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Microsoft Ignite 2025

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

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Making AI easier with Surface Copilot+ PCs and natural input

Making AI easier with Surface Copilot+ PCs and natural input

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Andrea Rubin (Microsoft) , Erica Arnold (Microsoft)

Unlock new levels of productivity with Copilot on Windows. Experience how interacting with AI—by voice, touch, pen, or keyboard—empowers you to work your way, streamline workflows, and drive better business outcomes. Surface Copilot+ PCs and Windows enable teams to innovate and adapt, keeping productivity in the flow and helping organizations achieve more, faster.

Partners are Redefining Telecom Operations with Agentic AI

Partners are Redefining Telecom Operations with Agentic AI

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Liliana Schwartz-Brunner (Amdocs) , Jean Lawrence (Nokia) , Lindsay Berg (Microsoft)

As telcos become AI-native, Microsoft partners help transform workflows with agentic AI. Learn how to shift from AI-assisted tasks to autonomous operations using Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Copilot. Discover how to build intelligent agents that optimize networks, enhance customer care, and drive revenue—with real-world examples and guidance to differentiate your offerings.

Reinventing Manufacturing with Digital Twin

Reinventing Manufacturing with Digital Twin

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Aniket Deshpande (NVIDIA) , Prasad Satyavolu , Jon Hobgood (GE HealthCare) , Todd Mersch (Microsoft) , Gaurica Chacko (Accenture)

This session will focus on the transformative impact of digital twins on manufacturing and supply chains, powered by AI. Leaders from across the ecosystem share how these technologies can accelerate the planning and build-out of advanced manufacturing facilities. Additionally, we will explore how to transform productivity and efficiency across existing operations leveraging data and AI including use of agents.

Running AI on Azure Storage: Fast, secure, and scalable

Running AI on Azure Storage: Fast, secure, and scalable

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Saurabh Sensharma (Microsoft) , Vamshi Kommineni (Microsoft) , Natalie Mao (Rakuten Group)

AI workloads require a fast and secure data infrastructure that works seamlessly. Learn how Azure Blob storage scales for OpenAI, how Azure Container Storage and Blobfuse2 ensure GPUs never sit idle, how to simplify integration with Ray/KAITO for AI apps on AKS, and how Blob storage integrates with AI services and frameworks to securely convert your enterprise data to AI-ready data. You’ll leave with best practices to drive performance, security, and developer velocity with Azure Storage.

Secure the healthcare cloud: Zero trust and AI-powered Azure defense

2025-11-20
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Chris McHenry (Aviatrix)

Accelerate compliant Azure transformation for payers, providers, pharma, and research orgs with Aviatrix Cloud Native Security fabric. Learn proven strategies for zero trust architecture with end-to-end encryption, securing EHRs, claims systems, clinical trials, and R&D platforms while meeting HIPAA/regulatory requirements. Integrate deeply with the Microsoft stack including AI-first innovation to rapidly identify and triage cloud security issues in real-time with CoPilot and Sentinel.

Ship faster. Stress Less. Idea to ops with Azure and GitHub Copilot

Ship faster. Stress Less. Idea to ops with Azure and GitHub Copilot

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Mandy Whaley (Microsoft) , Nir Mashkowski (Microsoft)

Explore how GitHub Copilot and intelligent agents streamline Azure application development from design to operations. This session covers how the Coding Agent, App Modernization agent, and cloud architecture agent accelerate planning and coding, while GitHub Copilot for Azure and the Azure MCP Server simplify deployment and diagnostics. Learn how the SRE Agent and testing agent extend automation into production and quality assurance, enabling end-to-end DevOps with AI-powered workflows.

Smarter SQL: GitHub Copilot + SSMS 22

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Makena Watanabe Barickman (Microsoft) , Anna Hoffman (Microsoft)

Unlock the future of data productivity with a hands-on exploration of AI-powered Copilots! We’ll dive into GitHub Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Microsoft Copilot in Azure and Copilot for SQL Databases in Microsoft Fabric. With real-world demos and best practice tips along the way, you’ll leave ready to transform how you interact with SQL, anywhere.

Transform contact center into a growth engine with agentic CX

Transform contact center into a growth engine with agentic CX

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Peng Geng (Lenovo) , Karl Phenix (TTEC Digital) , Alpana Bajaj (Microsoft) , April Delsing (Microsoft) , Diana Tram Nguyen (Microsoft)

See how Microsoft and partners are transforming contact centers with agentic AI. Get the latest on Dynamics 365 Contact Center strategy and roadmap, hear Lenovo’s journey to modernize customer experiences with Microsoft, and learn partner insights and best practices from TTEC Digital. Leave with resources and next steps to drive success and business growth in the era of agentic service.

