Top 5 Reasons to Attend the Microsoft 365 Community Conference
Between the inspiring keynotes and sessions, connection opportunities, and the chance to deepen your skills there are lots of reasons to attend the Microsoft 365 Community Conference in Orlando on April 21–23, 2026. This gathering of makers and inventors will illuminate the people, stories, and breakthroughs that are propelling our ecosystem forward. To help break down everything that’s happening, we put together our top five reasons to attend. 1. 200+ sessions, workshops, and AMAs If you’re interested in learning how Microsoft is shaping the future of work—there’s a session for you. Join Microsoft experts, MVPs, and community leaders as you find out about the latest product innovations and AI-powered tools. Discover what’s new with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Copilot Studio, and much more. Check out the full catalog. 2. Unprecedented access Ask the questions you’ve always wanted to ask. Find solutions tailored to your needs by working with Microsoft experts. Immerse yourself in the best community in tech as you talk to and learn from the people building the apps and AI capabilities you use every day. Find the full list of speakers here. 3. A jam-packed keynote lineup Make sure you've got a great seat to watch: Building for the future: Microsoft 365, Agents and AI, what's new and what's next with Jeff Teper, Executive Vice President – Microsoft Collaborative Apps and Platforms Securing AI: Building Trust in the Era of AI with Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security and Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security Future of work fireside keynote with Jaime Teevan Ph.D. | Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow, Microsoft and more! These keynotes will leave you ready to learn, grow, innovate, and get hands-on with the technology shaping the next era of work. After each keynote, you’ll also hear from some of the brightest minds in tech in our breakout sessions where they’ll share insights, best practices, and strategies that you can use in your workplace. 4. Deep-dive workshops Get hands on with AI-powered tech as you elevate your skills in our workshops. Go beyond product demos as you learn how the latest technology works in real-world scenarios. Work with Microsoft experts who can help you find solutions that work for your organization, your team, and you. 5. Exclusive parties and networking events Perhaps the most important reason to attend the conference is to be a part of the Microsoft 365 community. Where else can you connect with peers and icons in the tech community all in one place? This is an opportunity to meet with hundreds of Microsoft executives, engineers, product leaders, and friends. Ask questions, share feedback, learn from each other, and help shape the roadmap of technologies you rely on. No matter what reason interests you most, we hope you’ll join us in Orlando on April 21–23, 2026. Register now and use SAVE150 for $150 USD off registration.
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Dear sir I'm developing Teams mobile application, static tab(Personal app Tab). We need a QR scan feature. However I can't use that. barCode.isSupported() is always false. Is there any restriction on static tab app? Here are my conditions. -. "import { app, authentication, barCode } from '@microsoft/teams-js';" . version : 2.37.0 -. manifest.json : "devicePermissions": ["media"], -. app.initialize() is sucessfully done. I can see the barCode object Unfortunatly, barCode.isSupported() shows false. Android, iOS has the same result. Can you advise how I can use the barCode camera.? Many thanksBuilding production‑ready AI apps and agents for Microsoft Marketplace
What developers can learn from Microsoft and partner AI webinars As software companies race to build AI‑powered applications and agents, success in Microsoft Marketplace requires more than a compelling idea. Customers expect solutions that are secure, scalable, governed, and built on trusted Azure services. A recent set of Microsoft and partner webinars offer practical guidance for developers who are building AI apps or agent‑based solutions with the intent to commercialize them through Microsoft Marketplace. Together, these sessions highlight how Microsoft is evolving the AI development lifecycle—from agentic DevOps and secure agent architectures to real‑world customer examples—helping software developers move from experimentation to enterprise‑ready solutions. From prototype to product: Agentic DevOps on Azure One of the biggest challenges Marketplace publishers face is turning an AI prototype into a reliable, supportable product. The “Transform Software Development with Agentic DevOps” webinar shows how Microsoft is embedding AI agents across the entire software development lifecycle using tools like GitHub Copilot and Azure services. Rather than focusing only on code generation, agentic DevOps introduces intelligent agents that