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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.

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

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.

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

Learn to build, containerize, deploy, and extend interactive 3D digital twin applications using NVIDIA Omniverse Kit App Streaming. This hands-on course walks you through creating a streaming-ready Kit app, deploying it for web clients, and enabling real-time, bi-directional data interaction—empowering scalable, remote visualization and collaboration across digital twin workflows.

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

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.

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

Azure AI Infra updates to power frontier and enterprise workloads

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.

Azure Partner Success: Driving Innovation Together

In today’s dynamic market, Azure partners are at the forefront of business transformation. Join Microsoft leaders as they explore how partners can accelerate growth through Azure product innovation and strategic investments. Learn how Microsoft’s latest offers and solution plays empower partners to unlock new opportunities, drive transformation across industries, and deliver differentiated customer value.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Innovation Session: Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databases - the data estate for AI

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.

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.

Introducing the new Azure Copilot for the new era of Intelligent Agents

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.​

Microsoft Marketplace: Your trusted source for cloud and AI solutions

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.

Preparing and modernizing Windows Server workloads in Azure

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.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Explore how Azure Local and Microsoft 365 Local bring critical collaboration workloads—Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Skype for Business Server—into your Sovereign Private Cloud. Highly regulated customers gain flexibility to choose connectivity models—hybrid, or fully disconnected—on customer-owned infrastructure. In this session, we’ll share GA timeline, highlight key features and roadmap, and outline packaging details so you can plan procurement and rollout with confidence.

Want to ship applications faster? This demo shows you how to dramatically accelerate time to market with a high-velocity vibe coding workflow. We'll build a complete app with Azure Cosmos DB from scratch using GitHub Copilot as our AI pair programmer. We'll make use of the new Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator and VS Code extension for local development to create a frictionless, end-to-end experience that helps you deliver features faster than ever before.

What’s new and what’s next in Azure IaaS

In this session, we’ll introduce the latest capabilities across compute, storage, and networking. Uncover the advancements in Azure IaaS, driving performance, resiliency, and cost efficiency. We will present how Azure’s global backbone, enhanced capabilities, and expanding portfolio can support mission-critical, cloud native and AI workloads —while built-in security and flexible tiering help right-size app deployments and accelerate modernization.

Moving massive datasets to the cloud for AI and analytics is often harder than expected. Join this conversation to unpack the biggest challenges—network bandwidth, migration tools, governance, and cost optimization. We’ll discuss strategies for using Azure Storage Mover, third-party tools, and storage options like Object Storage, ADLS Gen 2, and Azure NetApp Files to accelerate migration while ensuring compliance and performance. Bring your experiences and questions to shape best practices together.

Connection Pods accommodate up to 15 people. Please RSVP and arrive at least 5 minutes before the start time, at which point remaining spaces are open to standby attendees.

This demo-heavy session highlights the enhanced MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, now more robust than ever with new AI-driven enhancements to streamline your SQL development experience. With GitHub Copilot, you can move faster from schema to code, generate sample data, explore relationships, and help your app and backend stay in sync. With our latest mssql-python driver, you can develop with ease, security, and performance, across SQL Server, Azure SQL and SQL database in Fabric.

Discover how to launch serverless workspaces in seconds, power Data & AI apps with Lakebase, and analyze unstructured data without coding using Agent Bricks. With AI/BI Genie + Copilot Studio, ask natural language questions directly in Microsoft Teams. Join this session to see how Azure Databricks makes AI simple, actionable, and enterprise-ready.

Manufacturing leaders seeking autonomy need speed, quality, and safety while managing complexity. Hexagon's AEON humanoid, powered by Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA, brings Intelligent Manufacturing 4.0 to life with scalable AI training, governed deployment, and rapid simulation-backed adaptation to support new SKUs. From defect detection to validated updates, teams maintain real-time observability and compliance while scaling what works. The result: shorter cycles, fewer risks, and the ability to scale industrial robotics scenarios.