Join F5 to see how we empower organizations to deliver and secure AI models and agent architectures at scale. We’ll share our journey with Microsoft—from our integrations with Azure to our participation in the new Microsoft Security Store—and how F5 helps ensure the reliable delivery and robust protection of every app, API, and AI workload. Learn how advanced traffic management, policy enforcement, and integrated guardrails optimize and protect your AI apps.

Recent developments in the on-prem virtualization market have unsettled users and prompted a re-evaluation of their organization's strategy. Microsoft provides a robust set of solutions tailored to your specific goals and requirements. During this session, we will delve into these options, emphasizing the long-term advantages of choosing Azure Cloud and Cloud Connected. In this session, we’ll discuss the numerous Microsoft options to modernize your virtualization estate.

Discover how AVEVA and Microsoft are shaping the future of Industrial AI. Learn how AVEVA CONNECT, Azure, and the Industrial AI Assistant unlock new value through agentic AI, natural-language dashboard creation, and purpose-built industrial intelligence. See real examples of joint innovation and how AI is transforming engineering, operations, and data across the industrial lifecycle.

Did you know the Microsoft benefits packages for partners were expanded this year to include more ways to save money and accelerate growth? These bundled offers include special pricing to help partners save at least $15,000* and up to $500K+ on Microsoft solutions. Plus, get one-on-one consulting with a MAICPP expert, joint marketing and presales support, and expert technical assistance - all designed to help partners save, innovate faster, and increase time to market.

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.

In today’s data-driven world, organizations must deliver results with speed and precision. Explore how trustworthy AI—combining transparency, reliability, and ethics—is transforming decision-making. Learn how SAS and Microsoft empower Azure and Fabric users to boost productivity, generate synthetic data, accelerate model development, and deploy decision flows that drive impact.

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.

As Kubernetes and AI adoption grow, managing your clusters at scale becomes a strategic imperative. We'll share practical lessons from operating large clusters with AKS, including how to keep things reliable, efficient & secure. Learn about tools like Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager, smart scheduling for AI, and ways to simplify multi-cluster ops. Whether you are scaling to thousands of nodes or fine-tuning for performance, you'll leave with practical tips to improve cluster ops.

SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL DB now support vector search and embeddings, enabling semantic queries that go beyond keywords. This session shows how to store, index, and query embeddings using familiar T-SQL. You’ll learn how to power smarter search, recommendations, and natural language interfaces—all within your database. Real-world examples will highlight practical use cases. If you're ready to level up your queries, this is where it starts.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, your data foundation choices on Azure can make the difference between leading and lagging in AI. Learn why Azure platform decisions – especially solutions powered by AMD – play a key role in optimizing performance, scale, and value. Whether you’re building IT strategy or products, discover data-driven insights you can use right away after this breakout session.

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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Join us to learn how to deploy the #1 Physical Reasoning vision language model, NVIDIA Cosmos Reason on Azure. Discover how to use Cosmos Reason across 3 main use cases for: - Data curation and annotation to accelerate the creation of high-quality training datasets - Robot planning and reasoning to train robot vision language action models - Video analytics to analyze live or pre-recorded content

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Discover how AI is transforming cloud operations in Azure. In this lab, you’ll use AI to investigate anomalies, correlate telemetry, and strengthen your monitoring posture. With Copilot's new agentic capabilities for optimization, you’ll identify and validate cost and carbon savings opportunities while advancing FinOps and sustainability practices. Together, these capabilities help you align workload health, streamline operations, and deliver lasting efficiency and sustainability.

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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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Join fellow cloud enthusiasts for a dynamic exchange of real-world Azure migration experiences, lessons learned, and best practices. This interactive session spotlights community-driven insights to help you navigate challenges, accelerate adoption, and unlock the full potential of Azure. Come ready to share, learn, and connect!

Unlock the power of Azure AI on your data—wherever it lives—with NetApp and Microsoft. Learn how Azure NetApp Files, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and ONTAP on-prem deliver a secure, intelligent data infrastructure for AI workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud. Discover how in-place data access reduces cost and complexity, accelerates insights, and opens new opportunities for customers and ISV partners to innovate with integrated AI solutions, on your data.

