Meet & Greet with the Cloud Management & Operations Platform Team. Bring your questions and feedback.

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Power Platform Community empowers makers, developers, and business users to innovate with low-code tools, Copilot Studio, and AI agents. This session explores global collaboration, peer learning, and agent-building strategies that drive impact across Microsoft 365 and beyond.

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Get a step-by-step walkthrough for Microsoft Defender XDR and learn how to implement key capabilities. Learn how to assign preset security policies for Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Protect your endpoints using Microsoft Defender Endpoint by onboarding devices and configuring roles and device groups. Lastly, dive into the advanced attack mitigation features for your devices using Defender for Endpoint to effectively investigate alerts and incidents.

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Join us to learn how AI can transform your IT operations. Discover how to leverage AI to predict and prevent issues, automate remediation, and build a self-managing IT environment. Ensure business continuity and boost efficiency by making your IT infrastructure resilient, intelligent, and proactive.

Gain the skills to govern identities at scale with Microsoft Entra. Get hands-on experience automating provisioning, streamlining access, enforcing governance policies, and configuring Face Check for identity validation to reduce risk and ensure compliance.

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Reimagine customer support with Foundry Agent Service. Learn how agent-based AI transforms support by triaging, resolving, and preventing issues—empowering human agents to focus on high-value interactions. See real-world use cases, best practices, and live demos to securely integrate AI for faster resolutions and deeper insights. Ideal for enterprise leaders scaling AI in support.

Explore insider risk management and adaptive protection with Microsoft Purview. In this lab you will learn how to configure policies to detect and respond to internal threats and apply dynamic protection based on user risk levels.

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Explore how to monitor and observe multi-agent systems in production using observability tools from Azure Monitor, integrated with Microsoft Foundry. Trace multi-agent pipelines, apply OpenTelemetry standards, and instrument business telemetry with dashboards. You’ll walk away with effective best practices to debug evaluation results and monitoring insights to secure and scale your AI agents.

Build confidence in managing AKS at scale with next‑gen ops tools. In this hands‑on lab, you’ll simulate a production service hit by traffic spikes, discover how AI‑driven alerts surface hidden bottlenecks, and deploy agents that self‑heal nodes. Using open‑source tools and the aks‑mcp server, you can automate cluster scaling, patch management, and real‑time troubleshooting—letting the AI orchestrate Kubernetes and Azure resources with natural‑language commands and pre‑built MCP integrations.

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“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:​ Dell: Stephen O'Leary & Rohit Tatachar​ LIFT: Jeremy Chapman and Shilpi Sinha​ NTT DATA: Aishwarya Singh & Brandon Lee​ What’s new in Azure innovations?: Mark Russinovich​ Lenovo: Dave Mooney​ Microsoft Marketplace: Cyril Belikoff​ Capgemini: Clemens Reijnen & James McMahon

Education is entering a new era where agents and AI are not just tools, but trusted collaborators. In this session, we’ll explore how Microsoft is pioneering agent innovation in the education space—bringing intelligence into everyday workflows for educators, staff and students. Learn how AI-powered agents can simplify classroom tasks, surface actionable insights, and connect seamlessly with learning systems. We’ll highlight real-world use cases, early innovations, and what’s ahead on the roadmap. Whether you’re in K-12, higher education, or edtech, you’ll walk away with a clear vision of how agent-driven AI can transform learning and teaching.

Hands-on lab applies Microsoft’s Zero Trust principles across data, network, infrastructure, and security ops. Using the ZT Assessment, participants evaluate posture, find gaps, and build a roadmap with actionable insights.

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Unlock the potential of accelerated AI workflows in this hands-on workshop, where participants will learn how to rapidly deploy and integrate NVIDIA’s Nemotron NIM models using Microsoft Foundry’s powerful cloud-native tools. Through guided exercises, you’ll explore model provisioning, configuration, and optimization techniques that streamline AI deployment from prototype to production. Ideal for developers, data scientists, and AI engineers looking to leverage high-performance models in scalable cloud environments.

