Session Catalog

Mary Myers Power Platform fanatic passionate about helping others upskill · WorldMax

This session will take a deep dive in how to use AI Builder in the Power Platform. You will learn how to use pretrained models and prompts as well as...

AI on the Edge

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Achievement

Jared Rhodes Principal Consultant, EPAM Systems · Epam Systems

Edge AI is not a new phenomenon. This session will show how models for video, audio, and sensor data run on devices close to where data is created. Th...

AI Powered Observability: Master Your App Performance with Azure Application Insights

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Brilliance Ballroom

Randy Pagels Principal Trainer at Xebia USA | Microsoft Services · Xpirit USA

Modern apps move fast, and your visibility needs to move even faster. In this session, you will learn how Azure Application Insights, now backed by AI...

Azure Feels Slow Because Your Dev Loop Is Broken

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Integrity

Kiah Imani Developer Better-er @ LocalStack · LocalStack

Azure isn’t slow. Your development loop is. Most Azure workflows still rely on a cycle of deploy, wait, debug, and repeat. It works, but it’s slow,...

Curtailing The Chaos: Setting Your Org Up for AI Success

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Discovery Ballroom A

AI Security

Andrew Siebert Software Engineer @ Patch My PC · Patch My PC

When you have 50 people all using AI in different ways, things get chaotic quick. How do you combat that?

Designing & Developing Modern Web APIs with .NET 10, OpenAPI, and Azure

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Discovery Ballroom B

Eric Boyd Founder & CEO, responsiveX, Azure & AI MVP, Microsoft RD · responsiveX

Modern applications rely on well-designed, secure, and scalable web APIs. However, being successful across the lifecycle of web API design to operatio...

Engineering for Performance and Scalability on Azure Service Bus

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Discovery Ballroom D

Cloud Operations Pro Code

Eldert Grootenboer Principal Product Manager @Microsoft | #Azure Service Bus | Former #Azure MVP | Community Enthousiast · Microsoft

As cloud-native architectures continue to evolve, messaging systems like Azure Service Bus are playing an increasingly critical role in enabling scala...

Getting Started with Copilot in Microsoft Fabric

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Wonder Ballroom

Annemarie Merchant MCT | Azure Enthusiast | MBA · Microsoft

This introductory session is designed for anyone new to Microsoft Fabric or modern data tools. We will explore how Copilot helps beginners work with d...

Modern .NET Configuration

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Discovery Ballroom C

Kevin Griffin 16x Microsoft MVP | .NET & Azure Consultant · Swift Kick

Remember the good ol' days when configuration meant hardcoding a few constants and commenting out everything but PRODUCTION before a commit? Life was ...

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Dataverse: From Data Model to Working App

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Discovery Ballroom D

Ryan McGee Independent Consultant at Talos Software Solutions

When Magrathea needs to orchestrate planetary production and manage cosmic-scale projects, Dataverse emerges as the improbably perfect solution, bring...

Achieve Zero Trust objectives with Defender for Cloud and Defender EASM integrated with Defender XDR

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Discovery Ballroom B

John Joyner Microsoft Azure MVP, Senior Director, Technology at AccountabilIT.com · Corsica Technologies

‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ expresses the simple logic behind the Defender for Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud W...

Agentic Fabric: Your Data Estate Just Got a Workforce

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Brilliance Ballroom

AI Data & Analytics

Kevin Harmer ArchitectNow, Chief AI & Data Officer · ArchitectNow

Most organizations have already won the hard part of Fabric: the data is landed, modelled and governed. The value is still stuck in the last mile — so...

AI Sandboxes: Running Coding Agents Safely in Production-Grade Environments

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Discovery Ballroom C

AI Security

Shivay Lamba Senior Software Engineer · Qualcomm

The number of cyber attacks and security risks related to Coding Agents has sky rocketed. AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI...

Azure Container Apps Is Rethinking Serverless. Time for Sandboxes!

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Discovery Ballroom A

Sean Whitesell President of SkyForge Consulting, Chief Cloud Architect, & President of Tulsa .NET User Group · SkyForge Consulting

In this session, we'll explore Azure Container Apps Sandboxes and see how they provide secure, ephemeral compute for untrusted and agent-generated cod...

