Join this hands-on lab to design and deploy a modern, cloud-native analytics and AI solution using Azure Databricks, Microsoft Foundry, and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Work with the Zava-Litware scenario to perform data ingestion, orchestration with Lakeflow, AI-driven insights via Genie, mirrored catalog in Microsoft Fabric, Copilot Studio low-code automation, and advanced reporting in Power BI. Build a scalable, cost-efficient solution showcasing AI-powered analytics for business transformation.

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In this hands-on lab, you’ll build a Knowledge Base using agentic RAG, the next evolution of retrieval in Azure AI Search. Connect your agentic retrieval engine to your data through smart source selection across multiple indexes and storage systems. Learn how to enhance planning using natural language guidance and generate grounded responses with citations or extractive answers tailored to your use case. By the end, you’ll have a fully functional Knowledge Base that responds over enterprise data.

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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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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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The future of work is here. See how Windows combines security, adaptability, cloud, and AI to empower organizations and people to create, decide, and grow.

Discover how Microsoft is transforming nursing workflows and what it takes for organizations to successfully adopt AI solutions. It’s more than flipping a switch, it’s a purposeful evolution that demands thoughtful planning and change management.

As AI workloads grow, infrastructure must keep pace. This session covers Azure’s silicon-to-systems optimization, hardware-software codesign, and datacenter advances in cooling, power, network, and security. Learn about Azure’s latest AI infrastructure powered by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchips and Quantum-2 InfiniBand, including ND GB200/GB300 VMs with exascale performance and 860K+ tokens/sec on LLAMA 70B. We’ll also cover NC H100 and NC RTX Blackwell VMs for enterprise inferencing.

Step into a new era of secure, AI-powered productivity with Edge for Business. Streamline workflows and boost productivity with AI that transforms the browser into a proactive, context-aware partner—through innovations like Copilot Mode and multi-tab reasoning. And while you seek AI transformation, you can't relax security. Edge for Business is the leading secure enterprise browser, delivering both AI productivity and enterprise-grade security—no trade-offs required.

The emergence of Agentic AI is not just another technology trend; it's a fundamental shift in how businesses will operate and compete. This session is for the leaders, the strategists, and the innovators who need to prepare their organizations for what's next. We'll explore the strategic implications of a world where every employee has a team of AI agents, and business process is orchestrated by a network of intelligent systems built on Kore.ai's platform and Microsoft's trusted cloud.

Ever wanted to tour the Surface labs in Redmond? We’re bringing highlights of the tour to Ignite! Discover how Microsoft’s engineering excellence and human-centered design deliver innovative devices that drive productivity, inclusivity, and secure AI-powered experiences. See how our commitment to quality and accessibility transforms technology for every user—straight from the engineers behind the innovation.

In today’s AI-driven economy, data isn’t just an asset, it’s your differentiator. Join us for major announcements across Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure SQL, and Azure PostgreSQL, and see how these innovations come together to deliver a unified, intelligent data foundation for AI. Experience customer success stories, live demos, and an inside look at the roadmap shaping the future of analytics, transactional workloads, and real-time insights all in one integrated experience.

In the agentic era, digital trust is paramount. Join our security leaders to see how Microsoft builds security into every layer for a world woven with AI and agents. Through demos and customer stories, learn how protection is unified across identities, data, agents, apps, endpoints, and more. Get actionable steps to secure AI innovation at scale.

Open models are essential for accelerating AI innovation, providing transparency, flexibility, and adaptability across enterprise use cases. They empower organizations to fine-tune, customize, and deploy AI solutions securely while retaining control over data. Discover how NVIDIA AI Foundation models, available on Azure platforms as NVIDIA NIM, power technologies and use cases. Learn how NVIDIA Nemotron, open reasoning models, are used to build powerful enterprise research agents that synthesize hours of research in minutes. Also, explore how NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models are used to simulate, reason, and generate data for downstream pipelines in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and industrial vision systems.

Get ready to explore how Azure Copilot is transforming the way IT, DevOps, and Developers manage, secure, and optimize cloud environments—ushering in an era of agentic AI that goes beyond simple automation. This session unveils powerful new capabilities that enable AI to act more independently and collaboratively with users, streamlining tasks like incident response, infrastructure provisioning, security posture management, and beyond.​

With models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Black Forest Labs, Mistral AI, Meta, xAI and more, Microsoft Foundry brings the world’s most advanced AI models together in one secure, unified platform. Learn how to select, evaluate, and intelligently route models to achieve the right balance of cost, latency, and accuracy—all while maintaining enterprise-grade security, responsible AI practices, and built-in governance across every workload.

Discover how the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace is reshaping the future of cloud and AI innovation. In this session, we’ll explore how Microsoft Marketplace—unifying Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource—empowers organizations to become Frontier Firms by streamlining the discovery, purchase, and deployment of tens of thousands of cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents.

As AI evolves from passive tools to autonomous agents, the stakes for accessibility and responsibility are rising. Join Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer, and Natasha Crampton, Chief Responsible AI Officer, to explore how Microsoft is shaping the future of agentic AI, creating systems that are safe, and trustworthy. Drawing on real-world technologies, they'll share how Accessibility and Responsible AI are not just parallel priorities but deeply interconnected imperatives.

Discover how to optimize Windows Server workloads with Azure infrastructure and agentic management tools to maximize your investment. Learn how to use Azure administration tools, including WAC, Azure Copilot, and AI Shell to manage Windows Server workloads in Azure.  Configure and leverage AI tools with BCDR, Monitoring, Compliance, Software Updates and security for Windows Server workloads, and simplify Windows Server identity in Azure with Entra Domain Services.

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The teams that have strong DevOps practices are the ones best positioned to take advantage of the power of AI. See how you can use GitHub Copilot and AI Agents to bring speed, scale and security across the software development for your organization.