Join Microsoft experts in discussing hybrid AI across cloud and edge. We’ll trade real world patterns for Surface and Copilot+ PCs, unpack NPU accelerated workflows, and explore how Microsoft Foundry on Windows supports model and dev ops, privacy, and performance. Expect candid Q&A in depth and practical next steps—real talk with people driving business transformation!

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.

Meet & Greet with the Cloud Management & Operations Platform Team. Bring your questions and feedback.

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.

Power Platform Community empowers makers, developers, and business users to innovate with low-code tools, Copilot Studio, and AI agents. This session explores global collaboration, peer learning, and agent-building strategies that drive impact across Microsoft 365 and beyond.

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.

Get a step-by-step walkthrough for Microsoft Defender XDR and learn how to implement key capabilities. Learn how to assign preset security policies for Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Protect your endpoints using Microsoft Defender Endpoint by onboarding devices and configuring roles and device groups. Lastly, dive into the advanced attack mitigation features for your devices using Defender for Endpoint to effectively investigate alerts and incidents.

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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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Reimagine customer support with Foundry Agent Service. Learn how agent-based AI transforms support by triaging, resolving, and preventing issues—empowering human agents to focus on high-value interactions. See real-world use cases, best practices, and live demos to securely integrate AI for faster resolutions and deeper insights. Ideal for enterprise leaders scaling AI in support.

Explore insider risk management and adaptive protection with Microsoft Purview. In this lab you will learn how to configure policies to detect and respond to internal threats and apply dynamic protection based on user risk levels.

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Explore how to monitor and observe multi-agent systems in production using observability tools from Azure Monitor, integrated with Microsoft Foundry. Trace multi-agent pipelines, apply OpenTelemetry standards, and instrument business telemetry with dashboards. You’ll walk away with effective best practices to debug evaluation results and monitoring insights to secure and scale your AI agents.

Build confidence in managing AKS at scale with next‑gen ops tools. In this hands‑on lab, you’ll simulate a production service hit by traffic spikes, discover how AI‑driven alerts surface hidden bottlenecks, and deploy agents that self‑heal nodes. Using open‑source tools and the aks‑mcp server, you can automate cluster scaling, patch management, and real‑time troubleshooting—letting the AI orchestrate Kubernetes and Azure resources with natural‑language commands and pre‑built MCP integrations.

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

Hour 3 will feature:​ Dell: Stephen O'Leary & Rohit Tatachar​ LIFT: Jeremy Chapman and Shilpi Sinha​ NTT DATA: Aishwarya Singh & Brandon Lee​ What’s new in Azure innovations?: Mark Russinovich​ Lenovo: Dave Mooney​ Microsoft Marketplace: Cyril Belikoff​ Capgemini: Clemens Reijnen & James McMahon

Education is entering a new era where agents and AI are not just tools, but trusted collaborators. In this session, we’ll explore how Microsoft is pioneering agent innovation in the education space—bringing intelligence into everyday workflows for educators, staff and students. Learn how AI-powered agents can simplify classroom tasks, surface actionable insights, and connect seamlessly with learning systems. We’ll highlight real-world use cases, early innovations, and what’s ahead on the roadmap. Whether you’re in K-12, higher education, or edtech, you’ll walk away with a clear vision of how agent-driven AI can transform learning and teaching.

Hands-on lab applies Microsoft’s Zero Trust principles across data, network, infrastructure, and security ops. Using the ZT Assessment, participants evaluate posture, find gaps, and build a roadmap with actionable insights.

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Mark Austin (AT&T) and John Maio (CSX) share how they are using data and AI to drive customer experience transformation and operational efficiency at scale. From AT&T’s enterprise-wide GenAI platform and data democratization to CSX’s modernization of its data estate and real-time analytics, this session, enabled by Infosys and Microsoft, explores how purposeful AI adoption turns complex operations into intelligent, adaptive enterprises..

Learn to deploy Windows 365 Cloud PCs using a secure, scalable model. In this hands-on lab, set up provisioning policies, integrate with Microsoft Entra, apply Zero Trust networking, and configure Conditional Access. Experience the full user journey and admin setup. Monitor and manage with ease. Leave with a blueprint to deploy, secure, and scale Cloud PCs efficiently.

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Take a motivational tour through the healthcare AI sample repository and set yourself up for success with multimodal AI for Health & Life Sciences. Dive into notebooks and sample solutions for problems like image search, cancer grading based on radiology and pathology images, outlier detection, and exam parameter classification. Deploy a model, plug it into an agentic flow, and evaluate it with human feedback. A hands-on journey from setup to deployment and refinement.

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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.

Experience the future of workforce development with AI Skills Navigator — our AI-powered skilling experience that helps learners everywhere build future-ready skills and organizations of all sizes accelerate industry transformation. Join us to see how AI Skills Navigator is redefining enterprise learning—making skilling more accessible, engaging, and impactful than ever.

Hear how Canadian Tire Corporation, one of Canada’s most iconic retailers, is modernizing its digital strategy through a hybrid cloud approach with Microsoft and Equinix. Discover how scalable, interconnected infrastructure accelerates Azure VMware Solution (AVS) migration, supports hybrid cloud workloads, and builds a resilient, future-ready network.

Join us for a fast-paced, live theater session showcasing how IT admins can confidently manage agents and control costs using Copilot Control System (CCS). You’ll see how CCS empowers organizations to govern agent inventories, create billing policies, and gain visibility and control over usage and cost. Whether you're scaling agents across departments or fine-tuning consumption at the department level, this session will demonstrate how CCS brings clarity and control to your AI operations.

As we enter the AI and agentic era, intuitive, interoperable product and commercial experiences are vital for durable success. Users expect these across all workflows. Join us to explore strategies for secure, profitable participation and unlocking network effects. Leaders from Nvidia, model companies, and agent platforms will share insights to help navigate this dynamic, interconnected ecosystem.

Join Scott Hanselman for a fast-paced, unscripted AMA. Ask anything—from developer tools and open source to AI, productivity, and career growth. Expect candid insights, community shout-outs, and real talk from one of tech’s most engaging voices.

Learn how we have designed our incentives portfolio from the ground up to help partners grow, achieve solution-focused wins, and maximize customer value.  We’ll explore the great opportunity this year. Our portfolio is designed to accelerate Partner success and we're evolving our investment approach, building on last year’s growth through impactful customer engagement. 

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Imagine if every researcher could collaborate with a tireless team of intelligent, synergistic AI agents with the sole purpose of accelerated innovation. This is the vision of Microsoft Discovery, bringing agentic R&D to life by leveraging the latest innovations from Microsoft and the broader scientific ecosystem. Discovery implements a continuous and iterative R&D cycle where researchers can orchestrate a team of specialized AI agents not just for reasoning, but for conducting research itself.

Explore the latest Azure Storage innovations engineered for every use case. From scaling inferencing with terabytes-per-second throughput to ensuring business continuity for mission-critical operations, Azure Storage solves diverse challenges with flexibility and reliability. Whether you’re modernizing legacy environments, optimizing Tier-0 workloads, or building next-generation AI applications, you’ll get practical guidance to transform and accelerate your cloud journey with Azure Storage.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Take command of your AI fleet! Discover how Observability in Foundry Control Plane gives you real-time visibility, ironclad governance, and the power to optimize every agent. If you run AI at scale, this is the session that will change how you monitor, optimize, and govern every agent, securely with Microsoft Foundry. If reliability and compliance matter, this session is your playbook.