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Microsoft Ignite 2025

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

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Innovating Surface: Designing for product excellence​

Innovating Surface: Designing for product excellence​

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Robyn McLaughlin (Microsoft) , Carlos Carrasco (Microsoft)

Ever wanted to tour the Surface labs in Redmond? We’re bringing highlights of the tour to Ignite! Discover how Microsoft’s engineering excellence and human-centered design deliver innovative devices that drive productivity, inclusivity, and secure AI-powered experiences. See how our commitment to quality and accessibility transforms technology for every user—straight from the engineers behind the innovation.

Innovation Session: Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databases - the data estate for AI

Innovation Session: Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databases - the data estate for AI

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Arun Ulag (Microsoft) , Michel Porter (EY)

In today’s AI-driven economy, data isn’t just an asset, it’s your differentiator. Join us for major announcements across Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure SQL, and Azure PostgreSQL, and see how these innovations come together to deliver a unified, intelligent data foundation for AI. Experience customer success stories, live demos, and an inside look at the roadmap shaping the future of analytics, transactional workloads, and real-time insights all in one integrated experience.

Innovation Session: Security in the Agentic Era – the Core Primitive

Innovation Session: Security in the Agentic Era – the Core Primitive

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Vasu Jakkal (Microsoft) , Charlie Bell (Microsoft)

In the agentic era, digital trust is paramount. Join our security leaders to see how Microsoft builds security into every layer for a world woven with AI and agents. Through demos and customer stories, learn how protection is unified across identities, data, agents, apps, endpoints, and more. Get actionable steps to secure AI innovation at scale.

Interactive Session Supercharge enterprise AI with NVIDIA open foundation models

2025-11-18
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Chintan Patel (NVIDIA)

Open models are essential for accelerating AI innovation, providing transparency, flexibility, and adaptability across enterprise use cases. They empower organizations to fine-tune, customize, and deploy AI solutions securely while retaining control over data. Discover how NVIDIA AI Foundation models, available on Azure platforms as NVIDIA NIM, power technologies and use cases. Learn how NVIDIA Nemotron, open reasoning models, are used to build powerful enterprise research agents that synthesize hours of research in minutes. Also, explore how NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models are used to simulate, reason, and generate data for downstream pipelines in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and industrial vision systems.

Introducing the new Azure Copilot for the new era of Intelligent Agents

Introducing the new Azure Copilot for the new era of Intelligent Agents

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Demi Ajayi (Microsoft) , Annie Pearl (Microsoft) , Ruhiyyih Mahalati (Microsoft)

Get ready to explore how Azure Copilot is transforming the way IT, DevOps, and Developers manage, secure, and optimize cloud environments—ushering in an era of agentic AI that goes beyond simple automation. This session unveils powerful new capabilities that enable AI to act more independently and collaboratively with users, streamlining tasks like incident response, infrastructure provisioning, security posture management, and beyond.​

Lead in the modernization of cloud desktop and endpoint management

2025-11-18
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Vadim Vladimirskiy (Nerdio) , Scott Manchester (Microsoft)

Discover how you can empower your enterprise IT teams to streamline cloud desktop and endpoint management at scale with Nerdio Manager. In this session, Nerdio CEO Vadim Vladimirskiy will showcase how the platform accelerates deployment, reduces costs, and simplifies management and monitoring of Windows desktops and applications.

Make smarter model choices: Anthropic, OpenAI & more on Microsoft Foundry

Make smarter model choices: Anthropic, OpenAI & more on Microsoft Foundry

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Steve Sweetman (Microsoft) , Naomi Moneypenny (Microsoft) , Keiji Kanazawa (Microsoft) , Tao Zhang (Manus) , Bill Flannery (Wolters Kluwer)

With models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Black Forest Labs, Mistral AI, Meta, xAI and more, Microsoft Foundry brings the world’s most advanced AI models together in one secure, unified platform. Learn how to select, evaluate, and intelligently route models to achieve the right balance of cost, latency, and accuracy—all while maintaining enterprise-grade security, responsible AI practices, and built-in governance across every workload.

Maximize Azure savings with automation

2025-11-18
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Joe Benincasa (ProsperOps)

In this session, you'll develop better understanding of the Effective Savings Rate (ESR), learn strategies for maximizing ESR, and understand how ProsperOps automates ESR optimization strategies.

