Join us to explore how teams can design and implement systems that self-manage complex workflows and drive organisational impact without disrupting existing processes. Atlassian will walk you through how IT, software, and support teams are leveraging Rovo Studio to build powerful action-driven AI agents without writing a single line of code.

Is your AI strategy missing the mark? Nearly 75% of executives believe their AI rollouts are successful, but less than half of employees agree. This session explores how Microsoft Training Services Partners deliver tailored, locally relevant skilling solutions to bridge this gap and empower your team to unlock AI and Copilot success and drive business outcomes.

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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Unlock the potential of accelerated AI workflows in this hands-on workshop, where participants will learn how to rapidly deploy and integrate NVIDIA’s Nemotron NIM models using Microsoft Foundry’s powerful cloud-native tools. Through guided exercises, you’ll explore model provisioning, configuration, and optimization techniques that streamline AI deployment from prototype to production. Ideal for developers, data scientists, and AI engineers looking to leverage high-performance models in scalable cloud environments.

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Enterprises modernizing core systems on Azure face a familiar set of challenges: legacy mainframes, complex code refactors, and fragmented DevOps pipelines. Join Cognition to get a practical view of how autonomous AI agents like Devin help engineering teams accelerate large-scale modernization efforts. Witness how engineers used Devin to refactor COBOL applications, automate migration pipelines into Azure DevOps and GitHub, and validate migrated workloads for production.

This comprehensive session covers the complete lifecycle of intelligent data agents in Microsoft Fabric, from initial configuration to enterprise-wide deployment. Learn proven best practices for building context-aware agents with curated data sources and effective instructions. Discover how to implement robust CI/CD pipelines powered by Git for managing configurations and deployments. The session also demonstrates consumption patterns of data agents across the AI ecosystem.

This session tackles one of the biggest post-pilot challenges with Microsoft Copilot: turning initial enthusiasm into sustained, measurable adoption. With over 13 years of real-world Microsoft 365 adoption experience, I’ll share a proven framework brought to life through live demos and customer results that equips attendees to scale Copilot successfully, reduce shadow AI, and demonstrate clear business impact. Fast, practical, and repeatable. Attendees will walk away ready to act the next day.

We are entering a new era for AI in banking—defined by collaboration between people and machines, not just automation. Banks now ask: How can we move faster without risking core systems? How do we unlock value while staying in control? And how do we apply AI purposefully? This session examines what banks will need to thrive, showing how transformation becomes an advantage and how human + AI collaboration is the new frontier—balancing automation, judgment, and governance.

As modern cloud and AI applications continue to be built at rapid speed, organizations must ensure their cloud deployments are secure and compliant with the latest regulatory standards. Join us to learn how the new and improved controls Microsoft cloud security benchmark v2 can help Azure users and security teams create baselines to secure cloud services and keep environments compliant.

Enterprises are racing to operationalize AI, but connecting agents to live, trusted data remains a major architectural challenge. In this session, Alok Pareek, co-founder and EVP of Product and Engineering at Striim, will explore how Striim MCP Agentlink enables secure, real-time data movement from operational systems to AI agents. Learn patterns for inference, vector embeddings, and predictive analytics built on Microsoft data products with end-to-end encryption, lineage, and PII protection.

