Live, expert-led sessions where you’ll build real agentic systems step-by-step.

Speaker: Michael Albada, Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft

Joint session on CoPilot Security as part of the Christmas special.

The Christmas elves have been busy packing their sleigh with shiny new features announced at Ignite this year. We will take you through the sparkling baubles of delight that already have your data users demanding more. As the users unwrap the delights of AI driven trumpets the parents in governance look on with dread. Laura and Claire will with a mix of entertaining Christmas themed demos will show off some of the "brilliant" new features including plenty of Agents and AI doing "magic" across your data. Do not fear though we will include how and where switches are to turn off, control and audit what chaos the new toys bring. Demos and Laughter, we will break things so you don't have to! There will be a prize for the best Christmas jumper worn to our session!

This session explains the theory behind Microsoft Fabric capacity architecture so admins and users can understand how it works. We connect the concepts with the Capacity Metrics App, demonstrate how to monitor and protect capacity, explain throttling in practice, and share best practices.

Let's learn about the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a cutting-edge framework designed to standardize interactions between AI models and client applications. Through this beginner-friendly session, Sandra will introduce you to MCP and guide you through creating your first MCP server with Langchain4j and Quarkus.

Explores Microsoft’s Applied Skills credential program and the learning path for implementing a data science and ML solution with Microsoft Fabric, including setting up a Microsoft Learn profile, locating credential offerings, and following the guided scenario using Fabric’s Lakehouse, Notebooks, and MLflow integration. Linda Larkan will provide demonstrations highlighting the workflow from data ingestion to model training and prediction.

Session sur l’exposition des données avec Power BI et Data Agents.

Session sur l’ingestion de données et l’alimentation de Fabric avec vos sources.

Session sur la mise en place d'une plateforme Fabric, du zéro au premier workspace.

Session sur la transformation et la modélisation des données dans Fabric.

on the State and Future of AI, Microservices, DDD, Flow, Spring and Java

As organizations accelerate their cloud adoption, robust security for your Infrastructure as a Service platform is more critical than ever. This session will provide a comprehensive exploration of Azure’s security architecture, best practices, and innovations across four pillars: foundational security, compute security, network security, and storage security. Attendees will gain actionable insights to strengthen their cloud posture, ensure compliance, and protect sensitive workloads.

What happens when AI meets the frontline? Discover how to unlock productivity and efficiency with innovative AI-powered solutions tailored for frontline-specific workflows and mobile-first experiences, without compromising security and control. Learn practical approaches to modernizing your frontline through smart, simple, secure solutions with Microsoft 365, and simplifying IT complexity to deploy and manage at scale.

Discover how you can use AI for PowerShell and Azure CLI to boost automation and simplify complex commands. We’ll showcase how AI can generate scripts on demand, guide you through best practices, and help enforce governance and security policies confidently. Through practical demos, see how natural language prompts can automate tasks, apply guardrails, and secure your estate.

Discover how Microsoft and top media partners are reshaping Media & Entertainment with AI and the Microsoft Cloud. Learn how Azure, Fabric, and generative AI are powering faster content creation, smarter workflows, and immersive audience experiences—featuring real-world innovations in storytelling, distribution, and monetization.

Dive into the latest compute innovation at the core of Azure IaaS. This session highlights key compute advancements across performance, cost optimization, scalability, reliability, and security designed to make both new and existing workloads run faster, more efficiently, and more securely. Whether you're running mission-critical enterprise apps or scaling cloud-native services, discover how these innovations are unlocking new value for customers and get a preview of what’s coming next.

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 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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Learn how to create intelligent, task-oriented Copilot agents using the native Microsoft 365 Copilot stack. In this hands-on lab, you'll use TypeSpec, a type safe language to write agent specification and the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit to build Declarative agents that integrate seamlessly with third party as well as Microsoft 365 services.

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In this lab you'll help a coffee shop unify their operational and analytical workloads with Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric. You'll blend operational data with curated sources using cross-database SQL, stream and visualize real-time POS events, and create a gold layer for personalization. Finally, you'll implement reverse ETL to Cosmos for lightning-fast serving and train a lightweight Spark notebook model to deliver the right offer at the right time before your customer’s order is ready.

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Harness the power of real-time analytics and digital twins to achieve critical operational tasks. In this lab, you'll learn how to transform physical systems into dynamic digital replicas, enhancing simulations and optimizing operations. Discover how to build end-to-end solutions for event-driven scenarios, streaming data, and data logs. These practical steps will empower you to drive smart decision-making and foster innovation within your organization.

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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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As threats grow more complex, teams need improved visibility and context to defend threats faster. In this lab, we’ll explore how Microsoft Purview and Defender XDR integrate to help organizations investigate security incidents through a single pane.

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Azure IaaS can deliver excellent performance and scalability across a broad range of workloads. With high-throughput storage, low-latency networking, and intelligent auto-scaling, Azure supports demanding apps with precision. Learn how to optimize compute, storage, and network resources to meet performance goals, reduce costs, and scale confidently across global regions. Dive into the latest capabilities Azure Boost, Compute Fleet, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage and Networking offer.