Real customers. Real frameworks. Real results. Join Srini Raghavan (CVP – Copilot & Agents Ecosystem) and a live customer panel to cut through the hype and get real-world Agentic AI’s impact, best practices and frameworks for transforming business processes with confidence. Also learn how Microsoft 365 Copilot platform empowers customers to build intelligent agents to accelerate your AI journey.

Transform Microsoft 365 Copilot to talk, think, and work like your organization with Copilot Tuning—no coding or data scientists required. Explore supervised and reinforcement learning, new agent capabilities, built-in security, and more. See how leading enterprises unlock value with proven best practices for fine-tuning—starting with use case selection and extending through data prep, training, and administration.

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Managing endpoints in the cloud is a fundamental piece of the Zero Trust puzzle and of delivering the optimal AI experience for business. In this session, we’ll demystify what that means in practice. See how Microsoft Intune brings Zero Trust to life by connecting device and app management, compliance, and threat protection. We’ll show how cloud-native management establishes a stronger security foundation and enables safe, scalable adoption of AI. Strengthen endpoint protection across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android—helping IT teams stay ahead of threats while empowering employees to work productively and securely from anywhere.

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.

Discover how Microsoft and LSEG are transforming financial workflows with interoperable, AI-driven tools. See how Copilot aids content discovery, data integration in Excel and PowerPoint, and enables AI-powered engagement via Teams. Learn to build custom agents using LSEG data for enhanced productivity and collaboration in financial markets.

AI is reshaping industries, but trust must be built, measured, and audited. Through real-world client stories, learn how to overcome opaque models, complex workflows, and adoption barriers. Gain practical strategies to make AI decisions understandable, traceable, and accountable—moving from hype to solutions that deliver value and inspire confidence.

From innovators in development to executors in technology, scattered sensitive data and growing compliance can slow down AI and Copilot. Microsoft Purview and RecordPoint bring your data together across Microsoft 365 and beyond, with AI‑driven data classification, retention, and governance out of the box. See how Cupertino Electric tamed CPRA/DSAR at scale, plus clear steps to light up Copilot.

The intersection of AI and Cybersecurity – powered by Microsoft and accelerated by NVIDIA: Discover how Microsoft's MSEC team is redefining enterprise AI immunity — a solution developed in collaboration with NVIDIA. Explore how Microsoft and NVIDIA are partnering to power agentic capabilities at scale, enabling AI-driven innovation for Cybersecurity use cases. Learn how the platform leverages the full NVIDIA AI stack and how AI agents through Microsoft are tapping into NVIDIA GPU infrastructure.

Protect what matters most to customers: the cloud, AI platforms, and business-critical applications. Discover how Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides a unified, intelligent solution for safeguarding workloads across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, enabling you to confidently deliver security at the speed of innovation. We'll show you how to position secure migration strategies to customers and use GTM resources and partner incentives to increase engagement.

Learn how you can deliver smarter, AI-driven collaboration in your workspaces with Cisco collaboration devices and Microsoft Teams. The session will highlight how to improve workplace efficiency and employee engagement by integrating advanced AI capabilities with Cisco's intuitive collaboration devices. Witness 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.

See how Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Pages are advancing today with new AI capabilities. From M365 Copilot integrations and secure connectors to RPA, governance, and observability, the core Power Platform is getting more robust and smarter. Learn how these improvements help organizations modernize their enterprise solutions responsibly, while laying the foundation for an agent-first future.

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Hear directly from government and city leaders as they share their journeys of digital transformation using Microsoft technologies. We will feature voices from cities world-wide, showcasing real-world use cases in AI adoption, data modernization, and citizen services. Join us for a discussion designed to equip government and city attendees with technical insights, lessons learned, and peer-to-peer strategies.

Finance processes are ripe for transformation with AI and agents, allowing business leaders to minimize liability, improve financial insights, and reduce overtime and tedious work for finance teams. Join us to learn about the Frontier Firm's Finance tech stack and build your own plan for transformation.

Your Microsoft environment is the backbone of business operations, but identity threats, ransomware, and AI risks are escalating fast. Join Rubrik to learn how to achieve end-to-end cyber resilience across Microsoft 365. We will cover how to keep critical operations running with rapid recovery, safeguard identities with Entra ID and Active Directory resilience, and prepare for AI by securing Copilot and agent workflows.

AI agents like GitHub Copilot have transformed how developers build software. In this session, learn how to leverage GitHub’s governance and security capabilities to enable agents at scale. We’ll cover best practices for rolling out agents across your organization, aligning with developer workflows, and maintaining oversight while embracing this new era of software development.

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.

We release new Windows features and enhancements year-round. Learn how to stay up-to-date on what’s coming next in security, productivity, and AI. Learn how to preview features on individual devices, virtual machines, or across your organization so you can deploy the latest features and updates faster and with confidence. We'll also explore how you can engage directly with the product teams with related programs like the Customer Connection Program.

Several years back Microsoft introduced ‘Unified’ as our hero support offer. This marked a major shift in how Microsoft delivers comprehensive support across all Microsoft products and cloud services, worldwide. In the next year we’ll bring ‘Unified for Partners’ center stage for CSP partners who enable SME&C customer success at scale. This offer comes together with the power of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program through a new Support Services designation, launching here at Ignite!

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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In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn to build domain-specific AI agents with Foundry Agent Service. Starting from a simple agent, you’ll add system prompts, custom instructions, and knowledge with RAG. You’ll extend it with tool calling (like a pizza calculator) and connect external services via MCP for live menu and order handling. By the end, you’ll have a working Contoso PizzaBot that can answer questions, recommend pizzas, and manage orders.

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You’ve built a great agent that your customers love—now it’s time to scale. By bringing your agent to Microsoft Teams with the Teams AI Library v2, you can reach 330 million users and unlock rich collaborative experiences across chats, meetings, and channels.

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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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This hands-on lab guides you through how developers and partners can build solutions, agents and extensibility features that can be delivered through Dragon Copilot, leveraging Microsoft’s scale to expand reach and engagement.

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Get hands-on experience with enabling and managing AI experiences for Windows. Explore the customizations available to users and the controls available to IT admins. Learn how to use Microsoft Intune or Group Policy to fine-tune popular features like Recall, Copilot, Click to Do, and Image Creator. We’ll also walk through managing privacy and compliance, and end user readiness.

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