Organizations face mounting cyber, regulatory, and AI governance challenges. Learn how Microsoft empowers innovation through trust—integrating governance, compliance, and AI accountability across Microsoft Purview, Compliance Manager, and Regulatory Navigator. Discover how compliance becomes a growth accelerator—turning regulation into readiness and trust into innovation.

Join Mark Russinovich, CTO and Technical Fellow of Microsoft Azure. Mark will take you on a tour of the latest innovations in Azure architecture and explain how Azure enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises, and on the edge.

AI performance extends beyond chip metrics; it relies on integrated hardware, software, and infrastructure. Traditional benchmarks fall short, so NVIDIA DGX Cloud Benchmarking offers a standardized framework to evaluate large-scale AI workloads. NVIDIA and Azure present an end-to-end benchmarking workflow, sharing optimization strategies for deploying and tuning production-ready LLMs on Azure.

Microsoft Marketplace is central to how we sell alongside our partner ecosystem. As demand surges for intelligent applications and personalized agents, Marketplace is how we meet customers where they are. In this session, you’ll learn how to build, ship, and monetize your AI-powered solutions—like agents and other intelligent cloud offerings—through Marketplace. We’ll share a proven formula to align your marketplace strategy with your sales motion to drive new revenue opportunities.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

In the era of AI-driven transformation, partners have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to lead customers into the future—and profit uniquely with Azure. This session will reveal how migration and modernization are not just technical motions, but strategic profit engines for partners ready to capitalize on the next wave of cloud adoption.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Trusted by nearly half of Fortune 100 companies, Nasdaq Boardvantage powers secure, intelligent board operations. In this deep dive session, explore how Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and API Management create a resilient architecture that safeguards confidential data while unlocking new agentic AI capabilities.

You know Copilot as your AI assistant - helping to boost your productivity, providing contextual intelligence, and automating repetitive tasks. Increasingly, Copilot is a valuable partner for you and your team as you collaborate together. From Copilot Chat to agents in Teams, AI contributes to how Frontier Firms collaborate. Learn about the latest innovations in multi-user AI and how your organization can improve your collaboration.

Modern development moves fast. Security teams are overwhelmed with alerts. But not all risks are equal. GitHub Advanced Security and Microsoft Defender for Cloud make DevSecOps seamless by connecting code to runtime context and unifying developer and security admin tools. Learn how to prioritize what’s actually exploitable in production, reduce alert fatigue, and accelerate remediation with AI-powered fixes with agentic workflows.

What if your AI agents could remember, learn and collaborate at lightning speed? Discover how Azure Managed Redis, Mem0, and Agent Framework turn stateless agents into intelligent systems. Redis enables real-time collaboration, long-term learning, and semantic routing. Mem0 adds persistent memory across sessions, while Agent Framework powers reasoning and planning. Together, they build smarter, scalable multi-agent systems ready for any domain.

Microsoft’s Trustworthy AI approach is grounded in three pillars: commitments, capabilities, and research. We are prioritizing security, sovereignty, sustainability, and safety as core areas of investment, ensuring that AI systems are built responsibly and deployed with confidence. In this session, we’ll show how these commitments translate into tangible product capabilities across Microsoft Foundry, Copilot, and the broader Microsoft AI ecosystem.

Governments are under increasing pressure to modernize services, improve citizen engagement, and operate more efficiently. In this session, we’ll explore Microsoft’s value proposition for public sector organizations, highlighting how cloud and AI technologies are driving transformation across national, federal, state, and local agencies. Learn how Microsoft’s platforms support secure, scalable, and compliant solutions tailored to government needs.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Real Time Intelligence is a transformative technology designed to empower businesses with real-time data insights and analytics. This session will cover the journey of Real Time Intelligence from its inception to its current state, highlighting key features, capabilities, and the impact it has on operational efficiency and decision-making processes. We will also highlight customer success stories and showcase how you can revolutionize your data strategy and unlock new opportunities for growth.

Discover what’s new in Microsoft Intune—from exploring deeper data with Copilot, simplifying workflows and cloud native deployments, to scaling with agents. Learn about the latest innovation across platforms to build resilient, secure, and productive environments, to stay ahead of rapidly evolving threats, app updates and device compliance. Empower IT, protect endpoints, optimize with AI to get there.

Guide customers from first AI pilot into becoming a Frontier Firm with a CSP ready playbook across the 3 frontiers: no code, low code, and pro code. Make your practice flow seamlessly from quick wins to scaled solutions across the Microsoft AI stack. Map triggers to packaged offers and monetization paths, lead as customer zero, and maximize Microsoft investments and GTM resources. Leave with best practices, case studies, and 16 research backed playcards for SMB and Corporate.

Microsoft Copilot Studio is rapidly emerging as the native agent-building platform for Microsoft 365 Copilot, empowering organizations to create AI-powered agents tailored to specific business needs. Central to its success is a vibrant, multi-faceted community that supports users at every stage of their learning journey. The Copilot Studio community is designed to be inclusive, scalable, and deeply integrated with other Microsoft ecosystems such as Power Platform, SharePoint, and Access, encouraging cross-community participation and growth

Explore the power of agentic frameworks to streamline healthcare operations. With healthcare agent orchestrator, you can customize intelligent agents, integrate them with private datasets and public sources, and deploy them seamlessly into Microsoft 365 tools like Teams and Word. Experience the synergy of healthcare-specific agents enhanced by general reasoning models and multimodal healthcare foundation models—enabling them to tackle sophisticated clinical tasks with precision and efficiency.

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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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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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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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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 Azure, AI & Data Award categories 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.

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Allyship is essential for building inclusive workplaces, but how do we turn good intentions into real impact? Join this interactive forum to explore practical ways allies can advocate, amplify, and act. Through open discussion and shared experiences, we’ll uncover strategies to challenge bias, foster equity, and create a culture where everyone thrives. Whether you’re a woman in tech or an ally, you’ll leave with actionable steps to make a difference.

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.

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.

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The future of identity is passwordless, phishing-resistant, and built for resilience. As organizations modernize authentication, many still face exposure. In this session, Yubico explores what “future-ready” MFA really means—and why hardware-bound passkeys in YubiKeys are key to secure, scalable identity. Learn how YubiKeys align with forward-thinking security frameworks—without compromise, minimizing complexity, while addressing user lifecycle scenarios.

In today’s AI-first economy, Skilling is no longer a support function—it’s a strategic growth lever. This session unveils insights from a new blog, Unlocking Skilling ROI for Partners, which quantifies the business impact of Holistic Skilling investments Microsoft is making for the partner ecosystem. We’ll explore how Microsoft is transforming partner Skilling through scalable, data-driven Skilling models that drive measurable ROI—from accelerated Designation attainment, Solution Play delivery readiness to pipeline growth and deal velocity.