Multi-tenant apps need scalable platforms to meet growing workload and AI demands, but scaling PostgreSQL can be complex. Elastic Clusters in Azure Database for PostgreSQL offers a fix: simple horizontal scale out of PostgreSQL data with row and schema-based sharding built into the managed service. Join us to learn how this best-in-class capability is empowering ITOps, architects and developers to build and manage resilient, high-performing multi-tenant apps while optimizing operations and cost.

Customer experience failures are costing businesses billions, driven by siloed data, poor channel selection, and voice latency issues. Discover how Twilio's Conversation Relay integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Foundry models to solve these critical challenges. Learn to build real-time intelligent voice interactions, leverage Azure's robust AI infrastructure, and rapidly deploy scalable solutions that eliminate guesswork and modernize your customer experience workflows.

To meet the growing demand for resilient and high-performance infrastructure for AI workloads, Azure introduces key advancements across its networking stack. The new StandardV2 NAT Gateway delivers zonal resiliency and IPv6 support, now enhanced with flow logs in private preview for deeper traffic visibility. ExpressRoute continues to evolve with metro expansion, general availability of resiliency and scalable gateways, and upcoming support for high-capacity connections up to 1Tbps. Complementing these capabilities, a customer story highlights how DNS traffic is secured and visualized using DNS security policies and threat intelligence on Azure Virtual Networks.

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.

The Avanade Clienteling Accelerator empowers retailers with AI-driven personalization and Copilot-enhanced workflows. Leveraging Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure AI, and Power Platform, it delivers intelligent insights, task automation, and seamless integration for scalable, customer-centric experiences that transform in-store engagement and boost operational efficiency.

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

Hour 3 will feature:​ Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent updates: Jeremy Chapman​ Team Viewer: Sebastian Schrötel​ Responsible AI & Centru AI: Ana Welch​ Capgemini: Arnaud Balssa​ Cognizant: Manpreet Singh​ SAP: Dr. Walter Sun​ NTT DATA: Charlie Doubek, Geoff Newman​ Nasdaq: Secure Innovation with PostgreSQL on Azure: Charles Feddersen, Mohsin Shafqat

As development velocity increases, testing and operations teams must innovate or fall behind. AI-powered agents are reshaping how software is designed, tested, and deployed. Discover how UiPath and Microsoft are enabling organizations to integrate autonomous AI agents into Azure DevOps and GitHub to deliver faster, smarter, and more resilient applications. This session explores how agentic automation drives adaptive SDLC, continuous delivery, and measurable efficiency in application testing.

Enterprise teams are rapidly adopting AI agents to streamline operations and unlock new value. This panel brings together customers and partners to share how they’ve built and scaled AI apps using open frameworks and Azure services. Learn how they’ve tackled real-world production challenges—security, orchestration, reliability—and hear how they overcame blockers to deliver measurable business impact through agentic innovation.

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This session addresses the top cost and efficiency challenges customers face across their infrastructure today and showcases what’s new across Azure IaaS to them. Learn how to design, build, and optimize cost-efficient infrastructure that reduces TCO and empowers you to make informed decisions supporting growth and innovation. Hear Morgan Stanley’s real-world success and gain a deer understanding of how Azure delivers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to optimize your cloud costs at scale.

Join us to explore how Microsoft and Lenovo are transforming hybrid cloud and AI use cases with Azure Local powered by Lenovo's latest Server Platforms. Discover how customers are moving from legacy environments to Azure Local to unlock new AI-driven possibilities from real-time video analytics and predictive maintenance to medical diagnostics and low-latency inferencing. Hear directly from a customer about their Azure Local journey and how Lenovo and Microsoft are redefining what's possible.

Azure Virtual Desktop continues to evolve, helping you enhance management efficiency, scalability, and connectivity for your workloads. Learn about the latest innovations in Azure Virtual Desktop, understand why it is especially attractive to industries like healthcare, and discover how to accelerate your cloud migration with Azure Virtual Desktop.

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