Microsoft Ignite returns November 18–21 in San Francisco, with online sessions available November 18–20!
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Welcome to Ignite 2025!
This year’s event is all about driving impact in the era of AI. Join Microsoft leaders, including Judson Althoff, Scott Guthrie, Jeremy Winter, and Asha Sharma as they share breakthrough announcements in Cloud and AI platforms, AI business solutions, Security, and emerging technologies. Explore how our adaptive cloud approach, powered by Azure Arc, helps organizations unify hybrid, multicloud, edge, and IoT environments while scaling securely with AI.
Through immersive keynotes, breakout sessions, and hands-on labs, you’ll learn how solutions such as Microsoft Copilot in Azure, Azure Arc, Azure Monitor, Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery, and Azure Local can strengthen your cloud native and hybrid strategy, simplify workflows, enhance team capabilities, and empower organizations with increased governance and control. Connect with industry experts, build your network, and get ready to learn about our latest updates!
Breakout Sessions
Refer to the Ignite Session catalog to confirm session time and location.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
9:00AM-11:00AM PST- KEY01- Opening Keynote
The opening keynote will feature Judson Althoff, CEO Microsoft commercial business, with our senior Microsoft engineering leaders as they unveil the latest innovations driving the next wave of AI transformation, empowering every human and every organization across every industry to redefine what it means to become frontier.
2:30PM–3:15PM — BRK145 — Unlock agentic Intelligence in the cloud with Copilot in Azure
Copilot in Azure is changing how IT pro, DevOps, and developer teams design, deploy, and manage their cloud workloads and environments. In this session, we’ll introduce a new wave of agents that augment critical tasks like migration, optimization, and troubleshooting. You’ll also see the latest Copilot in Azure capabilities that deliver enterprise‑grade safeguards, transparency, and smarter reasoning, giving you trusted, AI‑powered tools to accelerate every step of your cloud journey.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM — BRK1704—Innovation Session: Scale Smarter: Infrastructure for the Agentic Era
Learn how intelligent infrastructure, agentic operations, and AI-driven tools are transforming cloud reliability, security, and agility for every workload. Join Chief Product Officer of Azure Platform, Jeremy Winter and guests, to discover how Azure’s latest innovations empower organizations to modernize, secure, and scale with confidence.
10:15AM–11:00AM — BRK183 — Azure Arc: Extending Azure for hybrid and multi‑cloud management
Azure Arc provides a unified way to manage and govern servers, Kubernetes clusters, and data services across on‑premises, multi‑cloud, and edge. It enables consistent inventory, policy, and security, and lets you run Azure services anywhere with familiar tools and GitOps‑based deployments.
11:30AM-12:15PM- BRK 169- Build secure applications with Azure Policy and Service Groups
Building secure applications in the cloud requires consistent governance and continuous compliance. Learn how to use Azure Policy to enforce organizational standards, remediate non-compliant resources, and maintain compliance at scale. We’ll also explore how Service Groups simplify security management by grouping and applying policies across applications, environments, and resource types. See how these innovations help you confidently secure Windows, Linux, and database workloads in Azure.
Thursday, November 20, 2025
2:15PM-3:00PM— BRK147 — What’s new in Azure Local
Organizations across industries are transforming the way they operate by bringing the power of Azure into their own environments with Azure Local. Discover what’s new with Azure Local, including the latest portfolio enhancements that help organizations modernize operations, meet regulatory requirements, and drive innovation wherever their data and applications live.
3:30PM–4:15PM — BRK148 — Architect resilient apps with Azure Backup & Reliability Features
Migrating from on‑premises to the cloud changes reliability patterns. Learn how to adapt clustering, failover, and backup to Azure best practices for VMs, databases, and containers. Discover built‑in resiliency with availability zones, scale sets, and container‑aware backup, plus how monitoring and automation speed recovery for Windows, Linux, SQL, and Kubernetes workloads.
Friday, November 21, 2025
9:00AM–9:45AM — BRK146 — Resiliency and recovery with Azure Backup and Site Recovery
Learn how to protect, detect, and rapidly recover your most critical workloads—across Azure VMs, databases, file shares, and cloud‑native applications like AKS. Modernize backups with secure‑by‑default protection and immutable storage, use intelligent signals, and orchestrate clean, at‑scale restores. We’ll cover threat‑aware backups, container‑aware protection, and one‑click DR to help you recover with confidence while meeting your RPO/RTO goals and compliance needs.
10:15AM–11:00AM — BRK149 — Unlock cloud‑scale observability and optimization with Azure
Explore how agentic observability and operations are redefining observability for modern IT environments. This session will dive into the application of AI agents that analyze telemetry, detect anomalies, and trigger remediation workflows faster. Learn how to integrate these agents into your monitoring stack and walk away with practical patterns to reduce mean time to recovery and scale operations intelligently.
11:30AM–12:15PM — BRK170 — Govern your estate using PowerShell and the CLI with AI
Discover how the new AI‑powered Shell in PowerShell and Azure CLI boosts automation and simplifies complex commands. We’ll showcase how AI can generate scripts on demand, guide you through best practices, and help enforce governance and security policies confidently. Through practical demos, see how natural language prompts can automate tasks, apply guardrails, and secure your estate.
