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Microsoft Ignite 2025

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

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Unlock trustworthy AI with governance as the accelerator

2025-11-19
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Benjamin Niaulin (ShareGate)

AI is only as effective as the data it can reach. If Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive aren’t well governed, Copilot can amplify duplication, oversharing, and compliance gaps, slowing adoption and eroding trust. In this session, you’ll see:

How Copilot accesses data and where governance stops oversharing

A prioritized checklist to cut duplication and sprawl

The controls and ROI metrics that drive adoption and leadership buy-in

You’ll leave with an actionable roadmap to strengthen M365

Community Theater: Security Copilot

2025-11-19
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Saurabh Jain (Microsoft)

Security teams face relentless pressure - more alerts, more complexity, and fewer resources. With generative AI, we have the opportunity to change the game. Join Microsoft product teams to discover what’s new in Security Copilot and how it’s transforming the way security and IT teams work. In this session, we’ll share the latest features designed to automate tasks, surface critical insights, and accelerate response - helping you protect at the speed and scale of AI. Through demos, you’ll see how Security Copilot empowers your teams to detect, investigate, and defend smarter and faster than ever before

Community Connection Pod: Custom & On-Prem Data Ingestion into Microsoft Sentinel: Challenges and Best Practices

2025-11-19
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Den Mutlu (Swiss Post cybersecurity Ltd)

Bringing in custom application data, on-premises logs, or migrating from another SIEM into Microsoft Sentinel can be complex and full of hidden pitfalls. In this session, we’ll share strategies to overcome common ingestion challenges, improve SOC detections and hunting, optimize data retention, and get the most value from the Sentinel data lake. Join the discussion to exchange real-world lessons learned and approaches that work.

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.

Community Connection Pod: Empowering Knowledge Discovery with SharePoint Knowledge Agent

2025-11-19
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John Mighell (Microsoft) , Adam Harmetz (Microsoft)

Discover how SharePoint Knowledge Agent uses AI to make enterprise knowledge easier to find and use. In this roundtable, we’ll explore integration with Microsoft 365, real-world scenarios, and best practices for deployment. Join the discussion to share ideas and learn strategies for maximizing knowledge management in your organization.

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.

Community Connection Pod: Getting Started with Agents for Customer Zero

2025-11-19
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Eddie Bader (IAMCP International)

We'll demonstrate how partners can move towards Frontier-ready by embracing agents as customer zero.

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.

Copilot and Converged Communications - a Magical Partnership

2025-11-19
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Martin Boam (Microsoft)

While many organizations are placing AI at the core of their business strategies, the role of Converged Communications is often underestimated. This session will show how combining AI with Converged Communications unlocks greater business impact. Discover the strategic and commercial benefits for partners in fiscal year 2026 and beyond..

From client zero to Frontier Firm: EY and Microsoft unlock growth

2025-11-19
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Jason Hunt (EY)

As one of Microsoft’s largest partners and clients, EY shares its Frontier Firm journey as client zero leveraging deep insights and experience to drive bold, agentic transformations that unlock growth.

Identity modernization builds the foundation for AI

2025-11-19
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Joe Tobias (Quest Software) , Tony Redmond (Office 365 for IT Pros)

In the AI era, identities involve more than authentication. Systems like Microsoft 365 Copilot depend on identities to understand the structure of the organization and how individuals connect to each other to enrich its responses. Join this session to understand how identity modernization builds the foundation for AI success.

In the AI era, IT matters more than ever

2025-11-19
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Brian Taylor (Lake Side Software)

As organizations navigate the surge of 'AI-powered' solutions in IT, and especially in EUC, distinguishing genuine innovation from 'AI washing' is critical. In practice, AI only performs as well as the data that feeds it. That means AI for IT needs more than accurate data—it needs data that is contextually relevant to the environment it serves. In this session, you'll learn about the new dynamics of digital employee experience that measurably improve MTTR and IT productivity.

Leveraging the power of Microsoft Sentinel SIEM and data lake

2025-11-19
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Alex Klausner (Microsoft) , Julian Gonzalez (Microsoft)

See Microsoft Sentinel in action! Join us for a live demo showcasing the latest SIEM and data lake innovations—from expanded connector integrations to advanced UEBA, threat intelligence, and hunting capabilities. Discover how these enhancements help your team detect threats faster and strengthen security.

