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Microsoft Ignite 2025

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

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How partners can monetize AI apps and agents through Marketplace

2025-11-18
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Olivia Nix (Microsoft)

Get guidance on how to monetize your AI apps and agents by listing them in Microsoft Marketplace. This session shares strategies to get your solution discovered by global buyers 24/7, integrated into Microsoft products like Copilot and Microsoft Foundry, and distributed through Microsoft’s powerful channel ecosystem—making adoption easier to accelerate growth.

Hybrid AI: Unlocking latency, privacy & cost benefits with Copilot+ PC

2025-11-18
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Isabell Sheang (Microsoft) , Ryan Spurr (Connection Helix) , Dave Meaney (Computacenter)

The future of AI is hybrid - running inference on a PC and in the cloud. Discover applications and vertical use cases that leverage local AI through Microsoft Foundry on Windows while running on Copilot+ PC, for improved latency, data privacy, and cost

Innovation Session: Introducing Microsoft Agent 365: the Control Plane for AI Agents

Innovation Session: Introducing Microsoft Agent 365: the Control Plane for AI Agents

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Neta Haiby (Microsoft) , Mark Luquire (EY) , Tao Zhang (Manus) , Nirav Shah (Microsoft) , Monica Ugwi (Microsoft)

Discover how to hire, onboard, and train AI-powered digital labor that acts with autonomy, adapts to evolving business needs, and operates securely across environments. This session explores how intuitive tools and built-in controls enable you to manage these agents like real team members—scaling productivity while maintaining oversight and trust.

Interactive Session: From simulation to reality: End-to-end robotics development

2025-11-18
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Edith Llontop (NVIDIA)

Effective physical AI allows for safe collaboration with people and technology that powers reasoning and action in real time, moving beyond scripts to make on‑the‑fly decisions like moving materials and assembling parts. Understand end‑to‑end workflows with NVIDIA Isaac and Omniverse: data collection, curation, digital twins, training at scale, high‑fidelity simulation, and deployment. You'll experience proven toolchains and OpenUSD examples to accelerate smarter, more adaptable AI for robotics.

Microsoft Fabric: The data platform for the next AI frontier

Microsoft Fabric: The data platform for the next AI frontier

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Amir Netz (Microsoft)

As AI adoption accelerates, organizations are transforming their data platforms to keep pace. Without a unified, enterprise-ready foundation, even the most ambitious AI strategies can stall. Join Amir Netz, Technical Fellow and CTO of Microsoft Fabric, as he shares the latest data and analytics announcements, developments and demos for Fabric.

Partner acceleration in the Americas for Small and Medium Enterprise

Partner acceleration in the Americas for Small and Medium Enterprise

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Brian Matthews (CDW Canada) , Sanju Nair (Microsoft) , Pablo Rodriguez Leis (TD SYNNEX LATAM) , Jose Gomez Cueto (Microsoft) , Federico Charosky (Quorum Cyber) , Erwin Visser (Microsoft) , Harpreet Girn (Microsoft) , Alistair Butler (Microsoft)

Discover how Microsoft’s Americas leadership is empowering partners to drive transformation with Small and Medium Enterprise. ​Learn how to align with FY26 priorities. This session will spotlight key initiatives, partner recognition, and actionable next steps to deepen engagement and fuel growth.

Prompt Crafting 101: Get Better Results with Copilot

2025-11-18
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Shari L. Oswald | MVP, MCT (PowerUP!Learning)

Great ideas in, great results out! The secret to unlocking Copilot’s full potential starts with how you ask. In this session, we’ll break down the anatomy of a powerful prompt and show you how small tweaks can deliver dramatically better results. Through live demos in Word, Outlook, and Teams, you’ll see real-world examples and walk away with ready-to-use patterns for your own work. If you’re new to Copilot and want to avoid the “meh” outputs and go straight to “wow,” this session is a must!

Recipe for success: How Kraft Heinz optimizes manufacturing with AI

Recipe for success: How Kraft Heinz optimizes manufacturing with AI

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Oliver Ganschar (The KraftHeinz Company) , Pat Nestor (Kraft Heinz) , Alkesh Ladva (Microsoft)

Explore the digital transformation and AI-enablement driving manufacturing optimization at Kraft Heinz. Discover how our digital core and Digital Twin provide real-time recommendations to plant operators powered by Azure Arc and Microsoft Foundry. This customer-led session offers actionable insights for scaling AI across industrial environments, envisioning an autonomous future of manufacturing, and advancing toward a self-driven supply chain.

