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!

In today’s fast-paced business environment, your data foundation choices on Azure can make the difference between leading and lagging in AI. Learn why Azure platform decisions – especially solutions powered by AMD – play a key role in optimizing performance, scale, and value. Whether you’re building IT strategy or products, discover data-driven insights you can use right away after this breakout session.

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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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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You’ve built a great agent that your customers love—now it’s time to scale. By bringing your agent to Microsoft Teams with the Teams AI Library v2, you can reach 330 million users and unlock rich collaborative experiences across chats, meetings, and channels.

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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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Get hands-on experience with enabling and managing AI experiences for Windows. Explore the customizations available to users and the controls available to IT admins. Learn how to use Microsoft Intune or Group Policy to fine-tune popular features like Recall, Copilot, Click to Do, and Image Creator. We’ll also walk through managing privacy and compliance, and end user readiness.

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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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In this lab, you'll get hands-on with the AI Toolkit (AITK) and Microsoft Foundry in VS Code to explore and compare the latest multimodal and reasoning models from the Model Catalog. Learn how to augment models for a real-world business scenario, using prompt and context engineering. Prototype an agent using the AITK Agent Builder, and equip the agent with the right tools via the Model context Protocol (MCP).

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Attackers are applying for jobs. Hear real cases of deepfakes, proxy interviews, and North Korean IT workers - and walk away with practical defenses every CISO needs to secure the hiring pipeline.

AI is only as good as the data it runs on. With data spread across multiple platforms, it’s a challenge to ensure quality and security. As the first Iceberg-based OneLake integration partner, we’re enabling seamless, bidirectional data access between Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric. Join this session to see how the Onelake integration and Snowflake’s robust features for the Microsoft ecosystem unlock endless possibilities, from building better AI to developing powerful business applications.

Discover agents in Viva Engage communities and other AI-powered tools to power your Copilot adoption journey. Agents in communities are designed to provide time-savings, facilitate knowledge sharing, and make expertise readily available across organizations. As organizations evolve, fostering AI adoption with knowledge sharing and community engagement becomes essential. Learn how this agent and other AI capabilities can help cultivate community growth and scale impact.

Unlock the power of Azure AI on your data—wherever it lives—with NetApp and Microsoft. Learn how Azure NetApp Files, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and ONTAP on-prem deliver a secure, intelligent data infrastructure for AI workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud. Discover how in-place data access reduces cost and complexity, accelerates insights, and opens new opportunities for customers and ISV partners to innovate with integrated AI solutions, on your data.

Discover how agentic experiences transform marketing by embedding intelligent agents into existing workflows in M365 Copilot. This session uses industry examples to explore Adobe and Microsoft technical integrations for secure, brand-compliant, and personalized customer journeys. Learn how AI-driven segmentation, targeting, and measurement reduce overhead, optimize customer journey creation and orchestration, and drive loyalty, all illustrated through real-life industry examples

Multi-tenant apps need scalable platforms to meet growing workload and AI demands, but scaling PostgreSQL can be complex. Elastic Clusters in Azure Database for PostgreSQL offers a fix: simple horizontal scale out of PostgreSQL data with row and schema-based sharding built into the managed service. Join us to learn how this best-in-class capability is empowering ITOps, architects and developers to build and manage resilient, high-performing multi-tenant apps while optimizing operations and cost.

The Road to Microsoft Azure AI Certification is a relaxed, insightful walk through my journey to earning the Azure AI Associate credential. I’ll share the missteps, the lightbulb moments, the study tricks that actually worked, and the tools I wish I’d used sooner. If you’re curious about Azure AI, thinking about certification, or just enjoy a good tech adventure, this is a fun, practical session you won’t want to miss.