Upskilling with Live Demos and Labs
Demos and hands-on labs are exclusively available to in-person attendees, offering direct experience with the newest adaptive cloud capabilities.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
02:00PM–03:15PM—LAB504 — Connect, secure and manage hybrid, multicloud and edge with Azure Arc
02:45PM–04:00PM— LAB500 — Attain unified observability and optimization in Azure
04:30PM–05:45PM— LAB520 — Start, Get, and Stay Resilient with Azure
06:45PM–08:00PM —LAB504-R1 — Connect, secure and manage hybrid, multicloud and edge with Azure Arc
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
10:00AM–10:30AM — THR735 — Monitoring for multi‑agent systems in production
11:45AM–01:00PM— LAB500-R1 —Attain unified observability and optimization in Azure
02:00PM–03:15PM—LAB504-R1 — Connect, secure and manage hybrid, multicloud and edge with Azure Arc
03:45PM–05:00PM- LAB520-R1 — Start, Get, and Stay Resilient with Azure
4:30PM–5:00PM — THR736 — Reshaping digital operations with AI from cloud and edge
Thursday, November 20, 2025
10:45AM–12:00PM— LAB500-R2 —Attain unified observability and optimization in Azure
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM PST— THR710 — Azure Arc's newest capabilities: Demos and new features
04:30PM–05:45PM—LAB504-R2 — Connect, secure and manage hybrid, multicloud and edge with Azure Arc
04:30PM–05:45PM— LAB520-R2 — Start, Get, and Stay Resilient with Azure
Full Schedule (In Pacific Standard Time)
See the full schedule below including related Adaptive Cloud sessions. Refer to the Ignite Session catalog to confirm session time and location.
- 09:00AM–10:30AM: Opening Keynote – Ignite 2025 [KEY01]
- 02:00PM–03:15PM: Connect, secure and manage hybrid, multicloud and Edge with Azure Arc [LAB504]
- 02:30PM–03:15PM: Unlock agentic Intelligence in the cloud with Copilot in Azure [BRK145]
- 02:45PM–04:00PM: Attain unified observability and optimization in Azure [LAB500]
- 04:30PM–05:45PM: Start, Get, and Stay Resilient with Azure [LAB520]
- 06:45PM–08:00PM: Connect, secure and manage hybrid, multicloud and Edge with Azure Arc [LAB504]
- 9:00 AM–9:45 AM: Innovation Session: Scale Smarter: Infrastructure for the Agentic Era [BRK1704]
- 10:00AM–10:30AM: Monitoring for multi agent systems in production [THR735]
- 10:15AM–11:00AM: Azure Arc: Extending Azure for hybrid and multi cloud management [BRK183]
- 11:30AM–12:15PM: Build secure applications with Azure Policy and Service Groups [BRK169]
- 11:45AM–01:00PM: Attain unified observability and optimization in Azure [LAB500]
- 01:00PM–01:45PM: Community Connection Pod: New agentic capabilities in Copilot in Azure [COM1013]
- 01:45PM–02:10PM: Community Theater: Cloud Perspectives: Azure MVPs on their lessons learned [COM1102]
- 02:00PM–03:15PM: Connect, secure and manage hybrid, multicloud and Edge with Azure Arc [LAB504]
- 03:45PM–05:00PM: Start, Get, and Stay Resilient with Azure [LAB520]
- 04:30PM–05:00PM: Reshaping digital operations with AI from cloud and edge [THR736]
- 08:30AM–09:15AM: Maintain regulatory compliance with the Microsoft Sovereign Cloud [BRK167]
- 09:45AM–10:30 AM: The new industrial frontier [BRK377]
- 10:30AM–11:00AM: Community Theater: Cloud Perspectives: Azure Migration Community Insights [COM1101]
- 10:45AM–12:00PM: Attain unified observability and optimization in Azure [LAB500]
- 01:00PM–01:30PM: Azure Arc’s newest capabilities: Demos and new features [THR710]
- 01:00PM–01:45PM: Resilience by design: Secure, scalable, AI ready cloud with Azure [BRK217]
- 01:00PM–01:45PM: Community Connection Pod: Meet your Cloud Management & Operations Platform Team [COM1001]
- 02:15PM–02:45PM: Community Theater: Cloud Perspectives: Cloud Management & Ops Platform Team Insights [COM1103]
- 02:15PM–03:00PM: What’s new in Azure Local [BRK147]
- 03:30PM–04:15PM: Architect resilient apps with Azure Backup & Reliability Features [BRK148]
- 04:30PM–05:45PM: Connect, secure and manage hybrid, multicloud and Edge with Azure Arc [LAB504]
- 04:30PM–05:45PM: Start, Get, and Stay Resilient with Azure [LAB520]
- 04:45PM–05:30PM: From cloud to edge: Building and shipping Edge AI apps with Foundry [BRK199]
- 09:00AM–09:45AM: Resiliency and recovery with Azure Backup and Site Recovery [BRK146]
- 10:15AM–11:00AM: Unlock cloud scale observability and optimization with Azure [BRK149]
- 11:30AM–12:15PM: Govern your estate using PowerShell and the CLI with AI [BRK170]
Read more about exciting new announcements
Cloud & AI platforms announcements will be available November 18.
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