Resiliency is foundational. Explore how resiliency on Azure enables secure, scalable, AI-ready cloud architectures. Learn to set resilience goals, simulate failures, and orchestrate recovery. See live demos and discover how shared responsibility empowers teams to deliver trusted, resilient outcomes.

Most enterprises sit on mountains of unstructured content that is hard to search and even harder to use in AI applications. In this session, join me in transforming raw content into enriched, searchable data using Azure AI Search with text extraction, entity recognition, and image analysis. Combined with vector search and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) see how to build more relevant, trustworthy responses. Integrate and leverage the platforms to unlock entirely new AI-driven solutions.

See how Azure Local is revolutionizing hybrid cloud strategies. Powered by Azure Arc and HPE hardware, Azure Local delivers Azure services where they’re needed most. Topics include Adaptive Cloud strategy, data locality, alternative solution migrations, and competitive advantages. Learn how Azure Local empowers hybrid cloud innovation, agility, and control while helping partners unlock new revenue opportunities.

Join F5 to see how we empower organizations to deliver and secure AI models and agent architectures at scale. We’ll share our journey with Microsoft—from our integrations with Azure to our participation in the new Microsoft Security Store—and how F5 helps ensure the reliable delivery and robust protection of every app, API, and AI workload. Learn how advanced traffic management, policy enforcement, and integrated guardrails optimize and protect your AI apps.

Recent developments in the on-prem virtualization market have unsettled users and prompted a re-evaluation of their organization's strategy. Microsoft provides a robust set of solutions tailored to your specific goals and requirements. During this session, we will delve into these options, emphasizing the long-term advantages of choosing Azure Cloud and Cloud Connected. In this session, we’ll discuss the numerous Microsoft options to modernize your virtualization estate.

Discover how AVEVA and Microsoft are shaping the future of Industrial AI. Learn how AVEVA CONNECT, Azure, and the Industrial AI Assistant unlock new value through agentic AI, natural-language dashboard creation, and purpose-built industrial intelligence. See real examples of joint innovation and how AI is transforming engineering, operations, and data across the industrial lifecycle.

Did you know the Microsoft benefits packages for partners were expanded this year to include more ways to save money and accelerate growth? These bundled offers include special pricing to help partners save at least $15,000* and up to $500K+ on Microsoft solutions. Plus, get one-on-one consulting with a MAICPP expert, joint marketing and presales support, and expert technical assistance - all designed to help partners save, innovate faster, and increase time to market.

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In today’s data-driven world, organizations must deliver results with speed and precision. Explore how trustworthy AI—combining transparency, reliability, and ethics—is transforming decision-making. Learn how SAS and Microsoft empower Azure and Fabric users to boost productivity, generate synthetic data, accelerate model development, and deploy decision flows that drive impact.

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.

As Kubernetes and AI adoption grow, managing your clusters at scale becomes a strategic imperative. We'll share practical lessons from operating large clusters with AKS, including how to keep things reliable, efficient & secure. Learn about tools like Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager, smart scheduling for AI, and ways to simplify multi-cluster ops. Whether you are scaling to thousands of nodes or fine-tuning for performance, you'll leave with practical tips to improve cluster ops.

SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL DB now support vector search and embeddings, enabling semantic queries that go beyond keywords. This session shows how to store, index, and query embeddings using familiar T-SQL. You’ll learn how to power smarter search, recommendations, and natural language interfaces—all within your database. Real-world examples will highlight practical use cases. If you're ready to level up your queries, this is where it starts.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, your data foundation choices on Azure can make the difference between leading and lagging in AI. Learn why Azure platform decisions – especially solutions powered by AMD – play a key role in optimizing performance, scale, and value. Whether you’re building IT strategy or products, discover data-driven insights you can use right away after this breakout session.

Discover how to supercharge analytics and AI workflows using Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. This hands-on lab explores native AI/BI features in Azure Databricks, including ML-powered insights and real-time analytics. Learn multiple ways to serve data to Power BI, with a deep dive into Direct Lake mode with Fabric. Ideal for developers, data scientists, data analysts, and engineers modernizing BI with lakehouse architecture in the AI era.

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Join us to learn how to deploy the #1 Physical Reasoning vision language model, NVIDIA Cosmos Reason on Azure. Discover how to use Cosmos Reason across 3 main use cases for: - Data curation and annotation to accelerate the creation of high-quality training datasets - Robot planning and reasoning to train robot vision language action models - Video analytics to analyze live or pre-recorded content

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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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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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Join fellow cloud enthusiasts for a dynamic exchange of real-world Azure migration experiences, lessons learned, and best practices. This interactive session spotlights community-driven insights to help you navigate challenges, accelerate adoption, and unlock the full potential of Azure. Come ready to share, learn, and connect!

Unlock the power of Azure AI on your data—wherever it lives—with NetApp and Microsoft. Learn how Azure NetApp Files, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and ONTAP on-prem deliver a secure, intelligent data infrastructure for AI workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud. Discover how in-place data access reduces cost and complexity, accelerates insights, and opens new opportunities for customers and ISV partners to innovate with integrated AI solutions, on your data.

Multi-tenant apps need scalable platforms to meet growing workload and AI demands, but scaling PostgreSQL can be complex. Elastic Clusters in Azure Database for PostgreSQL offers a fix: simple horizontal scale out of PostgreSQL data with row and schema-based sharding built into the managed service. Join us to learn how this best-in-class capability is empowering ITOps, architects and developers to build and manage resilient, high-performing multi-tenant apps while optimizing operations and cost.

The Road to Microsoft Azure AI Certification is a relaxed, insightful walk through my journey to earning the Azure AI Associate credential. I’ll share the missteps, the lightbulb moments, the study tricks that actually worked, and the tools I wish I’d used sooner. If you’re curious about Azure AI, thinking about certification, or just enjoy a good tech adventure, this is a fun, practical session you won’t want to miss.