Agents need context. How should we connect data to our agents for optimal context? In this session we will introduce Foundry IQ, the knowledge layer for agents, and the latest developments from Azure AI Search and Microsoft Foundry. Learn about multi-source RAG orchestration, retrieval steering, dynamic security controls and agentic RAG.

Agentic AI is redefining how enterprises operate—automating complex workflows and unlocking value across business functions. In this session, explore how NVIDIA and Azure are accelerating the development, deployment, and orchestration of agentic AI applications at scale. Learn how NVIDIA’s key offerings such as NVIDIA Nemotron models, NVIDIA NIM, and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit on Azure AI platform equip organizations to boost innovation and fully realize the promise of agentic AI.

The rise of AI agents marks a turning point in how organizations operate. These agents don’t just work individually to automate tasks —they collaborate, orchestrate processes, and adapt dynamically to business needs. Preparing for that agentic future means rethinking roles, processes, and the very architecture of your business. Enterprise-grade platforms will be critical to this functional transformation, providing the security, compliance, and scalability needed to deploy agents responsibly and at scale. Join us to discover what this shift means for your organization and how to start preparing today.

Get 2X performance and 5X database capacity with Azure SQL Managed Instance. The new next-gen General Purpose tier sets a new standard of value for fully managed SQL solutions. Get started quickly with AI-assisted tooling that can complete an end-to-end migration in days. See this come to life with insurance services organization, Hexure who rebuilt their platform with Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure App Service and delivered a better CX in one highly performant, scalable and efficient platform.

Discover how Fabric IQ transforms your data into a live, semantic model of your business. Learn how teams and AI agents can collaborate from a shared understanding of entities, relationships, and rules -- enabling real-time insights, smarter decisions, and autonomous operations. See how Fabric IQ works seamlessly within Microsoft Fabric to power the next generation of intelligent enterprise.

Ready to manage every agent, everywhere? Don't fly blind, get total visibility into your agent fleet. Foundry Control plane and Observability gives you the dashboards, diagnostics, and optimization tools to run AI with confidence. If you care about uptime and impact, this Foundry session is for you.

Learn about the resources and benefits available for software development companies across all stages of the build, publish and grow journey in MAICPP. Whether you’re developing a new agent solution or working toward a certified software designation, there are targeted skilling opportunities, technical resources, and GTM benefits to help. Tap into new investments for AI apps and agents and hear from your peers on how they’ve used rewards such as customer propensity scores and Azure sponsorship

AI deepfakes are enabling fraud now, not in the future. Jeremy Nelson shares real cases, including a $25M scam from a fake video call, showing how threat actors bypass identity checks. Learn how Verified ID secures support desk interactions and get practical steps to protect your organization from AI-driven impersonation attacks.

Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat makes Copilot the AI built for work. Join this session to learn about how we’ve enhanced core chat value for all with GPT-5, experience improvements, and new ways to access chat in your favorite apps. Additionally, we’ll cover how Copilot Chat transforms your day when combined with your work context and agents through new chat-first workflows, interaction modes, and ways to create files right from chat.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

In this hands-on lab, you'll build an advanced agent inspired by AgentWise, our internal learning assistant designed to help developers understand types of ways for building agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Using Copilot Studio, you’ll architect a multi-layered agent that adapts to user goals, personalizes guidance based on persona, and makes intelligent decisions using structured flows and real-time data. Along the way, you’ll learn how to combine retrieval and dynamic logic to go beyond Q&A.

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Deploy AVS and manage VMware vSphere environment as an Azure resources (B) Connect AVS private cloud secretly with Internet (C) Migrate VMs from on-premises to AVS using VMware HCX technology (D) Expand AVS private cloud storage with Azure NetApp Files or Azure Elastic SAN; scaling storage independently from compute (E) Manage AVS workloads VMs using Azure interfaces by Arc-enabling AVS private cloud and its VMs (F) Modernization workloads with Azure Services like Azure SQL Managed Instances and AI capabilities.

Note: this session will use demo environments instead of live environments due to complexity and time.

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Join us for a hands-on workshop showcasing the latest Azure SQL innovations to supercharge your applications. Learn how to harness generative AI alongside Azure SQL Database to elevate your data strategies with AI concepts like language models, prompt engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and streamline with Microsoft Copilot. Whether you're a developer, architect, or IT professional, this workshop is your ticket to mastering SQL and AI to stay ahead in the data-driven landscape.

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Learn how agentic AI transforms operations into intelligent, adaptive systems. Learn about real-world industrial use cases, immersive C-level simulations, and a practical roadmap to AI-native enterprise success—powered by Microsoft’s secure and scalable AI capabilities.

Join Microsoft experts in discussing hybrid AI across cloud and edge. We’ll trade real world patterns for Surface and Copilot+ PCs, unpack NPU accelerated workflows, and explore how Microsoft Foundry on Windows supports model and dev ops, privacy, and performance. Expect candid Q&A in depth and practical next steps—real talk with people driving business transformation!

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.

Power Platform Community empowers makers, developers, and business users to innovate with low-code tools, Copilot Studio, and AI agents. This session explores global collaboration, peer learning, and agent-building strategies that drive impact across Microsoft 365 and beyond.

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Join us to learn how AI can transform your IT operations. Discover how to leverage AI to predict and prevent issues, automate remediation, and build a self-managing IT environment. Ensure business continuity and boost efficiency by making your IT infrastructure resilient, intelligent, and proactive.

Reimagine customer support with Foundry Agent Service. Learn how agent-based AI transforms support by triaging, resolving, and preventing issues—empowering human agents to focus on high-value interactions. See real-world use cases, best practices, and live demos to securely integrate AI for faster resolutions and deeper insights. Ideal for enterprise leaders scaling AI in support.

Explore insider risk management and adaptive protection with Microsoft Purview. In this lab you will learn how to configure policies to detect and respond to internal threats and apply dynamic protection based on user risk levels.

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Explore how to monitor and observe multi-agent systems in production using observability tools from Azure Monitor, integrated with Microsoft Foundry. Trace multi-agent pipelines, apply OpenTelemetry standards, and instrument business telemetry with dashboards. You’ll walk away with effective best practices to debug evaluation results and monitoring insights to secure and scale your AI agents.

Build confidence in managing AKS at scale with next‑gen ops tools. In this hands‑on lab, you’ll simulate a production service hit by traffic spikes, discover how AI‑driven alerts surface hidden bottlenecks, and deploy agents that self‑heal nodes. Using open‑source tools and the aks‑mcp server, you can automate cluster scaling, patch management, and real‑time troubleshooting—letting the AI orchestrate Kubernetes and Azure resources with natural‑language commands and pre‑built MCP integrations.

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