In this talk we’ll learn Infrastructure-as-Code by automating the world’s most popular game: Minecraft. Using Packer, Terraform and GitHub Actions, we’ll build a server, configure Linux, provision cloud infrastructure and operate it through GitOps. Finally, we’ll demonstrate how to go beyond automating traditional cloud control planes—automating the Minecraft world itself by using Terraform to build and demolish structures like castles and pyramids before our very eyes!

This demo-heavy session highlights the enhanced MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, now more robust than ever with new AI-driven enhancements to streamline your SQL development experience. With GitHub Copilot, you can move faster from schema to code, generate sample data, explore relationships, and help your app and backend stay in sync. With our latest mssql-python driver, you can develop with ease, security, and performance, across SQL Server, Azure SQL and SQL database in Fabric.

Stop letting Wi-Fi limit your potential. Traditional connectivity constraints costs time and risks data loss. Discover the powerful duo of Verizon 5G and Microsoft Surface Copilot+ PCs. Together, Microsoft & Verizon help create the blueprint for the AI-powered, zero-trust enterprise. In this discussion, we'll demonstrate how Microsoft Surface powered by Verizon 5G delivers AI acceleration, always-on security, and commercial transformation across key industries.

Discover how Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager drives compliance, security, and AI readiness by simplifying regulatory complexity into clear actions. Learn about new capabilities like AI Regulations Onboarding, an enhanced Regulatory Navigator without template limits, and Microsoft Foundry integration. See how compliance scoring is embedded into AI workflows to reduce adoption friction and build trust in responsible AI.

AI-driven cyberattacks are growing in sophistication, threatening your business critical Entra ID and Microsoft 365 data. In this session, explore how these threats are evolving, and how to prepare for incident response. Learn why clean recovery, not just data recovery, is essential to strengthening your organization’s cyber resilience.

Before the age of agents, tech debt often went straight from the backlog to the graveyard. While it’s important to continually identify ways to improve your services, it can be difficult to prioritize those items over customer-facing enhancements. With the introduction of AI agents, you can now more easily modernize and evolve your codebase, ensuring it never becomes the next legacy. Learn how to embrace the process of modernizing and how to leverage AI agents to keep your codebase up to date.

Discover how to launch serverless workspaces in seconds, power Data & AI apps with Lakebase, and analyze unstructured data without coding using Agent Bricks. With AI/BI Genie + Copilot Studio, ask natural language questions directly in Microsoft Teams. Join this session to see how Azure Databricks makes AI simple, actionable, and enterprise-ready.

See end-to-end user experience in the new world, where human-agent collaboration is built-in within business applications - see how users oversee autonomous agents assigned to their work, manage escalations, and provide approvals within the app. Witness how in-app agents help them be faster and smarter—fill forms, explore data, and automate tasks with less effort and drudgery.

The next major leap in software engineering is happening at the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence. We’ll explore what’s working, what’s not, and what “good” really looks like when organizations strive to integrate AI into their engineering cultures, workflows, and strategic priorities. From fostering alignment across teams to overcoming governance challenges, this session goes beyond the hype to uncover the lessons learned from early adopters and outline the critical considerations for those just beginning the journey. Insights into how tech organizations are evolving their culture, structure, and SDLC with AI Understand roadblocks to adoption, from technical readiness to talent resistance Align with peers on emerging best practices and success metrics for AI-enhanced engineering

Manufacturing leaders seeking autonomy need speed, quality, and safety while managing complexity. Hexagon's AEON humanoid, powered by Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA, brings Intelligent Manufacturing 4.0 to life with scalable AI training, governed deployment, and rapid simulation-backed adaptation to support new SKUs. From defect detection to validated updates, teams maintain real-time observability and compliance while scaling what works. The result: shorter cycles, fewer risks, and the ability to scale industrial robotics scenarios.

Discover how Pure partners with Microsoft to deliver a transformative, future-ready data management approach that empowers customers to innovate and efficiently scale from on-premises to cloud. This session will highlight Pure's latest capabilities and product offerings, specifically focusing on advancements in our SQL Server 2025 integration for FlashArray and Pure Storage Cloud Azure Native.

Engage in a deep technical discussion on how to achieve scale and performance for your application deployed in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) through a combination of architectural best practices, modern networking features, and premium SKUs.

