Join this hands-on lab to explore Azure Arc for hybrid and multicloud environments. You’ll onboard Windows VMs, enable monitoring with Azure Monitor, apply compliance with Machine Configuration, and strengthen security using Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Wrap up by enabling Arc agent auto-upgrade to keep resources secure and current.

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

As manufacturers and supply chain leaders navigate the dual pressures of operational efficiently and sustainability, geospatial intelligence (GSI) is emerging as a transformative force. Discover how the integration of Earth observation data, AI, and cloud-scale analytics is enabling smarter, faster, and greener decision-making across industrial ecosystems.

Facing licensing changes, procurement hurdles, and tight deadlines? You're not alone. IT leaders are rethinking hybrid cloud strategies fast. Join this session to explore how Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Azure offers a smarter, faster path forward. Enable the seamless lift-and-shift of VMware workloads—no refactoring needed. Discover how to unify operations across private and public clouds with one unified platform. Say goodbye to complexity and hello to agility.

Attendees will learn to enable Defender for Cloud, navigate its dashboard, and interpret regulatory compliance and workload protection insights. The labs also cover secure score analysis, security recommendations, inventory management, pricing models, and governance rule assignment. By the end of the series, participants will be equipped to proactively identify and mitigate threats, strengthen cloud security posture, and align with organizational governance standards.

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Explore Windows 365 AI in this hands-on lab! Configure and experience features like Advanced Search and Click to Do on Cloud PCs. Learn prerequisites, enable AI-driven workflows, and boost productivity for IT admins and end users. Automate tasks with natural language and take smart, context-aware actions directly from your screen.

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Disruptions happen—whether from device failures, cyberattacks, or unexpected outages—but downtime doesn’t have to. Join us to learn how Windows in the cloud delivers end-to-end resiliency, and discover how Windows 365 Reserve helps organizations rapidly recover, keep employees productive, and maintain business continuity—even in the face of disruptions.

Join us to explore how financial services organizations are accelerating their cloud transformation journeys with Microsoft’s Cloud Accelerate Factory (CAF). Learn how CAF helps streamline migrations, modernize legacy applications, and deploy scalable solutions like Azure Arc and AI-powered monitoring. Discover how this framework is driving agility, resilience, and innovation across financial organizations' estates—and what it means for the future of financial services.

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AI is redefining what it means to lead—and frontier firms are showing the way. The Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is evolving to help you move faster. Learn how to build AI-first practices and use streamlined offers and simplified motions to accelerate your journey from innovation to impact. Turn program evolution into your frontier advantage.

Edge AI is changing where intelligence runs, and Microsoft Foundry streamlines building, shipping, and scaling these apps. This session explores Edge AI development with Microsoft Foundry, highlights new features in Foundry Local and everything you need to know to build client apps that run AI on-device. Discover how to use Azure Arc to deploy models on servers and edge devices, see live demonstrations, and learn how Foundry streamlines the transition of AI from cloud to edge efficiently.

Accelerate compliant Azure transformation for payers, providers, pharma, and research orgs with Aviatrix Cloud Native Security fabric. Learn proven strategies for zero trust architecture with end-to-end encryption, securing EHRs, claims systems, clinical trials, and R&D platforms while meeting HIPAA/regulatory requirements. Integrate deeply with the Microsoft stack including AI-first innovation to rapidly identify and triage cloud security issues in real-time with CoPilot and Sentinel.

Explore how GitHub Copilot and intelligent agents streamline Azure application development from design to operations. This session covers how the Coding Agent, App Modernization agent, and cloud architecture agent accelerate planning and coding, while GitHub Copilot for Azure and the Azure MCP Server simplify deployment and diagnostics. Learn how the SRE Agent and testing agent extend automation into production and quality assurance, enabling end-to-end DevOps with AI-powered workflows.

Discover how digital sovereignty is reshaping opportunities for partners in Europe. Learn how Microsoft Sovereign Cloud empowers you to address customer concerns, unlock new business growth, and deliver secure, compliant solutions tailored to evolving customer and regulatory requirements. Gain actionable insights to help your organization thrive in the sovereign cloud era.

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!

Join Roboflow CEO Joseph Nelson to explore how RF-DETR is transforming object tracking across industries—from sports broadcasting at the US Open to monitoring 4.8 million carloads of freight at BNSF. In this live demo, see how Roboflow and Windows ML deliver fast, private, and cost-efficient cargo container tracking at the edge on Windows 11 PCs.

Join Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO and Technical Fellow, to learn about the latest innovations in cloud native computing. Mark will present exciting projects that supports multi-cloud portability and cloud native development.

Meet with Cloud Management & Operations Platform Product leaders and gain insights into the design and future of IT Operations Management with Microsoft Technologies.

As organizations harness AI, success depends on trust. Join Lenovo and Microsoft to explore how security, cloud infrastructure, and AI innovation empower the modern workforce. Discover how Lenovo’s Cybersecurity Services for Microsoft—powered by Defender, Sentinel, and Security Copilot—deliver end-to-end resiliency, while TruScale, ThinkAgile, and Azure Stack HCI extend AI across the enterprise for secure, intelligent operations.

Join Red Hat’s Aaron Isom and Mark Heslin as they detail how Red Hat and Microsoft transformed into one of the most highly successful partnerships with over 10 years of collaboration in cloud computing and services. The session will highlight product offerings, benefits, future investments, and advancements, including OpenShift Virtualization, AI, Ansible and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) specifically optimized for performance on Azure.

Pricing, licensing and channel changes are reshaping virtualization, and hosters feel the impact. The status quo isn’t an option. Discover how Microsoft’s Data Center Optimization (DCO) empowers you to migrate at scale, modernize your footprint, and build a future-ready managed services business. Leverage DCO, Cloud Acceleration Factory and Azure Accelerate to fast-track transformation and lead in the AI era.

For Security Operations Center leaders, the daily reality is a battle against alert fatigue. IUniderstand how you can build security operations to detect, investigate, and respond to threats at the speed and scale of cloud. Learn about AI-powered Attack Discovery which automatically surfaces high-fidelity threats, Elastic Workflows, a native automation engine, and Elastic AI Agent Builder to investigate and monitor using out-of-the-box AI agents or to build custom agents.