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Microsoft Ignite 2025

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

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The Agent Readiness Framework

2025-11-20
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Jack Rowbotham (Microsoft)

Agent readiness is more than a technology conversation—it’s a holistic approach that spans strategy, business process mapping, technology and data foundations, organizational culture, and security and governance. This session will unpack the five pillars of agent readiness and offer practical guidance to help your organization prepare for AI agents at scale. You’ll leave with a framework to assess and accelerate your readiness journey.

Anatomy of an outage and evolving our cultures towards transparency

Anatomy of an outage and evolving our cultures towards transparency

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Rick Claus (Microsoft) , Tajinder pal singh Ahluwalia (Microsoft)

Transparent communication during outages is crucial. This session outlines our evolving approach to incident communication, emphasizing openness and trust with customers. We’ll review recent impactful outages, key principles guiding our strategy, and the evolving best practices we execute across our engineering teams for quality and security. Attendees will gain insights into our handling of real-world incidents and how their own teams can evolve to reduce the impact of outages.

Customized AI that understands your business with Copilot Tuning ​

Customized AI that understands your business with Copilot Tuning ​

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Tanaya Yadav (Microsoft Copilot Tuning) , Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft) , Khushboo Aggarwal (Microsoft) , Kalyan Ayloo (Microsoft)

Transform Microsoft 365 Copilot to talk, think, and work like your organization with Copilot Tuning—no coding or data scientists required. Explore supervised and reinforcement learning, new agent capabilities, built-in security, and more. See how leading enterprises unlock value with proven best practices for fine-tuning—starting with use case selection and extending through data prep, training, and administration.

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Demystify Zero Trust with Intune: cloud-connected, secure, and AI-ready endpoints

Demystify Zero Trust with Intune: cloud-connected, secure, and AI-ready endpoints

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Sangeetha Visweswaran (Microsoft) , Lior Bela (Microsoft)

Managing endpoints in the cloud is a fundamental piece of the Zero Trust puzzle and of delivering the optimal AI experience for business. In this session, we’ll demystify what that means in practice. See how Microsoft Intune brings Zero Trust to life by connecting device and app management, compliance, and threat protection. We’ll show how cloud-native management establishes a stronger security foundation and enables safe, scalable adoption of AI. Strengthen endpoint protection across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android—helping IT teams stay ahead of threats while empowering employees to work productively and securely from anywhere.

Partners: Accelerate Secure Migrations and Innovate in the Era of AI

Partners: Accelerate Secure Migrations and Innovate in the Era of AI

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Jonathan Stock (Microsoft) , Gabriela Perez Arredondo (Microsoft)

Protect what matters most to customers: the cloud, AI platforms, and business-critical applications. Discover how Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides a unified, intelligent solution for safeguarding workloads across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, enabling you to confidently deliver security at the speed of innovation. We'll show you how to position secure migration strategies to customers and use GTM resources and partner incentives to increase engagement.

Safe and scalable DevOps with AI agents on GitHub

Safe and scalable DevOps with AI agents on GitHub

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Luke Hoban (Microsoft) , Chris Patterson (GitHub)

AI agents like GitHub Copilot have transformed how developers build software. In this session, learn how to leverage GitHub’s governance and security capabilities to enable agents at scale. We’ll cover best practices for rolling out agents across your organization, aligning with developer workflows, and maintaining oversight while embracing this new era of software development.

The future of managing Windows features and updates

2025-11-20
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Cassidy Fein (Microsoft) , Nevine Geissa (Microsoft)

We release new Windows features and enhancements year-round. Learn how to stay up-to-date on what’s coming next in security, productivity, and AI. Learn how to preview features on individual devices, virtual machines, or across your organization so you can deploy the latest features and updates faster and with confidence. We'll also explore how you can engage directly with the product teams with related programs like the Customer Connection Program.

Build an open, interoperable data stack for the AI era

2025-11-20
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Matt Marzillo (Snowflake)

AI is only as good as the data it runs on. With data spread across multiple platforms, it’s a challenge to ensure quality and security. As the first Iceberg-based OneLake integration partner, we’re enabling seamless, bidirectional data access between Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric. Join this session to see how the Onelake integration and Snowflake’s robust features for the Microsoft ecosystem unlock endless possibilities, from building better AI to developing powerful business applications.

