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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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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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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In this hands-on lab, makers will learn how to create intelligent agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot using topics, MCP Tools, and autonomous behaviors. Attendees will explore agent fundamentals, build custom workflows, and gain practical experience with Copilot Studio’s capabilities to streamline real-world tasks, boosting efficiency across Microsoft 365.

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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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In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to migrate traditional workloads to AKS using containerization and AKS Automatic, while enhancing functionality through integration with Azure PaaS services. We'll also explore how GitHub Copilot Application Modernization accelerates the process with AI-assisted coding and intelligent refactoring, helping teams streamline modernization and unlock cloud-native capabilities faster.

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Update description to Unlock the power of Microsoft Sentinel with this hands-on lab. Hunt threats using KQL across the data lake and leverage graph-based insights to detect anomalies, investigate alerts, and strengthen SOC workflows.

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In this lab, you'll get hands-on with the AI Toolkit (AITK) and Microsoft Foundry in VS Code to explore and compare the latest multimodal and reasoning models from the Model Catalog. Learn how to augment models for a real-world business scenario, using prompt and context engineering. Prototype an agent using the AITK Agent Builder, and equip the agent with the right tools via the Model context Protocol (MCP).

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Discover agents in Viva Engage communities and other AI-powered tools to power your Copilot adoption journey. Agents in communities are designed to provide time-savings, facilitate knowledge sharing, and make expertise readily available across organizations. As organizations evolve, fostering AI adoption with knowledge sharing and community engagement becomes essential. Learn how this agent and other AI capabilities can help cultivate community growth and scale impact.

Join fellow cloud enthusiasts for a dynamic exchange of real-world Azure migration experiences, lessons learned, and best practices. This interactive session spotlights community-driven insights to help you navigate challenges, accelerate adoption, and unlock the full potential of Azure. Come ready to share, learn, and connect!

Multi-tenant apps need scalable platforms to meet growing workload and AI demands, but scaling PostgreSQL can be complex. Elastic Clusters in Azure Database for PostgreSQL offers a fix: simple horizontal scale out of PostgreSQL data with row and schema-based sharding built into the managed service. Join us to learn how this best-in-class capability is empowering ITOps, architects and developers to build and manage resilient, high-performing multi-tenant apps while optimizing operations and cost.

Showcase your support excellence with the Solutions Partner designation for Support Services in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. Learn how to qualify, unlock key benefits, and stand out with enhanced visibility and program perks. This designation validates your impact across Microsoft technologies and accelerates business growth.

Join our leaders from ERP engineering to share about best practices for building custom agents for Dynamics 365 ERP using Copilot Studio and MCP server. Bring your questions and personal experience to participate in this collaborative session

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Part connection lab, part playbook. This interactive session gathers women in IT management and allies to celebrate wins and surface today’s most effective strategies. Learn quick plays for influence, negotiation, and bias interruption, then turn insight into relationships through guided networking. You’ll leave with concrete next steps, curated resources, and new allies for the journey.

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To meet the growing demand for resilient and high-performance infrastructure for AI workloads, Azure introduces key advancements across its networking stack. The new StandardV2 NAT Gateway delivers zonal resiliency and IPv6 support, now enhanced with flow logs in private preview for deeper traffic visibility. ExpressRoute continues to evolve with metro expansion, general availability of resiliency and scalable gateways, and upcoming support for high-capacity connections up to 1Tbps. Complementing these capabilities, a customer story highlights how DNS traffic is secured and visualized using DNS security policies and threat intelligence on Azure Virtual Networks.

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Discover how Microsoft Planner and the Project Manager agent are transforming teamwork. Explore 10 powerful capabilities—from gathering tasks mentioned in Teams meetings and channels to generating comprehensive status reports in minutes. Learn how to unlock clarity, consistency, and productivity for complex projects and scalable processes.

Insurance carriers are rapidly adopting AI agents to tackle complex challenges—from customer engagement to claims management and underwriting. In this session, learn practical steps to build intelligent agents by applying agentic frameworks using Microsoft technologies like Copilot Studio. We’ll illustrate with an agent that automates the tedious tasks of an insurance claims analyst, boosting productivity and reducing error.

Passionate about sharing knowledge and making an impact in your community? Learn what it takes to become a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from those who’ve done it. Gain additional perspective from those who review the nominations: the Product Group Leads and MVP Program staff. Discover how to expand your influence, showcase your expertise, and glean practical tips for getting nominated. Walk away with a roadmap for growing your contributions and positioning yourself for MVP success.

Discover new out-of-box Microsoft Purview reports—covering label activities, DLP activities, and usage metrics—and learn how Purview reporting delivers a holistic view of your security posture for smarter, data-driven decisions.

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

Hour 3 will feature:​ Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent updates: Jeremy Chapman​ Team Viewer: Sebastian Schrötel​ Responsible AI & Centru AI: Ana Welch​ Capgemini: Arnaud Balssa​ Cognizant: Manpreet Singh​ SAP: Dr. Walter Sun​ NTT DATA: Charlie Doubek, Geoff Newman​ Nasdaq: Secure Innovation with PostgreSQL on Azure: Charles Feddersen, Mohsin Shafqat

Software development companies: join us to learn more about partnering with Microsoft through the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, including upcoming changes to offers for software development companies and increased investments in software companies for FY26.