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Microsoft Ignite 2025

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

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Community Connection Pod: Becoming an MVP in Biz Apps or Copilot Studio

2025-11-18
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Nick Doelman (MVP) , Heidi Jordan , Joe Griffin (proMX UK Limited)

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.

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: Build your schedule with help from a Microsoft MVP

2025-11-18
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Doher Drizzle Pablo (Techbayanihan) , Jared Rhodes (Epam) , Igor Fesenko , Luc Labelle (Kabesa Solutions)

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.

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: SQL Server Management Studio: Help Drive What's Next

2025-11-18
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SQL

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.

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 Theater: Operationalizing Continuous Threat Exposure Management using Microsoft Security Exposure Management

2025-11-18
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Alex Steele (Microsoft)

Implementing Continuous Threat Exposure Management using MSEM

Copilot Trust & Safety: Controls to manage AI risk

2025-11-18
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Tanner Briggs (Microsoft) , Rishi Girish (Microsoft)

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.

Defend Against Threats with Microsoft Defender

2025-11-18
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John Nix (Microsoft) , Ken Lawson (Microsoft)

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.

Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

Drive agentic CX with what’s new in Dynamics 365 for sales and service

Drive agentic CX with what’s new in Dynamics 365 for sales and service

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Aurelien Pichon (Visa Inc.) , Pia Cedendahl (Sandvik Coromant) , Karan Nigam (Microsoft) , Deva Rajamohan (Microsoft)

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.

End-to-End migration of applications with AI Agents to IaaS and PaaS

End-to-End migration of applications with AI Agents to IaaS and PaaS

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Ashish Babbar (Microsoft)

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.

End-to-end security for your AI platforms, apps, and agents

End-to-end security for your AI platforms, apps, and agents

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Neta Haiby (Microsoft) , Lou Adesida (Microsoft) , Herain Oberoi (Microsoft)

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.

From legacy to modern .NET on Azure faster than ever

From legacy to modern .NET on Azure faster than ever

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Gaurav Seth (Microsoft) , Jon Galloway (Microsoft)

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.

From start to scale: Realize agentic AI value

From start to scale: Realize agentic AI value

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Kim Allison (Newell Brands) , Charlie Doubek (NTT Data) , Geoff Newman (NTT DATA)

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.

How Microsoft manages employee & executive communications with AI

How Microsoft manages employee & executive communications with AI

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John Cirone (Microsoft) , Jason Mayans (Microsoft)

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.

Innovation Session: Build & Manage AI Apps with Your Agent Factory

Innovation Session: Build & Manage AI Apps with Your Agent Factory

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Marco Casalaina (Microsoft) , Amanda Silver (Microsoft) , Yina Arenas (Microsoft) , Sarah Bird (Microsoft)

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.

Innovation Session: Microsoft 365 Copilot: AI Built For Work

Innovation Session: Microsoft 365 Copilot: AI Built For Work

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Jeff Teper , Michael DiPaolo (Bristol Myers Squibb) , Sumit Chauhan (Microsoft) , Nicole Herskowitz (Microsoft)

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.

Interactive Session: Build faster with startup AI dev tools

2025-11-18
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Jennifer Hoskins (NVIDIA)

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.

Jumpstart AI-powered HR and IT support with Employee Self-Service Agent

2025-11-18
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Chung Heong Gooi (Microsoft) , Swati Gulati (Microsoft)

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.

Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

Latest NVIDIA NIM™ on the Microsoft Foundry Model Catalog

2025-11-18
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VIJAI KANNAN (Microsoft) , Manuel Reyes Gomez (NVIDIA)

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

Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

Manage sensitive data using information protection in the age of AI

2025-11-18
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Stefanie Bier (Microsoft) , Maxime Bombardier (Microsoft)

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.

Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

Microsoft Entra: What's New in Secure Access on the AI Frontier

Microsoft Entra: What's New in Secure Access on the AI Frontier

2025-11-18 Watch
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Nichole Peterson (Microsoft Entra) , Joy Chik (Microsoft) , John Savill (Microsoft)

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.

Migrate and Modernize Windows and SQL Server Workloads to Azure

2025-11-18
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Raunak Pandya (Microsoft) , Vikram Bansal (Microsoft)

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.

Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

Migrate to AKS Automatic with GitHub Copilot for App Modernization

2025-11-18
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Brian Redmond (Microsoft) , Michael YenChi Ho (Microsoft)

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.

Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

Migrate vm's from VMWare or Hyper-V to Azure Local with Azure Migrate

2025-11-18
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Jan-Tore Pedersen (Spirhed Norway AS)

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.

Modern data, modern apps: Innovation with Microsoft Databases

Modern data, modern apps: Innovation with Microsoft Databases

2025-11-18 Watch
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Priya Sathy (Microsoft) , Kirill Gavrylyuk (Microsoft) , Shivakumar Vaithyanathan (Adobe) , Charles Feddersen (Microsoft) , Shireesh Thota (Microsoft)

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.

Modernize ERP through RISE with SAP and the Microsoft Cloud

Modernize ERP through RISE with SAP and the Microsoft Cloud

2025-11-18 Watch
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Hiren Shah (Microsoft) , Wael Elkabbany (Microsoft)

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.

Modernizing Public Services with AI: A Digital-First Approach

2025-11-18
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Kirk Arthur (Microsoft)

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