In this talk we’ll learn Infrastructure-as-Code by automating the world’s most popular game: Minecraft. Using Packer, Terraform and GitHub Actions, we’ll build a server, configure Linux, provision cloud infrastructure and operate it through GitOps. Finally, we’ll demonstrate how to go beyond automating traditional cloud control planes—automating the Minecraft world itself by using Terraform to build and demolish structures like castles and pyramids before our very eyes!

Discover how Pure partners with Microsoft to deliver a transformative, future-ready data management approach that empowers customers to innovate and efficiently scale from on-premises to cloud. This session will highlight Pure's latest capabilities and product offerings, specifically focusing on advancements in our SQL Server 2025 integration for FlashArray and Pure Storage Cloud Azure Native.

Are your cloud ops teams drowning in noisy signals and slow root cause analysis? See how thousands of organizations such as yours use Azure SRE Agent to solve this by turning telemetry into precise actions using AI. It automates detection, diagnosis, and remediation across your stack—reducing MTTR, improving service health, and freeing engineers to focus on innovation. Outcome: faster recovery, fewer escalations, and resilient cloud services.

See how Azure’s new AI-powered migration agents make moving to the cloud faster, easier, and more reliable. In this session, we’ll walk through a complete end-to-end migration of applications, databases, and dependencies to Azure IaaS and PaaS—covering discovery, assessment, planning, and execution. Learn how to reduce complexity, minimize risk, and modernize confidently with step-by-step guidance and real-world scenarios.

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Join Jen Hoskins, NVIDIA’s Global Head of Cloud & Partnerships for Startups, for a live showcase featuring cutting-edge developer tools from NVIDIA Inception and Microsoft for Startups. Learn from from the teams behind Qodo, CodeRabbit, Factory AI, Arize, and Galileo as they bring live demonstrations to life, and about how their technologies help developers build, debug, and monitor AI applications using accelerated computing and generative AI.

Learn more about migration and modernization of Windows Server, SQL Server, and .NET apps. Learn how to assess and migrate Windows Server and SQL Server workloads using Azure Migrate and Azure Database Migration Service (DMS). This lab covers discovery, dependency mapping, migration execution, and post-migration optimization as well as leveraging Microsoft Defender for cloud for securing workloads post migration.

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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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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.

Join us to discover the power of the cloud with Windows 365 . Learn how the latest platform improvements and core features deliver strong resiliency and seamless integration with new AI capabilities, exciting feature updates, and the rest of Microsoft ecosystem. Experience user-friendly enhancements designed to boost your productivity and satisfaction. Get practical insights and actionable strategies to help you unlock the full potential of Windows 365.

In this hands-on lab, learn how to deploy secure, on-demand Cloud PCs using Windows 365 Reserve—ideal for travel, recovery, and temporary access. You'll create provisioning profiles, assign Cloud PCs, and configure Conditional Access, Entra ID, and networking. Experience the full user journey from sign-in to productivity. Leave equipped to streamline endpoint readiness with minimal overhead and respond to unexpected needs.

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Partners, be sure to join us for a dynamic keynote that explores the evolving role of partners in shaping the next generation of Frontier Firms. This session will spotlight success stories of partners leading customers through AI transformation, how we are delivering success together, and the latest investments and announcements from the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program (MAICPP).

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.

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.

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.

As Satya Nadella unveils the next steps in integrating AI agents across business functions, Kathleen Mitford, CVP of Industry Marketing, and Satish Thomas, CVP of Business and Industry Solutions Engineering, explore how Microsoft Cloud for Industry enables customers and partners to build, adapt, deploy, and manage solutions tailored to each industry’s unique needs. Focusing on Copilot and Generative AI, this broadcast will highlight AI’s transformative impact on productivity, efficiency, and innovation across industries. By combining the power of the Microsoft Cloud, with industry-specific AI insights and capabilities, and the expertise of a robust partner ecosystem, Microsoft’s approach unlocks AI’s full potential, driving significant outcomes for every industry.

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.

If you’re responsible for an enterprise cloud, you know how expensive and time-consuming it is to operate hundreds of individual services, at all hours of the day. That’s why many engineering leaders are now using AI to manage their cloud — from rightsizing resources to fixing availability issues. But is this safe? And what happens when something, inevitably, goes wrong? Sedai CEO Suresh Mathew explains the important benefits — and risks — of trusting your cloud to AI.

Discover how RealmJoin and our NAC bundle SCEPman + RADIUSaaS close key gaps in M365. RealmJoin streamlines app lifecycle management for Windows and macOS, detects outdated/user-installed software, supports advanced LAPS, and enables UHD teams to safely perform routine tasks. Our NAC solution enables certificate-based network authentication (CBA) for Intune managed clients, replacing NPS and NDES with scalable, cloud-native services, and supports certificate issuance for clients and servers.