Community Connection Pod: Enhancing your AI workload resiliency with the Azure Networking stack

2025-11-20
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Sergio Figueiredo (Microsoft) , Mario Lopez (Microsoft)

To meet the growing demand for resilient and high-performance infrastructure for AI workloads, Azure introduces key advancements across its networking stack. The new StandardV2 NAT Gateway delivers zonal resiliency and IPv6 support, now enhanced with flow logs in private preview for deeper traffic visibility. ExpressRoute continues to evolve with metro expansion, general availability of resiliency and scalable gateways, and upcoming support for high-capacity connections up to 1Tbps. Complementing these capabilities, a customer story highlights how DNS traffic is secured and visualized using DNS security policies and threat intelligence on Azure Virtual Networks.

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.

Driving data-driven security decisions with new Microsoft Purview DSPM insights

2025-11-20
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Aashish Ramdas (Microsoft) , Arun Kumar Thiagarajan (AKT) (Microsoft)

Discover new out-of-box Microsoft Purview reports—covering label activities, DLP activities, and usage metrics—and learn how Purview reporting delivers a holistic view of your security posture for smarter, data-driven decisions.

AI agent architectures, pitfalls and real-world business impact

AI agent architectures, pitfalls and real-world business impact

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Naga Surendran (Microsoft) , Luis Héctor Chávez (Replit) , Adam Orentlicher (Wolters Kluwer) , Mark Austin (AT&T)

Enterprise teams are rapidly adopting AI agents to streamline operations and unlock new value. This panel brings together customers and partners to share how they’ve built and scaled AI apps using open frameworks and Azure services. Learn how they’ve tackled real-world production challenges—security, orchestration, reliability—and hear how they overcame blockers to deliver measurable business impact through agentic innovation.

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Enable AI trust through automated classification and labeling

Enable AI trust through automated classification and labeling

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Cliff Embry (Varonis) , Dan Holland (Tampa General Hospital)

Discover how an enterprise organization is decreasing AI risks while threats, data, and agents continue to increase. One essential element to powering secure Copilot use at scale is accurate and automated classification and labeling. Learn how security teams are effortlessly improving data protections for petabytes and hundreds of resources while reducing their workload.

Endpoint security in the AI era: What's new in Defender

Endpoint security in the AI era: What's new in Defender

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Dana Bargury Shina (Microsoft) , Kim Kischel (Microsoft)

Redefining endpoint security from onboarding to autonomous protection: learn how Defender's AI-powered endpoint security empowers you to do more, better, faster.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Enterprise ready Windows productivity tools for Developers and IT Pros

Enterprise ready Windows productivity tools for Developers and IT Pros

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Craig Loewen (Microsoft) , Clint Rutkas (Microsoft)

Windows 11 offers a suite of developer productivity tools designed to accelerate coding workflows and to align with enterprise IT priorities. In this session, you will learn about new experiences coming to WSL, Windows Terminal, and PowerToys boosting productivity. We’ll also cover how these tools are built with security and enterprise-grade manageability in mind—making Windows an enterprise-friendly platform.

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From Risk to Resilience: Secure your AI Agents with Microsoft Defender

From Risk to Resilience: Secure your AI Agents with Microsoft Defender

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Moran Gutman (Microsoft) , Ramya Chitrakar (Microsoft) , Asaf Nakash (Microsoft)

AI agents are reshaping modern workflows, unlocking new efficiencies while introducing new challenges for security and governance. In this deep dive, experience live demos of purpose-built security capabilities from Microsoft Security solutions. Leave equipped with best practices to confidently secure and govern AI agents in your organization.

Partners: Grow Your Modern SecOps Practice with the Unified Platform

Partners: Grow Your Modern SecOps Practice with the Unified Platform

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Scott Woodgate (Microsoft) , Max McWilliams (Microsoft) , Anne Stobaugh (Microsoft)

Step into the future of security operations! Unlock insights and actionable guidance for partners ready to amplify their security practice and grow their revenue streams through the Modern SecOps with Unified Platform solution play. Learn how to capitalize on cutting-edge tools like the new Microsoft Sentinel data lake & Microsoft Sentinel graph to transform threat detection, response, and investigation. Explore GTM resources & incentives to drive impactful customer engagements at every stage.

