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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In this hands-on lab, you’ll build a Knowledge Base using agentic RAG, the next evolution of retrieval in Azure AI Search. Connect your agentic retrieval engine to your data through smart source selection across multiple indexes and storage systems. Learn how to enhance planning using natural language guidance and generate grounded responses with citations or extractive answers tailored to your use case. By the end, you’ll have a fully functional Knowledge Base that responds over enterprise data.

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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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This hands-on lab is designed to equip IT professionals and technical decision-makers with the latest tools and capabilities in Microsoft Teams administration and security. Participants will explore new diagnostic, monitoring, and protection features that enhance operational efficiency and safeguard collaboration.

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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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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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Gain the skills to govern identities at scale with Microsoft Entra. Get hands-on experience automating provisioning, streamlining access, enforcing governance policies, and configuring Face Check for identity validation to reduce risk and ensure compliance.

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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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Attendees will learn to enable Defender for Cloud, navigate its dashboard, and interpret regulatory compliance and workload protection insights. The labs also cover secure score analysis, security recommendations, inventory management, pricing models, and governance rule assignment. By the end of the series, participants will be equipped to proactively identify and mitigate threats, strengthen cloud security posture, and align with organizational governance standards.

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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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Understand the Start, Get, and Stay Resilient journey. Get equipped with tools & insights to architect mission critical applications with Azure’s Resiliency and Configuration experiences. Assess your resiliency posture, apply recommendations, validate your posture and orchestrate recovery. With the Essentials Machine Management bundle from Azure, manage and maintain the state of your resources, enforce configurations across devices and ensure resilience is not a one-time goal but an ongoing state.

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Edge computing is revolutionizing industries by enabling real-time data processing, reducing latency, and powering smarter decision-making. AT&T’s robust 5G and fiber networks, integrated with Microsoft Azure Edge solutions, provide the infrastructure for innovations like smart factories, predictive maintenance, and hybrid work environments. Together, these capabilities are driving efficiency and transforming operations across diverse sectors.

Discover how Elasticsearch’s powerful vector database capabilities and the robust Azure AI Foundry Agent Framework combine to power smarter agents. View how to synthesize information from diverse data sources and how to use A2A and MCP for orchestrating complex tasks. Learn how to design and apply intelligent agents for scalable information retrieval, task coordination, and integration across systems.

Join us for a session to wrap up Azure Data announcements & road map track with an Ask Me Anything session with Azure Data Senior Leadership. This is your opportunity to ask follow-up questions for all the things you want to know, ask those future looking road map questions or even “help us understand why you chose X?”

Discover how to reduce your containerized application’s vulnerability footprint by leveraging the Azure Linux stack end-to-end. In this session, you’ll learn how to build distroless Azure Linux containers and deploy them on AKS nodes running Azure Linux. We’ll show you how this integrated approach minimizes CVEs, simplifies security management, and delivers a hardened environment for your workloads—all without sacrificing agility.

As AI agents scale from pilot to production, organizations face challenges around trust, compliance and governance. This session shows how Microsoft Foundry embeds responsible and trustworthy AI practices aligned with Microsoft’s Responsible AI principles. Learn how to evaluate agents, monitor behavior in production and automate quality and safety checks to deliver insights that speed approvals, reduce risk and build customer trust.

Our Customer Engineering teams work to make sure you have templates and communities to accelerate your use of Copilot Studio and Power Platform services. Join us for this fun session where we demo the resources and solutions that we have to get you started and keep you moving as you use our tools to deliver your business outcomes.

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To meet growing customer demand for faster, more intuitive troubleshooting of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) networking, Azure supports deep pod level metrics, logs and visualization for AKS clusters which enables users to understand their network architecture. This session introduces how advanced container networking services with Hubble enhances AKS troubleshooting workflows, helping teams identify and resolve issues efficiently. Attendees will learn how to leverage these capabilities to streamline diagnostics, reduce operational overhead, and improve the overall reliability of their AKS deployments.

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Join Heather Gordon (Chief Partner Office, Asia) on the Partner opportunity - highlighting regional initiatives and actionable guidance to deepen collaboration, accelerate co-sell momentum, and drive scalable growth.

Followed by Mark Iles (Chief Analyst, APAC Channels) from Omdia for an exclusive discussion on the evolving global channel market — combining macro trends with Asia-specific insights— guiding partners on how to anticipate disruption and align with Microsoft’s strategic direction.

This session dives into advanced agent development with Microsoft Copilot Studio. It's designed for makers and developers ready to move beyond the basics and orchestrate intelligent, autonomous agents at scale. Whether you're streamlining operations, enhancing customer service, or transforming internal processes, this session will equip you with the tools and strategies to build agents that deliver real business impact.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Build, operate, and scale AI agents with Foundry Agent Service. Learn how to author agents, connect tools and data, evaluate performance, and deploy to a secure runtime for production. See how to bring OpenAI API–based projects into Foundry with minimal changes while gaining enterprise-grade governance, observability, and interoperability through the Model Context Protocol and agent-to-agent capabilities.

AI agents are now a core part of production environments, delivering real impact. Explore how Azure App Platform supports secure, scalable AI agent deployment and lifecycle management. You'll explore how agents use MCP tools and how built-in observability, access controls, and policy enforcement ensure reliable operations. Leave with a clear understanding of how to manage AI agents with governance and performance at scale.

As a follow-up to the breakout session "Know every agent. Govern every action. Secure every connection", we'll answer your questions about visibility, identity governance, and access management of agents for your organization with Microsoft Entra identity and network access solutions.

Citrix and Microsoft futurists explore how AI will transform work by operating existing apps alongside humans. See the 7-stage progression from today's shadow AI to tomorrow's agent orchestration. Learn what changes when AI uses your interfaces, why this path beats waiting for "AI-native" apps, and how to prepare now without blocking innovation.

Join us to hear how Levi’s transformed its global IT estate—including Windows Server, SQL Server, SAP, Oracle, and more—through a comprehensive migration and modernization strategy. Learn how they combined data and app modernization with infrastructure re-platforming to unlock agility, scalability, and cost savings. This real-world story will highlight the strategy, lessons learned, and tangible business outcomes that came from taking an end-to-end approach to migration and modernization.