Discover how Dynamo AI, a fast-growing AI security startup in financial services and government, uses Azure AI to confidently deploy generative AI at scale. Attendees will learn how Dynamo’s auditable guardrails, hallucination checks, and observability keep applications reliable and compliant, while gaining insights on building and deploying responsible AI solutions that balance innovation, trust, and speed.

Hear how Canadian Tire Corporation, one of Canada’s most iconic retailers, is modernizing its digital strategy through a hybrid cloud approach with Microsoft and Equinix. Discover how scalable, interconnected infrastructure accelerates Azure VMware Solution (AVS) migration, supports hybrid cloud workloads, and builds a resilient, future-ready network.

Explore the latest Azure Storage innovations engineered for every use case. From scaling inferencing with terabytes-per-second throughput to ensuring business continuity for mission-critical operations, Azure Storage solves diverse challenges with flexibility and reliability. Whether you’re modernizing legacy environments, optimizing Tier-0 workloads, or building next-generation AI applications, you’ll get practical guidance to transform and accelerate your cloud journey with Azure Storage.

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Azure HorizonDB is Azure’s new fully managed PostgreSQL database for mission-critical workloads. Join engineering and product leaders to explore the architecture that enables enhanced scalability without sacrificing performance, ultra-fast failovers, and read replicas for constant availability. Learn how HorizonDB combines open-source Postgres with state-of-the-art Azure infrastructure, cutting-edge database innovation and advanced AI features to power next-generation applications.

Learn how intelligent infrastructure, agentic operations, and AI-driven tools are transforming cloud reliability, security, and agility for every workload. Join Chief Product Officer of Azure Platform, Jeremy Winter and guests, to discover how Azure’s latest innovations empower organizations to modernize, secure, and scale with confidence.

Agentic DevOps is shaping the future of software engineering, driving productivity and innovation through automation and intelligent collaboration. Learn how AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure are empowering developers at Microsoft to innovate faster and more securely. Gain practical insights and strategies from Microsoft’s journey to empower your own DevOps transformation.

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.

Learn how to build an advanced AI agent using Azure Database for PostgreSQL and the new Microsoft Agent Framework. 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 this hands-on lab to explore Azure Arc for hybrid and multicloud environments. You’ll onboard Windows VMs, enable monitoring with Azure Monitor, apply compliance with Machine Configuration, and strengthen security using Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Wrap up by enabling Arc agent auto-upgrade to keep resources secure and current.

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

See agentic intelligence come to life with Azure Direct Models in Microsoft Foundry, “vibe coding” workflows, and Microsoft 365 integration. We’ll show how to ship responsive agents with Copilot Studio actions, Graph connectors, and Azure AI Search—plus telemetry, evals, and guardrails—for low?latency, enterprise?grade results. Demos cover autonomous tasks, multi?agent handoffs, and feedback loops. Leave with patterns, code, and a build checklist.

Cloud-native architectures are transforming app development, and Azure’s infrastructure drives this evolution. This session dives into services that help develop and deploy resilient, scalable cloud-native solutions—with real customer insights and field-tested guidance. Learn how VMSS handles stateless workloads, Azure Storage and Container Networking optimize performance and cost, and how Kubernetes and other OSS thrive on Azure with enterprise-grade reliability.

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Build AI apps that run securely and scale with your needs with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. We’ll cover native vector indexes for semantic search, read scale out for low latency RAG, and secure model invocation with Microsoft Foundry, using the model of your choice, from T SQL. Hear directly from global technology company Hexagon and investment firm BlackRock who will join us to share their experience along with best practices, demos and more!

Microsoft's database portfolio offers a range of options for your customers to achieve any goal. Come to this session to learn about the top use cases for each of our managed database products and how to pitch customers on the value of co-locating databases on Azure with other workloads including AI, analytics, or applications. Whether your customers are migrating and modernizing enterprise applications from on-premise solutions to the cloud or building AI applications, Azure has you covered.

