For over 30 years, WPC Milan has brought together Italian IT professionals to learn, network, and influence the industry's future.
A Landmark Edition for the Italian Tech Community
WPC Milan 2025 confirmed once again that it is the beating heart of the Italian tech community. For three decades the conference has been the event where developers, IT professionals, architects, business leaders, partners, MVPs and Microsoft experts come together to learn, connect and shape the future of digital innovation. This year’s conference t set a new benchmark, offering more technical depth, more AI‑driven content and a stronger community presence than ever before.
The numbers help capture the scale of the event. Over the course of three full days, WPC welcomed one thousand attendees who had access to one hundred and eight technical sessions, ten keynotes and six specialized tracks that covered the most relevant areas of modern technology. The speaker lineup included one hundred and three experts, among whom forty‑six were Microsoft MVPs and forty were Microsoft employees contributing directly to their engineering and product expertise. These figures confirm WPC as the most significant independent Microsoft‑focused conference in Italy.
AI, Cloud, and Data Modernization Shape the 2025 Program
Artificial Intelligence and Microsoft Copilot represented the core of WPC Milan 2025. The conference explored how Copilot is reshaping productivity and collaboration inside organizations and how Azure AI enables the creation of intelligent applications powered by modern large‑scale models. Attendees engaged with sessions on responsible AI adoption, governance and security, enterprise readiness, application patterns, and the foundations of prompt engineering. The message was clear throughout the program: AI is no longer a vision for the future but a present‑day imperative for any organization seeking competitiveness.
Cloud and data modernization served as the second major pillar of the event. Reflecting the themes highlighted in OverNet’s Azure Database content, WPC 2025 dedicated extensive space to workload modernization with Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, to high‑performance architectures, to real‑time analytical solutions, and to the growing importance of vector databases and Retrieval‑Augmented Generation as the foundation for Copilot‑driven scenarios. The sessions helped professionals understand how modern cloud data platforms support and accelerate AI transformation
A Community‑Driven Experience Shaped by an Exceptional Team
The success of WPC Milan 2025 was made possible by the commitment and expertise of the organizing and content coordination team. MVP Program members Michele Sensalari, Fabio Franzini, Antonio Liccardi, Marco Parenzan, as well as Microsoft’s Riccardo Corna and the WPC organizing team members such as Marco D’Angelo, Matteo Giudici, Anna Leone, Gloria Damonte Moizo, Serena Colombo, Luca Cavalli, Giulia Ponte, Fabiana Basso, Beatrice Cavallini and Alessia Callero played a fundamental role in shaping the agenda and ensuring that each track offered depth, clarity, and real‑world relevance. Their work created a program that balanced strategic vision with hands‑on technical value.
The opening keynote counted with the participation of several Microsoft executives such as Ralph Squillace, Principal Azure Core PM, Silvano Coriani, Postgres on Azure PM, as well as Fracesco Lana, EMEA Sr. Software GBB and Alessandra Vicini, GitHub Solutions Engineer. The last technical keynoters were Maithili Dandige and Talhah Mir, AI-M365 Purview Data Security GMs. The audience was delighted by their insightful and inspiring interventions as well as with the talks by Matteo Giudici and Marco D’Angelo highlighting the 30th anniversary of the conference.
Beyond the sessions, WPC remained true to its identity as a community‑driven conference where relationships, mentorship, and collaboration come first. Partners presented real implementations, MVPs showcased advanced demos, and Microsoft engineers shared insights directly from product teams. The atmosphere felt like a family reunion for the Italian Microsoft ecosystem, where knowledge is exchanged openly and new opportunities emerge naturally. With record participation, rich technical content, and an engaged community, WPC Milan 2025 set a new standard for what a technology conference can achieve. It marked a turning point, with the foundations of the next decade of digital innovation clearly defined.
Many sponsors made this conference possible and had a place in the expo area, showing a strong commitment and collaboration with OverNet Education and MESA who played a fundamental role in the planning, execution and impact of the conference. 10 technical communities collaborated and were present at the event as well, some of their leaders presented content at the conference, generated awareness and participation in the Italian regions they are based in.
Thanks to all MVPs for enhancing knowledge and contributing to WPC 2025’s success!
In the participants words:
- Lorenzo Barbieri – “It's over #wpc2025…, thank you to all the people I met, friends, speakers, ex-colleagues, customers, "fans", etc... Too many people to tag, I would overflow the system. What does WPC mean to me? Family.”
- Matthew Piddington – “Great to be at OverNet Education alongside Vickram B. at their Windows Professional Conference (WPC) in Milan. An excellent assortment of industry insight and key notes from across the tech sector”….
For more information, visit the conference website: WPC - A Milano l'evento OverNet sulle tecnologie Microsoft
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