“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:​ Microsoft Foundry: Jay Parikh​ Citrix: Sridhar Mullapudi & Hector Lima​ Varonis: Rob Sobers​ Interview: Scott Guthrie & Ali Ghodsi​ Insight: Parker Johnston

The opening keynote will feature Judson Althoff, CEO Microsoft commercial business, with our senior Microsoft engineering leaders as they unveil the latest innovations driving the next wave of AI transformation—empowering every human and every organization across every industry to redefine what it means to become frontier.

Join Rick Claus and Sonia Cuff for a fun, fast-paced guide to getting the most out of your time at Microsoft Ignite. Learn how the conference is laid out, how to plan your day, and where to find answers from the experts – be they MVPs, Microsoft Partners or the Product teams. Get the inside scoop on all the event experiences. From Breakouts to the "hallway track", this session will help you build your network and make the most of your Ignite experience.

A deep-dive into Fabric Capacities concepts (bursting, smoothing, throttling) and practical capacity planning and management strategies for large, complex environments using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Covers best practices for capacity health, usage monitoring, scaling decisions, and offloading workloads.

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Workshop: TCS + Partners

Demo-driven session covering the benefits and key considerations of Contained Availability Groups, with insights from real-world projects. Learn about availability and manageability, impacts on deployment workflows, security considerations for high availability architecture, and best practices. Aimed at DBAs and database application vendors.

Join this session to see how Microsoft and Elastic are partnering to deliver secure, AI-powered solutions for regulated industries. You’ll learn how to combine Elastic’s new Serverless offering on Azure with Microsoft’s Agent Framework to build intelligent, conversational experiences over embedded document data. We’ll walk through a real-world-inspired demo that shows how to ingest and semantically search sensitive documents using Elastic’s vector search and OneChat capabilities—then expose that functionality through Microsoft Teams using a custom-built Agent. The solution is enhanced with Microsoft’s Trustworthy AI capabilities to ensure responses are safe, secure, and compliant—all within a fully Azure-native environment.

Joseph Toma is the Cloud and AI Director for Media and Communications. Joseph’s career spans across enterprise, scale-up, and start-up environments, most notably as the CEO of Jugo, an innovative AI SaaS platform. His tenure as Managing Partner at Kyndryl and various leadership roles at IBM, including Hybrid Cloud and Red Hat Sales Director, took him to three continents and has equipped him with a unique perspective that shapes his approach to supporting customers. Joseph is based in London where he lives with his wife, young child, and cavapoo.

According to MIT, 95% of organisations are seeing no return from their GenAI investments. Why? Because value doesn’t come from models alone. It comes from trust, governance, and people. Learn how organisations are breaking through the hype using Microsoft Fabric to unify data, Purview to govern it, and Copilot to empower every user. With a real-world customer story and a clear blueprint for action, this session will help you join the 5% who are turning AI ambition into impact.

In today’s fragmented data landscape, organisations are under pressure to unify their data estates while maintaining agility, governance, and performance. This session explores how Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, and Azure Databricks come together to deliver a powerful, open, and integrated platform for centralised data orchestration—without compromise. From ingestion to insight, this session will showcase how “no excuses” becomes a reality when your data is truly unified, with a real-time demonstration highlighting the platform’s capabilities in action.

Design autonomous, goal-based agents using Microsoft tools.

Integration of agents into Microsoft 365, Teams, and external platforms.

Real-world use cases and scenarios across industries.

Get hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot, discovering how to leverage AI for code completion, refactoring, and more.

Social media automation is one of the fastest and most practical ways to experience the value of generative AI. In this hands-on session, we’ll build a secure, scalable AI agent that automates social media interactions, specifically LinkedIn, using Azure AI Foundry, Playwright, and Pydantic AI. We'll walk through the architecture of a multi-agent system, explore best practices for secure deployment using Microsoft Purview, Defender for Cloud, and Sentinel, and demonstrate how to integrate browser automation with LLM-based decision-making. Whether you're an enterprise architect or a curious developer, this session will equip you with the tools and insights to build responsible AI agents that operate safely in real-world environments.

Session led by Valentina Alto, Technical Architect, AI & App at Microsoft

Learn the building blocks of autonomous agents, including core architectures, planning methods, memory systems, and leading development frameworks.

Learn the building blocks of autonomous agents, including core architectures, planning methods, memory systems, and leading development frameworks.

Learn the building blocks of autonomous agents, including core architectures, planning methods, memory systems, and leading development frameworks.

Dive into advanced reasoning, multi-agent coordination, tool chaining, self-healing workflows, and emerging security challenges.

Dive into advanced reasoning, multi-agent coordination, tool chaining, self-healing workflows, and emerging security challenges.