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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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.

Discover how Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations uses AI-driven deep content analysis to surface key risks fast, so you can act with confidence and protect what matters most.

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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“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 2 will feature:​ Azure Accelerate in action: Confidently migrate, modernize, and build faster: Cyril Belikoff​ Cisco: Patrick Eustace​ Dell: Kenny Lowe​ Build secure agentic AI apps with SQL Server 2025: Sirjad Parakkat & Anna Hoffman​ IBM: Nigel Cain​ PwC: Scott Sikorski

Small and mid-sized businesses face enterprise-grade threats with lean budgets and limited staff. This L100 session shows Microsoft partners how to package, price, and deliver outcome-based security offers customers can adopt fast. We’ll translate Zero Trust into three motions: protect identities, secure devices & data, and detect/respond—anchored in Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Defender for Business, Entra, Intune, and Secure Score.

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.

Build and bring your own agent into Microsoft 365 Copilot with the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit. Explore Declarative and Custom Engine Agents, use the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, and extend with Copilot APIs to ground answers securely in Microsoft 365 data. Discover the powerful flexibility we offer to build the right agent for your needs.

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.

AI agents need tools to take actions and complete their workflow; tools that can parse documents, transcribe call recordings, do custom translation--all with LLMs wrapped within them. In this session, we are introducing a new suite of production-ready tools in Microsoft Foundry, designed to seamlessly plug into your agentic AI apps, either using APIs or as MCP servers.

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.

Discover how to enhance collaboration, optimize joint efforts, and drive success in shared initiatives. Gain insights into improving interactions with Microsoft sellers and leveraging opportunities, along with guidance on proactive co-selling to align your goals with Microsoft's for sustained growth.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Discover how Dynamics 365 Business Central empowers over 45K small and medium-sized companies to connect finance, sales, service, and operations with AI. In this session, unlock your ‘Scale Business Operations with AI’ CSP opportunity through learning Microsoft’s offerings and key go-to-market investments, partner best practices, and actionable insights to elevate your execution.

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.

Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot customers Carrier, Mastercard and Vodafone successfully rolled out Copilot. Learn how they activated leaders and champions, enabled users, and created inspiring, hands-on experiences to drive adoption and usage.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Automate tasks, strengthen defense, and accelerate response with Security Copilot agents - built by Microsoft, partners, or tailored by you for the unique challenges of your environment.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

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

Learn how Agent 365 can streamline common activities using MCP and tools. Get direct autonomous assistance seamlessly integrated with Microsoft 365 apps - calendars, documents, emails, and more.

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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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