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Dive deep into the power of GitHub Copilot within VS Code. This hands-on lab will guide you through maximizing GitHub Copilot's potential for your daily coding tasks. Get firsthand experience at how Copilot can transform your workflow with agent mode, boost productivity without sacrificing code quality, model selection strategies and which models to leverage for your specific scenarios. Perfect for those looking to master GitHub Copilot in VS Code and drive impactful results within their teams.

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Mark Austin (AT&T) and John Maio (CSX) share how they are using data and AI to drive customer experience transformation and operational efficiency at scale. From AT&T’s enterprise-wide GenAI platform and data democratization to CSX’s modernization of its data estate and real-time analytics, this session, enabled by Infosys and Microsoft, explores how purposeful AI adoption turns complex operations into intelligent, adaptive enterprises..

On-device assistants are evolving from reactive helpers to proactive, self-reasoning agents, seamlessly integrating across devices and cloud platforms. To enable this shift, Intel AI Assistant Builder (Superbuilder) released v.2.0 at IFA 2025, as a reference design for multi-agent orchestration using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Experience how this framework supports seamless import/export of agents and servers, enabling flexible orchestration and hybrid AI (local + cloud).

Learn to deploy Windows 365 Cloud PCs using a secure, scalable model. In this hands-on lab, set up provisioning policies, integrate with Microsoft Entra, apply Zero Trust networking, and configure Conditional Access. Experience the full user journey and admin setup. Monitor and manage with ease. Leave with a blueprint to deploy, secure, and scale Cloud PCs efficiently.

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Take a motivational tour through the healthcare AI sample repository and set yourself up for success with multimodal AI for Health & Life Sciences. Dive into notebooks and sample solutions for problems like image search, cancer grading based on radiology and pathology images, outlier detection, and exam parameter classification. Deploy a model, plug it into an agentic flow, and evaluate it with human feedback. A hands-on journey from setup to deployment and refinement.

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Passionate about sharing knowledge and making an impact in your community? Learn what it takes to become a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from those who’ve done it. Gain additional perspective from those who review the nominations: the Product Group Leads and MVP Program staff. Discover how to expand your influence, showcase your expertise, and glean practical tips for getting nominated. Walk away with a roadmap for growing your contributions and positioning yourself for MVP success.

Experience the future of workforce development with AI Skills Navigator — our AI-powered skilling experience that helps learners everywhere build future-ready skills and organizations of all sizes accelerate industry transformation. Join us to see how AI Skills Navigator is redefining enterprise learning—making skilling more accessible, engaging, and impactful than ever.

Discover how Dynamo AI, a fast-growing AI security startup in financial services and government, uses Azure AI to confidently deploy generative AI at scale. Attendees will learn how Dynamo’s auditable guardrails, hallucination checks, and observability keep applications reliable and compliant, while gaining insights on building and deploying responsible AI solutions that balance innovation, trust, and speed.

Hear how Canadian Tire Corporation, one of Canada’s most iconic retailers, is modernizing its digital strategy through a hybrid cloud approach with Microsoft and Equinix. Discover how scalable, interconnected infrastructure accelerates Azure VMware Solution (AVS) migration, supports hybrid cloud workloads, and builds a resilient, future-ready network.

Digital friction hinders workforce potential. In this session, TeamViewer demonstrates how real-time data, automation, and AI can eliminate friction at scale. You'll see how TeamViewer ONE turns remote support data into actionable insights, automatically deploying fixes to keep systems running smoothly. Learn how AI empowers IT to shift from reactive to proactive, and explore the future of agentic AI. Join us for a demo and discover how to enhance the digital employee experience.

Inventory Ops Agent, seamlessly integrated with Teams and Copilot, provides daily briefs, root cause analysis of insights, and Q&A to enhance planning activities. Planners can seamlessly switch between modes and gain intelligent insights without losing context. Start your day in any mode without worrying about transferring data or analysis—the solution manages the entire user journey!

Join us for a fast-paced, live theater session showcasing how IT admins can confidently manage agents and control costs using Copilot Control System (CCS). You’ll see how CCS empowers organizations to govern agent inventories, create billing policies, and gain visibility and control over usage and cost. Whether you're scaling agents across departments or fine-tuning consumption at the department level, this session will demonstrate how CCS brings clarity and control to your AI operations.