Microsoft Marketplace: Your trusted source for cloud and AI solutions

Microsoft Marketplace: Your trusted source for cloud and AI solutions

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Maximilian Kaczynski (Parloa) , Will Kearl (Microsoft) , Elizabeth Beals (Microsoft)

Discover how the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace is reshaping the future of cloud and AI innovation. In this session, we’ll explore how Microsoft Marketplace—unifying Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource—empowers organizations to become Frontier Firms by streamlining the discovery, purchase, and deployment of tens of thousands of cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents.

Our Agentic Era: Building Accessible and Responsible AI for Everyone

Our Agentic Era: Building Accessible and Responsible AI for Everyone

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Natasha Crampton (Microsoft) , Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft)

As AI evolves from passive tools to autonomous agents, the stakes for accessibility and responsibility are rising. Join Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer, and Natasha Crampton, Chief Responsible AI Officer, to explore how Microsoft is shaping the future of agentic AI, creating systems that are safe, and trustworthy. Drawing on real-world technologies, they'll share how Accessibility and Responsible AI are not just parallel priorities but deeply interconnected imperatives.

Preparing and modernizing Windows Server workloads in Azure

Preparing and modernizing Windows Server workloads in Azure

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Jeff Woolsey (Microsoft) , Dan Cuomo (Microsoft)

Discover how to optimize Windows Server workloads with Azure infrastructure and agentic management tools to maximize your investment. Learn how to use Azure administration tools, including WAC, Azure Copilot, and AI Shell to manage Windows Server workloads in Azure.  Configure and leverage AI tools with BCDR, Monitoring, Compliance, Software Updates and security for Windows Server workloads, and simplify Windows Server identity in Azure with Entra Domain Services.

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Reimagining software development with GitHub Copilot and AI agents

Reimagining software development with GitHub Copilot and AI agents

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Mario Rodriguez (Microsoft) , Luke Hoban (Microsoft)

The teams that have strong DevOps practices are the ones best positioned to take advantage of the power of AI. See how you can use GitHub Copilot and AI Agents to bring speed, scale and security across the software development for your organization.

Secure and Protect AI Usage in your Organization with DSPM for AI

2025-11-18
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Tushar Kumar (Codec Ireland)

As organizations adopt AI to boost productivity and creativity, concerns grow about data security and possible leaks through generative AI tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Microsoft’s Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI helps organizations monitor AI activities, enforce data protection policies, and meet regulatory standards, allowing safe, productive AI use without compromising sensitive information.

Secure collaboration and control with Sovereign Private Cloud

2025-11-18
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Natan Szymczyk (Microsoft) , Jeff Kizner (Microsoft)

Explore how Azure Local and Microsoft 365 Local bring critical collaboration workloads—Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Skype for Business Server—into your Sovereign Private Cloud. Highly regulated customers gain flexibility to choose connectivity models—hybrid, or fully disconnected—on customer-owned infrastructure. In this session, we’ll share GA timeline, highlight key features and roadmap, and outline packaging details so you can plan procurement and rollout with confidence.

The future of Power Platform: AI-powered and enterprise-grade

The future of Power Platform: AI-powered and enterprise-grade

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Ryan Cunningham (Microsoft)

Get an overview of the next generation of Microsoft Power Platform. See how agents, AI-assisted plans, and modern workspaces are transforming the maker experience. Build and deploy apps your way—whether through natural language prompts, visual designer, or custom code. Pair speed with enterprise-grade scale and security and modernize your core systems into intelligent solutions powered by apps and agents.

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Unleash the future of AI and agents on Windows backed by security

Unleash the future of AI and agents on Windows backed by security

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Sasha Sproch (Microsoft) , Donald Thompson (Microsoft)

This session explores Windows as the canvas for AI, including development in MCP (Model Context Protocol), Computer Using Agents (CUAs), and upcoming platform-level security enhancements. Learn how these technologies shape a more intelligent and secure Windows experience.