Secure access for AI agents with Microsoft Entra

Secure access for AI agents with Microsoft Entra

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Alex Simons (Microsoft) , Sharon Chahal (Microsoft) , Ehud Itshaki (Microsoft)

Learn to discover, manage, govern, and protect agent identities and access to resources – just as you do for human identities—with enterprise-grade secure access for agents in Microsoft Entra.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

SI & Advisory Partner Readiness: Accelerating the Journey to Frontier

SI & Advisory Partner Readiness: Accelerating the Journey to Frontier

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Stephen Boyle (Microsoft) , Justin Slade (Microsoft) , Maisa Penha (Microsoft)

Our global systems integrators and advisory partners are vanguards on the path to break though innovation - and they are transforming their businesses with Microsoft! Learn how Microsoft is empowering our SI and advisory partners to accelerate frontier firm readiness for our Enterprise customers by driving AI transformation with agentic solutions and services.

Solve real MSP challenges with real agentic AI

Solve real MSP challenges with real agentic AI

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Brianna Berry (TD SYNNEX) , Jan Jofra (TD SYNNEX)

Forget chatbots. Think intelligence. This breakout session reveals how TD SYNNEX is delivering real agentic AI that solves real MSP challenges—from service management and security to billing and automation. Discover how partners are deploying AI agents in help desks, supply chain, retail, and process integration, backed by proprietary market research. Learn how to monetize AI—from tools like Copilot Chat to full agentic AI revenue streams—powered by StreamOne® and Destination AI™ enablement.

SQL Server 2025: The AI-ready enterprise database

SQL Server 2025: The AI-ready enterprise database

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Sirjad Parakkat (Ivanti) , Abhinav Tiwari (Ivanti) , Bob Ward (Microsoft)

SQL Server 2025 redefines what's possible for the enterprise data platform. With developer-first features and seamless integration with analytics and AI models, SQL Server 2025 accelerates AI innovation using the data you already own. Build modern apps with native JSON and REST APIs and harness AI with built-in vector search. Increase application availability with optimized locking and use Fabric mirroring for near real-time analytics. Join us to see why this is the most advanced SQL Server.

Stop lateral movement with ringfencing

2025-11-18
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Danny Jenkins (ThreatLocker, Inc)

Join a former ethical hacker for this review of both common and surprising methods hackers use to explore environments once breached. You gain insight into their tactics and methods of control to minimize lateral movement, halting exfiltration of your valuable data.

Train, host and infer reasoning models on Microsoft Foundry

Train, host and infer reasoning models on Microsoft Foundry

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Vijay Aski (Microsoft) , Ankit Parag Shah (Accenture) , Vijay Aski , Wei Wei (Accenture) , Chris Lauren (Microsoft)

Step through training and deploying a custom reasoning model with Azure ML and Microsoft Foundry. See the magic happen in real time and learn how to bring it to your own projects with Foundry.

Transform business workflows with Microsoft Copilot and agents

2025-11-18
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Craig McQueen (Softchoice) , Joe Berger (WWT)

Explore how Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and AI Agents are revolutionizing business workflows. Drawing on real-world enablement programs and customer cases, this session reveals strategies for scaling AI adoption, selecting impactful scenarios, operationalizing agents, and empowering IT leaders to drive sustainable transformation and value across organizations.

Use Azure Migrate for AI assisted insights and cloud transformation

Use Azure Migrate for AI assisted insights and cloud transformation

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Vishal Jain (Microsoft) , Anant Raigaga (Itron Inc) , Shashank Bansal (Microsoft)

Discover how you can make the most of your IT estate migrations and modernizations with the newest AI capabilities. This session guides IT teams through assessing current environments, setting goals, and creating a business case with Azure Migrate for all of your workload types like Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET, Linux, PostgreSQL, Java, and more. We’ll explore tools to inventory workloads, map dependencies, and create actionable migration roadmaps.