Hybrid Operations in 2026: What IT Pros Need to Know

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Wonder Ballroom

Kristopher Turner Bridging the gap between Azure’s clouds and on-prem realities, one hybrid solution at a time! · TierPoint

Hybrid cloud was meant to be a short-term solution, but in reality, most IT environments are hybrid for the long haul—and that’s just how it is. By 20...

Innovate, collaborate, and empower your Bicep Infrastructure as Code!

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Integrity

Freek Berson EUC & Bicep Enthusiast | Microsoft MVP · Parallels

Whether you're just getting started or looking to optimize your deployments, this interactive session will equip you with the latest Bicep language up...

Making Data Speak: Storytelling Frameworks That Drive Impact

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Clarity

Santhana Lakshmi Ponnurasan Data Analyst | Power BI Specialist

We live in a world full of dashboards, charts, and reports- but not all of them tell a clear story. Many show a lot of numbers but leave users unsure ...

AI Readiness & Governance in Microsoft 365

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Discovery Ballroom D

Satish Upadhyaya Satish Upadhyaya | Microsoft Workplace Transformation Consultant - Managed Services for Microsoft 365 · The North IT Consulting Services Inc.

As organizations accelerate AI adoption through Microsoft 365 Copilot and generative AI capabilities, success depends not only on licensing and enable...

Building and Versioning RESTful Services with ASP.NET Core Deep Dive

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Wonder Ballroom

Phil Japikse CTO/Chief Architect, Author, Speaker

In this two-part deep dive session, Phil will show you the power of building RESTful services with ASP.NET Core. We start at the top, with the philoso...

Evaporate your Environment: Move it to the Cloud

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Clarity

Scott Corio Microsoft MVP, Enterprise Cloud Architect

Datacenters are expensive to operate. As infrastructure ages, a lot of companies are making the decision to invest in the cloud instead of investing ...

From Admin by Design to Breach by Default: An Offensive Kill Chain for Cloud & AI Machine Identities

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Discovery Ballroom B

Bodhisattva Das Security Engineer - RUDRA Cybersecurity · RUDRA Cybersecurity

Modern cloud environments are dominated by privileged “users” that never log in, never click links, and never get phished. They are API keys, service ...

Maps in Power BI: From Basic Geography to Production-Ready Spatial Analytics

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Integrity

Brendan Daly Senior Solution Architect @ NRI North America · NRI North America

Maps are one of the most requested, and most misused, visuals in Power BI. Many reports rely on default map visuals without fully understanding geocod...

Mission-Critical Code: What NASA’s Power of Ten Can Teach Us

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Discovery Ballroom A

Jonathan "J." Tower .NET Foundation Board | 12x Microsoft MVP | Founder & Consultant · Trailhead Technology Partners

Ever wonder how NASA writes software that literally can’t afford to fail? Meanwhile, back on Earth, our code is held together with duct tape and //TOD...

Modern (and Reimagined) Processes w/ Power Automate

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Discovery Ballroom C

Charles Lakes II Microsoft MVP BizApps | Creative Solution Architect @ The II Lakes Group · The II Lakes Group

Are you getting the most out of your cloud infrastructure? More and more organizations are migrating to Microsoft 365 and they want to embrace their l...

The Future of Code Reviews: Will Humans Still Be Needed?

Wednesday, Sep 30 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Brilliance Ballroom

Avindra Fernando Principal Architect | Fractional CTO | AI-Driven Development & Modernization | Conference Speaker

What if AI could handle code reviews for you? With AI agents now capable of reviewing code, developers can save a huge amount of time. But what does t...

AgentOps for Real: Evals, Tracing, and Regression Tests for AI Agents

Thursday, Oct 1 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Discovery Ballroom C

AI Cloud Operations DevOps Security

Brian Haydin Microsoft Cloud & AI Architect | Azure • GitHub • Power Platform | Demo-first sessions (US + Europe) · Concurrency

Putting an agent into production without evals and tracing is like stepping into a cave with a dim headlamp and no map. You’ll keep moving… right up u...

AI Agents in GitHub Actions: Automate Beyond YAML

Thursday, Oct 1 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Discovery Ballroom D

DevOps Pro Code

Benjamin Michaelis Software Engineer at IntelliTect, Co-Author of Essential C#, Spokane .Net User Group Leader · IntelliTect

Your CI pipeline runs on every push and it can tell you that the build failed but it still can't tell you *why* the build failed. You have automated t...

