Azure brings unified management to on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Learn how Azure Arc delivers consistent governance, security, and operations across Azure, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments—while enabling System Center customers to adopt a cloud-native management experience. Whether modernizing Windows/Linux or building cloud-native apps, equip yourself with tools and agents to bridge datacenter and cloud.

Financial services firms are increasingly building agents with Microsoft technologies, solving the hardest and most important challenges today. Learn how you can use CoPilot Studio to not only build intelligent, agentic solutions that transform customer engagement for financial services industry, but also help you shrink time to market.

Learn how leading enterprises have transformed legacy systems into agile, cloud- and AI-ready solutions—at scale. Through real customer stories and proven best practices, you’ll discover the latest Azure App, Data, and AI innovations that fuel app modernization and deliver measurable business impact. Walk away with practical tips, inspired by real-world results, that you can start applying from day one.

Governance and security are key to a successful implementation. This session shows how organizations manage agents, flows, apps, data access, and compliance using Microsoft tools. Discover how to enforce policies, monitor activity, and reduce risk. Leave with confidence to empower makers to build low-code solutions while knowing how to govern them and their creators at scale.

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Most partners treat Microsoft Copilot and AI agents like shiny toys. The smart ones treat them like a customer-acquisition machine. In this session, we’ll rip open the playbook that shows MSPs and ISVs how to turn Copilot, AI apps, and agentic business applications into repeatable GTM systems that attract, convert, and retain 1,000 customers with real OPULIS strategies, the 4P colaunch model, campaign ideas, packaging tactics, proof, and a rinse-and-repeat formula

Agents need context. How should we connect data to our agents for optimal context? In this session we will introduce Foundry IQ, the knowledge layer for agents, and the latest developments from Azure AI Search and Microsoft Foundry. Learn about multi-source RAG orchestration, retrieval steering, dynamic security controls and agentic RAG.

Agentic AI is redefining how enterprises operate—automating complex workflows and unlocking value across business functions. In this session, explore how NVIDIA and Azure are accelerating the development, deployment, and orchestration of agentic AI applications at scale. Learn how NVIDIA’s key offerings such as NVIDIA Nemotron models, NVIDIA NIM, and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit on Azure AI platform equip organizations to boost innovation and fully realize the promise of agentic AI.

Your identities are under attack. Join experts from Microsoft Entra and Defender to learn how you can streamline collaboration across teams and better protect, detect, and respond to threats targeting your identity fabric.

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The rise of AI agents marks a turning point in how organizations operate. These agents don’t just work individually to automate tasks —they collaborate, orchestrate processes, and adapt dynamically to business needs. Preparing for that agentic future means rethinking roles, processes, and the very architecture of your business. Enterprise-grade platforms will be critical to this functional transformation, providing the security, compliance, and scalability needed to deploy agents responsibly and at scale. Join us to discover what this shift means for your organization and how to start preparing today.

As LLMs grow, efficient inference requires multi-node execution—introducing challenges in orchestration, scheduling, and low-latency GPU-to-GPU data transfers. Hardware like the GB200 NVL72 delivers massive scale-up compute, but truly scalable inference also depends on advanced software. Explore how open-source frameworks like NVIDIA Dynamo, combined with Azure’s AKS managed Kubernetes service, unlock new levels of performance and cost-efficiency.

Get 2X performance and 5X database capacity with Azure SQL Managed Instance. The new next-gen General Purpose tier sets a new standard of value for fully managed SQL solutions. Get started quickly with AI-assisted tooling that can complete an end-to-end migration in days. See this come to life with insurance services organization, Hexure who rebuilt their platform with Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure App Service and delivered a better CX in one highly performant, scalable and efficient platform.

Discover how Fabric IQ transforms your data into a live, semantic model of your business. Learn how teams and AI agents can collaborate from a shared understanding of entities, relationships, and rules -- enabling real-time insights, smarter decisions, and autonomous operations. See how Fabric IQ works seamlessly within Microsoft Fabric to power the next generation of intelligent enterprise.

Ready to manage every agent, everywhere? Don't fly blind, get total visibility into your agent fleet. Foundry Control plane and Observability gives you the dashboards, diagnostics, and optimization tools to run AI with confidence. If you care about uptime and impact, this Foundry session is for you.

