Join the PG Leads for the Business Application Award category. This Q&A session will packed with insights for tech leaders & experts that are aspiring to be more, give back to the community, and become an MVP.

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Feeling overwhelmed by the Ignite agenda? Sit down with seasoned Microsoft MVPs who’ve done their homework and are ready to help you navigate the session catalog and share their can't-miss sessions. Whether you're new to Microsoft Ignite or just looking for expert guidance, this roundtable-style pod offers personalized support to help you curate a schedule that aligns with your goals. Come with questions, leave with a plan, and maybe a few new connections.

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It's been a big year for SSMS with two releases and a lot of new features, and we want to hear what you think. What have you liked? What's been a challenge? What's still missing? Bring your questions and feedback for some open and constructive conversations about SSMS and what's next.

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Implementing Continuous Threat Exposure Management using MSEM

As generative AI adoption accelerates, IT, security and compliance leaders must balance access to innovation with responsibility and governance. In this session on Copilot Trust & Safety you’ll learn about the Microsoft-built protections embedded in the platform, see how Copilot safety investments map to real-world risk scenarios, and get a clear understanding of how to proactively safeguard your organization through policy, compliance, and risk management tools while unlocking AI’s value.

Get a step-by-step walkthrough for Microsoft Defender XDR and learn how to implement key capabilities. Learn how to assign preset security policies for Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Protect your endpoints using Microsoft Defender Endpoint by onboarding devices and configuring roles and device groups. Lastly, dive into the advanced attack mitigation features for your devices using Defender for Endpoint to effectively investigate alerts and incidents.

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Explore how Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365 Copilot deliver agentic customer experiences (CX), helping organizations drive higher revenue and improved customer satisfaction (CSAT). Visa shares their journey and vision for agentic CX transformation. Discover real-world impacts, lessons learned, and what’s next for organizations embracing this shift. Learn about the latest CRM and CCaaS innovations and Microsoft’s AI vision to transform revenue-generating functions.

See how Azure’s new AI-powered migration agents make moving to the cloud faster, easier, and more reliable. In this session, we’ll walk through a complete end-to-end migration of applications, databases, and dependencies to Azure IaaS and PaaS—covering discovery, assessment, planning, and execution. Learn how to reduce complexity, minimize risk, and modernize confidently with step-by-step guidance and real-world scenarios.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Confidently adopt AI and manage your AI apps, agents, and platforms. From assistive copilots to autonomous digital workers, gain visibility and control to prevent data oversharing, manage sprawl, defend against threats, and ensure compliance.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Modernizing legacy .NET apps just became easier end to end. Explore how Visual Studio 2026, .NET, and GitHub Copilot modernization tooling streamline the journey. Learn how new features in Azure App Service solve common compatibility challenges—delivering scalable, secure, AI-ready deployments with deep observability and cost efficiency.

Learn how NTT DATA’s Agentic AI Services for Microsoft can help you get out of “pilot mode” and drive real business value from your agentic AI and gen AI projects, faster. Our industrialized framework helps you move from AI experimentation to production quickly and unlock measurable return on investment. Our approach leverages automation, observability, support, and managed services to create a crucial link between your team, the new AI agents supporting them, and your existing knowledge base.

Learn how Microsoft is transforming its own employee and executive communications—building trust, connection, and engagement at scale. This session will cover multiple communication tools and methods, with special focus on the latest AI-powered innovations and roadmap for Viva Engage.

Step into the era of modular AI. Join our engineering leaders to see how Microsoft Foundry lets you build, orchestrate, and manage intelligent agents using new workflow capabilities. Learn how to unify models, data, and tools with enterprise-grade security and observability.

Frontier Firms aren’t just adopting AI, they’re reimagining work around it. Join Nicole Herskowitz, Sumit Chauhan and Jeff Teper for live demos and real-world examples of the latest innovations in the AI built for work, Microsoft 365 Copilot. Discover what’s new and how Copilot empowers people, teams and business processes in the era of AI.

