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A Guide to Adaptive Cloud at Microsoft Ignite 2024

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Nov 05, 2024

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Welcome to Ignite 2024

Microsoft Ignite is back in Chicago and on-demand November 19-22! Join us to explore the latest advancements in Microsoft Azure's adaptive cloud approach as well as new solutions and offerings.

This year, we’ll hear from Microsoft leaders, including Satya Nadella and Scott Guthrie as they share top news in AI, Copilot, Windows, and Azure. We encourage you to engage with industry leaders and experts who will demonstrate how our adaptive cloud approach enabled by Azure Arc, has helped organizations of all sizes leverage cloud-native and AI technologies to unify hybrid, multicloud, edge, and IoT environments. By participating in hands-on learning opportunities, workshops, and breakout sessions, you’ll experience firsthand the power of Azure. Discover how solutions like Azure Arc, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Copilot in Azure, Azure Backup, and distributed infrastructure solutions can enhance your hybrid and multicloud strategy, improve your ability to manage your data estate, and help make your organization more resilient against ransomware attacks and outages.

Get ready to

  • Learn how to leverage Azure’s adaptive cloud approach for your organization
  • Understand how to operate with AI enhanced management and security
  • Learn how to rapidly develop and scale apps across boundaries
  • Unify data and AI across a distributed estate
  • Find out what’s new in Azure’s distributed hybrid infrastructure platform

Don’t miss the sessions and learning opportunities below, designed to equip you with the latest advancements and tools for mastering your data environment.

Keynote

Microsoft Ignite Keynote- Satya Nadella, Charlie Bell, Scott Guthrie, Rajesh Jha

Tues, 11/19; 8:00 AM CT (6:00 AM - 8:30 AM Pacific Standard Time)

Satya Nadella and Microsoft leaders share how Microsoft is creating new opportunity across our platforms in this era of AI.

General Session

Empowering your AI Ambitions with Azure- Douglas Phillips, Asha Sharma, Arun Ulagaratchagan

Tues, 11/19; 2:45PM CT (12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Pacific Standard Time)

Dive into a dynamic technical session with Azure's top leaders at Ignite, designed to fuel your AI transformation journey and cloud innovation strategy. Get a firsthand look at the latest breakthroughs in Azure AI, data, analytics, operations, migration and infrastructure through cutting-edge demos that are relevant to your business. Whether you're a practitioner or decision maker, discover actionable insights and tools that will empower you to drive impactful change within your organization. Don't miss this chance to elevate your expertise and unlock Azure’s full potential for a smarter, faster, and more resilient transformation.

Breakout Sessions (in-person and on-demand)

Adaptive cloud: Unify hybrid, multi-cloud and edge with Azure Arc- Bernardo Caldas, Angie Tran, Satya Vel

Wed, 11/20; 9:45AM CT (7:45 AM - 8:30 AM Pacific Standard Time)

Join this session to explore our latest investments in hybrid, edge, and multi-cloud technologies, designed to advance your adaptive cloud strategy. Discover new capabilities to enhance your skills and build a well-rounded industry-specific approach. We will demo how Azure's extensive product suite including Azure Arc, Windows and SQL server, AKS, Copilot & more empower AI-driven central management, app development, and scalable solutions for distributed operations.

Simplify operations with AI: Copilot, Azure Arc, and Azure Monitor- Tom Jackson – Northern Trust, Meagan McCrory, Shiva Sivakumar

Wed, 11/20; 5:00PM CT (3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Pacific Standard Time)

In this session, we'll unveil the latest updates to AI-enhanced tools like Microsoft Copilot in Azure, Azure Arc, and Azure Monitor that are designed to help you simplify and secure operations across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments. We’ll show how you can leverage Azure’s flexible portfolio of management tools to automate configuration and deployment tasks, govern IT inventory anywhere, and observe across the full stack to ensure contingencies for failures.

Scale apps and data with Azure Arc, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Fabric- Lior Kamrat, Francisco Cabrera

Thur, 11/21; 5:00PM CT (3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Pacific Standard Time)

Join us for a technical session on how to architect, deploy, and manage applications across cloud and edge. Build deployment pipelines for critical infrastructure and establish a unified data foundation that generates valuable insights across physical operations. Focus on leveraging Azure's adaptive cloud approach, AI solutions, and Azure Arc-enabled patterns. In this demo-heavy session, learn to develop and operate applications using cloud-native services that scale beyond boundaries.