Architecting with AI: From Requirements to Reality

Thursday, Oct 1 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Brilliance Ballroom

Thursday, Oct 1 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Integrity

AI is changing how architects work, not by replacing architectural judgment, but by expanding the space of possibilities we can explore. This session ...

Beyond the Basics: Discover Power BI’s Best Kept Secrets

Santhana Lakshmi Ponnurasan Data Analyst | Power BI Specialist

Power BI is packed with incredible features, but let’s be honest- how many of them do we actually use? Beyond the usual visuals and DAX formulas, ther...

From Blocked to Scaling: Modernizing Operations with Azure, Power Automate, and D365

Thursday, Oct 1 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Achievement

Mary Myers Power Platform fanatic passionate about helping others upskill · WorldMax

When your operations depend on disconnected systems and on-prem data, growth hits a ceiling. In this session, we'll walk through how one company broke...

From Push to Protected: Scanning Azure Container Registry Images with Docker Scout

Thursday, Oct 1 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Discovery Ballroom B

Cloud Operations DevOps

Steve Buchanan Engineering Manager and startup advisor, 11-time Microsoft MVP, Docker Captain, Author, Thought Leader · Jamf

Your containers are built, pushed to Azure Container Registry, and deployed to AKS. But how secure are the images running in your cluster? In this ses...

MCP for Everything: Turning Any Data Source into an AI-Ready Tool

Thursday, Oct 1 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Wonder Ballroom

Donnie Taylor MVP - Azure and Cloud/Datacenter Mgmt · GM

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly become the standard way to make data and systems usable by AI agents and developer tools. In this session, we...

Mission Copilot Autofix: Securing the World’s Code with AI and GitHub Advanced Security

Thursday, Oct 1 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Discovery Ballroom A

Randy Pagels Principal Trainer at Xebia USA | Microsoft Services · Xpirit USA

In today’s fast-paced development cycles, developers aren’t just writing code — they’re also making sure it’s safe. This session explores GitHub Advan...

Matt Olson Senior Consultant, App Modernization at Xebia Microsoft Services US · Xebia Microsoft Services

Resilient by Design

Thursday, Oct 1 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Clarity

Chris Ayers Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft · Microsoft

A truly resilient Azure infrastructure does more than withstand disruptions, it keeps your applications running smoothly, no matter what. Remember: fa...

Build Your Own Enterprise ChatGPT with Azure OpenAI and C# (Including a Project Knowledge Engine)

Thursday, Oct 1 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Wonder Ballroom

Brian Gorman Microsoft Azure MVP, Speaker, Author, Trainer, and .Net Developer

In this workshop, participants will build a production-style “ChatGPT” application using Azure OpenAI and C#. Starting from a clean .NET solution, we ...

Building the AI-first Developer Stack

Thursday, Oct 1 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Discovery Ballroom A

Avindra Fernando Principal Architect | Fractional CTO | AI-Driven Development & Modernization | Conference Speaker

Developers are feeling the friction. AI can help us write code faster, but our workflows haven’t really changed. We still copy and paste. We still swi...

Data Governance with Fabric and Purview

Thursday, Oct 1 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Integrity

AI Data & Analytics Security

Kiley Papa Principal Solution Engineer - Microsoft Data and AI

Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview work together to deliver unified, end‑to‑end data governance across your analytics estate. The session walks th...

How To Ship Your AI Slop

Thursday, Oct 1 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Discovery Ballroom C

AI DevOps Security

Andrew Siebert Software Engineer @ Patch My PC · Patch My PC

AI makes building faster, but shipping is still hard. How do you take an idea from concept to product?

Human-in-the-Loop AI in Power Platform: Designing AI Around Real Human Behavior

Thursday, Oct 1 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Discovery Ballroom D

David Dean MicroAge, Principal Architect & Data Intelligence Technical Lead · MicroAge

AI is adopted inside existing habits and decision patterns, not inside idealized process models. This session focuses on how to design AI experiences ...

Impact IQ: Scaling Power BI Successfully Begins with Visual-Level Lineage

Thursday, Oct 1 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Achievement

Chris Cusumano Senior Data Engineer | Microsoft · Microsoft

Impact IQ has become a widely adopted, open-source solution designed to bring real impact analysis and governance to Power BI environments. Used by de...