Community Connection Pod: Identity & Network Access Management for AI Agents

2025-11-20
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Sharon Chahal (Microsoft)

What challenges are you facing with visibility, governance, and access controls for agents? We are seeking feedback on real-world agent use in organizations, identity and network security implications, and how Microsoft Entra solutions are evolving to secure and govern autonomous agents. Join us for a discussion with an expert and the opportunity to hear what your peers are thinking, too! 

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.

Accelerate BI with Azure Databricks in the era of AI

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Santosh Perla (Microsoft) , Daniel Epstein (Microsoft) , Isaac Gritz (Databricks) , Bhagyashri Badgujar (Databricks) , Saurabh Shukla (Databricks) , Katie Cummiskey (Databricks) , Spencer Cook (Databricks)

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.

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

Agentic AI in Healthcare: Multi-Agent Orchestration in Action

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Frank Tuan (Microsoft) , Leonardo Schettini (Microsoft)

Explore the power of agentic frameworks to streamline healthcare operations. With healthcare agent orchestrator, you can customize intelligent agents, integrate them with private datasets and public sources, and deploy them seamlessly into Microsoft 365 tools like Teams and Word. Experience the synergy of healthcare-specific agents enhanced by general reasoning models and multimodal healthcare foundation models—enabling them to tackle sophisticated clinical tasks with precision and efficiency.

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

Build Agentic Knowledge Bases: Next-Level RAG with Azure AI Search

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Ayca Bas (Microsoft) , Pamela Fox (Microsoft)

In this hands-on lab, you’ll build a Knowledge Base using agentic RAG, the next evolution of retrieval in Azure AI Search. Connect your agentic retrieval engine to your data through smart source selection across multiple indexes and storage systems. Learn how to enhance planning using natural language guidance and generate grounded responses with citations or extractive answers tailored to your use case. By the end, you’ll have a fully functional Knowledge Base that responds over enterprise data.

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

Community Theater: Adopting GitHub Enterprise: Unlocking Developer Productivity Today and Tomorrow

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Parker Johnston (Insight)

Organizations are under constant pressure to deliver software faster, more securely, and at lower cost. GitHub Enterprise is more than just a source code platform, it is the foundation for developer velocity and future-ready innovation. In this session, you will learn how to adopt GitHub as a platform, what to consider when migrating from existing tools, and how to enable your teams with built-in security, automation, and AI- powered development. We will cover the benefits of centralizing on GitHub Enterprise, strategies to accelerate adoption across your organization, and practical steps to get the most out of GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Copilot. Finally, weʼll look ahead to the future of AI in software development and how todayʼs adoption choices set you up to take full advantage of whatʼs next. Whether you are just beginning your GitHub journey or looking to maximize your investment, this session will help you prepare your developers, and your organization, for long-term success.

Integrating Local AI with Windows ML

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Darshak Bhatti (Microsoft) , Siyuan Peng (Microsoft)

Build a smarter image classification app with Windows ML, now available generally available. This hands-on lab walks through dynamically downloading execution providers (EPs) for NPUs, compiling models for hardware-specific EPs, and running inference locally. Learn to deploy, debug, and optimize your app using WinML APIs. Ideal for developers exploring AI acceleration on Windows devices—no pre-distributed EPs required.

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

Multi-Agent Apps with Microsoft Agent Framework or LangGraph

2025-11-20
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Theo van Kraay (Microsoft) , Sandeep Nair (Microsoft)

Build a multi-agent application leveraging MCP (Model Context Protocol) with the Microsoft Agent Framework in C# or LangGraph in Python, integrated with Azure Cosmos DB for scalable and high-performance data persistence and retrieval. Define agents, functions, and external service integrations, implement memory, state management, and semantic search using Azure Cosmos DB. By the end, you’ll have a robust AI agent system designed for real-world applications.

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

Building apps, agents & automations without coding with Replit Agent

2025-11-20
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Kody Low (Replit)

AI is transforming software development. What once required coding expertise is now done in plain language. This shift is redefining the Build vs. Buy paradigm by empowering anyone to rapidly prototype and create custom solutions to their own challenges—unlocking massive innovation. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to vibe code apps, agents, and automations with Replit Agent, seamlessly deploying them to your Azure backend. Ideal for Product Managers, Designers, and business teams.

Deploying Physical AI-driven robotics in industrial environments

2025-11-20
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Stephan Hotz (Wandelbots) , Aaron Weissbart (Microsoft) , Tom Wisniewski (Microsoft) , Shashi Bhushan (Nvidia)

Join Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Wandelbots to explore how Physical AI-driven robotics is moving from simulation environments into real industrial deployments. Building on high-fidelity simulation, digital twins, and synthetic data, the panel will discuss how manufacturers are now wiring real factory data into these systems to deploy robots with greater speed, safety, and confidence.

