Showcase your support excellence with the Solutions Partner designation for Support Services in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. Learn how to qualify, unlock key benefits, and stand out with enhanced visibility and program perks. This designation validates your impact across Microsoft technologies and accelerates business growth.

Software development companies: join us to learn more about partnering with Microsoft through the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, including upcoming changes to offers for software development companies and increased investments in software companies for FY26.

This session addresses the top cost and efficiency challenges customers face across their infrastructure today and showcases what’s new across Azure IaaS to them. Learn how to design, build, and optimize cost-efficient infrastructure that reduces TCO and empowers you to make informed decisions supporting growth and innovation. Hear Morgan Stanley’s real-world success and gain a deer understanding of how Azure delivers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to optimize your cloud costs at scale.

Building a thriving partner ecosystem starts with service to the customer. Customers have high expectations of cloud solution providers in order for them to be considered as trusted advisors. Learn about the new authorization requirements, what to consider as you explore the best tier for your organization and steps you need to take to be ready.

Join us to explore how Microsoft and Lenovo are transforming hybrid cloud and AI use cases with Azure Local powered by Lenovo's latest Server Platforms. Discover how customers are moving from legacy environments to Azure Local to unlock new AI-driven possibilities from real-time video analytics and predictive maintenance to medical diagnostics and low-latency inferencing. Hear directly from a customer about their Azure Local journey and how Lenovo and Microsoft are redefining what's possible.

Join Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich as they trace computing’s evolution from the Altair 8800 to today’s cloud. In this live, demo-driven session, you’ll see how the humble toggle switch gave rise to REST APIs, why terminals are making a comeback, and how the architectural patterns of 1975 illuminate 2025’s biggest trends. Along the way, we’ll connect the dots from early personal computing to hyperscale platforms, highlighting how modern apps are built, scaled, and delivered in the cloud.

Azure Virtual Desktop continues to evolve, helping you enhance management efficiency, scalability, and connectivity for your workloads. Learn about the latest innovations in Azure Virtual Desktop, understand why it is especially attractive to industries like healthcare, and discover how to accelerate your cloud migration with Azure Virtual Desktop.

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This session introduces a unified platform converging cloud and AI security built to integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Azure. Move beyond fragmented tools that create friction and slow innovation. We will discuss key use cases and how this platform secures your entire cloud estate and AI lifecycle, plus the first steps to adoption. This session is for strategic IT Decision-Makers, Cloud Architects, and Security Leaders responsible for securing cloud transformation and AI initiatives.

Ready to lead in an AI-powered world? Microsoft Credentials drive your growth at every stage. From validation of role-based expertise through industry recognized Certifications to demonstration of practical, real-world proficiency in Microsoft technologies through Applied Skills, now including NEW business-focused credentials, you’ll gain verified skills that power the emerging workflows of frontier organizations. Build confidence, stand out, and accelerate your career in AI and cloud.

Polarion X on Azure redefines Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for industrial solutions. This collaboration leverages Microsoft’s AI and cloud innovation with Siemens’ deep industrial expertise to deliver exceptional quality, accelerated development, and transformative outcomes.

Cloud PC and Azure Virtual Desktop unlock flexibility and scalability, but they also bring new challenges that can frustrate admins and users alike. In this session, we’ll tackle the top five hurdles - slow logons, performance bottlenecks, network issues, and Teams call quality - and show you how ControlUp solves them with real-time monitoring, synthetic testing, and automation that keeps your environment running smoothly.

Step away from the slides and join an intimate conversation with the Windows Cloud Experiences team. Together, they’ll unpack the biggest Ignite announcements, share behind-the-scenes insights, and answer your questions live. Steve brings expertise in AI-powered experiences, Jason leads on user experience sync, and Seneca specializes in Windows App innovation. Bring your ideas, feedback, and curiosity—this is your chance to connect directly, discuss what’s next, and shape the future of Windows in the Cloud 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.

Deploy AVS and manage VMware vSphere environment as an Azure resources (B) Connect AVS private cloud secretly with Internet (C) Migrate VMs from on-premises to AVS using VMware HCX technology (D) Expand AVS private cloud storage with Azure NetApp Files or Azure Elastic SAN; scaling storage independently from compute (E) Manage AVS workloads VMs using Azure interfaces by Arc-enabling AVS private cloud and its VMs (F) Modernization workloads with Azure Services like Azure SQL Managed Instances and AI capabilities.

Note: this session will use demo environments instead of live environments due to complexity and time.

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

Discover how Copilot+ PCs and Microsoft 365 deliver the most intelligent, trusted, and efficient productivity experiences for people and organizations. See new end-user features and learn how hybrid AI - combining local and cloud processing - enables real-time, ambient, and privacy-preserving productivity, even offline. All this on devices with stellar battery life, top performance, modern management, and robust data protection - ideal for IT leaders optimizing ROI in the AI era.

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

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

In this fast-paced theater session, discover how Microsoft Fabric simplifies data unification with Mirroring and Shortcuts. Instantly connect to any data source—cloud, on-prem, structured or unstructured—without duplication or ETL. Learn how OneLake and its catalog turn connected data into actionable insights for BI and AI at scale.

The latest innovations across Windows—from client to cloud—are designed to improve your security posture and protect users, devices and data. Join this session to learn about the newest security capabilities across Windows 11 and Windows 365 to protect users and data, including features like password and identity management, protecting against malware, hotpatching, hardware updates and more. We will also discuss how Cloud PC devices like Windows 365 Link are changing the game in Windows endpoints.

Dive into how Microsoft Sovereign Cloud addresses a spectrum of digital sovereignty needs. Engineering leaders will highlight features ranging from keeping data, operations, access, and encryption secure and under your control to enabling critical workloads in hybrid and regulated environments—helping you navigate regulatory complexity, strengthen digital resilience, and innovate with confidence.

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.