Monitoring What Microsoft Doesn’t Host: Azure Monitor for On-Prem and Multi-Cloud

Thursday, Oct 1 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Clarity

Cloud Operations Security

Kristopher Turner Bridging the gap between Azure’s clouds and on-prem realities, one hybrid solution at a time! · TierPoint

Most enterprise environments don’t live entirely in Azure—and pretending they do is how monitoring strategies fail. This 90-minute deep dive explores ...

One Assistant, Everywhere you work: Getting the most out of GitHub Copilot

Thursday, Oct 1 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Brilliance Ballroom

AI DevOps Low Code Pro Code

Jenna Massardo Staff Customer Success Architect - GitHub · GitHub

GitHub Copilot isn't a single tool, it's an assistant that meets developers and professionals wherever they're already working. This session tours the...

Spec-Driven Development with GitHub Spec-Kit: From Intent to Implementation

Thursday, Oct 1 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Discovery Ballroom B

Barret Blake #MicrosoftMVP, speaker, husband, father, architect@NimblePros, developer, former manager, gamer, LEGO enthusiast, Buckeyes fan, model railroader · NimblePros

Spec-driven development flips the traditional workflow on its head: instead of code being the source of truth, the specification becomes the backbone ...

AI Won't Fix a Foundation You Didn't Build

Thursday, Oct 1 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Discovery Ballroom C

Lara Newsom Software Engineering Technical Leader - Cisco · Cisco

The software industry is obsessed with AI-driven development, yet we are quickly discovering a frustrating reality. As tools like Claude Code and Copi...

Azure DevOps to GitHub Enterprise: The Great Migration

Thursday, Oct 1 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Discovery Ballroom A

Kevin Neumann Hunter Engineering - Architect · Hunter Engineering

Ready to embark on the quest of moving from Azure DevOps to GitHub Enterprise? Think of this session as your comedic survival guide—part tech talk, pa...

Building MCP Servers with C# and .NET

Thursday, Oct 1 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Brilliance Ballroom

Eric Boyd Founder & CEO, responsiveX, Azure & AI MVP, Microsoft RD · responsiveX

AI agents are quickly becoming a first-class part of modern applications, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as the standard way to equi...

From On‑Prem to Cloud‑Native: A 20‑Year Journey in Architecture, Security, and Modernization

Thursday, Oct 1 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Clarity

John Smith Your imagination is my only limitation.

Cloud transformation doesn’t happen overnight—it’s the culmination of decades of evolving architecture, security practices, and engineering culture. T...

Intro to Copilot Studio

Thursday, Oct 1 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Discovery Ballroom B

Becky Bertram Owner of Savvy Technical Solutions

Have you heard of Copilot Studio but never used it? Come learn how to build your first agent using Copilot Studio! In this session we will walk throug...

Mission: AI Possible – Taming your AI agent swarms

Thursday, Oct 1 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Wonder Ballroom

Samuel Gomez Microsoft MVP and Head of AI at Geneca · Geneca

As organizations implement AI systems, they often encounter tasks too complex for a single agent—making multi-agent architectures vital. For example, ...

My $8,000 Serverless Mistake

Thursday, Oct 1 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Integrity

Kevin Griffin 16x Microsoft MVP | .NET & Azure Consultant · Swift Kick

In the right circumstances, serverless technology can be a fantastic tool in your developer toolbox. There was a time when I went deep down the server...

OneLake Shortcuts and Mirroring: Reducing Data Movement, Increasing Reuse

Thursday, Oct 1 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Achievement

Annemarie Merchant MCT | Azure Enthusiast | MBA · Microsoft

A deep technical session on using Shortcuts, Mirroring, and Open Mirroring in Fabric to virtualize and replicate enterprise data into OneLake as Delta...

Who Gave the Agent Admin Rights?! Securing Cloud & AI Machine Identities

Thursday, Oct 1 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Discovery Ballroom D

Bodhisattva Das Security Engineer - RUDRA Cybersecurity · RUDRA Cybersecurity

There’s a new breed of “users” sneaking into your cloud and they’re not people. API keys, service accounts, CI/CD bots, Kubernetes workloads, and sud...

Adaptive Cloud in Action: Azure Arc and Intelligent Operations

Thursday, Oct 1 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Wonder Ballroom

Saul Patino Multicloud Architect & Strategist | Microsoft Certified Trainer | Speaker

Expert

This session positions Azure Arc as the foundation of Microsoft’s Adaptive Cloud model, which enables consistent operations across hybrid, edge, and m...

