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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In this session I will demo how you can migrate vm's from VMWare or Hyper-V to Azure Local using Azure Migrate. I will demo how you configure the Azure Migrate Project, how you deploy the Azure Migrate Appliance, how you enable synchronization and migrate and finalize the cutover. During this theater session you should have a good understanding on how you can migrate your vm's to Azure Local with a short down time for migration and for free without buying expensive third-party tools.

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.

SAP Databricks on Azure integrates Databricks Data Intelligence Platform with SAP Business Data Cloud, unifying SAP and external data for advanced analytics, AI, and ML. It enables building intelligent apps and actionable insights using trusted SAP and third-party business data. Available natively on Azure within SAP Business Data Cloud, it offers seamless access without data duplication via Delta Sharing. This session highlights automated forecasting, exploratory analysis, and BI use cases.

“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:​ Azure Infrastructure: Jeremy Winter ​ AI Skills Navigator: Kavitha Radhakrishnan​ Varonis: Shawn Hays​ NVIDIA: Andrew Hester​ GitHub Copilot: Martin Woodward​ AMD: Arjun Oberoi & Daniel Kim

The future of AI depends on seamless connectivity across clouds and regions. Learn how Equinix and Microsoft enable distributed AI with hybrid multicloud interconnection. Learn how enterprises are optimizing infrastructure to support real-time inferencing, ensuring low-latency access to Azure AI services, and futureproofing innovation with secure, global connectivity.

Discover how HID is helping enterprises scale passkey adoption with Microsoft Entra ID—seamlessly and securely. In this demo, we showcase how HID’s FIDO credentials with converged access, combined with enterprise-grade passkey management and enhanced capabilities amplify your existing Azure and Entra investments.

Whether you're exploring what's next, seeking fast implementation wins, or learning from industry best practices, this session will show you how to deploy passkeys at scale.

Join Intel, Microsoft Azure, and Bosch as they explore how TDX empowers secure AI, digital sovereignty, and multi-party analytics—all built on a foundation of verifiable trust. This is more than a technology launch; it’s the beginning of a new era in trusted digital ecosystems.

Learn how a major US health company conquered legacy tech debt with Publicis Sapient. This session details an AI-powered modernization effort that transformed thousands of COBOL screens and utilized Microsoft's Azure cloud platform and Sapient Slingshot, resulting in a 3x faster migration and improved overall efficiency.

Discover how enterprises are moving from automation to true AI autonomy. This session explores the vision for scalable, agentic platforms that deliver measurable business impact.

See Microsoft's Agent Framework in action, watch how autonomous agents orchestrate complex Know Your Customer processes while ensuring compliance and audit traceability. Experience seamless integration with Copilot Studio and Azure AI, showcasing rapid development of autonomous production-ready agentic workflows.

Downtime is expensive, and every minute counts when incidents hit. Yet valuable engineering time is lost to troubleshooting, instead of driving design and innovation. NeuBird’s Agentic AI SRE delivers real-time RCA and remediation, while ensuring enterprise-grade security and governance. It correlates telemetry across Azure Monitor, observability tools, and multi-cloud, helping reduce MTTR up to 90%. Join this session to see Hawkeye by NeuBird in action.

Explore how Veeam Data Cloud for M365 goes far beyond backup, leveraging Azure and Azure AI to interact with your data. These new features offer high-throughput data discovery and Veeam's patent-pending advanced malware and ransomware detection. See a live demo of natural language queries, threat evaluation, and AI-driven management via MCP server. Learn how IT Admins, SOC Leads and CISOs can quickly identify threats and prioritize mitigation- empowering security teams to act faster and smarter.

Join Rackspace as we explore the "Power of Three", Microsoft Co-pilot in Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure OpenAI. Through real-world use cases, discover the potential of agent-based solutions, using conversational AI assistants to revolutionize knowledge management, customer service, and business process automation that can integrate, retrieve, and act on data securely from diverse enterprise systems. See Rackspace Intelligent Technology Assistant (RITA) in action.

Capgemini introduces the Agentic Industry Studio, combining deep industry expertise with Microsoft’s agentic platforms to turn AI ambition into measurable impact—fast. You’ll see how multi channel knowledge creation and domain grounded agents orchestrate work across Microsoft 365, GitHub, and Azure, and how the AI Powered Service Desk elevates customer and employee experiences with intelligent, proactive operations. Built for enterprise scale with “human–AI chemistry” felt across sectors.

Discover how Azure Accelerate empowers organizations to migrate, modernize, and innovate - fast. Join Cyril Belikoff for a dynamic Q&A that spotlights real-world customer success and the transformative impact of Azure Accelerate. Hear how customers like Thomson Reuters achieved breakthrough results with our powerful offering that provides access to Microsoft experts and investments throughout your Azure and AI journey. Don’t miss your chance to hear about Azure Accelerate in action.​

Atos had a need for some services to remain on-prem and had numerous VMWare clusters coming to end of life. Azure Local was the selected solution, and in this talk we look at why Azure Local was chosen, the benefits it delivered, and how we achieved a migration off VMWare in short timescales, saving money and delivering new capabilities to our internal IT services.

Simplify and accelerate your Azure Local deployments with Lenovo ThinkAgile MX, a fully integrated solution designed for Azure Local. With Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOCA), you can automate the deployment of entire clusters in just a few clicks—making it easy for IT teams or even field technicians to set up systems at the edge. In this session, you’ll see a live demonstration of how ThinkAgile MX and LOCA reduce complexity and enable consistent, reliable outcomes every time.

Explore how Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry work better together to accelerate AI development and achieve business outcomes. This session dives into real-world use cases, integration strategies, and how combining these tools empowers teams to build intelligent, scalable solutions faster.

Building intelligent AI agents is no simple task. With Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, you can rapidly create and deploy robust agents with the security, scalability, and integrations of Azure. In this walkthrough, we’ll build an agent that combines live data, reasoning, and dynamic tool usage. Using Azure Functions for real APIs and W&B Weave for detailed tracking, you’ll learn setup, tool registration, data endpoints, and Python-based interaction.

Cloud providers deliver powerful security capabilities, yet most organizations struggle to fully leverage them to ensure their environment is secure-by-design. In this session, we’ll explore how to harness the Azure native security controls to accelerate a prevention-first model. Learn how Native brings order to preventive policies across cloud providers, allowing you to safely achieve a secure-by-design environment in minutes.