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.

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.

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.

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.

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.​

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.