Experience the power of the newly launched NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, designed to accelerate a wide array of workloads including video streaming, graphics rendering, product design, digital twins, and AI development. Explore the latest GPU offerings with Azure Cloud and learn how to leverage Azure Local for cost-effective hybrid deployments of cutting-edge use cases. We will also provide sizing recommendations and deployment options for various workloads.

North America’s leading diagnostics laboratory partnered with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to reimagine its patient requisition management system using Microsoft Azure AI. Historically, lab requisition processes were fragmented and relied on manual steps, causing inefficiencies. TCS implemented an Azure AI-infused cloud solution automating workflows across 500+ patient centers, processing 20,000+ requisitions daily with 30% higher efficiency and <5 min SLA. This collaboration showcases how Azure AI drives innovation and digital transformation in healthcare diagnostics.

Equinor, a $100B global energy leader partnered with Tessell to migrate 700+ Oracle and SQL Server databases to Azure - without re-architecting. With cloud-native HA/DR, automation, and cost visibility, they achieved 65% efficiency gains and cut provisioning from weeks to hours. Not theory: this is a real, enterprise-tested approach to modernizing mission-critical databases at scale. It’s secure, efficient, and built for the cloud.

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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Learn to leverage agent-framework, the new unified platform from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen engineering teams, to build A2A compatible agents similar to magnetic-one. Use SWE Agents (GitHub Copilot coding agent and Codex with Azure OpenAI models) to accelerate development. Implement MCP tools for secure enterprise agentic workflows. Experience hands-on building, deploying, and orchestrating multi-agent systems with pre-release capabilities. Note: Contains embargoed content.

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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.

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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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Learn how to seamlessly modernize a Linux application stack in Azure. Participants will be able to step through the migration process with a Linux/Postgres/Java application and utilize infrastructure as a code (IaC) for scale migrations.

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In this hands-on lab, discover how to govern AI Apps & Agents using AI Gateway in Azure API Management. Learn to apply governance best practices by onboarding AI models, monitoring and controlling token usage, enforcing safety and compliance, and boosting performance with semantic caching. You’ll also govern MCP-based agent architectures by creating secure, efficient servers from APIs or connecting to backend MCP servers, equipping you to deliver responsible, resilient AI solutions at scale.

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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. Assess 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.

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Edge computing is revolutionizing industries by enabling real-time data processing, reducing latency, and powering smarter decision-making. AT&T’s robust 5G and fiber networks, integrated with Microsoft Azure Edge solutions, provide the infrastructure for innovations like smart factories, predictive maintenance, and hybrid work environments. Together, these capabilities are driving efficiency and transforming operations across diverse sectors.

Discover how Elasticsearch’s powerful vector database capabilities and the robust Azure AI Foundry Agent Framework combine to power smarter agents. View how to synthesize information from diverse data sources and how to use A2A and MCP for orchestrating complex tasks. Learn how to design and apply intelligent agents for scalable information retrieval, task coordination, and integration across systems.

Join us for a session to wrap up Azure Data announcements & road map track with an Ask Me Anything session with Azure Data Senior Leadership. This is your opportunity to ask follow-up questions for all the things you want to know, ask those future looking road map questions or even “help us understand why you chose X?”

Discover how to reduce your containerized application’s vulnerability footprint by leveraging the Azure Linux stack end-to-end. In this session, you’ll learn how to build distroless Azure Linux containers and deploy them on AKS nodes running Azure Linux. We’ll show you how this integrated approach minimizes CVEs, simplifies security management, and delivers a hardened environment for your workloads—all without sacrificing agility.

Continuing to install applications into desktop images erodes the benefits of modern Windows technologies, including Intune, Windows 365, and Azure Virtual Desktop.

Discover how AI packaging alleviates the most significant application headaches IT faces when adopting modern Windows desktops platforms, including legacy app compatibility issues, slow deployment times, the frequency of updates, image sprawl, and disk storage consumption.

Presenting Cognizant® Intelligent Claims Adjudication, a patent-filed, agentic AI solution that seamlessly integrates with any claims adjudication platform to address the claims that fall out of the system. Powered by Agentic AI and built on Cognizant’s deep industry expertise with advanced technology from Microsoft Azure, it automates complex claims decisions while keeping human experts involved, learning from the decisions taken each time. Using a proven approach that blends data analysis, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning, the solution delivers fast, accurate, and scalable claims outcomes.

To meet growing customer demand for faster, more intuitive troubleshooting of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) networking, Azure supports deep pod level metrics, logs and visualization for AKS clusters which enables users to understand their network architecture. This session introduces how advanced container networking services with Hubble enhances AKS troubleshooting workflows, helping teams identify and resolve issues efficiently. Attendees will learn how to leverage these capabilities to streamline diagnostics, reduce operational overhead, and improve the overall reliability of their AKS deployments.

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.

Join Wandelbots, Microsoft and NVIDIA for a discussion on the next era of physical AI. Explore how simulations, powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and accelerated by NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and frameworks, Microsoft Azure, and OpenUSD are rapidly accelerating robotics development. Learn how digital twins, synthetic data generation, and closed-loop data integrations reduce risk, speed up skill acquisition, and ensure robust performance for advanced industrial and AI for robotics.

AI agents are now a core part of production environments, delivering real impact. Explore how Azure App Platform supports secure, scalable AI agent deployment and lifecycle management. You'll explore how agents use MCP tools and how built-in observability, access controls, and policy enforcement ensure reliable operations. Leave with a clear understanding of how to manage AI agents with governance and performance at scale.

Join us to hear how Levi’s transformed its global IT estate—including Windows Server, SQL Server, SAP, Oracle, and more—through a comprehensive migration and modernization strategy. Learn how they combined data and app modernization with infrastructure re-platforming to unlock agility, scalability, and cost savings. This real-world story will highlight the strategy, lessons learned, and tangible business outcomes that came from taking an end-to-end approach to migration and modernization.

Join Mark Russinovich, CTO and Technical Fellow of Microsoft Azure. Mark will take you on a tour of the latest innovations in Azure architecture and explain how Azure enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises, and on the edge.

AI performance extends beyond chip metrics; it relies on integrated hardware, software, and infrastructure. Traditional benchmarks fall short, so NVIDIA DGX Cloud Benchmarking offers a standardized framework to evaluate large-scale AI workloads. NVIDIA and Azure present an end-to-end benchmarking workflow, sharing optimization strategies for deploying and tuning production-ready LLMs on Azure.

In the era of AI-driven transformation, partners have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to lead customers into the future—and profit uniquely with Azure. This session will reveal how migration and modernization are not just technical motions, but strategic profit engines for partners ready to capitalize on the next wave of cloud adoption.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Trusted by nearly half of Fortune 100 companies, Nasdaq Boardvantage powers secure, intelligent board operations. In this deep dive session, explore how Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and API Management create a resilient architecture that safeguards confidential data while unlocking new agentic AI capabilities.

What if your AI agents could remember, learn and collaborate at lightning speed? Discover how Azure Managed Redis, Mem0, and Agent Framework turn stateless agents into intelligent systems. Redis enables real-time collaboration, long-term learning, and semantic routing. Mem0 adds persistent memory across sessions, while Agent Framework powers reasoning and planning. Together, they build smarter, scalable multi-agent systems ready for any domain.