Threat Intelligence (TI) is no longer just data— it’s actionable insight embedded directly into your security operations. In this session, we’ll explore the latest insights from the Microsoft Digital Defense Report and how Microsoft is transforming TI into dynamic, curated intelligence within Defender, empowering your team. Learn how the latest innovations, including enhanced workflows and TI specific agents, are helping analysts to move faster and act on better intel than ever before.

Are your cloud ops teams drowning in noisy signals and slow root cause analysis? See how thousands of organizations such as yours use Azure SRE Agent to solve this by turning telemetry into precise actions using AI. It automates detection, diagnosis, and remediation across your stack—reducing MTTR, improving service health, and freeing engineers to focus on innovation. Outcome: faster recovery, fewer escalations, and resilient cloud services.

Voice on Windows is evolving from commands to a true companion—listening, adapting, and helping ideas flow. Discover how natural speech, smarter dictation, and lifelike voices reduce cognitive load, boost accessibility, and enable seamless, hands‑free work. See how AI subtly elevates your flow and unlocks a new voice era: expressive in, natural out, ready for work.

“On Air at Microsoft Ignite” will deep dive into key announcements with expert interviews, demonstrations, and real-world applications for all the latest news. ​

Hour 3 will feature:​ AI, public sector and healthcare: Kees Hertogh​ NVIDIA: Ganesh Sivaraman & Donald Ferguson​ Citrix: Nancy Hart​ New agent experiences and management controls: Jeremy Chapman & Caroline Stanford Insight: Parker Johnston​ AMD: Andrew Ruffin​ Copilot in the Flow of Office: Ryan Roslansky

Discover how to supercharge analytics and AI workflows using Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. This hands-on lab explores native AI/BI features in Azure Databricks, including ML-powered insights and real-time analytics. Learn multiple ways to serve data to Power BI, with a deep dive into Direct Lake mode with Fabric. Ideal for developers, data scientists, data analysts, and engineers modernizing BI with lakehouse architecture in the AI era.

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What does it take to turn AI innovation into measurable business impact?

Join Kathleen Mitford, Corporate Vice President of Industry Marketing at Microsoft, for a conversation with industry leaders transforming their organizations with agentic AI.

Hear how they started, what’s driving results, and how ideas and learnings from one industry can inspire another—helping you move from experimentation to impact and become Frontier with AI.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Agents and AI-powered apps are reshaping how software development companies deliver value. In this session, discover how to build smarter with AI-powered innovation, deliver faster with advanced developer tools, and scale confidently through a partner ecosystem designed for growth.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Learn to leverage agent-framework, the new unified platform from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen engineering teams, to build A2A compatible agents similar to magnetic-one. Use SWE Agents (GitHub Copilot coding agent and Codex with Azure OpenAI models) to accelerate development. Implement MCP tools for secure enterprise agentic workflows. Experience hands-on building, deploying, and orchestrating multi-agent systems with pre-release capabilities. Note: Contains embargoed content.

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Learn how to create intelligent, task-oriented Copilot agents using the native Microsoft 365 Copilot stack. In this hands-on lab, you'll use TypeSpec, a type safe language to write agent specification and the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit to build Declarative agents that integrate seamlessly with third party as well as Microsoft 365 services.

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For over 30 years, Microsoft has partnered with the disability community to build accessible technology. But accessibility didn’t start with tech—think electric toothbrushes, audiobooks, and curb cuts, all designed for people with disabilities and benefiting everyone. Now, AI is the new frontier. Join Jenny Lay-Flurrie to explore how designing for disability drives trustworthy innovation and how AI can help create a world that works for everyone.

Join us for a hands-on workshop showcasing the latest Azure SQL innovations to supercharge your applications. Learn how to harness generative AI alongside Azure SQL Database to elevate your data strategies with AI concepts like language models, prompt engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and streamline with Microsoft Copilot. Whether you're a developer, architect, or IT professional, this workshop is your ticket to mastering SQL and AI to stay ahead in the data-driven landscape.

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Learn how you can use tools in Security Copilot to build your own custom agents. Discover agents that are available for you to use off the shelf.

Bring software-engineering discipline to your data. Learn how Microsoft Fabric integrates Git and deployment pipelines to take a branch from validation to production—fast and safe. Learn how to use parameterized deployments for tables and views, run automated checks, and avoid common pitfalls like broken shortcuts. Walk away with practical patterns to operationalize your Lakehouse with confidence and speed.