Enterprises are under pressure to modernize infrastructure without disrupting critical operations. In this session, learn how Azure VMware Solution (AVS) enables a seamless, low-risk migration path for VMware workloads—preserving existing investments while unlocking the scale and innovation of Azure. Watch a live migration demo and explore real-world customer success stories that highlight key lessons and best practices. We’ll also dive into enterprise-grade security strategies.

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Learn how partners can build scalable, secure AI solutions with Microsoft Foundry. Integrate models from OpenAI, Cohere, Mistral, Hugging Face, and Meta Llama using Azure Databricks, Cosmos DB, Snowflake, and SQL. Foundry enables orchestration of agents, model customization, and secure data workflows—all within environments like GitHub, Visual Studio, and Copilot Studio.

Building secure applications in the cloud requires consistent governance and continuous compliance. Learn how to use Azure Policy to enforce organizational standards, remediate non-compliant resources, and maintain compliance at scale. We’ll also explore how Service Groups simplify security management by grouping and applying policies across applications, environments, and resource types. See how these innovations help you confidently secure Windows, Linux, and database workloads in Azure.

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Power innovation with efficiency and security through the Dell Technologies and Microsoft partnership. Explore Dell’s reimagined private cloud with Azure Local for an integrated, automated solution that simplifies operations and scales infrastructure. Discover Dell PowerScale for Azure, delivering high-performance file storage for modern workloads. Unlock opportunities with Dell’s advanced technologies, ensuring cyber resilience and data security across the Microsoft ecosystem.

Are you leveraging agentic AI on Microsoft Azure but struggling with visibility and performance? Join us for a 20-minute session where we'll explore how Dynatrace provides impactful observability for your AI workloads. Learn how FreedomPay, a leader in FinTech, uses Dynatrace to gain a holistic view of transactions, reduce resolution times by 80%, scale across AI workloads and optimize performance to drive innovation.

Still wrangling legacy code and applications? Analyze, upgrade, and migrate apps to Azure services with autonomous AI agents in GitHub Copilot— drastically simply your modernization effort, unlocking the full power of the cloud with confidence and staying in full control during each step.

DocumentDB, the open-source MongoDB-compatible document database now part of the Linux Foundation, helps you innovate faster and save more. Customers like Kraft Heinz move fast with a JSON-native model, reduce ops with turnkey scaling and updates, and secure workloads with enterprise-grade protection and an E2E Azure SLA. Delivered as a fully managed service with support for hybrid and multicloud, Azure DocumentDB keeps you moving faster while crushing costs at enterprise scale.

Kickstart your cloud migration with a secure, scalable foundation. In this session, we'll demonstrate how to deploy Azure Platform Landing Zone using the new, automated agentic capability within Azure Migrate. Learn how to embed governance and security from the start, in alignment with Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework best practices. Whether migrating a single workload or scaling across environments, you'll gain a practical plan for building a resilient cloud foundation.

AI agents are reshaping business operations across sectors. If you’re looking to bolster your business with agents, this session offers a strategic approach for building intelligent agents that truly understand your data. Learn how to uncover next-level AI reasoning for your agents using knowledge graphs, vector search and the latest AI integrations directly in PostgreSQL on Azure. Leave with a blueprint and best practices from Azure customers you can use to augment your own apps and copilots.

As autonomous AI agents built with Microsoft Foundry take on critical tasks, security is non-negotiable. In this fast demo, we apply zero trust to agent chains: secure tool access with Entra ID, protect secrets and context with Key Vault, enforce real-time content filters, and capture auditable traces. Learn to stop prompt injection, data leaks, and agent hijacking using Azure’s native security controls. Walk away with a battle-tested checklist for hardening agents in Foundry!

Oracle Database@Azure provides the performance and flexibility of using Autonomous AI Database and Exadata Database Service, enabling you to build and deploy powerful Oracle AI Database apps natively in Microsoft Azure. In this session, we’ll discuss how the converged capabilities of Oracle AI Database, including AI Vector Search, combine with Azure AI Services to help accelerate the development of advanced AI-driven applications.

As frontier firms move from single use case implementations to industry value chains transformation with agentic AI, they need to adopt AI at scale to drive growth, optimize costs and enhance customer experience. This path requires synthesizing enterprise knowledge and designing solutions that leverage responsible AI principles and human plus agent collaboration. Join TCS and Microsoft experts to learn how to bring agentic AI to life through a display of real-world use cases for industries & IT.

