Copilot Studio offers two ways to build AI agents: a lite experience (integrated into the Microsoft 365 Copilot app) and a full experience (a standalone Copilot Studio application). Both experiences enable you to create powerful agents, but they serve different needs.

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Join community leaders in the data platform to learn all about how you can stay connected to the community, continue to learn build your network, and benefit your career long after the conference is done.

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Join this interactive roundtable to explore how Microsoft Commerce Incentives (MCI) can be a powerful lever for partner profitability. We’ll discuss real-world strategies, common challenges, and how to align your business model to maximize returns. Whether you're optimizing for today or planning for tomorrow, this session is all about turning incentives into impact.

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Join this interactive roundtable discussion on the challenges and solutions of data ingestion in Microsoft Sentinel. We’ll dive into real-world scenarios, explore practical solutions, and share best practices to help optimize data onboarding, management and reduce cost.

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Allyship isn’t a buzzword—it’s a commitment to creating workplaces where everyone can thrive. Join this interactive Community Forum to explore what authentic allyship looks like and why it matters. We’ll share real-world scenarios, practical strategies, and personal stories that highlight how allies can advocate, amplify, and act. Whether you identify as an ally or want to engage allies in your journey, you’ll leave with actionable steps to foster inclusion, challenge bias, and build a culture of equity in tech.

Join this hands-on lab to design and deploy a modern, cloud-native analytics and AI solution using Azure Databricks, Microsoft Foundry, and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Work with the Zava-Litware scenario to perform data ingestion, orchestration with Lakeflow, AI-driven insights via Genie, mirrored catalog in Microsoft Fabric, Copilot Studio low-code automation, and advanced reporting in Power BI. Build a scalable, cost-efficient solution showcasing AI-powered analytics for business transformation.

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In this hands-on lab, you’ll build a Knowledge Base using agentic RAG, the next evolution of retrieval in Azure AI Search. Connect your agentic retrieval engine to your data through smart source selection across multiple indexes and storage systems. Learn how to enhance planning using natural language guidance and generate grounded responses with citations or extractive answers tailored to your use case. By the end, you’ll have a fully functional Knowledge Base that responds over enterprise data.

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In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to build domain-specific AI agents with Foundry Agent Service. Starting from a simple agent, you’ll add system prompts, custom instructions, and knowledge with RAG. You’ll extend it with tool calling (like a pizza calculator) and connect external services via MCP for live menu and order handling. By the end, you’ll have a working Contoso PizzaBot that can answer questions, recommend pizzas, and manage orders.

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This hands-on lab with Microsoft Copilot Studio guides you through the full agent lifecycle—from purpose-driven design to advanced capabilities. Learn how to build, integrate, automate, and deploy a fully functional agent using tools like Agent Flows and MCP. Walk away with practical skills to customize agents for real-world business needs.

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Learn to build, containerize, deploy, and extend interactive 3D digital twin applications using NVIDIA Omniverse Kit App Streaming. This hands-on course walks you through creating a streaming-ready Kit app, deploying it for web clients, and enabling real-time, bi-directional data interaction—empowering scalable, remote visualization and collaboration across digital twin workflows.

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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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Discover how AI is transforming cloud operations in Azure. In this lab, you’ll use AI to investigate anomalies, correlate telemetry, and strengthen your monitoring posture. With Copilot's new agentic capabilities for optimization, you’ll identify and validate cost and carbon savings opportunities while advancing FinOps and sustainability practices. Together, these capabilities help you align workload health, streamline operations, and deliver lasting efficiency and sustainability.

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This hands-on lab guides you through how developers and partners can build solutions, agents and extensibility features that can be delivered through Dragon Copilot, leveraging Microsoft’s scale to expand reach and engagement.

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In this hands-on lab, makers will learn how to create intelligent agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot using topics, MCP Tools, and autonomous behaviors. Attendees will explore agent fundamentals, build custom workflows, and gain practical experience with Copilot Studio’s capabilities to streamline real-world tasks, boosting efficiency across Microsoft 365.

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As threats grow more complex, teams need improved visibility and context to defend threats faster. In this lab, we’ll explore how Microsoft Purview and Defender XDR integrate to help organizations investigate security incidents through a single pane.

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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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Go from zero to hero in this hands-on lab exploring Windows 365 Frontline. Learn to create and configure Dedicated, Shared, and Cloud Apps environments. Understand when to use each model for shift workers, task-based roles, or app-only access. Walk through provisioning, Entra ID, Intune, and Conditional Access. Experience the user journey and leave ready to optimize for performance, cost, and compliance.

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The future of work is here. See how Windows combines security, adaptability, cloud, and AI to empower organizations and people to create, decide, and grow.

Discover how Microsoft is transforming nursing workflows and what it takes for organizations to successfully adopt AI solutions. It’s more than flipping a switch, it’s a purposeful evolution that demands thoughtful planning and change management.

As AI workloads grow, infrastructure must keep pace. This session covers Azure’s silicon-to-systems optimization, hardware-software codesign, and datacenter advances in cooling, power, network, and security. Learn about Azure’s latest AI infrastructure powered by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchips and Quantum-2 InfiniBand, including ND GB200/GB300 VMs with exascale performance and 860K+ tokens/sec on LLAMA 70B. We’ll also cover NC H100 and NC RTX Blackwell VMs for enterprise inferencing.

In today’s dynamic market, Azure partners are at the forefront of business transformation. Join Microsoft leaders as they explore how partners can accelerate growth through Azure product innovation and strategic investments. Learn how Microsoft’s latest offers and solution plays empower partners to unlock new opportunities, drive transformation across industries, and deliver differentiated customer value.

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In this session you will learn how to use data to identify and act on untapped opportunities such as funding, cross-sell/up-sell, internal usage, and more. These hacks can help unlock hidden revenue opportunities and build a roadmap to maximize profitability. By the end of this session you will understand how Partner Command Center helps you take command of your Microsoft Partnership.

Connecting Innovation to Execution Through Integrated Lifecycle Management in the Cloud.

Step into a new era of secure, AI-powered productivity with Edge for Business. Streamline workflows and boost productivity with AI that transforms the browser into a proactive, context-aware partner—through innovations like Copilot Mode and multi-tab reasoning. And while you seek AI transformation, you can't relax security. Edge for Business is the leading secure enterprise browser, delivering both AI productivity and enterprise-grade security—no trade-offs required.

The emergence of Agentic AI is not just another technology trend; it's a fundamental shift in how businesses will operate and compete. This session is for the leaders, the strategists, and the innovators who need to prepare their organizations for what's next. We'll explore the strategic implications of a world where every employee has a team of AI agents, and business process is orchestrated by a network of intelligent systems built on Kore.ai's platform and Microsoft's trusted cloud.