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.

Recent developments in the on-prem virtualization market have unsettled users and prompted a re-evaluation of their organization's strategy. Microsoft provides a robust set of solutions tailored to your specific goals and requirements. During this session, we will delve into these options, emphasizing the long-term advantages of choosing Azure Cloud and Cloud Connected. In this session, we’ll discuss the numerous Microsoft options to modernize your virtualization estate.

Agent readiness is more than a technology conversation—it’s a holistic approach that spans strategy, business process mapping, technology and data foundations, organizational culture, and security and governance. This session will unpack the five pillars of agent readiness and offer practical guidance to help your organization prepare for AI agents at scale. You’ll leave with a framework to assess and accelerate your readiness journey.

Deploying AI workloads on Kubernetes is now a necessity. But when those workloads are stateful, the complexity multiplies. We’ll dive into the real-world journey of going from zero to production with AI on K8s, focusing on managing stateful services. We'll unpack architectural patterns, storage strategies, and challenges when running persistent, data-heavy AI workloads in a cloud-native environment. Join us to share learnings and hear how others are navigating the stateful side of AI on K8s.

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.

Did you know the Microsoft benefits packages for partners were expanded this year to include more ways to save money and accelerate growth? These bundled offers include special pricing to help partners save at least $15,000* and up to $500K+ on Microsoft solutions. Plus, get one-on-one consulting with a MAICPP expert, joint marketing and presales support, and expert technical assistance - all designed to help partners save, innovate faster, and increase time to market.

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.

Witness a real-world cyberattack targeting sensitive data in cloud storage and containers. See how Microsoft Defender for Cloud uses AI to detect threats, power threat hunting, and automate responses to stop lateral movement.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Transparent communication during outages is crucial. This session outlines our evolving approach to incident communication, emphasizing openness and trust with customers. We’ll review recent impactful outages, key principles guiding our strategy, and the evolving best practices we execute across our engineering teams for quality and security. Attendees will gain insights into our handling of real-world incidents and how their own teams can evolve to reduce the impact of outages.

Supply chains are evolving from reactive systems to intelligent, autonomous networks. The agentic supply chain-powered by AI agents-delivers real-time visibility, predictive insights, and self-orchestrating operations. In this session, discover how AI-driven agents are transforming planning, logistics, and fulfillment to unlock growth, boost profitability, and build resilience in an unpredictable world.

Looking to make the move from a manager to leadership? In this talk we'll frame the progression that Product Managers make in their career before zooming in on the most important inflection point in a PM’s career: the jump from Product Manager to Product Leader.   We’ll talk about best practices and common pitfalls.

Real customers. Real frameworks. Real results. Join Srini Raghavan (CVP – Copilot & Agents Ecosystem) and a live customer panel to cut through the hype and get real-world Agentic AI’s impact, best practices and frameworks for transforming business processes with confidence. Also learn how Microsoft 365 Copilot platform empowers customers to build intelligent agents to accelerate your AI journey.

Transform Microsoft 365 Copilot to talk, think, and work like your organization with Copilot Tuning—no coding or data scientists required. Explore supervised and reinforcement learning, new agent capabilities, built-in security, and more. See how leading enterprises unlock value with proven best practices for fine-tuning—starting with use case selection and extending through data prep, training, and administration.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Managing endpoints in the cloud is a fundamental piece of the Zero Trust puzzle and of delivering the optimal AI experience for business. In this session, we’ll demystify what that means in practice. See how Microsoft Intune brings Zero Trust to life by connecting device and app management, compliance, and threat protection. We’ll show how cloud-native management establishes a stronger security foundation and enables safe, scalable adoption of AI. Strengthen endpoint protection across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android—helping IT teams stay ahead of threats while empowering employees to work productively and securely from anywhere.

There's so much more to software than creating it! Exercising DevOps principles in Power Platform has never been easier. Learn about the latest enhancements that scale development on complex solution, deploy production ready changes and monitor production workloads - all within Power Platform.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Unlock new opportunities by building and publishing agents to the Microsoft 365 Agent Store. This session walks partners through the full development journey, from tool selection to publishing, and shares strategies to drive scale. Discover how to use telemetry and feedback to optimize performance and design impactful agents for broad or enterprise use cases.

The intersection of AI and Cybersecurity – powered by Microsoft and accelerated by NVIDIA: Discover how Microsoft's MSEC team is redefining enterprise AI immunity — a solution developed in collaboration with NVIDIA. Explore how Microsoft and NVIDIA are partnering to power agentic capabilities at scale, enabling AI-driven innovation for Cybersecurity use cases. Learn how the platform leverages the full NVIDIA AI stack and how AI agents through Microsoft are tapping into NVIDIA GPU infrastructure.

Discover how the Microsoft Entra Suite simplifies access governance across SAP apps in private and public clouds. See live demos of integrations that accelerate provisioning, enable self-service, and enforce separation of duties and risk controls.

This session will highlight the latest innovations in Agentic DevOps – from modernizing apps to building new apps and managing production environments. Use these innovations to accelerate time to market for the solutions and services you offer, and share them with your customers to drive success in their organizations.

Protect what matters most to customers: the cloud, AI platforms, and business-critical applications. Discover how Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides a unified, intelligent solution for safeguarding workloads across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, enabling you to confidently deliver security at the speed of innovation. We'll show you how to position secure migration strategies to customers and use GTM resources and partner incentives to increase engagement.

See how Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Pages are advancing today with new AI capabilities. From M365 Copilot integrations and secure connectors to RPA, governance, and observability, the core Power Platform is getting more robust and smarter. Learn how these improvements help organizations modernize their enterprise solutions responsibly, while laying the foundation for an agent-first future.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Hear directly from government and city leaders as they share their journeys of digital transformation using Microsoft technologies. We will feature voices from cities world-wide, showcasing real-world use cases in AI adoption, data modernization, and citizen services. Join us for a discussion designed to equip government and city attendees with technical insights, lessons learned, and peer-to-peer strategies.

Finance processes are ripe for transformation with AI and agents, allowing business leaders to minimize liability, improve financial insights, and reduce overtime and tedious work for finance teams. Join us to learn about the Frontier Firm's Finance tech stack and build your own plan for transformation.

AI agents like GitHub Copilot have transformed how developers build software. In this session, learn how to leverage GitHub’s governance and security capabilities to enable agents at scale. We’ll cover best practices for rolling out agents across your organization, aligning with developer workflows, and maintaining oversight while embracing this new era of software development.

As Kubernetes and AI adoption grow, managing your clusters at scale becomes a strategic imperative. We'll share practical lessons from operating large clusters with AKS, including how to keep things reliable, efficient & secure. Learn about tools like Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager, smart scheduling for AI, and ways to simplify multi-cluster ops. Whether you are scaling to thousands of nodes or fine-tuning for performance, you'll leave with practical tips to improve cluster ops.

We release new Windows features and enhancements year-round. Learn how to stay up-to-date on what’s coming next in security, productivity, and AI. Learn how to preview features on individual devices, virtual machines, or across your organization so you can deploy the latest features and updates faster and with confidence. We'll also explore how you can engage directly with the product teams with related programs like the Customer Connection Program.

Several years back Microsoft introduced ‘Unified’ as our hero support offer. This marked a major shift in how Microsoft delivers comprehensive support across all Microsoft products and cloud services, worldwide. In the next year we’ll bring ‘Unified for Partners’ center stage for CSP partners who enable SME&C customer success at scale. This offer comes together with the power of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program through a new Support Services designation, launching here at Ignite!