Cognizant VP of AI Research Risto Miikkulainen shares how to design, test, and scale safe multi-agent systems. Discover research showing how multi-agent systems can solve tasks beyond single-agent models, even with a million agents. Learn how to evaluate and fine-tune agent confidence using evolutionary strategies and apply these innovations to drive organizational growth.

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.

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Learn how to build an advanced AI agent using Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Semantic Kernel. This hands-on lab walks you through integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic re-ranking, Semantic Operators, and GraphRAG (using Apache AGE) to enable intelligent legal question answering using real case data. Gain practical AI implementation skills with your own PostgreSQL-backed applications.

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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.

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Does your organization dread the impossibility of proving that you are ready to respond when the next cyber-attack threatens your business? Do you dread the panic, the stress, the unknowns? Enterprise Strategy Group’s latest research across 9 industries highlights how organizations are improving their readiness to recover when cyber-attacks strike. You’ll gain valuable insight from a customer involved in the study, providing actionable strategies designed to help you recover with confidence.

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.

When building enterprise-grade apps, your database must deliver massive scale and rapid, relevant search. Azure Cosmos DB provides reliable data storage, vector search, and full-text indexing. Explore new capabilities designed to simplify development and enhance AI and search performance. Learn from Azure Cosmos DB engineering team and Veeam on how to optimize any-scale scenarios for efficient and fast search.

Resiliency is foundational. Explore how resiliency on Azure enables secure, scalable, AI-ready cloud architectures. Learn to set resilience goals, simulate failures, and orchestrate recovery. See live demos and discover how shared responsibility empowers teams to deliver trusted, resilient outcomes.

Small and medium businesses need to be able to scale rapidly in this era of viral marketing moments, and AI agents are key to unlocking success at scale. With agents, SMBs can add capacity to their workforce, standardize business processes, and launch new business models with ease. In this session we will share how agents in Business Central are helping businesses thrive from sales order taking to making sure vendors are paid on time.

ServiceNow and Microsoft are redefining how enterprises work—bringing together AI, data, and workflows in a single, secure operating system for the enterprise. Discover how Copilot and AI Agents integrate seamlessly to unify people, processes, and systems across Microsoft 365 and the ServiceNow AI Platform. Learn how this partnership delivers built-in trust, governance, and automation—from IT to SecOps to employee and even customer experience—so you can move faster, stay compliant, and turn AI into real business outcomes.

Most enterprises sit on mountains of unstructured content that is hard to search and even harder to use in AI applications. In this session, join me in transforming raw content into enriched, searchable data using Azure AI Search with text extraction, entity recognition, and image analysis. Combined with vector search and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) see how to build more relevant, trustworthy responses. Integrate and leverage the platforms to unlock entirely new AI-driven solutions.

To stay ahead, organizations need a secure, identity-based foundation for your digital landscape. Learn what Microsoft Entra and Intune bring across the M365 stack to help you reach a Zero Trust security posture with more compliance and control in the era of AI. We’ll dive into top scenarios that bring to life what you need to maximize your Microsoft investment.

SAP delivers powerful Business AI by streamlining processes, automating workflows, and empowering your workforce with generative AI contextualized with core business data. Experience how you can deploy seamless integrations between SAP’s AI assistant, Joule, and Microsoft Copilot, delivering real-time insights and showing how SAP and Microsoft can transform your organization and make AI central to how you operate and innovate.

AI is reshaping roles, skills, and organizational structures. In this session, see how new agents, connectors and Microsoft 365 Copilot capabilities bring people and organizational insights together to help teams plan and adapt for AI-driven workforce transformation. See demos and learn how Microsoft is using these capabilities to connect teams, accelerate learning and increase agility in workforce planning.

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VS Code has enterprise features built for IT. You need to keep it secure, consistent, and compliant—while developers just need it to run. Learn how to deploy VS Code at scale, enforce policies for extensions, updates, and telemetry, and protect environments without blocking productivity. We’ll also cover practical steps to scale AI—using instructions, prompt templates, and extension policies that raise Copilot effectiveness and keep your org aligned.

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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.

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Microsoft 365 powers enterprise productivity, but cyberattacks are rising—often targeting misconfigurations fast. Meet Corey, a secure AI operations assistant for Microsoft 365, built on CoreView’s proven least privilege framework. Respond to threats instantly, enforce policies like MFA organization-wide, and keep every action secure and auditable—accelerating IT, reducing risk, and maximizing Microsoft 365 tenant resilience.

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.

Cloud security must evolve beyond static scans. In this session, learn how a runtime security fabric unifies CSPM, DSPM, and workload protection to deliver context-rich defense for modern applications. See how runtime insights, tied to AI and posture data, help cut noise, speed root cause analysis, and strengthen resilience across multi-cloud environments.

Agent readiness is more than a technology conversation—it’s a holistic approach that spans strategy, business process mapping, technology and data foundations, organizational culture, and security and governance. This session will unpack the five pillars of agent readiness and offer practical guidance to help your organization prepare for AI agents at scale. You’ll leave with a framework to assess and accelerate your readiness journey.

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.

Deploying AI workloads on Kubernetes is now a necessity. But when those workloads are stateful, the complexity multiplies. We’ll dive into the real-world journey of going from zero to production with AI on K8s, focusing on managing stateful services. We'll unpack architectural patterns, storage strategies, and challenges when running persistent, data-heavy AI workloads in a cloud-native environment. Join us to share learnings and hear how others are navigating the stateful side of AI on K8s.

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.

Witness a real-world cyberattack targeting sensitive data in cloud storage and containers. See how Microsoft Defender for Cloud uses AI to detect threats, power threat hunting, and automate responses to stop lateral movement.

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Supply chains are evolving from reactive systems to intelligent, autonomous networks. The agentic supply chain-powered by AI agents-delivers real-time visibility, predictive insights, and self-orchestrating operations. In this session, discover how AI-driven agents are transforming planning, logistics, and fulfillment to unlock growth, boost profitability, and build resilience in an unpredictable world.