Protection in Teams as modern threats evolve

2025-11-19
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Yilin Yang (Microsoft) , Marina Hayrapetyan (Microsoft)

In today’s hybrid workplace, collaboration is constant—and so are the threats. As organizations rely on Microsoft Teams to connect people, share content, and drive productivity, attackers are increasingly targeting the very tools that make teamwork seamless. From malicious links to weaponized files to impersonation detections, the risks are real—and evolving.

Zero-Trust AI Agents: Secure Microsoft Foundry Workflows

2025-11-19
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David Okeyode (Charis Cloud)

As autonomous AI agents built with Microsoft Foundry take on critical tasks, security is non-negotiable. In this fast demo, we apply zero trust to agent chains: secure tool access with Entra ID, protect secrets and context with Key Vault, enforce real-time content filters, and capture auditable traces. Learn to stop prompt injection, data leaks, and agent hijacking using Azure’s native security controls. Walk away with a battle-tested checklist for hardening agents in Foundry!

Community Theater: Get Started with Copilot Adoption - Tools, Resources and Best Practices from the Microsoft Adoption hub

2025-11-19
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Karuana Gatimu (Microsoft)

Adoption.microsoft.com has the curated resources you need to help you deploy and drive use of Microsoft services including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. Get a quick overview of all our assets that you can download and customize for your organization, including our newly updated Customer Success Kit for Copilot and Agents. Use these tools to help your workforce transform and leverage AI in their daily habits.

Develop intelligent apps with Oracle Database@Azure

2025-11-19
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Kevin Deihl (Oracle) , Andrea Marchesini (Oracle)

Oracle Database@Azure provides the performance and flexibility of using Autonomous AI Database and Exadata Database Service, enabling you to build and deploy powerful Oracle AI Database apps natively in Microsoft Azure. In this session, we’ll discuss how the converged capabilities of Oracle AI Database, including AI Vector Search, combine with Azure AI Services to help accelerate the development of advanced AI-driven applications.

Drive AI adoption at scale with AI advisor agents on Microsoft Azure

2025-11-19
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Daragh Morrissey (Microsoft) , Varun Dubey (Tata Consultancy Services) , Susan Dikramanjian (Manulife)

As frontier firms move from single use case implementations to industry value chains transformation with agentic AI, they need to adopt AI at scale to drive growth, optimize costs and enhance customer experience. This path requires synthesizing enterprise knowledge and designing solutions that leverage responsible AI principles and human plus agent collaboration. Join TCS and Microsoft experts to learn how to bring agentic AI to life through a display of real-world use cases for industries & IT.

Driving Agility and CX Impact: PLDT’s Cloud-Native OSS Transformation

2025-11-19
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Gilbert Gaw (Smart Communications, Inc.) , Mustafa Oyumi (Amdocs)

Discover how PLDT is redefining agility and customer experience through Amdocs’ cloud-native OSS transformation. Learn how streamlined operations, automation, and unified orchestration are driving measurable impact—and why it matters for your business.

Partner: Build Grounded AI Agents with Microsoft Foundry & Onelake

2025-11-19
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Ilias Jennane (Microsoft)

Build standout AI products fast with Microsoft Foundry—LLMs and Agents. Learn patterns to ship apps grounded on enterprise data via OneLake and connected platforms (Fabric, Snowflake, CosmosDB, SQL, etc.). We’ll cover retrieval, tool-use, guardrails, and evaluation—plus a lean dev loop that turns experiments into production while meeting responsible AI standards.

Reimagining a day at the office: AI-Powered workplace experiences

2025-11-19
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Irena Andonova (Microsoft) , Brennan McReynolds (Microsoft)

Step into the future of the workplace with Microsoft’s AI-fueled solutions. Explore how the AI-Powered Workplace can help organizations modernize in-person work using Microsoft Places, Teams Rooms, and Teams Events to coordinate collaboration, modernize spaces with transformative technology, and optimize collaboration at scale. Learn how to get more out of time in the office, and how IT admins can harness workplace signals to gain actionable insights.

