Continuing to install applications into desktop images erodes the benefits of modern Windows technologies, including Intune, Windows 365, and Azure Virtual Desktop.

Discover how AI packaging alleviates the most significant application headaches IT faces when adopting modern Windows desktops platforms, including legacy app compatibility issues, slow deployment times, the frequency of updates, image sprawl, and disk storage consumption.

Turn "turn on Copilot" into business outcomes. This session maps the MSP-ready path: standardize Microsoft 365, harden identity and endpoints, govern data, then deliver outcome-based AI services. We'll demonstrate live use cases and show how to make your customers more secure, boost customer retention and deliver new services.

As AI agents scale from pilot to production, organizations face challenges around trust, compliance and governance. This session shows how Microsoft Foundry embeds responsible and trustworthy AI practices aligned with Microsoft’s Responsible AI principles. Learn how to evaluate agents, monitor behavior in production and automate quality and safety checks to deliver insights that speed approvals, reduce risk and build customer trust.

Presenting Cognizant® Intelligent Claims Adjudication, a patent-filed, agentic AI solution that seamlessly integrates with any claims adjudication platform to address the claims that fall out of the system. Powered by Agentic AI and built on Cognizant’s deep industry expertise with advanced technology from Microsoft Azure, it automates complex claims decisions while keeping human experts involved, learning from the decisions taken each time. Using a proven approach that blends data analysis, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning, the solution delivers fast, accurate, and scalable claims outcomes.

To meet growing customer demand for faster, more intuitive troubleshooting of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) networking, Azure supports deep pod level metrics, logs and visualization for AKS clusters which enables users to understand their network architecture. This session introduces how advanced container networking services with Hubble enhances AKS troubleshooting workflows, helping teams identify and resolve issues efficiently. Attendees will learn how to leverage these capabilities to streamline diagnostics, reduce operational overhead, and improve the overall reliability of their AKS deployments.

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.

Join Wandelbots, Microsoft and NVIDIA for a discussion on the next era of physical AI. Explore how simulations, powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and accelerated by NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and frameworks, Microsoft Azure, and OpenUSD are rapidly accelerating robotics development. Learn how digital twins, synthetic data generation, and closed-loop data integrations reduce risk, speed up skill acquisition, and ensure robust performance for advanced industrial and AI for robotics.

Build, operate, and scale AI agents with Foundry Agent Service. Learn how to author agents, connect tools and data, evaluate performance, and deploy to a secure runtime for production. See how to bring OpenAI API–based projects into Foundry with minimal changes while gaining enterprise-grade governance, observability, and interoperability through the Model Context Protocol and agent-to-agent capabilities.

AI agents are now a core part of production environments, delivering real impact. Explore how Azure App Platform supports secure, scalable AI agent deployment and lifecycle management. You'll explore how agents use MCP tools and how built-in observability, access controls, and policy enforcement ensure reliable operations. Leave with a clear understanding of how to manage AI agents with governance and performance at scale.

Citrix and Microsoft futurists explore how AI will transform work by operating existing apps alongside humans. See the 7-stage progression from today's shadow AI to tomorrow's agent orchestration. Learn what changes when AI uses your interfaces, why this path beats waiting for "AI-native" apps, and how to prepare now without blocking innovation.

Organizations face mounting cyber, regulatory, and AI governance challenges. Learn how Microsoft empowers innovation through trust—integrating governance, compliance, and AI accountability across Microsoft Purview, Compliance Manager, and Regulatory Navigator. Discover how compliance becomes a growth accelerator—turning regulation into readiness and trust into innovation.

AI dominates headlines—but how do we cut through the noise? In this candid session, tech leaders share how they’re navigating AI’s biggest promises and toughest realities. Learn how they balance innovation with responsibility, turn hype into action, and shape the future of work. Expect real challenges, lessons, and defining moments—not just theory.

AI performance extends beyond chip metrics; it relies on integrated hardware, software, and infrastructure. Traditional benchmarks fall short, so NVIDIA DGX Cloud Benchmarking offers a standardized framework to evaluate large-scale AI workloads. NVIDIA and Azure present an end-to-end benchmarking workflow, sharing optimization strategies for deploying and tuning production-ready LLMs on Azure.

Microsoft Marketplace is central to how we sell alongside our partner ecosystem. As demand surges for intelligent applications and personalized agents, Marketplace is how we meet customers where they are. In this session, you’ll learn how to build, ship, and monetize your AI-powered solutions—like agents and other intelligent cloud offerings—through Marketplace. We’ll share a proven formula to align your marketplace strategy with your sales motion to drive new revenue opportunities.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

In the era of AI-driven transformation, partners have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to lead customers into the future—and profit uniquely with Azure. This session will reveal how migration and modernization are not just technical motions, but strategic profit engines for partners ready to capitalize on the next wave of cloud adoption.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Trusted by nearly half of Fortune 100 companies, Nasdaq Boardvantage powers secure, intelligent board operations. In this deep dive session, explore how Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and API Management create a resilient architecture that safeguards confidential data while unlocking new agentic AI capabilities.

You know Copilot as your AI assistant - helping to boost your productivity, providing contextual intelligence, and automating repetitive tasks. Increasingly, Copilot is a valuable partner for you and your team as you collaborate together. From Copilot Chat to agents in Teams, AI contributes to how Frontier Firms collaborate. Learn about the latest innovations in multi-user AI and how your organization can improve your collaboration.

Modern development moves fast. Security teams are overwhelmed with alerts. But not all risks are equal. GitHub Advanced Security and Microsoft Defender for Cloud make DevSecOps seamless by connecting code to runtime context and unifying developer and security admin tools. Learn how to prioritize what’s actually exploitable in production, reduce alert fatigue, and accelerate remediation with AI-powered fixes with agentic workflows.

What if your AI agents could remember, learn and collaborate at lightning speed? Discover how Azure Managed Redis, Mem0, and Agent Framework turn stateless agents into intelligent systems. Redis enables real-time collaboration, long-term learning, and semantic routing. Mem0 adds persistent memory across sessions, while Agent Framework powers reasoning and planning. Together, they build smarter, scalable multi-agent systems ready for any domain.

Microsoft’s Trustworthy AI approach is grounded in three pillars: commitments, capabilities, and research. We are prioritizing security, sovereignty, sustainability, and safety as core areas of investment, ensuring that AI systems are built responsibly and deployed with confidence. In this session, we’ll show how these commitments translate into tangible product capabilities across Microsoft Foundry, Copilot, and the broader Microsoft AI ecosystem.

Governments are under increasing pressure to modernize services, improve citizen engagement, and operate more efficiently. In this session, we’ll explore Microsoft’s value proposition for public sector organizations, highlighting how cloud and AI technologies are driving transformation across national, federal, state, and local agencies. Learn how Microsoft’s platforms support secure, scalable, and compliant solutions tailored to government needs.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.