Choosing an AI Coding Workflow: 15 Key Decisions

Thursday, Oct 1 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Brilliance Ballroom

Cory House Author / Consultant

AI is here, but deciding what to use and how is difficult. In this fast-paced session, we'll explore 15 key decisions for coding effectively in AI inc...

Engineering for Reliability and Stability in the Azure Messaging Services

Thursday, Oct 1 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Clarity

Cloud Operations Pro Code

Eldert Grootenboer Principal Product Manager @Microsoft | #Azure Service Bus | Former #Azure MVP | Community Enthousiast · Microsoft

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong at some point, so it is best to come prepared. Whether you are in the cloud or running your own data center, ...

Exploring Aspire 13 to build polyglot Cloud Native Microservices and explore Aspire MCP server

Thursday, Oct 1 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Discovery Ballroom B

Naga santhosh reddy Vootukuri Principal software engineering manager at Microsoft Azure SQL engineering · Microsoft

Dotnet Aspire is now just Aspire. This session explores how Aspire streamlines the development of polyglot microservices through a real-world e-com...

Fabric Semantic Models are key for good math with AI Fabric Data Agents and Power BI Copilot

Thursday, Oct 1 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Integrity

AI Data & Analytics

Greg Beaumont Microsoft Data & AI Technical Specialist

We are currently experiencing a generational surge in AI use cases and transformation. But will AI be able to connect directly to your raw data, perfo...

From the Field: Accelerate Your Development for Azure Marketplace

Thursday, Oct 1 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Achievement

Freek Berson EUC & Bicep Enthusiast | Microsoft MVP · Parallels

Gain practical insights and proven strategies for your development journey for Azure Marketplace. Streamline your solutions' development, packaging, a...

Power Apps: Business Solutions for the Modern Enterprise

Thursday, Oct 1 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Discovery Ballroom A

Charles Lakes II Microsoft MVP BizApps | Creative Solution Architect @ The II Lakes Group · The II Lakes Group

Low-code is holding its own against, if not edging out pro-code and no-code development for today's modern, scalable, enterprise solutions. Power Apps...

Taking the blues out of Azure: Journey to a Well Run Cloud

Thursday, Oct 1 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Discovery Ballroom C

Mike Benkovich Exploring the possible · BenkoTIPS Consulting Services

Lessons learned from 15 years of helping developers and organizations learn about and adopt the public cloud, including top tips, best practices and f...

Architecting Interactive Copilot Agents with SharePoint Copilot Apps

Friday, Oct 2 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Discovery Ballroom B

Kurt Rolland MVP AI Copilot/SharePoint, Agent Factory, Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) | Low Code - Power Platform | CPMAI | PMP | AI for Business Transformation · Covenant Technology Partners

Microsoft 365 Copilot excels with language — but work isn't only words. Sometimes you don't want to describe what you need in a back-and-forth chat. Y...

Automating Quality with AI

Friday, Oct 2 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Brilliance Ballroom

Cory House Author / Consultant

"AI writes slop" is a common concern. So how can we use LLMs to not just generate good code, but to *ensure* quality? Let's explore how to create effe...

Azure for Builders: A Practical Cloud Fundamentals Deep Dive

Friday, Oct 2 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Wonder Ballroom

Annemarie Merchant MCT | Azure Enthusiast | MBA · Microsoft

A practical, beginner‑friendly walkthrough of Azure’s essential building blocks, including subscriptions, resource groups, identity, networking, stora...

Copilot and Power Platform: Real-time Sense-making Inside Everyday Work

Friday, Oct 2 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Integrity

David Dean MicroAge, Principal Architect & Data Intelligence Technical Lead · MicroAge

At scale, AI starts to look less like an analytics layer and more like an ETL for sense-making. It pulls signals from how work actually unfolds—email ...

Elevating Productivity with Teams AI Tools

Friday, Oct 2 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Discovery Ballroom D

AI Cloud Operations

Satish Upadhyaya Satish Upadhyaya | Microsoft Workplace Transformation Consultant - Managed Services for Microsoft 365 · The North IT Consulting Services Inc.

