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.

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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.

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.

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 resilient cloud solutions on Azure by leveraging availability zones, multi-region deployments, and fungible products. This session explores architectural patterns, platform capabilities, and best practices to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and business continuity for growth of mission-critical workloads in dynamic and distributed environments.

Azure Arc is the bridge between Azure and your on-premises environments. Come learn about the newest management capabilities, mutli-cloud innovation, and see demos of new features that are now generally available.

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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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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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.

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.

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.

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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 today’s competitive landscape, cost efficiency is more than a priority, it’s a strategic imperative. This session explores how to maximize the ROI of your Azure investments by embracing proven best practices, optimizing architectures, unlocking pricing offers, and applying strategic ROI analysis. Discover how to get the most from your Azure investments while aligning with long-term goals.

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.

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.

For project-centric organizations, success is all about maximizing revenue capture on billable work and allowing project resources to focus on delivering client value. In this session we will demonstrate how agents in Dynamics 365 Project Operations are helping meet this brief: from helping employees track time and record expenses to streamlining project manager reviews of project activities for client invoicing.

This lab offers a hands-on deep dive into Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s CSPM features, teaching participants how to assess and improve cloud security across hybrid environments. Attendees will identify misconfigurations, apply compliance frameworks, and automate remediation strategies to strengthen their security posture.

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Learn more about migration and modernization of Windows Server, SQL Server, and .NET apps. Learn how to assess and migrate Windows Server and SQL Server workloads using Azure Migrate and Azure Database Migration Service (DMS). This lab covers discovery, dependency mapping, migration execution, and post-migration optimization as well as leveraging Microsoft Defender for cloud for securing workloads post migration.

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Discover how Microsoft Entra ID is driving the move to a passwordless future with passkeys. Learn about new passkey features, setup, and user benefits, plus insights from Microsoft’s own implementation and the impact of passkeys on the broader ecosystem.

Whether you use Ubuntu, RHEL, SLES, or Rocky, deploying Linux on Azure is more than provisioning VMs. Learn to build secure, performant Linux environments using Azure-native tools and partner integrations. See how to streamline image creation, harden workloads, monitor performance, and stay compliant with Azure Monitor, Defender for Linux, PostgreSQL on Azure, and the secure Linux baseline. Whether architect or OSS advocate, this session helps you confidently “train your penguin” for the cloud.

Explore how Microsoft Sentinel’s platform architecture scales security operations and empowers teams with graph intelligence, data lake integration, and agentic workflows - to automate, investigate, and respond with speed and precision.