assist with planning, implementation, testing, and operational insights. For Marketplace developers, this approach directly supports: Faster iteration while maintaining quality Improved code consistency and security posture Reduced technical debt as applications evolve These practices align closely with what enterprise buyers expect when evaluating Marketplace solutions: predictable delivery, maintainability, and long‑term support readiness. Building AI apps that scale on Azure: Microsoft and NVIDIA, better together Performance and scalability are critical for AI solutions sold through Marketplace. The “NVIDIA and Generative AI: Better Together – Building Your AI Apps” webinar focuses on how developers can build and deploy generative AI applications on Azure using optimized infrastructure and models such as PHI‑3, combined with NVIDIA acceleration. This content is especially relevant for Marketplace publishers because it addresses common customer concerns: Running AI models efficiently at scale Optimizing performance without custom infrastructure Deploying AI workloads using Azure‑native services By leveraging Azure AI services and NVIDIA‑optimized components, developers can deliver solutions that meet enterprise performance expectations while remaining aligned with Azure consumption models commonly used in Marketplace offers. Real‑world agentic AI in action: Lessons from Pantone The “Color Meets Code: Pantone’s Agentic AI Journey on Azure” webinar provides a concrete example of how a software company built an agentic AI experience using Azure services such as Azure AI Search, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure Cosmos DB. Pantone’s journey illustrates several principles that translate directly to Marketplace‑ready solutions: Using agentic architecture to deliver domain‑specific expertise Grounding AI responses with enterprise data using retrieval‑augmented generation Designing AI experiences that scale globally while maintaining consistency For Marketplace developers, this case study demonstrates how agent‑based applications can deliver differentiated value when built on Azure’s AI and data platforms—an important consideration when positioning an offer to enterprise buyers. Designing secure and governed AI agents on Azure Enterprise customers evaluating Marketplace solutions expect strong security and governance. The “Powerful and Secure Agents on Azure” webinar highlights how Microsoft is approaching secure AI agent design, emphasizing identity, access control, and operational oversight. This guidance is particularly relevant for Marketplace publishers building autonomous or semi‑autonomous agents, as it reinforces the importance of: Running agents within Azure’s security and compliance frameworks Applying governance to agent behavior and access Designing AI solutions that can operate safely in enterprise environments These considerations are essential for earning customer trust and supporting broader adoption through Microsoft Marketplace. What this means for Microsoft Marketplace publishing For software companies building AI apps and agents, these sessions reinforce a clear takeaway: enterprise-ready AI starts with how you build—and succeeds with how you publish. If you plan to distribute your solution through Microsoft Marketplace, now is the time to: Design for enterprise trust from day one Build agents on Azure using secure, governed architectures that meet customer expectations for security, compliance, and operational control. Move from prototype to production readiness Apply agentic DevOps practices to improve code quality, reliability, and maintainability—critical factors for customer adoption and long-term success in Marketplace. Differentiate with real-world AI value Ground your AI experiences in domain expertise and enterprise data to deliver outcomes customers can clearly understand, evaluate, and justify purchasing. Align with Azure-native services Solutions built on Azure AI, data, and infrastructure services are easier for customers to deploy, manage, and scale—strengthening your Marketplace positioning. By applying these patterns and best practices, you’re not just building innovative AI apps—you’re creating commercially viable, enterprise-grade solutions ready to be discovered, transacted, and scaled through Microsoft Marketplace. Explore the on-demand sessions to start turning your AI innovation into a Marketplace-ready offering. Transform Software Development with Agentic DevOps NVIDIA and Generative AI: Better Together – Building Your AI Apps Color Meets Code: Pantone’s Agentic AI Journey on Azure Powerful and Secure Agents on AzureAnnouncing the 2026 Microsoft 365 Community Conference Keynotes