Converge security for cloud and AI on Azure

2025-11-20
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Spencer Thellmann (Palo Alto Networks) , Narayan Sundar (Palo Alto Networks Inc.)

This session introduces a unified platform converging cloud and AI security built to integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Azure. Move beyond fragmented tools that create friction and slow innovation. We will discuss key use cases and how this platform secures your entire cloud estate and AI lifecycle, plus the first steps to adoption. This session is for strategic IT Decision-Makers, Cloud Architects, and Security Leaders responsible for securing cloud transformation and AI initiatives.

From Reactive to Proactive: AI-Powered Data Security Investigations

2025-11-20
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Christophe Fiessinger (Microsoft) , Ed Wu (Microsoft)

Discover how Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations uses AI-driven deep content analysis to surface key risks fast, so you can act with confidence and protect what matters most.

Partner: Risk to Revenue – 3 Practical SMB Cybersecurity Plays

2025-11-20
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Allison West Hughes (Microsoft) , Michael Di Verdi (Microsoft)

Small and mid-sized businesses face enterprise-grade threats with lean budgets and limited staff. This L100 session shows Microsoft partners how to package, price, and deliver outcome-based security offers customers can adopt fast. We’ll translate Zero Trust into three motions: protect identities, secure devices & data, and detect/respond—anchored in Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Defender for Business, Entra, Intune, and Secure Score.

Strengthen your identity security posture with Conditional Access

2025-11-20
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Mitch Muro (Microsoft) , Jordan Dahl (Microsoft)

Secure your tenant with Conditional Access aligned to Zero Trust. In this hands-on lab, learn safe rollout patterns and use the CA Optimization Agent–Security Copilot in Entra–to scan daily, flag gaps, and remediate with one-click and phased enforcement.

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

From Code to Care: Empowering Healthcare with Agentic AI

From Code to Care: Empowering Healthcare with Agentic AI

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Andrew Soltan (University of Oxford) , Naveen Valluri (Microsoft)

Discover low-code and pro-code tools that help you build agents specialized for healthcare. Streamline workflows, surface timely insights, and advance patient care with agentic AI powered by unified data and built-in security.

Inside Windows Security, from client to cloud

Inside Windows Security, from client to cloud

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Katharine Holdsworth (Microsoft) , Katie Anderson (Microsoft) , Pratik Shah (Microsoft)

The latest innovations across Windows—from client to cloud—are designed to improve your security posture and protect users, devices and data. Join this session to learn about the newest security capabilities across Windows 11 and Windows 365 to protect users and data, including features like password and identity management, protecting against malware, hotpatching, hardware updates and more. We will also discuss how Cloud PC devices like Windows 365 Link are changing the game in Windows endpoints.

Power next-generation AI workloads with NVIDIA Blackwell on Azure

Power next-generation AI workloads with NVIDIA Blackwell on Azure

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Dave Salvator (NVIDIA)

The era of agentic and physical AI is here. The NVIDIA Blackwell architecture delivers groundbreaking advancements for next-gen AI and accelerated computing workloads ranging from reasoning and multimodal inference, to robotics simulation and visual AI agents. Explore how the purpose-built collaboration of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell tackle a range of AI use cases leveraging the security and flexibility of Microsoft Azure cloud - delivering smarter, faster and more efficient AI.

Resolve cases faster in service with agentic CRM

Resolve cases faster in service with agentic CRM

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Sparsha Chennarayapatna Sundaresh (Microsoft) , Lidia Daldoss (VISA) , Alan Ross (Microsoft)

Learn what’s new in agentic service and how organizations are evolving toward frontier service models with Dynamics 365. See how collapsing legacy systems and unifying platforms enables more autonomous operations—improving CSAT, lowering costs, and strengthening security and compliance. Explore new opportunities and use cases that span customer service and IT help desk, powered by AI, extensibility, and secure, integrated data.

Secure, compliant, and fast with GitHub

Secure, compliant, and fast with GitHub

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Collin McNeese (Microsoft / GitHub) , April Yoho (GitHub (@Scubaninja))

Balancing security and developer productivity is no longer optional—it’s essential. This session dives into how enterprise platform teams are using GitHub’s governance features to streamline onboarding, enforce consistent policies, and support cross-functional collaboration at scale. Discover how to unlock developer velocity while maintaining control and compliance across thousands of repositories and users.