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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What does it take to turn AI innovation into measurable business impact?

Join Kathleen Mitford, Corporate Vice President of Industry Marketing at Microsoft, for a conversation with industry leaders transforming their organizations with agentic AI.

Hear how they started, what’s driving results, and how ideas and learnings from one industry can inspire another—helping you move from experimentation to impact and become Frontier with AI.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Learn how to create intelligent, task-oriented Copilot agents using the native Microsoft 365 Copilot stack. In this hands-on lab, you'll use TypeSpec, a type safe language to write agent specification and the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit to build Declarative agents that integrate seamlessly with third party as well as Microsoft 365 services.

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For over 30 years, Microsoft has partnered with the disability community to build accessible technology. But accessibility didn’t start with tech—think electric toothbrushes, audiobooks, and curb cuts, all designed for people with disabilities and benefiting everyone. Now, AI is the new frontier. Join Jenny Lay-Flurrie to explore how designing for disability drives trustworthy innovation and how AI can help create a world that works for everyone.

Join us for a hands-on workshop showcasing the latest Azure SQL innovations to supercharge your applications. Learn how to harness generative AI alongside Azure SQL Database to elevate your data strategies with AI concepts like language models, prompt engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and streamline with Microsoft Copilot. Whether you're a developer, architect, or IT professional, this workshop is your ticket to mastering SQL and AI to stay ahead in the data-driven landscape.

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Bring software-engineering discipline to your data. Learn how Microsoft Fabric integrates Git and deployment pipelines to take a branch from validation to production—fast and safe. Learn how to use parameterized deployments for tables and views, run automated checks, and avoid common pitfalls like broken shortcuts. Walk away with practical patterns to operationalize your Lakehouse with confidence and speed.

Feeling overwhelmed by the Ignite agenda? Sit down with seasoned Microsoft MVPs who’ve done their homework and are ready to help you navigate the session catalog and share their can't-miss sessions. Whether you're new to Microsoft Ignite or just looking for expert guidance, this roundtable-style pod offers personalized support to help you curate a schedule that aligns with your goals. Come with questions, leave with a plan, and maybe a few new connections.

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.

Implementing Continuous Threat Exposure Management using MSEM

As generative AI adoption accelerates, IT, security and compliance leaders must balance access to innovation with responsibility and governance. In this session on Copilot Trust & Safety you’ll learn about the Microsoft-built protections embedded in the platform, see how Copilot safety investments map to real-world risk scenarios, and get a clear understanding of how to proactively safeguard your organization through policy, compliance, and risk management tools while unlocking AI’s value.

Get a step-by-step walkthrough for Microsoft Defender XDR and learn how to implement key capabilities. Learn how to assign preset security policies for Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Protect your endpoints using Microsoft Defender Endpoint by onboarding devices and configuring roles and device groups. Lastly, dive into the advanced attack mitigation features for your devices using Defender for Endpoint to effectively investigate alerts and incidents.

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Explore how Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365 Copilot deliver agentic customer experiences (CX), helping organizations drive higher revenue and improved customer satisfaction (CSAT). Visa shares their journey and vision for agentic CX transformation. Discover real-world impacts, lessons learned, and what’s next for organizations embracing this shift. Learn about the latest CRM and CCaaS innovations and Microsoft’s AI vision to transform revenue-generating functions.

Learn how NTT DATA’s Agentic AI Services for Microsoft can help you get out of “pilot mode” and drive real business value from your agentic AI and gen AI projects, faster. Our industrialized framework helps you move from AI experimentation to production quickly and unlock measurable return on investment. Our approach leverages automation, observability, support, and managed services to create a crucial link between your team, the new AI agents supporting them, and your existing knowledge base.

Learn how Microsoft is transforming its own employee and executive communications—building trust, connection, and engagement at scale. This session will cover multiple communication tools and methods, with special focus on the latest AI-powered innovations and roadmap for Viva Engage.

Step into the era of modular AI. Join our engineering leaders to see how Microsoft Foundry lets you build, orchestrate, and manage intelligent agents using new workflow capabilities. Learn how to unify models, data, and tools with enterprise-grade security and observability.

Frontier Firms aren’t just adopting AI, they’re reimagining work around it. Join Nicole Herskowitz, Sumit Chauhan and Jeff Teper for live demos and real-world examples of the latest innovations in the AI built for work, Microsoft 365 Copilot. Discover what’s new and how Copilot empowers people, teams and business processes in the era of AI.

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.

Build the single front door experience for your employees with the Employee Self-Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot. In this lab, get hands on with configuring and extending the Agent in Copilot Studio, Learn to connect HR/IT systems and third-party agents, customize workflows, and see how deploying this agent streamlines support, reduces tickets, and boosts employee satisfaction—all with enterprise-grade security.

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The Foundry Model Catalog supports “One-click” deployment of the latest NVIDIA NIM™ Examples of usage of the newest NVIDIA entries • Nemotron Nano: Large Language Reasoning Model • Nemotron Nano VLM: VLM with the ability to query and summarize images and video • Cosmos-reason1: Reasoning VLM for physical AI and robotics • Microsoft-Trellis: Asset generation model capable of producing detailed meshes, • Boltz2: Structural biology model for structure and affinity • Evo2 NIM: Biological model that integrates information over long genomic sequences

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This lab introduces key data classification and protection tools in Microsoft Purview. Participants learn to create and customize sensitive information types to identify sensitive data, and apply sensitivity labels to enforce encryption, access controls, and content marking. Gain hands-on experience in building and managing policies that secure data across Microsoft 365.

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Your identity and network access approach for AI doesn’t need a revolution—just an expansion. Learn how to strengthen your Zero Trust foundation, manage and govern the rising tide of agents, and enable AI to accelerate your success.