The Microsoft 365 Community Conference returns to Orlando this April, bringing together thousands of builders, innovators, creators, communicators, admins, architects, MVPs, and product makers for three unforgettable days of learning and community. This year’s theme, “A Beacon for Builders, Innovators & Icons of Intelligent Work,” celebrates the people shaping the AI‑powered future — and the keynote lineup reflects exactly that. These leaders will set the tone for our biggest, boldest M365 Community Conference. Below is your first look at the official 2026 keynote order and what to expect from each session. Opening Keynote Jeff Teper — President, Microsoft 365 Collaborative Apps & Platforms Building for the future: Microsoft 365, Agents and AI, what's new and what's next Join Jeff Teper, to discover how AI-powered innovation across Copilot, Teams, and SharePoint is reshaping how people communicate, create, and work together. This session highlights what’s new, what’s fundamentally different, and why thoughtful design continues to matter. See the latest advances in AI and agents, gain insight into where collaboration is headed, and learn why Microsoft is the company to continue to bet on when it comes to building what’s next. Expect: New breakthroughs in collaboration powered by AI and agents Fresh innovations across Teams, Copilot, and SharePoint Practical guidance on how design continues to shape effective teamwork Real world demos that show how AI is transforming communication and content Insight into what is new, what is changing, and what is coming next Business Apps & Agents Keynote Charles Lamanna — President, Business Apps & Agents In this keynote, Charles Lamanna will share how Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Apps, and Agent 365 come together to help makers build powerful agents and help IT teams deploy and govern them at scale. We’ll share how organizations can design, extend, and govern a new model for the intelligent workplace – connecting data, workflows, and systems into intelligent agents that move work forward. Copilot, apps, and agents: the next platform shift for Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 Copilot has changed how we interact with software. Now AI agents are changing how work gets done – moving from responding to prompts to taking action, across the tools and data your organization already relies on. Expect: A clear explanation of how to leverage and build with Copilot and agents How agents access data, use tools, and complete multi-step work A deeper look at the latest capabilities across Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Power Apps End-to-end demos of agents in action Security, Trust & Responsible AI Keynote Vasu Jakkal — Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security & Rohan Kumar — Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security, Purview & Trust In our third keynote, Vasu Jakkal and Rohan Kumar join forces to address one of the most urgent topics of the AI era: trust and security at scale. As organizations accelerate into AI‑powered work, safeguarding identities, data, compliance, and governance is mission‑critical. Securing AI: Building Trust in the Era of AI Join Vasu Jakkal and Rohan Kumar as they unveil Microsoft’s vision for securing the new frontier of AI—showing how frontier firms are protecting their data, identities, and models amid rapid AI adoption. This session highlights how Microsoft is embedding security and governance into every layer of our AI platforms and unifying Purview, Defender, Entra, and Security Copilot to defend against threats like prompt injection, model tampering, and shadow AI. You’ll see how built-in protections across Microsoft 365 enable responsible, compliant AI innovation, and gain practical guidance to strengthen your own security posture as AI transforms the way everyone works. Expect: Microsoft's unified approach to secure AI transformation Forward‑looking insights across Security, Purview & Trust Guidance for building safe, responsible AI environments How to protect innovation without slowing momentum Future of Work Fireside Keynote Dr. Jaime Teevan — Chief Scientist & Technical Fellow, Microsoft Dr. Jaime Teevan, one of the foremost thought leaders on AI, productivity, and how work is evolving. In this intimate fireside‑style session, she’ll share research, real‑world insights, and Microsoft’s learnings from being both the maker and the first customer of the AI‑powered workplace. Expect: Insights from decades of workplace research The human side of AI transformation Practical guidance for leaders, creators, and practitioners Why collaboration is essential to unlock the true potential of AI. Community Closer Keynote Karuana Gatimu - Director, Microsoft Customer Advocacy Group & Heather Cook - Principal PM, MIcrosoft Customer Advocacy Group From Momentum to Movement: Where Community Goes Next As the final moments of Microsoft 365 Community Conference come to a close, Heather Cook and Karuana Gatimu invite the community to pause, reflect, and look forward together. This Community Closer keynote connects the breakthroughs, conversations, and shared experiences of the week into a bigger story—one about people, purpose, and progress. Together, they’ll explore how community