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.

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Effortlessly modernize classic ASP.NET apps with Managed Instance on Azure App Service. Enjoy frictionless migration, minimal code changes, and great control with custom software support. Get benefits of VMs with agility, security & scalability of PaaS.

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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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Azure and NVIDIA Omniverse are transforming how SDCs, GSIs, and enterprises build Digital Twins, Simulation, and Physical AI workloads. As a unified platform, they enable immersive 3D collaboration, real-time monitoring, and physics-based simulations to optimize operations. Physical AI accelerates Human-Robot-AI collaboration via synthetic 3D data and Large Action Model training. Real-world scenarios show partners driving innovation and excellence.

Azure Network is the backbone of Microsoft’s cloud vision—enabling secure, scalable, and high-performance connectivity across the globe.

Discover the evolution of Azure networking innovations across its networking foundations, connectivity, application delivery and security. Learn how these advancements boost multi-region deployment, security, and performance at scale. Hear real-world examples on how organizations are architecting resilient, intelligent, and hybrid cloud infrastructures.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Azure sets new inference records with 865K and 1.1M tokens/sec on ND GB200/GB300 v6 VMs. These results stem from deep stack optimization—from GPU kernels like GEMM and attention to multi-node scaling. Using LLAMA benchmarks, we’ll show how model architecture and hardware codesign drive throughput and efficiency. Customers benefit from faster time-to-value, lower cost per token, and production-ready infrastructure. Attendees can connect with Azure engineers to discuss best practices.

Experience the power of the newly launched NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, designed to accelerate a wide array of workloads including video streaming, graphics rendering, product design, digital twins, and AI development. Explore the latest GPU offerings with Azure Cloud and learn how to leverage Azure Local for cost-effective hybrid deployments of cutting-edge use cases. We will also provide sizing recommendations and deployment options for various workloads.

North America’s leading diagnostics laboratory partnered with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to reimagine its patient requisition management system using Microsoft Azure AI. Historically, lab requisition processes were fragmented and relied on manual steps, causing inefficiencies. TCS implemented an Azure AI-infused cloud solution automating workflows across 500+ patient centers, processing 20,000+ requisitions daily with 30% higher efficiency and <5 min SLA. This collaboration showcases how Azure AI drives innovation and digital transformation in healthcare diagnostics.

Equinor, a $100B global energy leader partnered with Tessell to migrate 700+ Oracle and SQL Server databases to Azure - without re-architecting. With cloud-native HA/DR, automation, and cost visibility, they achieved 65% efficiency gains and cut provisioning from weeks to hours. Not theory: this is a real, enterprise-tested approach to modernizing mission-critical databases at scale. It’s secure, efficient, and built for the cloud.

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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Learn to leverage agent-framework, the new unified platform from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen engineering teams, to build A2A compatible agents similar to magnetic-one. Use SWE Agents (GitHub Copilot coding agent and Codex with Azure OpenAI models) to accelerate development. Implement MCP tools for secure enterprise agentic workflows. Experience hands-on building, deploying, and orchestrating multi-agent systems with pre-release capabilities. Note: Contains embargoed content.

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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.

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