Artificial Intelligence is transforming the way organizations collaborate, communicate, and get work done. Join us for an in-depth session on how to d...

Master the Machine: Orchestrating GitHub Copilot Agents, MCP, and Hooks

Friday, Oct 2 at 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Discovery Ballroom C

Benjamin Michaelis Software Engineer at IntelliTect, Co-Author of Essential C#, Spokane .Net User Group Leader · IntelliTect

We’ve all been there: you ask Copilot for a refactor, and it ignores your architecture, ignores your naming conventions, or suggests a banned library....

Accelerating Incident Response with OpenTelemetry and MCP: Building Agentic Observability System

Friday, Oct 2 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Brilliance Ballroom

Shivay Lamba Senior Software Engineer · Qualcomm

The growing complexity of cloud-native environments has made incident detection and remediation increasingly challenging, with engineers often spendin...

Avoidifying Over-Complexification: Rooting Out Over-Engineering in Your Projects

Friday, Oct 2 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Discovery Ballroom C

Jonathan "J." Tower .NET Foundation Board | 12x Microsoft MVP | Founder & Consultant · Trailhead Technology Partners

Discover the art of unraveling complexity in your software projects and returning to the fundamental principle of KISS ("Keep It Simple, Software deve...

Docker for Agentic AI: Running Local Models and Orchestrating Intelligent Agents

Friday, Oct 2 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Wonder Ballroom

Naga santhosh reddy Vootukuri Principal software engineering manager at Microsoft Azure SQL engineering · Microsoft

Abstract Docker is bringing open source AI to developers. This session covers Model Runner, prebuilt Dockerized models for reproducible testing, an...

Siri Varma Vegiraju Microsoft, Tech Lead · Microsoft

Don’t Panic: Building Copilot Agents for Planet Scale Business Processes

Friday, Oct 2 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Discovery Ballroom D

AI Low Code

Ryan McGee Independent Consultant at Talos Software Solutions

Space is big. Really big. And when your organization builds custom planets on demand, traditional workflows break down fast. In this session, we’ll...

It's Always DNS! Understanding DNS in the Cloud and On-Prem

Friday, Oct 2 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Clarity

Sean Whitesell President of SkyForge Consulting, Chief Cloud Architect, & President of Tulsa .NET User Group · SkyForge Consulting

When things go wrong in a networked environment, experienced engineers often yell "It's always DNS!" and they're not entirely wrong. The Domain Name S...

MITRE ATT&CK for Developers

Friday, Oct 2 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Discovery Ballroom B

Chris Ayers Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft · Microsoft

While OWASP has become the gold standard for application security, the MITRE ATT&CK framework offers developers a powerful complementary perspective f...

Multi-Cloud Without the Marketing or Designing for Multi-Cloud Without Losing Your Mind

Friday, Oct 2 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Integrity

Steve Buchanan Engineering Manager and startup advisor, 11-time Microsoft MVP, Docker Captain, Author, Thought Leader · Jamf

“Cloud agnostic” sounds great on a slide, but anyone running real workloads across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud knows it is far more complicated. In t...

When Logs Tell the Whole Story: OpenTelemetry for Beginners

Friday, Oct 2 at 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Discovery Ballroom A

Barret Blake #MicrosoftMVP, speaker, husband, father, architect@NimblePros, developer, former manager, gamer, LEGO enthusiast, Buckeyes fan, model railroader · NimblePros

Failures in production are a certainty. When something goes wrong, the difference between a quick fix and a prolonged outage often comes down to wheth...

Architecting a Zoneless Kingdom Using Angular Signals

Friday, Oct 2 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Discovery Ballroom B

Lara Newsom Software Engineering Technical Leader - Cisco · Cisco

When Angular 2 was introduced, it felt like magic. By using Zone.js to intercept asynchronous events and trigger change detection, it allowed the UI t...

From Vibe Coding to Production-Ready: Mastering Spec-Driven Development with GitHub Spec Kit

Friday, Oct 2 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Brilliance Ballroom

Kevin Grossnicklaus President, ArchitectNow

Stop debugging AI-generated code that "looks right but doesn't work." Join ArchitectNow for an essential exploration of spec-driven development—the me...

IaC Forged in Code: ARM/Bicep vs Terraform vs Pulumi

Friday, Oct 2 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Discovery Ballroom A

Mike Benkovich Exploring the possible · BenkoTIPS Consulting Services

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a powerful way to automate the deployment of your Azure infrastructure. With IaC, you can define your infrastructure i...