You probably don’t need a collection of specialty databases. Just use Postgres instead! Written for application developers and database pros, Just Use Postgres! shows you how to get the most out of the powerful Postgres database. In Just Use Postgres! you’ll learn how to: Use Postgres as an RDBMS for transactional workloads Develop generative AI, geospatial, and time-series applications Take advantage of modern SQL including window functions and CTEs Perform full-text search and process JSON documents Use Postgres as a message queue Optimize performance with various index types including B-trees, GIN, GiST, HNSW, and more Over the decades, PostgreSQL, aka Postgres, has grown into the most powerful general-purpose database and has become the de facto standard for developers worldwide. Just Use Postgres! takes a modern look at Postgres, exploring the database’s most up-to-date features for AI, time-series, full-text search, geospatial, and other application workloads. About the Technology You know that PostgreSQL is a fast, reliable, SQL compliant RDBMS. You may not know that it’s also great for geospatial systems, time series, full-text search, JSON documents, AI vector embeddings, and many other specialty database functions. For almost any data task you can imagine, you can use Postgres. About the Book Just Use Postgres! covers recipes for using Postgres in dozens of applications normally reserved for single-purpose databases. Written for busy application developers, each chapter explores a different use case illuminating the breadth and depth of Postgres’s capabilities. Along the way, you’ll also meet an incredible ecosystem of Postgres extensions like pgvector, PostGIS, pgmq, and TimescaleDB. You’ll be amazed at everything you can accomplish with Postgres! What's Inside Generative AI, geospatial, and time-series applications Modern SQL including window functions and CTEs Full-text search and JSON B-trees, GIN, GiST, HNSW, and more About the Reader For application developers, software engineers, and architects who know the basics of SQL. About the Author Denis Magda is a recognized Postgres expert and software engineer who worked on Java at Sun Microsystems and Oracle before focusing on databases and large-scale distributed systems. Quotes I was pleasantly surprised to learn many new things from this book. - From the Afterword by Vlad Mihalcea An excellent guide covering everything from basics to cutting-edge features. - Dave Cramer, PostgreSQL JDBC Maintainer Pleasant, easy to read with tonnes of great code. - Mike McQuillan, McQTech Ltd Well-organized and easy to search. - Edward Pollack, Microsoft Data Platform MVP The missing guide to understanding and using Postgres. - Mehboob Alam, POSTGRESNX, Inc.

KPMG’s AI-driven platform transforms insurance claims management using Microsoft Azure and OpenAI. Informed by live client use cases, the solution analyzes large datasets, identifies high-value opportunities, and generates actionable insights. The solution improves operational efficiency, accelerates decision-making, and helps insurers unlock hidden value across complex claims portfolios.

Ride the agent revolution with Microsoft Foundry, the one and only enterprise-ready Agent Factory. See how Foundry empowers you to build, test, and launch intelligent agents in record time, then scale them across your enterprise with bulletproof security and seamless integration. From prototype to leveraging tools, memory, knowledge and multi-agent orchestration, to integrate with Microsoft 365, this session is your shortcut to agentic success.

Modernize your DevOps strategy with Agentic DevOps by migrating your Azure Repos to GitHub while continuing to leverage the investments you’ve made in Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines. We’ll walk through real-world patterns for hybrid adoption, show how to integrate GitHub, Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines, and share best practices for enabling agent-based workflows with the MCP Servers for Azure DevOps, Playwright and Azure.

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With its unrivaled extensibility, PostgreSQL is a top choice for accelerating AI innovation. Now Azure is allowing developers to move even faster with Azure HorizonDB. Discover why Azure HorizonDB, which is AI-enabled out of the box, is the ideal launchpad for your apps and agents. We’ll demo the latest features, like AI Model Management and DiskANN Advanced Filtering, that make Postgres easy to provision and AI-aware on Azure.  See how you can build solutions faster with PostgreSQL.​

Enterprises are racing to deploy AI agents but scaling them requires more than powerful models. In this fireside chat, leaders who have deployed agentic systems in complex enterprise environments will share what it means to be “Copilot ready” and how to scale agents from pilots to production. From data foundations to security, governance and user trust, we’ll explore the pitfalls to avoid, what worked, and how innovative agent solutions are delivering measurable business value across industries.

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Discover how Microsoft Purview delivers the most comprehensive approach to securing and governing your data. Learn how organizations can protect, manage, and unlock value from their data while meeting regulatory and business goals.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is transforming productivity but unlocking its full potential requires more than just turning it on. Rafsan Huseynov, SHI AI Solutions Architect and Microsoft MVP, shares how SHI helps organizations deploy Copilot securely, responsibly, and with measurable impact. Learn how SHI’s proven strategies maximize ROI, ensure compliance, and confidently scale Copilot across the enterprise.

Discover how AI, cloud, and robotics are transforming digital engineering across industries. Learn how Microsoft and its partners are enabling faster design, smarter simulation, and scalable automation—from PLM modernization to autonomous systems. See how Azure, GitHub, and agentic AI are powering the next wave of industrial innovation.

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.

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