Azure brings unified management to on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Learn how Azure Arc delivers consistent governance, security, and operations across Azure, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments—while enabling System Center customers to adopt a cloud-native management experience. Whether modernizing Windows/Linux or building cloud-native apps, equip yourself with tools and agents to bridge datacenter and cloud.

Learn how leading enterprises have transformed legacy systems into agile, cloud- and AI-ready solutions—at scale. Through real customer stories and proven best practices, you’ll discover the latest Azure App, Data, and AI innovations that fuel app modernization and deliver measurable business impact. Walk away with practical tips, inspired by real-world results, that you can start applying from day one.

Agents need context. How should we connect data to our agents for optimal context? In this session we will introduce Foundry IQ, the knowledge layer for agents, and the latest developments from Azure AI Search and Microsoft Foundry. Learn about multi-source RAG orchestration, retrieval steering, dynamic security controls and agentic RAG.

Agentic AI is redefining how enterprises operate—automating complex workflows and unlocking value across business functions. In this session, explore how NVIDIA and Azure are accelerating the development, deployment, and orchestration of agentic AI applications at scale. Learn how NVIDIA’s key offerings such as NVIDIA Nemotron models, NVIDIA NIM, and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit on Azure AI platform equip organizations to boost innovation and fully realize the promise of agentic AI.

As LLMs grow, efficient inference requires multi-node execution—introducing challenges in orchestration, scheduling, and low-latency GPU-to-GPU data transfers. Hardware like the GB200 NVL72 delivers massive scale-up compute, but truly scalable inference also depends on advanced software. Explore how open-source frameworks like NVIDIA Dynamo, combined with Azure’s AKS managed Kubernetes service, unlock new levels of performance and cost-efficiency.

Get 2X performance and 5X database capacity with Azure SQL Managed Instance. The new next-gen General Purpose tier sets a new standard of value for fully managed SQL solutions. Get started quickly with AI-assisted tooling that can complete an end-to-end migration in days. See this come to life with insurance services organization, Hexure who rebuilt their platform with Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure App Service and delivered a better CX in one highly performant, scalable and efficient platform.

Learn about the resources and benefits available for software development companies across all stages of the build, publish and grow journey in MAICPP. Whether you’re developing a new agent solution or working toward a certified software designation, there are targeted skilling opportunities, technical resources, and GTM benefits to help. Tap into new investments for AI apps and agents and hear from your peers on how they’ve used rewards such as customer propensity scores and Azure sponsorship

Deploy AVS and manage VMware vSphere environment as an Azure resources (B) Connect AVS private cloud secretly with Internet (C) Migrate VMs from on-premises to AVS using VMware HCX technology (D) Expand AVS private cloud storage with Azure NetApp Files or Azure Elastic SAN; scaling storage independently from compute (E) Manage AVS workloads VMs using Azure interfaces by Arc-enabling AVS private cloud and its VMs (F) Modernization workloads with Azure Services like Azure SQL Managed Instances and AI capabilities.

Note: this session will use demo environments instead of live environments due to complexity and time.

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

Join us for a hands-on workshop showcasing the latest Azure SQL innovations to supercharge your applications. Learn how to harness generative AI alongside Azure SQL Database to elevate your data strategies with AI concepts like language models, prompt engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and streamline with Microsoft Copilot. Whether you're a developer, architect, or IT professional, this workshop is your ticket to mastering SQL and AI to stay ahead in the data-driven landscape.

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

Discover how to build a cost-efficient log management solution using Microsoft Sentinel and Azure Data Lake. In this session, we’ll walk through a real-world example that demonstrates how to optimize data ingestion, storage, and retention without compromising visibility or compliance. Learn practical strategies to reduce costs while maintaining a scalable and secure logging architecture.

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.

Explore how to monitor and observe multi-agent systems in production using observability tools from Azure Monitor, integrated with Microsoft Foundry. Trace multi-agent pipelines, apply OpenTelemetry standards, and instrument business telemetry with dashboards. You’ll walk away with effective best practices to debug evaluation results and monitoring insights to secure and scale your AI agents.

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.

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

“On Air at Microsoft Ignite” will deep dive into key announcements with expert interviews, demonstrations, and real-world applications for all the latest news. ​

Hour 3 will feature:​ Dell: Stephen O'Leary & Rohit Tatachar​ LIFT: Jeremy Chapman and Shilpi Sinha​ NTT DATA: Aishwarya Singh & Brandon Lee​ What’s new in Azure innovations?: Mark Russinovich​ Lenovo: Dave Mooney​ Microsoft Marketplace: Cyril Belikoff​ Capgemini: Clemens Reijnen & James McMahon