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As frontier firms move from single use case implementations to industry value chains transformation with agentic AI, they need to adopt AI at scale to drive growth, optimize costs and enhance customer experience. This path requires synthesizing enterprise knowledge and designing solutions that leverage responsible AI principles and human plus agent collaboration. Join TCS and Microsoft experts to learn how to bring agentic AI to life through a display of real-world use cases for industries & IT.

Build standout AI products fast with Microsoft Foundry—LLMs and Agents. Learn patterns to ship apps grounded on enterprise data via OneLake and connected platforms (Fabric, Snowflake, CosmosDB, SQL, etc.). We’ll cover retrieval, tool-use, guardrails, and evaluation—plus a lean dev loop that turns experiments into production while meeting responsible AI standards.

Step into the future of the workplace with Microsoft’s AI-fueled solutions. Explore how the AI-Powered Workplace can help organizations modernize in-person work using Microsoft Places, Teams Rooms, and Teams Events to coordinate collaboration, modernize spaces with transformative technology, and optimize collaboration at scale. Learn how to get more out of time in the office, and how IT admins can harness workplace signals to gain actionable insights.

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Kathleen Mitford (CVP, Global Industry Marketing) , Satish Thomas , Ihab Foudeh (EMEA Enterprise Partners Solutions Lead)

Join us for a session on how Microsoft and partners are driving industry innovation with AI. Hear Microsoft’s FY26 Industry Strategy and how engineering enables partners to build and integrate AI agents for faster time-to-value. A panel with Microsoft leaders and partners will share real-world examples of co-innovation, co-sell, and go-to-market success delivering measurable business impact.

Learn how Microsoft is advancing accessibility through two key lenses: helping professionals build expertise in accessibility, and designing learning experiences that are accessible to all. We’ll share how our learning platforms support multimodal engagement, integrate accessibility content from partners like Teach Access, and enable virtual coaching/in-person skilling events. Gain insights into how accessibility is being embedded into our skilling strategy, product design, and delivery.

Stop guessing, start winning. Get the metrics, case studies, and strategies that prove Microsoft Foundry delivers real business impact. AI success isn’t about how many models you try, it’s about measurable business outcomes. This executive-focused session provides a practical playbook for defining, measuring, and maximizing ROI from Foundry Models. We’ll highlight metrics and proven strategies for scaling adoption across teams while maintaining governance and compliance.

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Tina Manghnani , Mark Wallace (Engineering Manager - Agent Framework) , Shawn Henry (Group Product Manager - Azure AI Foundry Agents)

Build multi?agent systems the right way with Microsoft Foundry. Go from single?agent prototypes to fleet?level orchestration using the Foundry Agent Framework (Semantic Kernel + AutoGen), shared state, Human in the loop, OpenTel, MCP toolchains, A2A, and the Activity Protocol. Bring frameworks like LangGraph and OpenAI Agents SDK, then deploy as containerized, governed, observable agents on Foundry.

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Azure brings unified management to on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Learn how Azure Arc delivers consistent governance, security, and operations across Azure, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments—while enabling System Center customers to adopt a cloud-native management experience. Whether modernizing Windows/Linux or building cloud-native apps, equip yourself with tools and agents to bridge datacenter and cloud.

Financial services firms are increasingly building agents with Microsoft technologies, solving the hardest and most important challenges today. Learn how you can use CoPilot Studio to not only build intelligent, agentic solutions that transform customer engagement for financial services industry, but also help you shrink time to market.

Learn how leading enterprises have transformed legacy systems into agile, cloud- and AI-ready solutions—at scale. Through real customer stories and proven best practices, you’ll discover the latest Azure App, Data, and AI innovations that fuel app modernization and deliver measurable business impact. Walk away with practical tips, inspired by real-world results, that you can start applying from day one.

Governance and security are key to a successful implementation. This session shows how organizations manage agents, flows, apps, data access, and compliance using Microsoft tools. Discover how to enforce policies, monitor activity, and reduce risk. Leave with confidence to empower makers to build low-code solutions while knowing how to govern them and their creators at scale.

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Agents need context. How should we connect data to our agents for optimal context? In this session we will introduce Foundry IQ, the knowledge layer for agents, and the latest developments from Azure AI Search and Microsoft Foundry. Learn about multi-source RAG orchestration, retrieval steering, dynamic security controls and agentic RAG.

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Aghogho Biakolo , Dan Lewis , Bryan Goode (Corp Vice President / Biz Apps & Agents Marketing) , Kendra Springer (Principal Group Product Manager)

The rise of AI agents marks a turning point in how organizations operate. These agents don’t just work individually to automate tasks —they collaborate, orchestrate processes, and adapt dynamically to business needs. Preparing for that agentic future means rethinking roles, processes, and the very architecture of your business. Enterprise-grade platforms will be critical to this functional transformation, providing the security, compliance, and scalability needed to deploy agents responsibly and at scale. Join us to discover what this shift means for your organization and how to start preparing today.

Get 2X performance and 5X database capacity with Azure SQL Managed Instance. The new next-gen General Purpose tier sets a new standard of value for fully managed SQL solutions. Get started quickly with AI-assisted tooling that can complete an end-to-end migration in days. See this come to life with insurance services organization, Hexure who rebuilt their platform with Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure App Service and delivered a better CX in one highly performant, scalable and efficient platform.

Discover how Fabric IQ transforms your data into a live, semantic model of your business. Learn how teams and AI agents can collaborate from a shared understanding of entities, relationships, and rules -- enabling real-time insights, smarter decisions, and autonomous operations. See how Fabric IQ works seamlessly within Microsoft Fabric to power the next generation of intelligent enterprise.

Learn about the resources and benefits available for software development companies across all stages of the build, publish and grow journey in MAICPP. Whether you’re developing a new agent solution or working toward a certified software designation, there are targeted skilling opportunities, technical resources, and GTM benefits to help. Tap into new investments for AI apps and agents and hear from your peers on how they’ve used rewards such as customer propensity scores and Azure sponsorship

Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat makes Copilot the AI built for work. Join this session to learn about how we’ve enhanced core chat value for all with GPT-5, experience improvements, and new ways to access chat in your favorite apps. Additionally, we’ll cover how Copilot Chat transforms your day when combined with your work context and agents through new chat-first workflows, interaction modes, and ways to create files right from chat.

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Accessibility is more than compliance—it’s a catalyst for workforce empowerment and business growth. Learn how enterprise-wide accessibility strategies can boost productivity, improve talent retention, and expand market reach. Backed by Forrester research, this session explores how inclusive design and built-in assistive technologies are transforming the modern workplace.

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Paolo Pialorsi (Senior Developer Advocate) , Ayca Bas (Senior Cloud Developer Advocate)

In this hands-on lab, you'll build an advanced agent inspired by AgentWise, our internal learning assistant designed to help developers understand types of ways for building agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Using Copilot Studio, you’ll architect a multi-layered agent that adapts to user goals, personalizes guidance based on persona, and makes intelligent decisions using structured flows and real-time data. Along the way, you’ll learn how to combine retrieval and dynamic logic to go beyond Q&A.

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

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.

Join us for a hands-on workshop showcasing the latest Azure SQL innovations to supercharge your applications. Learn how to harness generative AI alongside Azure SQL Database to elevate your data strategies with AI concepts like language models, prompt engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and streamline with Microsoft Copilot. Whether you're a developer, architect, or IT professional, this workshop is your ticket to mastering SQL and AI to stay ahead in the data-driven landscape.

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

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.

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