Join us for a fireside chat with industry-leading brands unlocking transformative value through AI. Explore real-world AI adoption across industries from financial services, consumer products, manufacturing and telco. Hear candid insights on lessons learned, unexpected wins, and what it truly takes to move from ambition to enterprise-wide impact. Explore real-world AI adoption. Hear candid insights on lessons learned, unexpected wins, and what it truly takes to move from ambition to enterprise-wide impact.

The Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is the primary way we engage and invest in our partner ecosystem.  The program brings everything together across the whole of the partner lifecycle, including onboarding, skilling, go-to-market, incentives, and co-selling. In this session, learn about our Partner Program, its evolution, exciting new offers and how it enables partners drive growth.

Learn how intelligent infrastructure, agentic operations, and AI-driven tools are transforming cloud reliability, security, and agility for every workload. Join Chief Product Officer of Azure Platform, Jeremy Winter and guests, to discover how Azure’s latest innovations empower organizations to modernize, secure, and scale with confidence.

Discover how Windows is powering AI and agents helping frontier firms accelerate innovation and deliver impact across teams and customers. Join Microsoft engineering leaders for demos and hear how companies like Levi’s are transforming with intelligent productivity, secure work anywhere, and resilient protection.

Agentic DevOps is shaping the future of software engineering, driving productivity and innovation through automation and intelligent collaboration. Learn how AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure are empowering developers at Microsoft to innovate faster and more securely. Gain practical insights and strategies from Microsoft’s journey to empower your own DevOps transformation.

Join Rob Lefferts for a dynamic look at Microsoft’s vision for AI-driven security, with insights from special guest Allie Mellen, Principal Analyst at Forrester. See how intelligent agents and automation help security teams prevent threats, respond faster, and stay ahead of attackers. We’ll highlight innovations in Microsoft Defender, new agentic capabilities transforming SOC operations, and real-world stories of organizations strengthening their defenses.

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“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 2 will feature:​ Becoming Frontier across industries: Kathleen Mitford and Satish Thomas​ C3 AI: Adi Bhashyam​ Cognizant: Shveta Arora​ SAP: Dr. Walter Sun​ Cisco: Tom Richards​ PwC: Dan Priest & Jim Randall

This session explores tools and strategies to protect data, streamline development, and ensure compliance—empowering IT leaders and platform owners to operate confidently in an AI-driven world. Discover how Copilot Studio and Power Platform help enterprises manage agents with robust security, scalable governance, and operational health.

Learn how to maximize your Secure AI Productivity CSP opportunity with Microsoft 365. In this session, we will cover our key go-to-market investments and important announcements intended to help you boost your execution. Additionally, we will make it real for you by sharing best practices from partners who are leveraging our Win Formula. Don’t miss this chance to learn and apply these insights into your business!

Learn how the Premier League transformed decades of match data, editorial content, and video into a real-time, intelligent, personalized fan experience. This session explores how data strategy, AI orchestration, and scalable architecture can elevate engagement across global audiences of the world's most watched league —with actionable lessons from Microsoft and Premier League leaders to apply in your own organization.

With more connectors than ever for Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365 Copilot, organizations are looking for ways to protect multiple data sources from exposure and possible exfiltration. Learn about a data-first security approach to scale AI responsibly across enterprise systems, reinforcing our joint vision of secure, responsible AI adoption.

Agentic AI has the power to reshape every business function across the retail value chain. To get ahead and stay ahead, retail technologists need a cutting-edge understanding of agentic capabilities and how to deploy them strategically across their organizations to meet business goals and unlock competitive advantage. Join us to learn the latest on agentic scenarios from Microsoft and hear how leading retailers are maximizing agentic opportunities to become frontier firms.

Send us a text Dive into the powerful world of mainframes! Chief Product Officer of IBM Z and LinuxONE, Tina Tarquinio, reveals the truth behind those eight nines of uptime and explores how mainframes are evolving with AI, hybrid cloud, and future-proofing strategies for mission-critical business decisions. 

Discover the cutting-edge innovations transforming enterprise computing—from on-chip AIU and Spyre AI accelerators enabling real-time inferencing at transaction speed, to how LinuxONE is redefining hybrid cloud architecture.  Tina discusses DevOps integration, AI-powered code assistants revolutionizing mainframe development, compelling AI use cases, and shares her bold predictions for the mainframe’s next 100 years.  Plus, career advice from a tech leader and what she does for fun! 00:46 Tina Tarquinio03:18 The Most Mainframe Surprise09:12 What IS the Mainframe Really?  8 Nines!14:40 On Chip AIU, Spyre Inferencing18:11 Mainframes with Hybrid Cloud19:11 The Linux One Pitch19:59 Exciting Mainframe Innovations22:09 DevOps23:36 Code Assistants26:03 AI Use Case27:49 Future Proofing Decisions37:17 Regulations38:45 Bold Prediction38:58 Mainframe 10040:48 Career Advice42:24 For FunLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tina-tarquinio Website: https://www.ibm.com/products/z

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“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:​ Security in the agentic AI era: Vasu Jakkal​ Microsoft Credentials for the AI frontier: Elisa Graceffo​ Accessibility in the AI Era: Jenny Lay-Flurrie​ IBM: Chris McGuire & Michelle Pellegrin​ Microsoft Foundry: The AI app and agent factory: Yina Arenas

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.

Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

Learn how to build an advanced AI agent using Azure Database for PostgreSQL and the new Microsoft Agent Framework. This hands-on lab walks you through integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic re-ranking, Semantic Operators, and GraphRAG (using Apache AGE) to enable intelligent legal question-answering using real case data. Gain practical AI implementation skills with your own PostgreSQL-backed applications.

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Join Microsoft’s product team for a hands-on lab where you'll design and deploy an AI-powered application using SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric. This session dives into HTAP capabilities, enabling seamless transactional and analytical processing. You'll provision a SaaS-native SQL Database, use Copilot to generate schema and queries, and implement advanced patterns like RAG with vector search. Walk away with practical skills and a working solution you can apply immediately.

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This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of automated AI red teaming generative AI systems for safety and security risks using Microsoft Foundry. Attendees will learn how to apply automated attack techniques to identify safety issues and security vulnerabilities across multiple risk dimensions before deployment. Participants will engage in hands-on walkthroughs and guided exercises to apply these concepts in realistic development scenarios.

Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

See agentic intelligence come to life with Azure Direct Models in Microsoft Foundry, “vibe coding” workflows, and Microsoft 365 integration. We’ll show how to ship responsive agents with Copilot Studio actions, Graph connectors, and Azure AI Search—plus telemetry, evals, and guardrails—for low?latency, enterprise?grade results. Demos cover autonomous tasks, multi?agent handoffs, and feedback loops. Leave with patterns, code, and a build checklist.

Discover how Copilot is reshaping the data science experience in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. From transforming raw data into actionable insights to generating stunning visualizations and reports, Copilot brings powerful new capabilities to your fingertips. You'll learn how to unlock Copilot in Fabric, explore what it can do, and ensure it's ready to elevate your analytics game. These tips and tricks will help you harness AI to work smarter, faster, and with more impact.