Explore insider risk management and adaptive protection with Microsoft Purview. In this lab you will learn how to configure policies to detect and respond to internal threats and apply dynamic protection based on user risk levels.

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.

As manufacturers and supply chain leaders navigate the dual pressures of operational efficiency and sustainability, geospatial intelligence (GSI) is emerging as a transformative force. This lab session explores how the integration of Earth observation data, AI, and cloud-scale analytics is enabling smarter, faster, and greener decision-making across industrial ecosystems.

In this hands-on lab, makers will learn how to create intelligent agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot using topics, MCP Tools, and autonomous behaviors. Attendees will explore agent fundamentals, build custom workflows, and gain practical experience with Copilot Studio’s capabilities to streamline real-world tasks, boosting efficiency across Microsoft 365.

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.

This lab offers a hands-on deep dive into Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s CSPM features, teaching participants how to assess and improve cloud security across hybrid environments. Attendees will identify misconfigurations, apply compliance frameworks, and automate remediation strategies to strengthen their security posture.

Effortlessly modernize classic ASP.NET apps with Managed Instance on Azure App Service. Enjoy frictionless migration, minimal code changes, and great control with custom software support. Get benefits of VMs with agility, security & scalability of PaaS.

Attendees will learn to enable Defender for Cloud, navigate its dashboard, and interpret regulatory compliance and workload protection insights. The labs also cover secure score analysis, security recommendations, inventory management, pricing models, and governance rule assignment. By the end of the series, participants will be equipped to proactively identify and mitigate threats, strengthen cloud security posture, and align with organizational governance standards.

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.

Build confidence in managing AKS at scale with next‑gen ops tools. In this hands‑on lab, you’ll simulate a production service hit by traffic spikes, discover how AI‑driven alerts surface hidden bottlenecks, and deploy agents that self‑heal nodes. Using open‑source tools and the aks‑mcp server, you can automate cluster scaling, patch management, and real‑time troubleshooting—letting the AI orchestrate Kubernetes and Azure resources with natural‑language commands and pre‑built MCP integrations.

This lab guides participants through configuring Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies using Microsoft Purview. Learn how to identify sensitive data, apply policy templates, and enforce protection across Microsoft 365 services. By the end, you will be able to review policy matches, refine rules, and ensure compliance with organizational data protection standards.

In this lab, you'll get hands-on with the AI Toolkit (AITK) and Microsoft Foundry in VS Code to explore and compare the latest multimodal and reasoning models from the Model Catalog. Learn how to augment models for a real-world business scenario, using prompt and context engineering. Prototype an agent using the AITK Agent Builder, and equip the agent with the right tools via the Model context Protocol (MCP).

This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of automated AI red teaming generative AI systems for safety and security risks using Microsoft Foundry. Attendees will learn how to apply automated attack techniques to identify safety issues and security vulnerabilities across multiple risk dimensions before deployment. Participants will engage in hands-on walkthroughs and guided exercises to apply these concepts in realistic development scenarios.

Understand the Start, Get, and Stay Resilient journey. Get equipped with tools & insights to architect mission critical applications with Azure’s Resiliency and Configuration experiences. Asses your resiliency posture, apply recommendations, validate your posture and orchestrate recovery. With the Essentials Machine Management bundle from Azure, manage and maintain the state of your resources, enforce configurations across devices and ensure resilience is not a one-time goal but an ongoing state

Looking to add on-device AI to your apps? Not sure how to get started? Join our lab to learn how to integrate local AI capabilities into your Windows apps using Windows AI APIs. Discover how to implement Semantic Search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to power intelligent information retrieval, and use Phi Silica for on-device text processing. This lab will walk you through key APIs, and best practices to build on-device AI solutions for Copilot+ PCs. Developers of all levels welcome.

Take a motivational tour through the healthcare AI sample repository and set yourself up for success with multimodal AI for Health & Life Sciences. Dive into notebooks and sample solutions for problems like image search, cancer grading based on radiology and pathology images, outlier detection, and exam parameter classification. Deploy a model, plug it into an agentic flow, and evaluate it with human feedback. A hands-on journey from setup to deployment and refinement.

Cloud storage management can be complex, with multiple tiers and considerations for performance and cost. With 6+ Azure Managed Disk tiers, teams often default to higher-cost options and hesitate to switch due to downtime concerns and limited usage insights. This can lead to inefficiencies at scale.

In this session, we’ll cover: • Common challenges in optimizing cloud storage • How Lucidity streamlines Azure Managed Disk tiering • A quick look at our new solution for smarter storage management

Learn how Cisco collaboration devices and Microsoft Teams combine to deliver smarter, AI-driven collaboration in your workspaces. We'll highlight how to improve workplace efficiency and employee engagement by integrating advanced AI capabilities with Cisco's intuitive collaboration devices. Experience how these tools create a seamless experience for employees, whether working in the office or remotely, and why this integration is a game-changer for today's work.

AI agents run on non-human identities: service principals, managed identities, tokens. If you can’t see them, you can’t govern them. Oasis gives Microsoft-native guardrails: discover every agent across Entra, Azure, M365, and GitHub; right-size roles; eliminate long-lived secrets; and automate lifecycle with owners, purpose, TTL, rotation, and evidence. Same developer speed, far less standing privilege.

IT teams today are under constant pressure to do more with less. TeamViewer AI improves efficiency through autonomous action — detecting, diagnosing and resolving IT issues with minimal oversight. The result: faster resolution, lower ticket costs and proactive prevention all leading to a frictionless digital environment. See how partnering TeamViewer AI with Microsoft prepares enterprises for an autonomous future.

With Eon on Azure, backups don’t just sit idle—they become a first-class data source. Eon transforms cloud backups into Iceberg tables in Blob Storage, instantly queryable through Microsoft Fabric and OneLake. Learn how backup data flows into Fabric engines like SQL, Spark, and KQL, and how it fuels AI innovation with Azure OpenAI. See how organizations can collaborate more effectively by unifying protection, analytics, and AI on Eon’s data lake.

Microsoft and Lenovo have a long-standing strategic partnership focused on delivering integrated, innovative solutions that empower businesses and individuals. By combining Lenovo’s innovative hardware with Microsoft’s powerful software and cloud platforms (such as Windows, Microsoft 365, and Azure), the two companies offer seamless, secure, and scalable experiences across devices and services.

Whether you're building a chat application, a RAG system, or other AI tools, monitoring remains crucial. We'll show you how Datadog's comprehensive Azure monitoring can help you:

• Get started with PostgresSQL on Azure • Track PostgreSQL performance metrics that matter for GenAI workloads • Create dashboards and alerts that provide meaningful insights

Manual patching drains time, money, and security. Join Jason Kikta, Automox CISO and former U.S. Cyber Command leader, as he unpacks insights from the 2026 State of Endpoint Management Report. Learn why time-to-remediate is the new business health metric and unlock a safer, smarter tomorrow with Autonomous Endpoint Management.

Unlock the next level of performance and scalability with Azure Databases—engineered for speed, reliability, and seamless integration across your stack. At Ignite, Shireesh Thota, CVP of Azure Databases, will unveil breakthrough features and releases for Azure Databases, SQL Server 2025, and Fabric Databases for SQL and Cosmos DB. Get an inside look at how these advancements empower you to build and deploy cutting-edge applications and AI agents—faster, smarter, and at enterprise scale.