Live AMA: Demystifying Azure pricing (PM session)
⏱️ This live AMA is on January 22nd, 2026 at 5:00 PM PT. This same session is also scheduled at 9:00 AM PT on January 22nd. SESSION DETAILS This session breaks down the complexity of Azure pricing to help you make informed decisions. We’ll cover how to estimate costs accurately using tools like the Azure Pricing Calculator, explore strategic pricing offers such as Reservations, Savings Plans, and Azure Hybrid Benefit, and share best practices for optimizing workloads for cost efficiency. Whether you’re planning migrations or managing ongoing cloud spend, you’ll learn actionable strategies to forecast, control, and reduce costs without compromising performance. This session includes a live chat-based AMA. Submit your questions below as Comment to be answered by the product team!Live AMA: Demystifying Azure pricing (AM session)
⏱️ This live AMA is on January 22nd, 2026 at 9:00 AM PT. This same session is also scheduled at 5:00 PM PT on January 22nd. SESSION DETAILS This session breaks down the complexity of Azure pricing to help you make informed decisions. We’ll cover how to estimate costs accurately using tools like the Azure Pricing Calculator, explore strategic pricing offers such as Reservations, Savings Plans, and Azure Hybrid Benefit, and share best practices for optimizing workloads for cost efficiency. Whether you’re planning migrations or managing ongoing cloud spend, you’ll learn actionable strategies to forecast, control, and reduce costs without compromising performance. This session includes a live chat-based AMA. Submit your questions below as Comment to be answered by the product team!🎉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 Elevating Construction: Real-Time Optimization with Azure Digital Twins and AI Building Agents in AI Foundry! Mastering Vibe Coding: 6 Suggestions for Successful Agentic Development 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 Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional) Panel Discussion Ignite Keynote Virtual Watch Session 🤝 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 11th, 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.
