Learn how to maximize your Secure AI Productivity CSP opportunity with Microsoft 365. In this session, we will cover our key go-to-market investments and important announcements intended to help you boost your execution. Additionally, we will make it real for you by sharing best practices from partners who are leveraging our Win Formula. Don’t miss this chance to learn and apply these insights into your business!

Learn how the Premier League transformed decades of match data, editorial content, and video into a real-time, intelligent, personalized fan experience. This session explores how data strategy, AI orchestration, and scalable architecture can elevate engagement across global audiences of the world's most watched league —with actionable lessons from Microsoft and Premier League leaders to apply in your own organization.

With more connectors than ever for Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365 Copilot, organizations are looking for ways to protect multiple data sources from exposure and possible exfiltration. Learn about a data-first security approach to scale AI responsibly across enterprise systems, reinforcing our joint vision of secure, responsible AI adoption.

Agentic AI has the power to reshape every business function across the retail value chain. To get ahead and stay ahead, retail technologists need a cutting-edge understanding of agentic capabilities and how to deploy them strategically across their organizations to meet business goals and unlock competitive advantage. Join us to learn the latest on agentic scenarios from Microsoft and hear how leading retailers are maximizing agentic opportunities to become frontier firms.

“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:​ Security in the agentic AI era: Vasu Jakkal​ Microsoft Credentials for the AI frontier: Elisa Graceffo​ Accessibility in the AI Era: Jenny Lay-Flurrie​ IBM: Chris McGuire & Michelle Pellegrin​ Microsoft Foundry: The AI app and agent factory: Yina Arenas

Learn how to build an advanced AI agent using Azure Database for PostgreSQL and the new Microsoft Agent Framework. This hands-on lab walks you through integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic re-ranking, Semantic Operators, and GraphRAG (using Apache AGE) to enable intelligent legal question-answering using real case data. Gain practical AI implementation skills with your own PostgreSQL-backed applications.

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Join Microsoft’s product team for a hands-on lab where you'll design and deploy an AI-powered application using SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric. This session dives into HTAP capabilities, enabling seamless transactional and analytical processing. You'll provision a SaaS-native SQL Database, use Copilot to generate schema and queries, and implement advanced patterns like RAG with vector search. Walk away with practical skills and a working solution you can apply immediately.

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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.

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This hands-on lab is designed to equip IT professionals and technical decision-makers with the latest tools and capabilities in Microsoft Teams administration and security. Participants will explore new diagnostic, monitoring, and protection features that enhance operational efficiency and safeguard collaboration.

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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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This lab offers a hands-on deep dive into Microsoft Defender for Cloud’s CSPM features, teaching participants how to assess and improve cloud security across hybrid environments. Attendees will identify misconfigurations, apply compliance frameworks, and automate remediation strategies to strengthen their security posture.

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This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of automated AI red teaming generative AI systems for safety and security risks using Microsoft Foundry. Attendees will learn how to apply automated attack techniques to identify safety issues and security vulnerabilities across multiple risk dimensions before deployment. Participants will engage in hands-on walkthroughs and guided exercises to apply these concepts in realistic development scenarios.

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See agentic intelligence come to life with Azure Direct Models in Microsoft Foundry, “vibe coding” workflows, and Microsoft 365 integration. We’ll show how to ship responsive agents with Copilot Studio actions, Graph connectors, and Azure AI Search—plus telemetry, evals, and guardrails—for low?latency, enterprise?grade results. Demos cover autonomous tasks, multi?agent handoffs, and feedback loops. Leave with patterns, code, and a build checklist.

Discover how Copilot is reshaping the data science experience in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. From transforming raw data into actionable insights to generating stunning visualizations and reports, Copilot brings powerful new capabilities to your fingertips. You'll learn how to unlock Copilot in Fabric, explore what it can do, and ensure it's ready to elevate your analytics game. These tips and tricks will help you harness AI to work smarter, faster, and with more impact.

This session highlights how Microsoft’s agentic AI and TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture empower telecom operators to rapidly deploy autonomous network operations agents—reducing resolution times, boosting efficiency, and unlocking new revenue opportunities.

As AI agents evolve from tools to collaborators, Microsoft’s systems strategy is redefining AI infrastructure with full-stack optimization, from silicon to systems to services. This session explores advancement in the infrastructure – including cooling, network, power, and storage – to meet the speed, reliability, and efficiency demands of AI. Innovations like Fairwater, one of the largest AI training systems, networking, and purpose-built chips are enabling unprecedented performance and scale.

Explore how Microsoft 365 apps are evolving with both Copilot chat-first experiences and in-app Copilot experiences across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. This session highlights new capabilities in Copilot Chat and in the apps that change how people work in M365. Learn how these innovations are empowering M365 users through improved productivity and efficiency in their workflows.

Build AI apps that run securely and scale with your needs with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. We’ll cover native vector indexes for semantic search, read scale out for low latency RAG, and secure model invocation with Microsoft Foundry, using the model of your choice, from T SQL. Hear directly from global technology company Hexagon and investment firm BlackRock who will join us to share their experience along with best practices, demos and more!

Ever wondered what it takes to be a Microsoft AI MVP? Here’s your chance to find out. Chat with current MVPs and program leads to learn how MVPs share their expertise, influence product direction, and support the AI community. Learn about the benefits of the MVP program, ask questions and explore how to get involved.

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 our product experts to discuss best practices for unifying identity and network access with the Microsoft Entra Suite 

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.