This session is designed specifically for VMware admins who want to accelerate their cloud journey. You’ll learn how to use Azure Migrate to discover and assess VMware workloads, migrate them into Azure, and then manage them with cloud-native tools. We’ll also compare operations tasks like provisioning VMs, setting up high availability, and monitoring health, between vSphere and Azure, helping you gain confidence in running production workloads in the cloud.

Modernizing and migrating from Azure Synapse Gen 2 and Azure Data Factory can be complex. Microsoft Fabric streamlines this journey with a seamless migration experience. In this session, discover key migration scenarios, best practices, and how Fabric serves as a single destination for data integration, transformation, and analytics - helping you modernize your data estate while reducing complexity and accelerating time to value.

Learn what Microsoft is doing to make the Azure platform secure, as well as explore identity management, encryption, network protection and compliance strategies to safeguard your Azure workloads. Discover how to build layered defenses and align architecture with evolving threats and regulatory standards for enterprise-grade security.

Enterprises modernizing core systems on Azure face a familiar set of challenges: legacy mainframes, complex code refactors, and fragmented DevOps pipelines. Join Cognition to get a practical view of how autonomous AI agents like Devin help engineering teams accelerate large-scale modernization efforts. Witness how engineers used Devin to refactor COBOL applications, automate migration pipelines into Azure DevOps and GitHub, and validate migrated workloads for production.

Discover how HPE is redefining IT management. Explore HPE’s innovative pre-bundled licensing approach that simplifies procurement by consolidating multiple licenses into one integrated solution using Azure Local, ensuring consistent support across hardware, software and local cloud resources for streamlined IT environments. See how HPE is advancing Windows Server by incorporating digital media delivery capabilities that promote sustainability and ease of management.

As modern cloud and AI applications continue to be built at rapid speed, organizations must ensure their cloud deployments are secure and compliant with the latest regulatory standards. Join us to learn how the new and improved controls Microsoft cloud security benchmark v2 can help Azure users and security teams create baselines to secure cloud services and keep environments compliant.

This new technology area encompasses a wide array of mission-critical workloads and modernization efforts, including SAP, Oracle Database@Azure, Azure VMware Solution (AVS), Nutanix on Azure, and mainframe modernization strategies. MVPs in this area are expected to demonstrate deep expertise in at least one of these technologies, with a strong grasp of architecture, deployment, and operational nuances on Azure.

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.

KPMG’s AI-driven platform transforms insurance claims management using Microsoft Azure and OpenAI. Informed by live client use cases, the solution analyzes large datasets, identifies high-value opportunities, and generates actionable insights. The solution improves operational efficiency, accelerates decision-making, and helps insurers unlock hidden value across complex claims portfolios.

Modernize your DevOps strategy with Agentic DevOps by migrating your Azure Repos to GitHub while continuing to leverage the investments you’ve made in Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines. We’ll walk through real-world patterns for hybrid adoption, show how to integrate GitHub, Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines, and share best practices for enabling agent-based workflows with the MCP Servers for Azure DevOps, Playwright and Azure.

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With its unrivaled extensibility, PostgreSQL is a top choice for accelerating AI innovation. Now Azure is allowing developers to move even faster with Azure HorizonDB. Discover why Azure HorizonDB, which is AI-enabled out of the box, is the ideal launchpad for your apps and agents. We’ll demo the latest features, like AI Model Management and DiskANN Advanced Filtering, that make Postgres easy to provision and AI-aware on Azure.  See how you can build solutions faster with PostgreSQL.​

Discover how AI, cloud, and robotics are transforming digital engineering across industries. Learn how Microsoft and its partners are enabling faster design, smarter simulation, and scalable automation—from PLM modernization to autonomous systems. See how Azure, GitHub, and agentic AI are powering the next wave of industrial innovation.

Explore the digital transformation and AI-enablement driving manufacturing optimization at Kraft Heinz. Discover how our digital core and Digital Twin provide real-time recommendations to plant operators powered by Azure Arc and Microsoft Foundry. This customer-led session offers actionable insights for scaling AI across industrial environments, envisioning an autonomous future of manufacturing, and advancing toward a self-driven supply chain.