Discover how Azure Arc simplifies SQL Server migration with a unified, end-to-end experience. From automated assessments and real-time replication to seamless provisioning and cutover, Azure Arc accelerates modernization while delivering near-zero downtime. Learn how IT and business leaders can confidently migrate, optimize performance, and unlock the full potential of their data estate.

This session introduces a unified platform converging cloud and AI security built to integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Azure. Move beyond fragmented tools that create friction and slow innovation. We will discuss key use cases and how this platform secures your entire cloud estate and AI lifecycle, plus the first steps to adoption. This session is for strategic IT Decision-Makers, Cloud Architects, and Security Leaders responsible for securing cloud transformation and AI initiatives.

Polarion X on Azure redefines Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for industrial solutions. This collaboration leverages Microsoft’s AI and cloud innovation with Siemens’ deep industrial expertise to deliver exceptional quality, accelerated development, and transformative outcomes.

Cloud PC and Azure Virtual Desktop unlock flexibility and scalability, but they also bring new challenges that can frustrate admins and users alike. In this session, we’ll tackle the top five hurdles - slow logons, performance bottlenecks, network issues, and Teams call quality - and show you how ControlUp solves them with real-time monitoring, synthetic testing, and automation that keeps your environment running smoothly.

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.

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Under the shared responsibility model, you play a critical role in protecting Azure and M365 data. Learn how Cohesity’s AI-powered platform extends native protections to secure workloads, automate policy enforcement, and reduce recovery time. You’ll see how to isolate backups from production accounts, detect attacks, and orchestrate near-instant recovery—reestablishing trusted systems quickly and with confidence—while delivering cyber resilience at lower TCO than traditional approaches.

This lab provides a comprehensive overview of building, deploying, and securing AI agents. We will start by creating a single agent with Azure Functions and Foundry Agent Service in Microsoft Foundry, then enhance it with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and add data grounding with Azure Cosmos DB. You will also combine the single agents to form a multi-agent system. You will then deploy, manage and secure the application on a Flex Consumption plan.

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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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Learn how to seamlessly modernize a Linux application stack in Azure. Participants will be able to step through the migration process with a Linux/Postgres/Java application and utilize infrastructure as a code (IaC) for scale migrations.

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In this hands-on lab, discover how to govern AI Apps & Agents using AI Gateway in Azure API Management. Learn to apply governance best practices by onboarding AI models, monitoring and controlling token usage, enforcing safety and compliance, and boosting performance with semantic caching. You’ll also govern MCP-based agent architectures by creating secure, efficient servers from APIs or connecting to backend MCP servers, equipping you to deliver responsible, resilient AI solutions at scale.

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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:​ Azure Accelerate in action: Confidently migrate, modernize, and build faster: Cyril Belikoff​ Cisco: Patrick Eustace​ Dell: Kenny Lowe​ Build secure agentic AI apps with SQL Server 2025: Sirjad Parakkat & Anna Hoffman​ IBM: Nigel Cain​ PwC: Scott Sikorski

Understand the Start, Get, and Stay Resilient journey. Get equipped with tools & insights to architect mission critical applications with Azure’s Resiliency and Configuration experiences. Assess your resiliency posture, apply recommendations, validate your posture and orchestrate recovery. With the Essentials Machine Management bundle from Azure, manage and maintain the state of your resources, enforce configurations across devices and ensure resilience is not a one-time goal but an ongoing state.

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Apollo Hospitals unlocked faster performance and sped up innovation by migrating to Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Ready to move beyond your legacy databases? Join us to learn how to make the move seamless with AI-assisted migration for Oracle workloads. Plus, hear how a move to Azure enables innovation and explore the latest features that deliver the resilience and extensibility needed to bolster your databases to support more intelligent applications and demanding workloads.

The session will highlight the most popular market trends and use-cases in building apps and agents for customers, and how partners can use the full Azure tech stack - app, data, and AI platforms, with the world's most popular developer tools, to offer their customers the solutions they need. The session will cover resources made available to partners to be successful.

Discover how organizations can simplify operations and reduce costs with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on ARO—running containers and virtual machines together on a unified platform. Then hear from Bradesco, who will share how they are advancing their AI strategy with Microsoft Foundry on ARO, leveraging Microsoft's enterprise-grade AI capabilities to innovate securely and at scale.

The era of agentic and physical AI is here. The NVIDIA Blackwell architecture delivers groundbreaking advancements for next-gen AI and accelerated computing workloads ranging from reasoning and multimodal inference, to robotics simulation and visual AI agents. Explore how the purpose-built collaboration of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell tackle a range of AI use cases leveraging the security and flexibility of Microsoft Azure cloud - delivering smarter, faster and more efficient AI.

Learn practical strategies from Sam’s Club for modernizing mission-critical apps to Azure. Dive into technical strategies, get hands-on guidance to implement key resilience patterns and how to operationalize them in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and other critical Azure services. By the end of this session, developers and cloud practitioners will walk away with tools to modernize legacy monolithic apps for resilience, performance, and scale in Azure.

You've invested in Azure and Windows 365, but are you truly getting the most out of your investment? Optimize cloud costs and maximize the value of your Microsoft cloud environment in this session demonstrating how the Citrix platform acts as a powerful multiplier, enhancing security and delivering a powerful user experience. Unlock the full potential of your existing infrastructure.

“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:​ Preview: What’s new with Azure Databases and SQL Server: Shireesh Thota ​ Lenovo: Adam Mandelbloom​ Your Next Move: Skilling for the AI Era with Microsoft: Jeana Jorgensen​ Securing AI at Scale: Microsoft’s Latest Innovations: Herain Oberoi​ C3 AI: Nikhil Krishnan

This lab provides a comprehensive overview of building, deploying, and securing AI agents. We will start by creating a single agent with Azure Functions and Foundry Agent Service in Microsoft Foundry, then enhance it with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and add data grounding with Azure Cosmos DB. You will also combine the single agents to form a multi-agent system. You will then deploy, manage and secure the application on a Flex Consumption plan.

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