Join us at Microsoft Ignite for a fast-paced technical session on integrating Esri’s Maps for Fabric Workload within Microsoft Fabric. Discover how to embed geospatial intelligence into your data workflows, visualize location-based insights, and drive smarter decisions. We'll cover setup, performance tips, and real-world use cases that showcase how Fabric and Esri together unlock powerful spatial analytics for modern data teams.

Tour the Foundry Control Plane, the unified management hub that connects Entra Agent ID, guardrails, observability, and runtime security, and see how easy it is to register, monitor, and govern agents. Get hands-on tips for scaling with confidence using Microsoft Foundry.

Recent developments in the on-prem virtualization market have unsettled users and prompted a re-evaluation of their organization's strategy. Microsoft provides a robust set of solutions tailored to your specific goals and requirements. During this session, we will delve into these options, emphasizing the long-term advantages of choosing Azure Cloud and Cloud Connected. In this session, we’ll discuss the numerous Microsoft options to modernize your virtualization estate.

Discover how AVEVA and Microsoft are shaping the future of Industrial AI. Learn how AVEVA CONNECT, Azure, and the Industrial AI Assistant unlock new value through agentic AI, natural-language dashboard creation, and purpose-built industrial intelligence. See real examples of joint innovation and how AI is transforming engineering, operations, and data across the industrial lifecycle.

Did you know the Microsoft benefits packages for partners were expanded this year to include more ways to save money and accelerate growth? These bundled offers include special pricing to help partners save at least $15,000* and up to $500K+ on Microsoft solutions. Plus, get one-on-one consulting with a MAICPP expert, joint marketing and presales support, and expert technical assistance - all designed to help partners save, innovate faster, and increase time to market.

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.

In today’s data-driven world, organizations must deliver results with speed and precision. Explore how trustworthy AI—combining transparency, reliability, and ethics—is transforming decision-making. Learn how SAS and Microsoft empower Azure and Fabric users to boost productivity, generate synthetic data, accelerate model development, and deploy decision flows that drive impact.

Witness a real-world cyberattack targeting sensitive data in cloud storage and containers. See how Microsoft Defender for Cloud uses AI to detect threats, power threat hunting, and automate responses to stop lateral movement.

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Real customers. Real frameworks. Real results. Join Srini Raghavan (CVP – Copilot & Agents Ecosystem) and a live customer panel to cut through the hype and get real-world Agentic AI’s impact, best practices and frameworks for transforming business processes with confidence. Also learn how Microsoft 365 Copilot platform empowers customers to build intelligent agents to accelerate your AI journey.

Transform Microsoft 365 Copilot to talk, think, and work like your organization with Copilot Tuning—no coding or data scientists required. Explore supervised and reinforcement learning, new agent capabilities, built-in security, and more. See how leading enterprises unlock value with proven best practices for fine-tuning—starting with use case selection and extending through data prep, training, and administration.

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Managing endpoints in the cloud is a fundamental piece of the Zero Trust puzzle and of delivering the optimal AI experience for business. In this session, we’ll demystify what that means in practice. See how Microsoft Intune brings Zero Trust to life by connecting device and app management, compliance, and threat protection. We’ll show how cloud-native management establishes a stronger security foundation and enables safe, scalable adoption of AI. Strengthen endpoint protection across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android—helping IT teams stay ahead of threats while empowering employees to work productively and securely from anywhere.

Discover how Microsoft and LSEG are transforming financial workflows with interoperable, AI-driven tools. See how Copilot aids content discovery, data integration in Excel and PowerPoint, and enables AI-powered engagement via Teams. Learn to build custom agents using LSEG data for enhanced productivity and collaboration in financial markets.

Unlock new opportunities by building and publishing agents to the Microsoft 365 Agent Store. This session walks partners through the full development journey, from tool selection to publishing, and shares strategies to drive scale. Discover how to use telemetry and feedback to optimize performance and design impactful agents for broad or enterprise use cases.

From innovators in development to executors in technology, scattered sensitive data and growing compliance can slow down AI and Copilot. Microsoft Purview and RecordPoint bring your data together across Microsoft 365 and beyond, with AI‑driven data classification, retention, and governance out of the box. See how Cupertino Electric tamed CPRA/DSAR at scale, plus clear steps to light up Copilot.

The intersection of AI and Cybersecurity – powered by Microsoft and accelerated by NVIDIA: Discover how Microsoft's MSEC team is redefining enterprise AI immunity — a solution developed in collaboration with NVIDIA. Explore how Microsoft and NVIDIA are partnering to power agentic capabilities at scale, enabling AI-driven innovation for Cybersecurity use cases. Learn how the platform leverages the full NVIDIA AI stack and how AI agents through Microsoft are tapping into NVIDIA GPU infrastructure.

Discover how the Microsoft Entra Suite simplifies access governance across SAP apps in private and public clouds. See live demos of integrations that accelerate provisioning, enable self-service, and enforce separation of duties and risk controls.

Protect what matters most to customers: the cloud, AI platforms, and business-critical applications. Discover how Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides a unified, intelligent solution for safeguarding workloads across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, enabling you to confidently deliver security at the speed of innovation. We'll show you how to position secure migration strategies to customers and use GTM resources and partner incentives to increase engagement.

Learn how you can deliver smarter, AI-driven collaboration in your workspaces with Cisco collaboration devices and Microsoft Teams. The session will highlight how to improve workplace efficiency and employee engagement by integrating advanced AI capabilities with Cisco's intuitive collaboration devices. Witness how these tools create a seamless experience for employees, whether working in the office or remotely, and why this integration is a game-changer for today's work.

Hear directly from government and city leaders as they share their journeys of digital transformation using Microsoft technologies. We will feature voices from cities world-wide, showcasing real-world use cases in AI adoption, data modernization, and citizen services. Join us for a discussion designed to equip government and city attendees with technical insights, lessons learned, and peer-to-peer strategies.

Your Microsoft environment is the backbone of business operations, but identity threats, ransomware, and AI risks are escalating fast. Join Rubrik to learn how to achieve end-to-end cyber resilience across Microsoft 365. We will cover how to keep critical operations running with rapid recovery, safeguard identities with Entra ID and Active Directory resilience, and prepare for AI by securing Copilot and agent workflows.

Several years back Microsoft introduced ‘Unified’ as our hero support offer. This marked a major shift in how Microsoft delivers comprehensive support across all Microsoft products and cloud services, worldwide. In the next year we’ll bring ‘Unified for Partners’ center stage for CSP partners who enable SME&C customer success at scale. This offer comes together with the power of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program through a new Support Services designation, launching here at Ignite!