Discover how Azure’s latest innovations in compute and storage help healthcare organizations reduce downtime, accelerate refresh cycles, and unlock new performance & scalability tiers for mission-critical workloads like EHR systems and more.

Moving massive datasets to the cloud for AI and analytics is often harder than expected. Join this conversation to unpack the biggest challenges—network bandwidth, migration tools, governance, and cost optimization. We’ll discuss strategies for using Azure Storage Mover, third-party tools, and storage options like Object Storage, ADLS Gen 2, and Azure NetApp Files to accelerate migration while ensuring compliance and performance. Bring your experiences and questions to shape best practices together.

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.

Communities thrive when people come together with purpose. This session introduces the Microsoft Global Community Initiative (MGCI) and how it empowers individuals to share knowledge, collaborate, and drive change worldwide. Join us to learn how you can participate, lead, and amplify your voice in this global movement. Walk away with insights, resources, and next steps to make your mark in the Microsoft community.

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In this talk we’ll learn Infrastructure-as-Code by automating the world’s most popular game: Minecraft. Using Packer, Terraform and GitHub Actions, we’ll build a server, configure Linux, provision cloud infrastructure and operate it through GitOps. Finally, we’ll demonstrate how to go beyond automating traditional cloud control planes—automating the Minecraft world itself by using Terraform to build and demolish structures like castles and pyramids before our very eyes!

This demo-heavy session highlights the enhanced MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, now more robust than ever with new AI-driven enhancements to streamline your SQL development experience. With GitHub Copilot, you can move faster from schema to code, generate sample data, explore relationships, and help your app and backend stay in sync. With our latest mssql-python driver, you can develop with ease, security, and performance, across SQL Server, Azure SQL and SQL database in Fabric.

Discover how Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager drives compliance, security, and AI readiness by simplifying regulatory complexity into clear actions. Learn about new capabilities like AI Regulations Onboarding, an enhanced Regulatory Navigator without template limits, and Microsoft Foundry integration. See how compliance scoring is embedded into AI workflows to reduce adoption friction and build trust in responsible AI.

See end-to-end user experience in the new world, where human-agent collaboration is built-in within business applications - see how users oversee autonomous agents assigned to their work, manage escalations, and provide approvals within the app. Witness how in-app agents help them be faster and smarter—fill forms, explore data, and automate tasks with less effort and drudgery.

Manufacturing leaders seeking autonomy need speed, quality, and safety while managing complexity. Hexagon's AEON humanoid, powered by Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA, brings Intelligent Manufacturing 4.0 to life with scalable AI training, governed deployment, and rapid simulation-backed adaptation to support new SKUs. From defect detection to validated updates, teams maintain real-time observability and compliance while scaling what works. The result: shorter cycles, fewer risks, and the ability to scale industrial robotics scenarios.

Engage in a deep technical discussion on how to achieve scale and performance for your application deployed in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) through a combination of architectural best practices, modern networking features, and premium SKUs.

Threat Intelligence (TI) is no longer just data— it’s actionable insight embedded directly into your security operations. In this session, we’ll explore the latest insights from the Microsoft Digital Defense Report and how Microsoft is transforming TI into dynamic, curated intelligence within Defender, empowering your team. Learn how the latest innovations, including enhanced workflows and TI specific agents, are helping analysts to move faster and act on better intel than ever before.

Are your cloud ops teams drowning in noisy signals and slow root cause analysis? See how thousands of organizations such as yours use Azure SRE Agent to solve this by turning telemetry into precise actions using AI. It automates detection, diagnosis, and remediation across your stack—reducing MTTR, improving service health, and freeing engineers to focus on innovation. Outcome: faster recovery, fewer escalations, and resilient cloud services.

Voice on Windows is evolving from commands to a true companion—listening, adapting, and helping ideas flow. Discover how natural speech, smarter dictation, and lifelike voices reduce cognitive load, boost accessibility, and enable seamless, hands‑free work. See how AI subtly elevates your flow and unlocks a new voice era: expressive in, natural out, ready for work.

“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:​ AI, public sector and healthcare: Kees Hertogh​ NVIDIA: Ganesh Sivaraman & Donald Ferguson​ Citrix: Nancy Hart​ New agent experiences and management controls: Jeremy Chapman & Caroline Stanford Insight: Parker Johnston​ AMD: Andrew Ruffin​ Copilot in the Flow of Office: Ryan Roslansky

Discover how to supercharge analytics and AI workflows using Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. This hands-on lab explores native AI/BI features in Azure Databricks, including ML-powered insights and real-time analytics. Learn multiple ways to serve data to Power BI, with a deep dive into Direct Lake mode with Fabric. Ideal for developers, data scientists, data analysts, and engineers modernizing BI with lakehouse architecture in the AI era.

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What does it take to turn AI innovation into measurable business impact?

Join Kathleen Mitford, Corporate Vice President of Industry Marketing at Microsoft, for a conversation with industry leaders transforming their organizations with agentic AI.

Hear how they started, what’s driving results, and how ideas and learnings from one industry can inspire another—helping you move from experimentation to impact and become Frontier with AI.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Agents and AI-powered apps are reshaping how software development companies deliver value. In this session, discover how to build smarter with AI-powered innovation, deliver faster with advanced developer tools, and scale confidently through a partner ecosystem designed for growth.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Learn to leverage agent-framework, the new unified platform from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen engineering teams, to build A2A compatible agents similar to magnetic-one. Use SWE Agents (GitHub Copilot coding agent and Codex with Azure OpenAI models) to accelerate development. Implement MCP tools for secure enterprise agentic workflows. Experience hands-on building, deploying, and orchestrating multi-agent systems with pre-release capabilities. Note: Contains embargoed content.

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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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For over 30 years, Microsoft has partnered with the disability community to build accessible technology. But accessibility didn’t start with tech—think electric toothbrushes, audiobooks, and curb cuts, all designed for people with disabilities and benefiting everyone. Now, AI is the new frontier. Join Jenny Lay-Flurrie to explore how designing for disability drives trustworthy innovation and how AI can help create a world that works for everyone.

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.

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Learn how you can use tools in Security Copilot to build your own custom agents. Discover agents that are available for you to use off the shelf.

Bring software-engineering discipline to your data. Learn how Microsoft Fabric integrates Git and deployment pipelines to take a branch from validation to production—fast and safe. Learn how to use parameterized deployments for tables and views, run automated checks, and avoid common pitfalls like broken shortcuts. Walk away with practical patterns to operationalize your Lakehouse with confidence and speed.

It's been a big year for SSMS with two releases and a lot of new features, and we want to hear what you think. What have you liked? What's been a challenge? What's still missing? Bring your questions and feedback for some open and constructive conversations about SSMS and what's next.

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Implementing Continuous Threat Exposure Management using MSEM

As generative AI adoption accelerates, IT, security and compliance leaders must balance access to innovation with responsibility and governance. In this session on Copilot Trust & Safety you’ll learn about the Microsoft-built protections embedded in the platform, see how Copilot safety investments map to real-world risk scenarios, and get a clear understanding of how to proactively safeguard your organization through policy, compliance, and risk management tools while unlocking AI’s value.