Agents and AI-powered apps are reshaping how software development companies deliver value. In this session, discover how to build smarter with AI-powered innovation, deliver faster with advanced developer tools, and scale confidently through a partner ecosystem designed for growth.

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For over 30 years, Microsoft has partnered with the disability community to build accessible technology. But accessibility didn’t start with tech—think electric toothbrushes, audiobooks, and curb cuts, all designed for people with disabilities and benefiting everyone. Now, AI is the new frontier. Join Jenny Lay-Flurrie to explore how designing for disability drives trustworthy innovation and how AI can help create a world that works for everyone.

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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As generative AI adoption accelerates, IT, security and compliance leaders must balance access to innovation with responsibility and governance. In this session on Copilot Trust & Safety you’ll learn about the Microsoft-built protections embedded in the platform, see how Copilot safety investments map to real-world risk scenarios, and get a clear understanding of how to proactively safeguard your organization through policy, compliance, and risk management tools while unlocking AI’s value.

Explore how Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365 Copilot deliver agentic customer experiences (CX), helping organizations drive higher revenue and improved customer satisfaction (CSAT). Visa shares their journey and vision for agentic CX transformation. Discover real-world impacts, lessons learned, and what’s next for organizations embracing this shift. Learn about the latest CRM and CCaaS innovations and Microsoft’s AI vision to transform revenue-generating functions.

See how Azure’s new AI-powered migration agents make moving to the cloud faster, easier, and more reliable. In this session, we’ll walk through a complete end-to-end migration of applications, databases, and dependencies to Azure IaaS and PaaS—covering discovery, assessment, planning, and execution. Learn how to reduce complexity, minimize risk, and modernize confidently with step-by-step guidance and real-world scenarios.

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Confidently adopt AI and manage your AI apps, agents, and platforms. From assistive copilots to autonomous digital workers, gain visibility and control to prevent data oversharing, manage sprawl, defend against threats, and ensure compliance.

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Modernizing legacy .NET apps just became easier end to end. Explore how Visual Studio 2026, .NET, and GitHub Copilot modernization tooling streamline the journey. Learn how new features in Azure App Service solve common compatibility challenges—delivering scalable, secure, AI-ready deployments with deep observability and cost efficiency.

Learn how NTT DATA’s Agentic AI Services for Microsoft can help you get out of “pilot mode” and drive real business value from your agentic AI and gen AI projects, faster. Our industrialized framework helps you move from AI experimentation to production quickly and unlock measurable return on investment. Our approach leverages automation, observability, support, and managed services to create a crucial link between your team, the new AI agents supporting them, and your existing knowledge base.

Learn how Microsoft is transforming its own employee and executive communications—building trust, connection, and engagement at scale. This session will cover multiple communication tools and methods, with special focus on the latest AI-powered innovations and roadmap for Viva Engage.

Step into the era of modular AI. Join our engineering leaders to see how Microsoft Foundry lets you build, orchestrate, and manage intelligent agents using new workflow capabilities. Learn how to unify models, data, and tools with enterprise-grade security and observability.

Frontier Firms aren’t just adopting AI, they’re reimagining work around it. Join Nicole Herskowitz, Sumit Chauhan and Jeff Teper for live demos and real-world examples of the latest innovations in the AI built for work, Microsoft 365 Copilot. Discover what’s new and how Copilot empowers people, teams and business processes in the era of AI.

Join Jen Hoskins, NVIDIA’s Global Head of Cloud & Partnerships for Startups, for a live showcase featuring cutting-edge developer tools from NVIDIA Inception and Microsoft for Startups. Learn from from the teams behind Qodo, CodeRabbit, Factory AI, Arize, and Galileo as they bring live demonstrations to life, and about how their technologies help developers build, debug, and monitor AI applications using accelerated computing and generative AI.

Build the single front door experience for your employees with the Employee Self-Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot. In this lab, get hands on with configuring and extending the Agent in Copilot Studio, Learn to connect HR/IT systems and third-party agents, customize workflows, and see how deploying this agent streamlines support, reduces tickets, and boosts employee satisfaction—all with enterprise-grade security.

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The Foundry Model Catalog supports “One-click” deployment of the latest NVIDIA NIM™ Examples of usage of the newest NVIDIA entries • Nemotron Nano: Large Language Reasoning Model • Nemotron Nano VLM: VLM with the ability to query and summarize images and video • Cosmos-reason1: Reasoning VLM for physical AI and robotics • Microsoft-Trellis: Asset generation model capable of producing detailed meshes, • Boltz2: Structural biology model for structure and affinity • Evo2 NIM: Biological model that integrates information over long genomic sequences

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This lab introduces key data classification and protection tools in Microsoft Purview. Participants learn to create and customize sensitive information types to identify sensitive data, and apply sensitivity labels to enforce encryption, access controls, and content marking. Gain hands-on experience in building and managing policies that secure data across Microsoft 365.

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Your identity and network access approach for AI doesn’t need a revolution—just an expansion. Learn how to strengthen your Zero Trust foundation, manage and govern the rising tide of agents, and enable AI to accelerate your success.

In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to migrate traditional workloads to AKS using containerization and AKS Automatic, while enhancing functionality through integration with Azure PaaS services. We'll also explore how GitHub Copilot Application Modernization accelerates the process with AI-assisted coding and intelligent refactoring, helping teams streamline modernization and unlock cloud-native capabilities faster.

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Whether you’re modernizing for peak performance and AI readiness or building the next generation of intelligent apps and agents, the Microsoft database portfolio fuels your vision. Join CVP Shireesh Thota for an inside look at the latest innovations across SQL, NoSQL, and open-source databases—featuring dynamic demos that reveal how to boost productivity, deliver rich, personalized experiences, and unlock new possibilities from your data.

Discover how Microsoft Cloud empowers SAP customers to modernize their business with SAP Business Suite through the RISE with SAP journey. Explore infrastructure innovations like High SLA for RISE, AI-driven monitoring, and performance optimization. See how organizations deploy RISE with SAP on Azure, integrate SAP BTP and BDC, secure workloads with Defender and Sentinel, while meeting sovereignty and compliance needs.