AI innovation into measurable business impact?

Join Kathleen Mitford, Corporate Vice President of Industry Marketing at Microsoft, for a conversation with industry leaders transforming their organizations with agentic AI.

Hear how they started, what’s driving results, and how ideas and learnings from one industry can inspire another—helping you move from experimentation to impact and become Frontier with AI.

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