🎉Join the Microsoft Ignite 2025 NYC Community Summit in Times Square!
Get ready, New York! The Microsoft Ignite 2025 NYC Community Summit is coming to the heart of Times Square — and you’re invited to be part of the energy, insights, and innovation. Whether you're a seasoned tech leader, a cloud enthusiast, or just Ignite-curious, this two-day experience is your chance to connect with the local Microsoft customer community, attend live sessions by MVPs and local experts. Watch the live streamed Ignite keynote while engaging in real-time conversations with peers and experts. To attend please register here. 🎤 What to Expect Live Keynote Viewing: Watch Microsoft leaders unveil the latest in AI, cloud, and security. Community Conversations: Join breakout discussions with local customers and Microsoft experts. Exclusive Panels & Lightning Talks: Hear from industry voices and community MVPs. Food & Snacks Included: Because no community event is complete without them. 🌟 Featured Speakers & Sessions Explore a variety of exciting topics, including… Generating Pages in Power Apps Lights, Camera, Akka! The Actor Model & Agentic AI Orchestra How to create Moonshot solutions with AI Transforming Facility, Network and Organization Management with Visio and Power BI Building Agents in AI Foundry! What's new with Azure Load Balancer, NAT Gateway, and Public IP Addresses .NET Apps Everywhere! Accelerating Web Application Development with AI-Powered Tools: From Design to Deployment How (and why) Microsoft's upstream teams engage with multi-stakeholder open-source projects Leveling Up Agents: Copilot Studio for Enterprise Studios RAG Hero: Fast-Track Vector Search in .NET Building Resilient Systems Agentic Orchestration: Building Scalable, Open-Source Automation with A2A, MCP and RAG Patterns 🤝 Sponsors & Partners We’re proud to be supported by a fantastic group of sponsors who help make this event possible. 🔗 RSVP & Stay Connected Spots are limited, must register by November 3 rd , 2025 — don’t miss out! 👉 To attend please register here. Exact location provided upon registration acceptance.Cloud platform security in an evolving threat landscape
Need to protect your Azure workloads from security threats? In this session, we'll explore the daily threats that Microsoft's core platform security engineering team face and discuss the key mitigation strategies you can use to protect your workloads on the Azure platform. Discover attack surface reduction techniques used at the platform level and learn how to best secure your workloads within the cloud shared responsibility model. This session is part of Tech Accelerator: Mastering Azure and AI adoption. View the full agenda for more great sessions and insights.Proactively design, deploy & monitor resilient Azure workloads
Do you want to know how to get resilient and stay resilient? Explore the architectural features needed to uphold stringent uptime requirements for critical deployments. Learn how to design resiliency into workloads and environments by implementing Azure landing zones and infrastructure-as-code modules. We will demo native bicep and Azure Verified Modules while explaining the scenarios in which you need those. We'll also show how to use the Azure Proactive Resiliency Library, Azure Advisor and Azure Monitor baseline alerts to minimize outage impacts and increase productivity. This session is part of Tech Accelerator: Mastering Azure and AI adoption. View the full agenda for more great sessions and insights.Essentials to build and modernize AI applications on Azure
Need to confidently design AI applications? In this session we’ll explore the prescriptive guidance, resources and tools available within Azure Essentials to help you build and modernize reliable, secure AI applications. We will demo how to get started designing an AI workload using the AI assessment tool from the Azure Well-Architected Framework and then show how to build it using Azure AI Foundry. This session is part of Tech Accelerator: Mastering Azure and AI adoption. View the full agenda for more great sessions and insights.Advance cloud infrastructure: Essentials with AMD on Azure
When it comes to Azure, finding the right infrastructure for your workloads is essential. From performance, to flexibility, to security, to availability, and to cost, your cloud adoption choices have a major impact. Join this session to learn about the many AMD options available to you on Azure and, ultimately, how the newest general purpose AMD infrastructure can help you successfully adopt Azure. This session is part of Tech Accelerator: Mastering Azure and AI adoption. View the full agenda for more great sessions and insights.How to run a successful Azure migration project
Need to securely migrate your on-premises workloads to Azure? This session will guide you through the Azure Essentials cloud adoption stages, offering actionable steps, explaining the top mistakes to avoid, and sharing key tools to enhance security and maintain agility. We will demo a portal-based Azure landing zone deployment and show how to leverage Azure Monitor baseline alerts in your migration. This session is part of Tech Accelerator: Mastering Azure and AI adoption. View the full agenda for more great sessions and insights.Govern, manage, and secure your AI deployments
Are you ready to adopt AI at scale? Explore the Azure Essentials AI adoption guidance and provide actionable steps and best practices to get your environment AI-ready. See how to make your AI workloads resilient and secure with solutions from Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Purview, and the Azure Proactive Resiliency Library. This session is part of Tech Accelerator: Mastering Azure and AI adoption. View the full agenda for more great sessions and insights.Best practices for secure and reliable Azure projects
Join us for a conversation with senior Microsoft and AMD leaders as they discuss how organizations can securely and reliably migrate, modernize, and enhance existing deployments with Azure. Hear how Microsoft customers have leveraged Microsoft and AMD products and solutions to design, deploy, govern, manage their Azure workloads so they can drive ongoing performance and innovation in their organizations. Learn from the leaders about how you can best maximize your cloud and AI investment. This session is part of Tech Accelerator: Mastering Azure and AI adoption. Check out the full agenda for more great sessions and insights.Safeguard AI applications with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Generative AI applications drive innovation and efficiency but often face security risks like AI jailbreaks and data exfiltration. This can pose a serious threat to your organization's security and reputation. Learn how to prevent AI risks through robust AI-security posture management and discover effective strategies to detect and respond to AI threats. Enhance your understanding of AI security and protect your AI assets with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. This session is part of the Azure security and AI adoption Tech Accelerator. Increase your skills by checking out more sessions to help you plan, build, manage and optimize your Azure deployments and AI projects with a security-first mindset. Learn more with Microsoft Secure! Find solutions your organization can use to protect your data, defend against cyberthreats, and stay compliant.How to design and build secure AI projects
Given the complexities of AI integration, designing and building secure AI projects is critical. This session equips technical professionals with the knowledge and tools to create secure AI workloads. Attendees will learn how to incorporate Responsible AI and security-by-design principles from the Azure Well-Architected Framework, identify tradeoffs during design, and prioritize security. This session includes a live demo of the Azure Well-Architected Framework AI assessment, showcasing practical applications and best practices - ideal for anyone seeking to enhance their expertise in secure AI development. This session is part of the Azure security and AI adoption Tech Accelerator. Increase your skills by checking out more sessions to help you plan, build, manage and optimize your Azure deployments and AI projects with a security-first mindset. Learn more with Microsoft Secure! Find solutions your organization can use to protect your data, defend against cyberthreats, and stay compliant.