Join Jen Hoskins, NVIDIA’s Global Head of Cloud & Partnerships for Startups, for a live showcase featuring cutting-edge developer tools from NVIDIA Inception and Microsoft for Startups. Learn from from the teams behind Qodo, CodeRabbit, Factory AI, Arize, and Galileo as they bring live demonstrations to life, and about how their technologies help developers build, debug, and monitor AI applications using accelerated computing and generative AI.

Build the single front door experience for your employees with the Employee Self-Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot. In this lab, get hands on with configuring and extending the Agent in Copilot Studio, Learn to connect HR/IT systems and third-party agents, customize workflows, and see how deploying this agent streamlines support, reduces tickets, and boosts employee satisfaction—all with enterprise-grade security.

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The Foundry Model Catalog supports “One-click” deployment of the latest NVIDIA NIM™ Examples of usage of the newest NVIDIA entries • Nemotron Nano: Large Language Reasoning Model • Nemotron Nano VLM: VLM with the ability to query and summarize images and video • Cosmos-reason1: Reasoning VLM for physical AI and robotics • Microsoft-Trellis: Asset generation model capable of producing detailed meshes, • Boltz2: Structural biology model for structure and affinity • Evo2 NIM: Biological model that integrates information over long genomic sequences

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This lab introduces key data classification and protection tools in Microsoft Purview. Participants learn to create and customize sensitive information types to identify sensitive data, and apply sensitivity labels to enforce encryption, access controls, and content marking. Gain hands-on experience in building and managing policies that secure data across Microsoft 365.

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Your identity and network access approach for AI doesn’t need a revolution—just an expansion. Learn how to strengthen your Zero Trust foundation, manage and govern the rising tide of agents, and enable AI to accelerate your success.

Learn more about migration and modernization of Windows Server, SQL Server, and .NET apps. Learn how to assess and migrate Windows Server and SQL Server workloads using Azure Migrate and Azure Database Migration Service (DMS). This lab covers discovery, dependency mapping, migration execution, and post-migration optimization as well as leveraging Microsoft Defender for cloud for securing workloads post migration.

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In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to migrate traditional workloads to AKS using containerization and AKS Automatic, while enhancing functionality through integration with Azure PaaS services. We'll also explore how GitHub Copilot Application Modernization accelerates the process with AI-assisted coding and intelligent refactoring, helping teams streamline modernization and unlock cloud-native capabilities faster.

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In this session I will demo how you can migrate vm's from VMWare or Hyper-V to Azure Local using Azure Migrate. I will demo how you configure the Azure Migrate Project, how you deploy the Azure Migrate Appliance, how you enable synchronization and migrate and finalize the cutover. During this theater session you should have a good understanding on how you can migrate your vm's to Azure Local with a short down time for migration and for free without buying expensive third-party tools.

Whether you’re modernizing for peak performance and AI readiness or building the next generation of intelligent apps and agents, the Microsoft database portfolio fuels your vision. Join CVP Shireesh Thota for an inside look at the latest innovations across SQL, NoSQL, and open-source databases—featuring dynamic demos that reveal how to boost productivity, deliver rich, personalized experiences, and unlock new possibilities from your data.

Discover how Microsoft Cloud empowers SAP customers to modernize their business with SAP Business Suite through the RISE with SAP journey. Explore infrastructure innovations like High SLA for RISE, AI-driven monitoring, and performance optimization. See how organizations deploy RISE with SAP on Azure, integrate SAP BTP and BDC, secure workloads with Defender and Sentinel, while meeting sovereignty and compliance needs.

Governments around the world are harnessing AI to drive innovation, improve services, and deliver on mission-critical outcomes. In this fast-paced session, discover how AI can help you modernize operations, enhance decision-making, and better serve your communities—securely and responsibly. Learn from real-world examples and explore practical steps to move from exploration to implementation with confidence