Learn about the resources and benefits available for software development companies across all stages of the build, publish and grow journey in MAICPP. Whether you’re developing a new agent solution or working toward a certified software designation, there are targeted skilling opportunities, technical resources, and GTM benefits to help. Tap into new investments for AI apps and agents and hear from your peers on how they’ve used rewards such as customer propensity scores and Azure sponsorship

AI deepfakes are enabling fraud now, not in the future. Jeremy Nelson shares real cases, including a $25M scam from a fake video call, showing how threat actors bypass identity checks. Learn how Verified ID secures support desk interactions and get practical steps to protect your organization from AI-driven impersonation attacks.

Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat makes Copilot the AI built for work. Join this session to learn about how we’ve enhanced core chat value for all with GPT-5, experience improvements, and new ways to access chat in your favorite apps. Additionally, we’ll cover how Copilot Chat transforms your day when combined with your work context and agents through new chat-first workflows, interaction modes, and ways to create files right from chat.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Some SOCs need allies. Our experts detect, halt, and manage threats for you. Add proactive IR to prevent attacks before they start. Hear how we can bolster your SOC - see real-world outcomes, demos, and gain insights from people on the front lines.

Accessibility is more than compliance—it’s a catalyst for workforce empowerment and business growth. Learn how enterprise-wide accessibility strategies can boost productivity, improve talent retention, and expand market reach. Backed by Forrester research, this session explores how inclusive design and built-in assistive technologies are transforming the modern workplace.

In this hands-on lab, you'll build an advanced agent inspired by AgentWise, our internal learning assistant designed to help developers understand types of ways for building agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Using Copilot Studio, you’ll architect a multi-layered agent that adapts to user goals, personalizes guidance based on persona, and makes intelligent decisions using structured flows and real-time data. Along the way, you’ll learn how to combine retrieval and dynamic logic to go beyond Q&A.

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Deploy AVS and manage VMware vSphere environment as an Azure resources (B) Connect AVS private cloud secretly with Internet (C) Migrate VMs from on-premises to AVS using VMware HCX technology (D) Expand AVS private cloud storage with Azure NetApp Files or Azure Elastic SAN; scaling storage independently from compute (E) Manage AVS workloads VMs using Azure interfaces by Arc-enabling AVS private cloud and its VMs (F) Modernization workloads with Azure Services like Azure SQL Managed Instances and AI capabilities.

Note: this session will use demo environments instead of live environments due to complexity and time.

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Join us for a hands-on workshop showcasing the latest Azure SQL innovations to supercharge your applications. Learn how to harness generative AI alongside Azure SQL Database to elevate your data strategies with AI concepts like language models, prompt engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and streamline with Microsoft Copilot. Whether you're a developer, architect, or IT professional, this workshop is your ticket to mastering SQL and AI to stay ahead in the data-driven landscape.

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In this lab you'll help a coffee shop unify their operational and analytical workloads with Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric. You'll blend operational data with curated sources using cross-database SQL, stream and visualize real-time POS events, and create a gold layer for personalization. Finally, you'll implement reverse ETL to Cosmos for lightning-fast serving and train a lightweight Spark notebook model to deliver the right offer at the right time before your customer’s order is ready.

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Learn how agentic AI transforms operations into intelligent, adaptive systems. Learn about real-world industrial use cases, immersive C-level simulations, and a practical roadmap to AI-native enterprise success—powered by Microsoft’s secure and scalable AI capabilities.

Discover how to build a cost-efficient log management solution using Microsoft Sentinel and Azure Data Lake. In this session, we’ll walk through a real-world example that demonstrates how to optimize data ingestion, storage, and retention without compromising visibility or compliance. Learn practical strategies to reduce costs while maintaining a scalable and secure logging architecture.

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 Microsoft experts in discussing hybrid AI across cloud and edge. We’ll trade real world patterns for Surface and Copilot+ PCs, unpack NPU accelerated workflows, and explore how Microsoft Foundry on Windows supports model and dev ops, privacy, and performance. Expect candid Q&A in depth and practical next steps—real talk with people driving business transformation!

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.