Governance and security are key to a successful implementation. This session shows how organizations manage agents, flows, apps, data access, and compliance using Microsoft tools. Discover how to enforce policies, monitor activity, and reduce risk. Leave with confidence to empower makers to build low-code solutions while knowing how to govern them and their creators at scale.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Most partners treat Microsoft Copilot and AI agents like shiny toys. The smart ones treat them like a customer-acquisition machine. In this session, we’ll rip open the playbook that shows MSPs and ISVs how to turn Copilot, AI apps, and agentic business applications into repeatable GTM systems that attract, convert, and retain 1,000 customers with real OPULIS strategies, the 4P colaunch model, campaign ideas, packaging tactics, proof, and a rinse-and-repeat formula

Agents need context. How should we connect data to our agents for optimal context? In this session we will introduce Foundry IQ, the knowledge layer for agents, and the latest developments from Azure AI Search and Microsoft Foundry. Learn about multi-source RAG orchestration, retrieval steering, dynamic security controls and agentic RAG.

Your identities are under attack. Join experts from Microsoft Entra and Defender to learn how you can streamline collaboration across teams and better protect, detect, and respond to threats targeting your identity fabric.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Discover how Fabric IQ transforms your data into a live, semantic model of your business. Learn how teams and AI agents can collaborate from a shared understanding of entities, relationships, and rules -- enabling real-time insights, smarter decisions, and autonomous operations. See how Fabric IQ works seamlessly within Microsoft Fabric to power the next generation of intelligent enterprise.

Ready to manage every agent, everywhere? Don't fly blind, get total visibility into your agent fleet. Foundry Control plane and Observability gives you the dashboards, diagnostics, and optimization tools to run AI with confidence. If you care about uptime and impact, this Foundry session is for you.

Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat makes Copilot the AI built for work. Join this session to learn about how we’ve enhanced core chat value for all with GPT-5, experience improvements, and new ways to access chat in your favorite apps. Additionally, we’ll cover how Copilot Chat transforms your day when combined with your work context and agents through new chat-first workflows, interaction modes, and ways to create files right from chat.

Delivered in a silent stage breakout.

Some SOCs need allies. Our experts detect, halt, and manage threats for you. Add proactive IR to prevent attacks before they start. Hear how we can bolster your SOC - see real-world outcomes, demos, and gain insights from people on the front lines.

In this hands-on lab, you'll build an advanced agent inspired by AgentWise, our internal learning assistant designed to help developers understand types of ways for building agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Using Copilot Studio, you’ll architect a multi-layered agent that adapts to user goals, personalizes guidance based on persona, and makes intelligent decisions using structured flows and real-time data. Along the way, you’ll learn how to combine retrieval and dynamic logic to go beyond Q&A.

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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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In this lab you'll help a coffee shop unify their operational and analytical workloads with Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric. You'll blend operational data with curated sources using cross-database SQL, stream and visualize real-time POS events, and create a gold layer for personalization. Finally, you'll implement reverse ETL to Cosmos for lightning-fast serving and train a lightweight Spark notebook model to deliver the right offer at the right time before your customer’s order is ready.

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Learn how agentic AI transforms operations into intelligent, adaptive systems. Learn about real-world industrial use cases, immersive C-level simulations, and a practical roadmap to AI-native enterprise success—powered by Microsoft’s secure and scalable AI capabilities.

Discover how to build a cost-efficient log management solution using Microsoft Sentinel and Azure Data Lake. In this session, we’ll walk through a real-world example that demonstrates how to optimize data ingestion, storage, and retention without compromising visibility or compliance. Learn practical strategies to reduce costs while maintaining a scalable and secure logging architecture.

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.

Join Microsoft experts in discussing hybrid AI across cloud and edge. We’ll trade real world patterns for Surface and Copilot+ PCs, unpack NPU accelerated workflows, and explore how Microsoft Foundry on Windows supports model and dev ops, privacy, and performance. Expect candid Q&A in depth and practical next steps—real talk with people driving business transformation!

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.

Power Platform Community empowers makers, developers, and business users to innovate with low-code tools, Copilot Studio, and AI agents. This session explores global collaboration, peer learning, and agent-building strategies that drive impact across Microsoft 365 and beyond.

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.

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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Gain the skills to govern identities at scale with Microsoft Entra. Get hands-on experience automating provisioning, streamlining access, enforcing governance policies, and configuring Face Check for identity validation to reduce risk and ensure compliance.

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Explore insider risk management and adaptive protection with Microsoft Purview. In this lab you will learn how to configure policies to detect and respond to internal threats and apply dynamic protection based on user risk levels.

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Explore how to monitor and observe multi-agent systems in production using observability tools from Azure Monitor, integrated with Microsoft Foundry. Trace multi-agent pipelines, apply OpenTelemetry standards, and instrument business telemetry with dashboards. You’ll walk away with effective best practices to debug evaluation results and monitoring insights to secure and scale your AI agents.

“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 3 will feature:​ Dell: Stephen O'Leary & Rohit Tatachar​ LIFT: Jeremy Chapman and Shilpi Sinha​ NTT DATA: Aishwarya Singh & Brandon Lee​ What’s new in Azure innovations?: Mark Russinovich​ Lenovo: Dave Mooney​ Microsoft Marketplace: Cyril Belikoff​ Capgemini: Clemens Reijnen & James McMahon