Unlocking the all-in-one AI Advantage of Microsoft 365 Copilot

Unlocking the all-in-one AI Advantage of Microsoft 365 Copilot

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Ron Pessner (Microsoft) , Amber Waisanen (Microsoft)

Explore how Microsoft 365 Copilot unifies Chat, Search, Agents, Notebooks, and Create into one secure workflow. With all five capabilities in a single interface, you can automate tasks, manage content, generate assets, and find information—without switching tools. See how having one AI solution built for work reduces context switching, streamlines workflows, and boosts efficiency.

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Vibe coding: Ship it faster with GitHub Copilot and Azure Cosmos DB

2025-11-18
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Sajeetharan Sinnathurai (Microsoft) , Jay Gordon (Microsoft)

Want to ship applications faster? This demo shows you how to dramatically accelerate time to market with a high-velocity vibe coding workflow. We'll build a complete app with Azure Cosmos DB from scratch using GitHub Copilot as our AI pair programmer. We'll make use of the new Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator and VS Code extension for local development to create a frictionless, end-to-end experience that helps you deliver features faster than ever before.

What’s new and what’s next in Azure IaaS

What’s new and what’s next in Azure IaaS

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Aung Oo (Microsoft) , Igal Figlin (Microsoft) , Narayan Annamalai (Microsoft)

In this session, we’ll introduce the latest capabilities across compute, storage, and networking. Uncover the advancements in Azure IaaS, driving performance, resiliency, and cost efficiency. We will present how Azure’s global backbone, enhanced capabilities, and expanding portfolio can support mission-critical, cloud native and AI workloads —while built-in security and flexible tiering help right-size app deployments and accelerate modernization.

Zero Trust, Full Power: End-to-End Security for Agent 365

2025-11-18
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Mihaela Blendea (Microsoft) , Jocelyn Panchal (Microsoft)

Join us for a deep dive of Managed Security, complete with walk through of real world end to end agentic scenarios, following the pov of administrators, makers, and users to demonstrate how security impacts all personas and is a shared responsibility.

Azure Innovations Elevate Healthcare Resiliency and Performance

2025-11-18
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Radha Ravi (Microsoft) , Mike Lonze (Microsoft)

Discover how Azure’s latest innovations in compute and storage help healthcare organizations reduce downtime, accelerate refresh cycles, and unlock new performance & scalability tiers for mission-critical workloads like EHR systems and more.

Community Connection Pod: Challenges in Migrating Data to the Cloud for AI and Analytics

2025-11-18
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Vybava Ramadoss (Microsoft) , Imani Hall (Microsoft)

Moving massive datasets to the cloud for AI and analytics is often harder than expected. Join this conversation to unpack the biggest challenges—network bandwidth, migration tools, governance, and cost optimization. We’ll discuss strategies for using Azure Storage Mover, third-party tools, and storage options like Object Storage, ADLS Gen 2, and Azure NetApp Files to accelerate migration while ensuring compliance and performance. Bring your experiences and questions to shape best practices together.

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.

Community Connection Pod: Identity Strategy approaches

2025-11-18
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David Nudelman (Steeves and Associates)

In this session we will discuss how different organization approach their Identity strategy. The mediator will idenitfy the different approaches and organize the discussion about the different points of view when making strategic decisions on a Identity implementation.

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.

Community Connection Pod: Microsoft Global Community Initiative: Connecting People, Powering Impact

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Isidora Katanic (Experts Inside AG) , Heather Cook (Microsoft)

Communities thrive when people come together with purpose. This session introduces the Microsoft Global Community Initiative (MGCI) and how it empowers individuals to share knowledge, collaborate, and drive change worldwide. Join us to learn how you can participate, lead, and amplify your voice in this global movement. Walk away with insights, resources, and next steps to make your mark in the Microsoft community.

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.

Community Connection Pod: The Revenue Multiplier: Marketplace + Campaigns That Grow Profit

2025-11-18
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Michelle Pruitt , Chaitra Vedullapalli (Women in Cloud & Meylah) , Karen Fassio (AbundantMC)

You don’t need more noise, you need results. Join this 45-minute Connection Pod to learn how to use communities and marketplaces to grow faster. We’ll cover co-marketing with trusted partners, turning Marketplace into a revenue engine, and building collaborations that drive real results. Walk away with playbooks and ideas you can apply immediately to multiply your visibility, leads, and profits.

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.