As AI adoption accelerates, organizations are transforming their data platforms to keep pace. Without a unified, enterprise-ready foundation, even the most ambitious AI strategies can stall. Join Amir Netz, Technical Fellow and CTO of Microsoft Fabric, as he shares the latest data and analytics announcements, developments and demos for Fabric.

Discover how Microsoft’s Americas leadership is empowering partners to drive transformation with Small and Medium Enterprise. ​Learn how to align with FY26 priorities. This session will spotlight key initiatives, partner recognition, and actionable next steps to deepen engagement and fuel growth.

Explore the digital transformation and AI-enablement driving manufacturing optimization at Kraft Heinz. Discover how our digital core and Digital Twin provide real-time recommendations to plant operators powered by Azure Arc and Microsoft Foundry. This customer-led session offers actionable insights for scaling AI across industrial environments, envisioning an autonomous future of manufacturing, and advancing toward a self-driven supply chain.

Learn to discover, manage, govern, and protect agent identities and access to resources – just as you do for human identities—with enterprise-grade secure access for agents in Microsoft Entra.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Our global systems integrators and advisory partners are vanguards on the path to break though innovation - and they are transforming their businesses with Microsoft! Learn how Microsoft is empowering our SI and advisory partners to accelerate frontier firm readiness for our Enterprise customers by driving AI transformation with agentic solutions and services.

SQL Server 2025 redefines what's possible for the enterprise data platform. With developer-first features and seamless integration with analytics and AI models, SQL Server 2025 accelerates AI innovation using the data you already own. Build modern apps with native JSON and REST APIs and harness AI with built-in vector search. Increase application availability with optimized locking and use Fabric mirroring for near real-time analytics. Join us to see why this is the most advanced SQL Server.

Step through training and deploying a custom reasoning model with Azure ML and Microsoft Foundry. See the magic happen in real time and learn how to bring it to your own projects with Foundry.

Discover how you can make the most of your IT estate migrations and modernizations with the newest AI capabilities. This session guides IT teams through assessing current environments, setting goals, and creating a business case with Azure Migrate for all of your workload types like Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET, Linux, PostgreSQL, Java, and more. We’ll explore tools to inventory workloads, map dependencies, and create actionable migration roadmaps.

Join Marco Casalaina as he moderates a technical panel with AI MVPs who share how they help customers overcome real-world challenges. Learn how MVPs use Microsoft Foundry and agentic AI to deliver solutions and provide critical feedback to product teams. Expect practical insights and examples of how MVPs accelerate innovation and unblock customer success.

Security standards often live in policy documents but aren’t consistently enforced. Learn how Azure Policy and Machine Configuration let you deploy built-in CIS benchmark templates for Linux and Windows, customize them to your needs, and apply them across Azure and hybrid / multi-cloud servers (via Azure Arc). We’ll also show how to integrate these policies into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) for continuous compliance checks, turning written guidelines into real-world security posture.

Discover how Microsoft Azure and Intel are redefining cloud infrastructure with the launch of Azure’s virtual machines on powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 processors. This session explores the architectural innovations behind Intel Xeon 6—including performance and efficiency cores, built-in AI acceleration, and enhanced memory and network capabilities—and how they enable scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud services on Azure.

Tour the Foundry Control Plane, the unified management hub that connects Entra Agent ID, guardrails, observability, and runtime security, and see how easy it is to register, monitor, and govern agents. Get hands-on tips for scaling with confidence using Microsoft Foundry.

See how GitHub Copilot streamlines app modernization for .NET and Java—using AI to assist upgrades, then containerize and deploy to AKS Automatic with ease. Accelerate development and reduce complexity with intelligent guidance.

Join us to learn how to digitize your operations and scale AI workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will learn how to secure and scale your IoT operations data and use Microsoft Fabric as your single data platform to reduce downtime, improve asset tracking, and address operational simulation scenarios.

Copilot Studio offers two ways to build AI agents: a lite experience (integrated into the Microsoft 365 Copilot app) and a full experience (a standalone Copilot Studio application). Both experiences enable you to create powerful agents, but they serve different needs.

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 community leaders in the data platform to learn all about how you can stay connected to the community, continue to learn build your network, and benefit your career long after the conference is done.

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.

Allyship isn’t a buzzword—it’s a commitment to creating workplaces where everyone can thrive. Join this interactive Community Forum to explore what authentic allyship looks like and why it matters. We’ll share real-world scenarios, practical strategies, and personal stories that highlight how allies can advocate, amplify, and act. Whether you identify as an ally or want to engage allies in your journey, you’ll leave with actionable steps to foster inclusion, challenge bias, and build a culture of equity in tech.

Join this hands-on lab to design and deploy a modern, cloud-native analytics and AI solution using Azure Databricks, Microsoft Foundry, and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Work with the Zava-Litware scenario to perform data ingestion, orchestration with Lakeflow, AI-driven insights via Genie, mirrored catalog in Microsoft Fabric, Copilot Studio low-code automation, and advanced reporting in Power BI. Build a scalable, cost-efficient solution showcasing AI-powered analytics for business transformation.

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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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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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This hands-on lab with Microsoft Copilot Studio guides you through the full agent lifecycle—from purpose-driven design to advanced capabilities. Learn how to build, integrate, automate, and deploy a fully functional agent using tools like Agent Flows and MCP. Walk away with practical skills to customize agents for real-world business needs.

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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.

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Discover how AI is transforming cloud operations in Azure. In this lab, you’ll use AI to investigate anomalies, correlate telemetry, and strengthen your monitoring posture. With Copilot's new agentic capabilities for optimization, you’ll identify and validate cost and carbon savings opportunities while advancing FinOps and sustainability practices. Together, these capabilities help you align workload health, streamline operations, and deliver lasting efficiency and sustainability.

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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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In this hands-on lab, makers will learn how to create intelligent agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot using topics, MCP Tools, and autonomous behaviors. Attendees will explore agent fundamentals, build custom workflows, and gain practical experience with Copilot Studio’s capabilities to streamline real-world tasks, boosting efficiency across Microsoft 365.

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