Security Copilot in Action: From Alert to Remediation in 25 Minutes

2025-11-19
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Ugur Koc (glueckkanja AG)

Watch Microsoft Security Copilot tackle a live incident end-to-end. In this demo-driven session, we’ll triage alerts, investigate suspicious activity, generate KQL queries, and remediate threats, all with AI assistance. See how Copilot empowers SecOps teams to cut investigation time from hours to minutes and leave with real-world use cases to apply immediately.

The agentic AI scaling paradox: Why more agents don’t mean more value

2025-11-19
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Nikhil Malhotra (Tech Mahindra) , Joseph Gollapalli (Enbridge)

Enterprises are rushing to deploy agentic AI everywhere, but there is a problem: without getting the basics right first, enterprises are set up for failure. This session cuts through the hype to talk about the real challenges leaders face and the decisions they must make. Find solutions to struggles like thinking that because something works in a demo, it'll work in production. Understand the risks of treating security and governance as something to worry about later.

Unlock potential by learning in the flow of work

2025-11-19
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Vishaal Gupta (Pearson PLC)

What if learning experiences lived where work happens, and enterprise tools understood people as well as data? Discover how Pearson is partnering with enterprises to reduce learning barriers and rethink skilling. Learn how organizations are moving from guesswork to precision and explore how verified credentials, ambient assessments, and AI-driven insights embedded in Microsoft 365 and Copilot are transforming how organizations hire, develop, and deploy talent—unlocking billions in productivity.

Accelerate Partner Impact in Every Industry with AI

Accelerate Partner Impact in Every Industry with AI

2025-11-19 Watch
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Kathleen Mitford (Microsoft) , Satish Thomas (Microsoft) , Ihab Foudeh (Microsoft) , Sunil Senan (Infosys LTD) , Colin Fleming (ServiceNow)

Join us for a session on how Microsoft and partners are driving industry innovation with AI. Hear Microsoft’s FY26 Industry Strategy and how engineering enables partners to build and integrate AI agents for faster time-to-value. A panel with Microsoft leaders and partners will share real-world examples of co-innovation, co-sell, and go-to-market success delivering measurable business impact.

Advancing accessible AI-learning experiences

Advancing accessible AI-learning experiences

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Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft) , Jeana Jorgensen (Microsoft)

Learn how Microsoft is advancing accessibility through two key lenses: helping professionals build expertise in accessibility, and designing learning experiences that are accessible to all. We’ll share how our learning platforms support multimodal engagement, integrate accessibility content from partners like Teach Access, and enable virtual coaching/in-person skilling events. Gain insights into how accessibility is being embedded into our skilling strategy, product design, and delivery.

AI Playbook for ROI with Microsoft Foundry

AI Playbook for ROI with Microsoft Foundry

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Rakhee Langer (healow LLC) , Marco Casalaina (Microsoft) , Ian Wells (Microsoft) , Sethu Raman (Microsoft) , Nikhil Kumar (Adobe Inc) , Mike Gozzo (Ada.cx)

Stop guessing, start winning. Get the metrics, case studies, and strategies that prove Microsoft Foundry delivers real business impact. AI success isn’t about how many models you try, it’s about measurable business outcomes. This executive-focused session provides a practical playbook for defining, measuring, and maximizing ROI from Foundry Models. We’ll highlight metrics and proven strategies for scaling adoption across teams while maintaining governance and compliance.

AI powered automation & multi-agent orchestration in Microsoft Foundry

AI powered automation & multi-agent orchestration in Microsoft Foundry

2025-11-19 Watch
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Christof Gebhart (BMW Group) , Tina Manghnani (Microsoft) , Mark Wallace (Microsoft) , Shawn Henry (Microsoft)

Build multi?agent systems the right way with Microsoft Foundry. Go from single?agent prototypes to fleet?level orchestration using the Foundry Agent Framework (Semantic Kernel + AutoGen), shared state, Human in the loop, OpenTel, MCP toolchains, A2A, and the Activity Protocol. Bring frameworks like LangGraph and OpenAI Agents SDK, then deploy as containerized, governed, observable agents on Foundry.

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