Community Theater: AI MVP Panel – Unblocking Customer Innovation

2025-11-18
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Marco Casalaina (Microsoft) , Martina Grom (atwork) , Prashant G Bhoyar (Applied Information Sciences, Inc) , Dux Raymond Sy (AvePoint)

Join Marco Casalaina as he moderates a technical panel with AI MVPs who share how they help customers overcome real-world challenges. Learn how MVPs use Microsoft Foundry and agentic AI to deliver solutions and provide critical feedback to product teams. Expect practical insights and examples of how MVPs accelerate innovation and unblock customer success.

Accelerate business securely with AI and data intelligence

2025-11-18
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Shane Coleman (Cyera)

Data is what powers AI, but AI is only as secure as your data. As businesses leverage AI at unprecedented speed, building a data protection backbone to deploy AI with confidence remains critical to success. Learn how Cyera and Microsoft are helping CISOs leverage AI and data intelligence to: Unify governance in multi-cloud, decentralized environments Stay compliant & future-proof with secure AI adoption for tools like Copilot Strengthen data protection across Azure, M365, OneDrive, & SharePoint

Hybrid workload compliance from policy to practice on Azure

2025-11-18
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Pal Lakatos-Toth (Microsoft)

Security standards often live in policy documents but aren’t consistently enforced. Learn how Azure Policy and Machine Configuration let you deploy built-in CIS benchmark templates for Linux and Windows, customize them to your needs, and apply them across Azure and hybrid / multi-cloud servers (via Azure Arc). We’ll also show how to integrate these policies into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) for continuous compliance checks, turning written guidelines into real-world security posture.

Innovate on Azure with Intel Xeon 6 to drive scale, security and speed

2025-11-18
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Radhika Rao (Intel Corporation) , Elyse Ge Hylander (Microsoft)

Discover how Microsoft Azure and Intel are redefining cloud infrastructure with the launch of Azure’s virtual machines on powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 processors. This session explores the architectural innovations behind Intel Xeon 6—including performance and efficiency cores, built-in AI acceleration, and enhanced memory and network capabilities—and how they enable scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud services on Azure.

Make backups an assets activating Azure data for AI and analytics

2025-11-18
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Liore Shai (Eon)

The explosive growth of cloud data—and its importance for analytics and AI—demands a new approach to protection and access. Traditional backup tools weren’t built to handle hyperscale workloads, such as Azure Blob Storage and Cosmos DB, resulting in costly silos. Discover how a cloud-native platform delivers hyperscale protection, automates operations, reduces TCO, and turns backups into a live, queryable data lake for analytics in Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure OpenAI.

Manage agents like a pro with Foundry Control Plane

2025-11-18
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Mohammad Abuomar (Microsoft CoreAI Responsible AI) , Peter Simones (Microsoft)

Tour the Foundry Control Plane, the unified management hub that connects Entra Agent ID, guardrails, observability, and runtime security, and see how easy it is to register, monitor, and govern agents. Get hands-on tips for scaling with confidence using Microsoft Foundry.

Modernize Microsoft 365 and Entra ID migrations without downtime

2025-11-18
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Conrad Murray (PowerSyncPro) , Eric Franklin (BitTitan)

Migrations are often complex, spanning tenant consolidations, M&A, and hybrid-to-cloud transitions. In this session, learn practical methods to reprovision M365 apps, move devices from Hybrid AD or Workgroup to Entra ID, and maintain user profiles without Fresh Start. BitTitan & PowerSyncPro will walk through techniques for minimizing disruption, preserving apps & settings, and streamlining cross-tenant moves, ensuring users stay productive while IT teams manage large-scale change efficiently.

Modernizing apps for Kubernetes new agents in GitHub Copilot

2025-11-18
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Brian Redmond (Microsoft) , Michael YenChi Ho (Microsoft)

See how GitHub Copilot streamlines app modernization for .NET and Java—using AI to assist upgrades, then containerize and deploy to AKS Automatic with ease. Accelerate development and reduce complexity with intelligent guidance.

Reshaping digital operations with AI from cloud and edge

2025-11-18
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Anthony Girolamo (Microsoft) , Gurleen Kaloty (Microsoft)

Join us to learn how to digitize your operations and scale AI workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will learn how to secure and scale your IoT operations data and use Microsoft Fabric as your single data platform to reduce downtime, improve asset tracking, and address operational simulation scenarios.