Operate infrastructure across distributed locations with Azure Arc- Eleanor Cohen, Cosmos Darwin, Jason Taylor – Coles Supermarkets

Thur, 11/21; 8:30AM CT (6:30 AM - 7:15 AM Pacific Standard Time)

Do you run mission critical applications across distributed locations? Join us to learn the best practices to deploy Azure’s distributed hybrid infrastructure solutions – from the public cloud to your owned and operated locations. Discover how legacy workloads and cloud-native and AI applications can run on hybrid infrastructure while taking advantage of Azure’s ecosystem of services like security or centralized cloud-management.

Accelerate industrial transformation with Azure IoT operations- Sean Parham, Kam VedBrat

Thur, 11/21; 5:00PM CT (3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Pacific Standard Time)

AI gives all data value. Together with modern infrastructure and compute, maturing AI allows every organization unprecedented access to the information that enables transformation. Learn how Azure IoT Operations can propel visibility at scale by unlocking OT and edge data historically trapped within industrial assets and processes.

Live Demos (in person only)

Fortify critical applications with Azure Business Continuity Center- Thomas Maurer

Wed, 11/20; 1:15PM CT (11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Standard Time)

In this demo we will showcase how the latest advancements in Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery (Azure BCDR) help protect and secure your cloud native workloads and fortify mission-critical applications against ransomware & large-scale outages. We will also focus on how Copilot in Azure Business Continuity Center helps you manage your estate as scale and enhances protection and resiliency against escalating risks.

Bringing the power of Azure AI to your adaptive cloud environments- Derek Bogardus, George Moore

Wed, 11/20; 10:15AM CT (8:15 AM-8:45 AM Pacific Standard Time)

In this demo session, we show two ways we are bringing the power of Azure AI to your edge environments. First, we will demonstrate a new capability to use generative AI and language models to search your on-premises data. Finally, see how Copilot in Azure can help manage your on-prem Windows, Linux and VMWare estate by performing AI-assisted anomaly detection and failure analysis for efficient diagnosis of issues within your edge environments.

Enhance cloud native troubleshooting with Azure Monitor & Chaos Studio- Rahul Bagaria, Rigel Carlson

Tues, 11/19; 2PM CT (12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Pacific Standard Time)

Learn how the latest features in Azure Monitor can help you troubleshoot faster. We’ll demonstrate a troubleshooting workflow powered by new AIOps capabilities and highlight how Azure Monitor is simplifying the experience with Application Insights auto-instrumentation, new dashboards, and more. You’ll also learn how to enable effective resolution with proactive experimentation and achieve resiliency at scale with Azure Chaos Studio.

Hands on Lab (in person only)

Accelerate Windows Server modernization and migration with Azure Arc- Aurnov Chattopadhyay, Karthik KR

Tues, 11/19; 3PM CT (1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific Standard Time)

Wed, 11/20; 1:15PM CT (11:15 AM – 12:30 PM Pacific Standard Time)

Thur, 11/21; 1:15PM CT (11:15 AM – 12:30 PM Pacific Standard Time)

 Learn best practices for creating a business case to migrate, secure and manage your Windows, SQL and Linux servers running anywhere. In this demo, we’ll create a business case for both migrating and modernizing in place your most business-critical workloads with Azure Arc and Azure Migrate.

Full Schedule (In Central Standard Time)

Pre Day: Monday, November 18, 2024

  • 1:00PM-5:00PM: Optimize and secure hybrid infrastructure with a unified control plane [PREB12]

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

  • 8:00AM-10:30AM: Microsoft Ignite Keynote [KEY01]
  • 2:00PM-2:30PM: Enhance cloud native troubleshooting with Azure Monitor & Chaos Studio [THR623]
  • 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM: Empowering your AI Ambitions with Azure [GS04]
  • 3:00PM-4:15PM: Accelerate Windows Server modernization and migration with Azure Arc [LAB427]

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

  • 9:45AM-10:30AM- Adaptive cloud: Unify hybrid, multi-cloud and edge with Azure Arc [BRK235]
  • 10:15AM-10:45AM: Bringing the power of Azure AI to your adaptive cloud environments [THR628]
  • 1:15PM-1:30PM: Fortify critical applications with Azure Business Continuity Center [THR520]
  • 1:15PM-2:30PM: Accelerate Windows Server modernization and migration with Azure Arc [LAB427]
  • 5:00PM-5:45PM: Simplify operations with AI: Copilot, Azure Arc, and Azure Monitor [BRK219]

Thursday, November 21, 2024

  • 8:30AM-9:15AM: Operate infrastructure across distributed locations with Azure Arc [BRK214]
  • 1:15PM-2:30PM: Accelerate Windows Server modernization and migration with Azure Arc [LAB427]
  • 5:00PM-5:45PM: Scale apps and data with Azure Arc, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Fabric [BRK215]
  • 5:00PM-5:45PM: Accelerate industrial transformation with Azure IoT operations [BRK262]

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