Azure HorizonDB is Azure’s new fully managed PostgreSQL database for mission-critical workloads. Join engineering and product leaders to explore the architecture that enables enhanced scalability without sacrificing performance, ultra-fast failovers, and read replicas for constant availability. Learn how HorizonDB combines open-source Postgres with state-of-the-art Azure infrastructure, cutting-edge database innovation and advanced AI features to power next-generation applications.

Discover how SharePoint Embedded unlocks a new way to store and manage documents directly within your Microsoft 365 tenant. Whether you’re an admin looking for control or an app builder ready to innovate, this roundtable will help you learn how to harness this powerful platform. Discuss best practices for governance if ISV and LOB apps, explore integration patterns, and see how to supercharge your Copilot experiences with embedded content.

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.

Windows ML is a new performance-first AI framework built into Windows to enable secure, on-device inferencing across CPU, GPU, and NPU. See how you can use various models with no cloud or extra infrastructure needed. Learn how Windows ML helps streamline deployment across diverse hardware tiers and manage dependencies to reduce your app size to deliver fast, private, and scalable AI experiences.

Colette Stallbaumer will host a Microsoft customer on stage to discuss how they are leveraging Copilot to drive growth, the transformative impact of agents, and their journey toward becoming a Frontier Firm.

The Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is the primary way we engage and invest in our partner ecosystem.  The program brings everything together across the whole of the partner lifecycle, including onboarding, skilling, go-to-market, incentives, and co-selling. In this session, learn about our Partner Program, its evolution, exciting new offers and how it enables partners drive growth.

Learn how intelligent infrastructure, agentic operations, and AI-driven tools are transforming cloud reliability, security, and agility for every workload. Join Chief Product Officer of Azure Platform, Jeremy Winter and guests, to discover how Azure’s latest innovations empower organizations to modernize, secure, and scale with confidence.

Discover how Windows is powering AI and agents helping frontier firms accelerate innovation and deliver impact across teams and customers. Join Microsoft engineering leaders for demos and hear how companies like Levi’s are transforming with intelligent productivity, secure work anywhere, and resilient protection.

Agentic DevOps is shaping the future of software engineering, driving productivity and innovation through automation and intelligent collaboration. Learn how AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure are empowering developers at Microsoft to innovate faster and more securely. Gain practical insights and strategies from Microsoft’s journey to empower your own DevOps transformation.

Join Rob Lefferts for a dynamic look at Microsoft’s vision for AI-driven security, with insights from special guest Allie Mellen, Principal Analyst at Forrester. See how intelligent agents and automation help security teams prevent threats, respond faster, and stay ahead of attackers. We’ll highlight innovations in Microsoft Defender, new agentic capabilities transforming SOC operations, and real-world stories of organizations strengthening their defenses.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

“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 2 will feature:​ Becoming Frontier across industries: Kathleen Mitford and Satish Thomas​ C3 AI: Adi Bhashyam​ Cognizant: Shveta Arora​ SAP: Dr. Walter Sun​ Cisco: Tom Richards​ PwC: Dan Priest & Jim Randall

This session explores tools and strategies to protect data, streamline development, and ensure compliance—empowering IT leaders and platform owners to operate confidently in an AI-driven world. Discover how Copilot Studio and Power Platform help enterprises manage agents with robust security, scalable governance, and operational health.

Learn how to maximize your Secure AI Productivity CSP opportunity with Microsoft 365. In this session, we will cover our key go-to-market investments and important announcements intended to help you boost your execution. Additionally, we will make it real for you by sharing best practices from partners who are leveraging our Win Formula. Don’t miss this chance to learn and apply these insights into your business!

Learn how the Premier League transformed decades of match data, editorial content, and video into a real-time, intelligent, personalized fan experience. This session explores how data strategy, AI orchestration, and scalable architecture can elevate engagement across global audiences of the world's most watched league —with actionable lessons from Microsoft and Premier League leaders to apply in your own organization.

Agentic AI has the power to reshape every business function across the retail value chain. To get ahead and stay ahead, retail technologists need a cutting-edge understanding of agentic capabilities and how to deploy them strategically across their organizations to meet business goals and unlock competitive advantage. Join us to learn the latest on agentic scenarios from Microsoft and hear how leading retailers are maximizing agentic opportunities to become frontier firms.

“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 1 will feature:​ Security in the agentic AI era: Vasu Jakkal​ Microsoft Credentials for the AI frontier: Elisa Graceffo​ Accessibility in the AI Era: Jenny Lay-Flurrie​ IBM: Chris McGuire & Michelle Pellegrin​ Microsoft Foundry: The AI app and agent factory: Yina Arenas

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.

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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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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 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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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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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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This lab offers a hands-on deep dive into Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s CSPM features, teaching participants how to assess and improve cloud security across hybrid environments. Attendees will identify misconfigurations, apply compliance frameworks, and automate remediation strategies to strengthen their security posture.

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This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of automated AI red teaming generative AI systems for safety and security risks using Microsoft Foundry. Attendees will learn how to apply automated attack techniques to identify safety issues and security vulnerabilities across multiple risk dimensions before deployment. Participants will engage in hands-on walkthroughs and guided exercises to apply these concepts in realistic development scenarios.

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See agentic intelligence come to life with Azure Direct Models in Microsoft Foundry, “vibe coding” workflows, and Microsoft 365 integration. We’ll show how to ship responsive agents with Copilot Studio actions, Graph connectors, and Azure AI Search—plus telemetry, evals, and guardrails—for low?latency, enterprise?grade results. Demos cover autonomous tasks, multi?agent handoffs, and feedback loops. Leave with patterns, code, and a build checklist.

This session highlights how Microsoft’s agentic AI and TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture empower telecom operators to rapidly deploy autonomous network operations agents—reducing resolution times, boosting efficiency, and unlocking new revenue opportunities.