transforms technology into impact, how advocates and builders shape what’s next across Microsoft 365, and why this moment matters more than ever. More than a recap, this session is a call to action—challenging attendees to take the energy of the conference back to their teams, regions, and communities, and turn inspiration into sustained momentum. You’ll leave not just with ideas, but with clarity, confidence, and a renewed sense of belonging—because community doesn’t end when the conference does. It’s where the real work begins. More Than Keynotes: Why You’ll Want to Be in Orlando The M365 Community Conference brings together: 200+ sessions and breakouts 21 hands‑on workshops 200+ Microsoft engineers and product leaders onsite The Microsoft Innovation Hub Ask the Experts, Meet & Greets, and Community Studio Women in Tech & Allies Luncheon SharePoint’s 25th Anniversary Celebration And an epic attendee party at Universal’s Islands of Adventure Whether you create, deploy, secure, govern, design, or lead with Microsoft 365 — this is your community, and this is your moment. Join Us for the Microsoft 365 Community Conference April 21–23, 2026 Loews Sapphire Falls & Loews Royal Pacific 👉 Register now: https://aka.ms/M365Con26 Use the SAVE150 code for $150USD off current pricing Come be part of the global community building the future of intelligent work.Announcing the IQ Series: Foundry IQ
AI agents are rapidly becoming a new way to build applications. But for agents to be truly useful, they need access to the knowledge and context that helps them reason about the world they operate in. That’s where Foundry IQ comes in. Today we’re announcing the IQ Series: Foundry IQ, a new set of developer-focused episodes exploring how to build knowledge-centric AI systems using Foundry IQ. The series focuses on the core ideas behind how modern AI systems work with knowledge, how they retrieve information, reason across sources, synthesize answers, and orchestrate multi-step interactions. Instead of treating retrieval as a single step in a pipeline, Foundry IQ approaches knowledge as something that AI systems actively work with throughout the reasoning process. The IQ Series breaks down these concepts and shows how they come together when building real AI applications. You can explore the series and all the accompanying samples here: 👉 https://aka.ms/iq-series What is Foundry IQ? Foundry IQ helps AI systems work with knowledge in a more structured and intentional way. Rather than wiring retrieval logic directly into every application, developers can define knowledge bases that connect to documents, data sources, and other information systems. AI agents can then query these knowledge bases to gather the context they need to generate responses, make decisions, or complete tasks. This model allows knowledge to be organized, reused, and combined across applications, instead of being rebuilt for each new scenario. What's covered in the IQ Series? The Foundry IQ episodes in the IQ Series explore the key building blocks behind knowledge-driven AI systems from how knowledge enters the system to how agents ultimately query and use it. The series is released as three weekly episodes: Foundry IQ: Unlocking Knowledge for Your Agents — March 18, 2026: Introduces Foundry IQ and the core ideas behind it. The episode explains how AI agents work with knowledge and walks through the main components of the Foundry IQ that support knowledge-driven applications. Foundry IQ: Building the Data Pipeline with Knowledge Sources — March 25, 2026: Focuses on Knowledge Sources and how different types of content flow into Foundry IQ. It explores how systems such as SharePoint, Fabric, OneLake, Azure Blob Storage, Azure AI Search, and the web contribute information that AI systems can later retrieve and use. Foundry IQ: Querying the Multi-Source AI Knowledge Bases — April 1, 2026: Dives into the Knowledge Bases and how multiple knowledge sources can be organized behind a single endpoint. The episode demonstrates how AI systems query across these sources and synthesize information to answer complex questions. Each episode includes a short executive introduction, a tech talk exploring the topic in depth, and a visual recap with doodle summaries of the key ideas. Alongside the episodes, the GitHub repository provides cookbooks with sample code, summary of the episodes, and additinal learning resources, so developers can explore the concepts and apply them in their own projects. Explore the Repo All episodes and supporting materials live in the IQ Series repository: 👉 https://aka.ms/iq-series Inside the repository you’ll find: The Foundry IQ episode links Cookbooks for each episode Links to documentation and additional resources If you're building AI agents or exploring how AI systems can work with knowledge, the IQ Series is a great place to start. Watch the episodes and explore the cookbooks! We’re excited to see what you build and welcome your feedback & ideas as the series evolves.