Everything you need to know about data protection and AI

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Paul Robichaux (Keepit)

Do you need to protect your data with AI or from AI? Do you need to protect your AI-generated data? Great questions! There’s a lot of focus on the security, privacy, and governance features built into Copilot, but not as much attention on how you can use AI to help you keep your data safe and secure. In this session we’ll cover the key principles of using AI tools to help protect your Microsoft-platform data, including Copilot agents and other items that you may not have thought of protecting.

Ubiquitous AI from Cloud to Edge: Unlock the Future of Vision-Based AI with Roboflow, Windows ML and Microsoft Azure.

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Joseph Nelson (Roboflow)

Join Roboflow CEO Joseph Nelson to explore how RF-DETR is transforming object tracking across industries—from sports broadcasting at the US Open to monitoring 4.8 million carloads of freight at BNSF. In this live demo, see how Roboflow and Windows ML deliver fast, private, and cost-efficient cargo container tracking at the edge on Windows 11 PCs.

AI Enterprise Value: Real-World Applications

AI Enterprise Value: Real-World Applications

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Diana Kattan (Microsoft) , Mik Chernomordikov (Microsoft) , Apoorv Iyer (HCLTech) , Tao Zhang (Manus)

Explore how organizations are driving measurable business value with Microsoft Foundry on Windows and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) on Windows. See real-world examples from app developers, consulting firms, and enterprises building intelligent solutions that accelerate workflows and transform operations. Walk away with actionable insights to apply AI innovation in your own enterprise.

AT&T accelerates IT transformation with agentic AI

AT&T accelerates IT transformation with agentic AI

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Srinivas Jayanti (IBM) , Mark Austin (AT&T) , Miha Kralj (IBM)

Global enterprises are under pressure to boost productivity, accelerate innovation and lower costs, all while managing complex technology landscapes. Multi-agent AI systems are essential to revolutionizing IT delivery and how industry leaders drive business value. In this session, hear from one of the world’s largest telcos on how they are partnering with Microsoft and IBM to deploy agentic AI to build more resilient and available IT systems that can accelerate innovation at scale.

Build your enterprise app from scratch with the C3 Agentic AI Platform

Build your enterprise app from scratch with the C3 Agentic AI Platform

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Joel Morgenstern (C3 AI) , Nikhil Krishnan (C3 AI)

Turn ideas into production software fast. With C3 AI Studio, build Enterprise AI apps instantly, using low-code Application Canvas or full-code VSCode tools. We’ll demo the end-to-end journey: define goals in natural language, generate an app instantly, refine with code, and deploy securely with full governance. Create workflows, agents, and dashboards in minutes, connect to data and APIs, and ship with built-in versioning and observability.

Don't let your AI agents go rogue, govern with Azure API Management

Don't let your AI agents go rogue, govern with Azure API Management

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Mike Budzynski (Microsoft) , Anish Tallapureddy (Microsoft)

As enterprises scale AI, APIs are the foundation for secure and governed adoption. In this session, you will learn how Azure API Management provides a single control plane to protect data, enforce policies, and manage costs across copilots and multi-model AI workloads. With AI Gateway and MCP support, IT leaders can secure and monitor AI workloads, govern external tools, and ensure discoverability, enabling safe, scalable and confident AI deployment.

Embrace unified digital resilience with Cisco and Microsoft

Embrace unified digital resilience with Cisco and Microsoft

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Richard Diver (Microsoft) , Tony Pierce (CISCO)

Discover how Cisco and Microsoft deliver unified digital resilience by integrating visibility, security, automation, and AI-driven insights on Microsoft Azure. Learn how this partnership transforms security operations with AI-powered unified threat detection, investigation and response that accelerates threat detection, operational efficiency, and business continuity. Explore real-world customer success stories and the latest technology roadmap.​

Empowering care teams with Dragon Copilot, an AI clinical assistant

Empowering care teams with Dragon Copilot, an AI clinical assistant

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Maria Jumawan (Microsoft) , James Jeffries (Microsoft)

Discover how Microsoft Dragon Copilot, an AI clinical assistant, simplifies and transforms care team workflows, streamlines documentation, surfaces information, and automates tasks. Designed with role-based experiences at its core, Dragon Copilot delivers tailored capabilities for the broader care team. Its integrated and extensible design ensures seamless interoperability with EHR systems, AI apps, and agents—enabling organizations to scale innovation without disrupting workflows.