Modern CI/CD Approaches for Microsoft Fabric

Friday, Oct 2 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Discovery Ballroom D

Data & Analytics DevOps

Pierre LaFromboise Covenant Technology Partners - Chief Data & Analytics Officer · Covenant Technology Partners

Applying CI/CD in Microsoft Fabric is less about chasing a single “perfect” pattern and more about adopting a maturity path that matches your team’s r...

Securing your Azure AI Workload

Friday, Oct 2 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Discovery Ballroom C

Brian Gorman Microsoft Azure MVP, Speaker, Author, Trainer, and .Net Developer

You've been given the task of creating an AI workload that will work with your data to allow your customers to get answers. Perhaps you even want to ...

Serverless Beyond the Happy Path: What Actually Happens in Production

Friday, Oct 2 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Wonder Ballroom

Cloud Operations Pro Code

Friday, Oct 2 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Clarity

Most serverless talks end at the demo. This one starts where production begins. Serverless platforms promise simplicity and scale, yet many teams d...

The Future DevEx is Autonomous

Kiah Imani Developer Better-er @ LocalStack · LocalStack

AI agents are no longer science fiction. They can already test, debug, and even deploy applications with minimal human intervention. This shift means ...

Zero Trust for the AI Era: Securing Today’s Cloud with Microsoft’s Well-Architected Principles

Friday, Oct 2 at 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Integrity

Cloud Operations Security

Saul Patino Multicloud Architect & Strategist | Microsoft Certified Trainer | Speaker

This session focuses on applying Microsoft’s Zero Trust model to the Security pillar of the Well-Architected Framework. It will guide attendees throug...

Building AI Agents with Azure AI Foundry

Friday, Oct 2 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Brilliance Ballroom

Jared Rhodes Principal Consultant, EPAM Systems · Epam Systems

Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft’s assembly line for agents—model registry, eval, and deployment under one roof. First, we’ll map the pain of stitchin...

C# IoT/Robotics

Friday, Oct 2 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Discovery Ballroom C

John Smith Your imagination is my only limitation.

Have you wanted to build a robot but the hardware requirements have you intimidated? Learn how to build robots or IoT devices with limited to no knowl...

Chaos to Compliant: Standardizing Semantic Models and Securing Fabric Data with Copilot

Friday, Oct 2 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Integrity

AI Data & Analytics Security

Kiley Papa Principal Solution Engineer - Microsoft Data and AI

Regulated industries like Finance & Healthcare are moving fast to unlock insights with AI and self‑service analytics—but speed without governance crea...

Greg Beaumont Microsoft Data & AI Technical Specialist

From ClickOps Chaos to DevOps Delight—Modernizing Azure Deployments with Bicep

Friday, Oct 2 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Discovery Ballroom D

AI DevOps

Samuel Gomez Microsoft MVP and Head of AI at Geneca · Geneca

Let’s be honest—ClickOps might be fun at first, like giving a toddler the TV remote, but soon you’re left wondering why production is suddenly a disco...

Integrate Azure Monitor alerts from servers with your ITSM system

Friday, Oct 2 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Clarity

John Joyner Microsoft Azure MVP, Senior Director, Technology at AccountabilIT.com · Corsica Technologies

Expert

What's holding you back from migrating your general-purpose server monitoring solution to Azure Monitor? If it's integration of your monitoring tool w...

MCP Without Getting Pwned: Secure Tool Use, Prompt Injection Defense, and Least Privilege

Friday, Oct 2 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Discovery Ballroom B

AI Low Code Security

Brian Haydin Microsoft Cloud & AI Architect | Azure • GitHub • Power Platform | Demo-first sessions (US + Europe) · Concurrency

MCP doesn’t introduce new security problems. It moves existing problems into places most organizations aren’t prepared to govern yet. The moment a...

Performance PowerShell

Friday, Oct 2 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Discovery Ballroom A

Scott Corio Microsoft MVP, Enterprise Cloud Architect

We often think of PowerShell as a fire and forget solution. We write our script, kick it off, head to the bar and look at the results the next mornin...

Smarter Monitoring: Building an AI-Enhanced Event Pipeline

Friday, Oct 2 at 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Wonder Ballroom