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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Explore how Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365 Copilot deliver agentic customer experiences (CX), helping organizations drive higher revenue and improved customer satisfaction (CSAT). Visa shares their journey and vision for agentic CX transformation. Discover real-world impacts, lessons learned, and what’s next for organizations embracing this shift. Learn about the latest CRM and CCaaS innovations and Microsoft’s AI vision to transform revenue-generating functions.

See how Azure’s new AI-powered migration agents make moving to the cloud faster, easier, and more reliable. In this session, we’ll walk through a complete end-to-end migration of applications, databases, and dependencies to Azure IaaS and PaaS—covering discovery, assessment, planning, and execution. Learn how to reduce complexity, minimize risk, and modernize confidently with step-by-step guidance and real-world scenarios.

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Confidently adopt AI and manage your AI apps, agents, and platforms. From assistive copilots to autonomous digital workers, gain visibility and control to prevent data oversharing, manage sprawl, defend against threats, and ensure compliance.

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Modernizing legacy .NET apps just became easier end to end. Explore how Visual Studio 2026, .NET, and GitHub Copilot modernization tooling streamline the journey. Learn how new features in Azure App Service solve common compatibility challenges—delivering scalable, secure, AI-ready deployments with deep observability and cost efficiency.

Learn how Microsoft is transforming its own employee and executive communications—building trust, connection, and engagement at scale. This session will cover multiple communication tools and methods, with special focus on the latest AI-powered innovations and roadmap for Viva Engage.

Step into the era of modular AI. Join our engineering leaders to see how Microsoft Foundry lets you build, orchestrate, and manage intelligent agents using new workflow capabilities. Learn how to unify models, data, and tools with enterprise-grade security and observability.

Frontier Firms aren’t just adopting AI, they’re reimagining work around it. Join Nicole Herskowitz, Sumit Chauhan and Jeff Teper for live demos and real-world examples of the latest innovations in the AI built for work, Microsoft 365 Copilot. Discover what’s new and how Copilot empowers people, teams and business processes in the era of AI.

Build the single front door experience for your employees with the Employee Self-Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot. In this lab, get hands on with configuring and extending the Agent in Copilot Studio, Learn to connect HR/IT systems and third-party agents, customize workflows, and see how deploying this agent streamlines support, reduces tickets, and boosts employee satisfaction—all with enterprise-grade security.

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The Foundry Model Catalog supports “One-click” deployment of the latest NVIDIA NIM™ Examples of usage of the newest NVIDIA entries • Nemotron Nano: Large Language Reasoning Model • Nemotron Nano VLM: VLM with the ability to query and summarize images and video • Cosmos-reason1: Reasoning VLM for physical AI and robotics • Microsoft-Trellis: Asset generation model capable of producing detailed meshes, • Boltz2: Structural biology model for structure and affinity • Evo2 NIM: Biological model that integrates information over long genomic sequences

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This lab introduces key data classification and protection tools in Microsoft Purview. Participants learn to create and customize sensitive information types to identify sensitive data, and apply sensitivity labels to enforce encryption, access controls, and content marking. Gain hands-on experience in building and managing policies that secure data across Microsoft 365.

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Your identity and network access approach for AI doesn’t need a revolution—just an expansion. Learn how to strengthen your Zero Trust foundation, manage and govern the rising tide of agents, and enable AI to accelerate your success.

Learn more about migration and modernization of Windows Server, SQL Server, and .NET apps. Learn how to assess and migrate Windows Server and SQL Server workloads using Azure Migrate and Azure Database Migration Service (DMS). This lab covers discovery, dependency mapping, migration execution, and post-migration optimization as well as leveraging Microsoft Defender for cloud for securing workloads post migration.

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In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to migrate traditional workloads to AKS using containerization and AKS Automatic, while enhancing functionality through integration with Azure PaaS services. We'll also explore how GitHub Copilot Application Modernization accelerates the process with AI-assisted coding and intelligent refactoring, helping teams streamline modernization and unlock cloud-native capabilities faster.

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Whether you’re modernizing for peak performance and AI readiness or building the next generation of intelligent apps and agents, the Microsoft database portfolio fuels your vision. Join CVP Shireesh Thota for an inside look at the latest innovations across SQL, NoSQL, and open-source databases—featuring dynamic demos that reveal how to boost productivity, deliver rich, personalized experiences, and unlock new possibilities from your data.

Discover how Microsoft Cloud empowers SAP customers to modernize their business with SAP Business Suite through the RISE with SAP journey. Explore infrastructure innovations like High SLA for RISE, AI-driven monitoring, and performance optimization. See how organizations deploy RISE with SAP on Azure, integrate SAP BTP and BDC, secure workloads with Defender and Sentinel, while meeting sovereignty and compliance needs.

Governments around the world are harnessing AI to drive innovation, improve services, and deliver on mission-critical outcomes. In this fast-paced session, discover how AI can help you modernize operations, enhance decision-making, and better serve your communities—securely and responsibly. Learn from real-world examples and explore practical steps to move from exploration to implementation with confidence

OneDrive has transformed from a file storage solution into a powerful, AI-driven content experience built for the modern workplace. In this session, explore how OneDrive is becoming the launchpad for productivity across Microsoft 365. We’ll unveil the latest innovations that put AI to work for you across sync, sharing, and all file interactions. Whether you're an IT administrator, end user, or knowledge worker, discover how OneDrive is evolving into the intelligent backbone of your digital workspace.

SAP Databricks on Azure integrates Databricks Data Intelligence Platform with SAP Business Data Cloud, unifying SAP and external data for advanced analytics, AI, and ML. It enables building intelligent apps and actionable insights using trusted SAP and third-party business data. Available natively on Azure within SAP Business Data Cloud, it offers seamless access without data duplication via Delta Sharing. This session highlights automated forecasting, exploratory analysis, and BI use cases.

Join us to discover the power of the cloud with Windows 365 . Learn how the latest platform improvements and core features deliver strong resiliency and seamless integration with new AI capabilities, exciting feature updates, and the rest of Microsoft ecosystem. Experience user-friendly enhancements designed to boost your productivity and satisfaction. Get practical insights and actionable strategies to help you unlock the full potential of Windows 365.

In this hands-on lab, learn how to deploy secure, on-demand Cloud PCs using Windows 365 Reserve—ideal for travel, recovery, and temporary access. You'll create provisioning profiles, assign Cloud PCs, and configure Conditional Access, Entra ID, and networking. Experience the full user journey from sign-in to productivity. Leave equipped to streamline endpoint readiness with minimal overhead and respond to unexpected needs.

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Discover how the Windows Developer Platform empowers IT decision-makers with enterprise-ready tools. This session offers a comprehensive look at the latest in local AI development, MCP-powered agentic workflows, and modern development tools—empowering enterprises to build intelligent, secure, and scalable solutions across the Windows ecosystem.

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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“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:​ Azure Infrastructure: Jeremy Winter ​ AI Skills Navigator: Kavitha Radhakrishnan​ Varonis: Shawn Hays​ NVIDIA: Andrew Hester​ GitHub Copilot: Martin Woodward​ AMD: Arjun Oberoi & Daniel Kim

Partners, be sure to join us for a dynamic keynote that explores the evolving role of partners in shaping the next generation of Frontier Firms. This session will spotlight success stories of partners leading customers through AI transformation, how we are delivering success together, and the latest investments and announcements from the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program (MAICPP).