Attending Ignite is just the beginning—what you do with what you learn is where the impact happens. This session invites attendees to explore, share, and brainstorm strategies for translating event insights into value for their teams, organizations, and community. Join Microsoft MVPs to discuss strategies and ideas for how to curate and package content, communicate takeaways, and activate learning beyond your own. Come ready to share and shape ideas that make your Ignite experience go further.

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 this session, we’ll share how we have partnered with leading organizations to bring AI agents to life. From Copilot agents that extend the power of Microsoft 365 to custom-built solutions that address unique business needs, we’ll explore real-world examples of how enterprises are leveraging AI agents today. Attendees will gain practical insights into the opportunities, business value, and strategies to start or scale their AI agent journey.

Microsoft’s security stack is powerful, but many organizations aren’t using it to its full potential. Join us to understand how to maximize your investment and the ways the Huntress Platform can turn your Microsoft licensing into an affordable, 24/7, people-driven threat detection and automated response platform for your endpoints, identities, employees, and data. Learn how we operationalize your Microsoft licensing into our platform to stop attacks in their tracks.

Explore how Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365 Copilot deliver agentic CX, helping organizations drive revenue and improve CSAT. We’ll delve into real-world impacts, lessons learned, and what’s next for those embracing this shift. Finally, learn about CRM and CCaaS innovations and hear Microsoft’s AI vision to transform revenue-generating functions.

AI success starts with the right data foundation. In this session, you will see how the Nasuni File Data Platform consolidates silos, boosts resilience, and protects at scale with immutable snapshots and fast ransomware recovery. You will hear how enterprises power Microsoft Copilot, Graph, and Azure OpenAI with governed, high-quality file data. At the end of this session you will walk away with an actionable blueprint to cut tech debt, reduce risk, and advance toward frontier-firm performance.

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.

Discover how Microsoft Marketplace empowers your agent strategy—whether you build, buy, or blend. Explore trade-offs in control, speed, cost, and governance, and learn how to align agent choices with business outcomes. See real-world examples of custom copilots and partner-led solutions, and get practical guidance for scaling AI responsibly and profitably within the Microsoft ecosystem.

Join Red Hat’s Aaron Isom and Mark Heslin as they detail how Red Hat and Microsoft transformed into one of the most highly successful partnerships with over 10 years of collaboration in cloud computing and services. The session will highlight product offerings, benefits, future investments, and advancements, including OpenShift Virtualization, AI, Ansible and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) specifically optimized for performance on Azure.

Watch us build a talking, animated agent live! See Foundry Agent Service and Voice Live API in action, and leave with the blueprint to create your own branded agent. Fast, fun, and unforgettable with Microsoft Foundry.

Discover how UiPath and Microsoft Foundry are redefining healthcare automation with AI-powered insights from radiology reports that improve patient outcomes. Learn how UiPath MaestroTM enables healthcare organizations scale agentic automation across clinical and operational processes for faster, data-driven outcomes.

In this session, we will explore how to integrate your SQL Server/Azure SQL into Microsoft Fabric, addressing one of the most common challenges for data professionals: bridging the gap between operational and analytical workloads. You will learn best practices for setting up seamless integration, understand the potential impacts on your current architecture, and discover how to achieve near real-time data synchronization without the need to build complex interfaces

Pricing, licensing and channel changes are reshaping virtualization, and hosters feel the impact. The status quo isn’t an option. Discover how Microsoft’s Data Center Optimization (DCO) empowers you to migrate at scale, modernize your footprint, and build a future-ready managed services business. Leverage DCO, Cloud Acceleration Factory and Azure Accelerate to fast-track transformation and lead in the AI era.

As organizations accelerate AI adoption, trust, compliance, and regulatory alignment are top of mind for executives across industries. This session will explore how Microsoft’s Digital Trust & Global Regulations Program helps customers strengthen cyber resilience in the AI era. We’ll highlight how Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager supports readiness for Japan’s AI Promotion Act, the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), and emerging regulations across financial services and other sectors. Attendees will gain actionable insights into how Microsoft technologies align with these regulations to help organizations mitigate risk, drive compliance, and build trust at scale.

Microsoft Marketplace is central to our partner go-to-market strategy. Join this session to learn how to maximize success through Marketplace—whether driving product-led growth, scaling via the channel, or targeting enterprise sales. We’ll share Microsoft’s top recommendations to strengthen your alliance and accelerate results.

Join Dell at Microsoft Ignite for an inside look at how Dell Copilot+ PCs—backed by Dell’s expert professional services—are transforming work. This session showcases simplified setup and optimization, real ISV use cases, and Dell’s “build and buy” approach to AI applications. We’ll also explore the synergy between Dell Copilot+ PCs and Microsoft Copilot services.

Discover how to harness Microsoft’s latest AI-powered agentic tools to automate and accelerate migration and modernization of business-critical workloads. Learn how these innovations open new service opportunities, increase partner coverage across more customers and segments, drive customer success, and enable partners to differentiate, scale, and grow with Microsoft’s ongoing investments in cloud and AI.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Fine-tuning is your key to building agents that actually work. This demo-driven session showcases the latest in Microsoft Foundry, including Azure OpenAI and OSS model customization, and how to turn models into agents that are accurate, consistent, and production-ready. Through real-world scenarios, you’ll learn when fine-tuning makes a difference and how to apply the right technique for tool calling, data extraction, and workflow execution so your agents don’t just respond, they perform.

Discover how Microsoft Defender for Office 365 redefines security with agentic AI, intelligent automation, and ecosystem integration. Empowering teams to detect, investigate, and respond at machine speed, outpacing threats with precision and confidence.

In this hands-on lab, you'll build an advanced agent inspired by AgentWise, our internal learning assistant designed to help developers understand types of ways for building agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Using Copilot Studio, you’ll architect a multi-layered agent that adapts to user goals, personalizes guidance based on persona, and makes intelligent decisions using structured flows and real-time data. Along the way, you’ll learn how to combine retrieval and dynamic logic to go beyond Q&A.

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

Join Microsoft’s product team for a hands-on lab where you'll design and deploy an AI-powered application using SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric. This session dives into HTAP capabilities, enabling seamless transactional and analytical processing. You'll provision a SaaS-native SQL Database, use Copilot to generate schema and queries, and implement advanced patterns like RAG with vector search. Walk away with practical skills and a working solution you can apply immediately.

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

Join the PG Leads for the M365 category to demystify the Microsoft MVP program. 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.

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.

Frontier partners use Microsoft technologies and an industrial partner ecosystem with autonomous agents available in Microsoft Marketplace to tackle complex use cases across the value chain—from design and production to supply chain and services—driving efficiency, resilience, and innovation in manufacturing.

Explore how open standards and design patterns enable scalable, repeatable digital twins that aggregate heterogeneous operational data onto physically accurate 3D objects. Experience how Microsoft and NVIDIA apply OpenUSD, CloudEvents, OpenTelemetry, and other open standards to bridge data engineering and data science. Learn how these patterns unify real-world data into actionable digital twins—extensible across domains, systems, and protocols.

As organizations migrate to Microsoft Security solutions, they face growing complexity in threat detection, response, and compliance. This session explores how Lumen Defender complements Microsoft's native security stack to deliver outside-in intelligence from the world’s most interconnected internet backbone, enabling SOC teams to quickly detect and respond to alerts with confidence. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to strengthen their security posture and accelerate ROI.