The Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 Schedule Is Live.
Hello Folks, I promised the full agenda would drop soon. Today’s the day. The schedule is locked in, the approved sessions are on the board, and I want to walk you through what three days of deep-technical, engineering-led Azure content looks like. A quick refresher before we get into the content: this event is free, it’s virtual, and it’s built by engineering for engineering. Most sessions are at the L300–L400 level, which means we’re skipping the marketing slide and getting straight to the architecture, the gotchas, and the “here’s what actually happens in production” stories you came for. We’re starting at 8:00 AM Pacific each day and running solid technical content through the afternoon. You can still register here (https://aka.ms/MAIS-reg) We organized the three days around the pillars our community keeps coming back to, Build, Operate, and Optimize. Day 1 leans into Build so you leave the keynote with momentum, Day 2 bridges Build into Operate (where most of us actually spend our workdays), and Day 3 is pure Optimize, resiliency, cost, performance, and networking, before we close things out. The full 3-day agenda (all times Pacific) Online Schedule Here Day 1, Tue, May 19 · BUILD Day 2, Wed, May 20 · BUILD + OPERATE Day 3, Thu, May 21 · OPTIMIZE + Closing 8:00 KEYNOTE: Welcome & Azure Infrastructure Vision 8:00, Build and Optimize a Data Lakehouse for Unified Data Intelligence 8:00, Achieving Zonal Resiliency in Azure Infrastructure 9:00, Build a Sovereign Private Cloud with Azure Local 8:45, Designing Azure Networks That Scale: From Small Deployments to Enterprise-Grade 8:30, Architecting Resilient Azure Platforms: Durable Functions, Cosmos DB, and DR by Design 9:45, The Azure Deployment Agent: How AI Turns a Prompt into a Production-Ready Workload 9:30, From Alert to Resolved: Building a Self-Healing Azure Platform with SRE Agent 9:00, Optimizing EDA & HPC Pipelines on Azure: High-Performance Shared Storage with Azure NetApp Files 10:15, ALZ IaC Accelerator: Deploy Your Azure Platform Landing Zone with IaC 10:15, Agentic Migrations & Modernization 9:30, Elastic SAN for AVS Datastores: Best Price-Performance External Storage 11:00, Building Secure, Well-Architected Azure Workloads by Default with Azure Verified Modules and GitHub Copilot 10:45, Simplifying File Share Management and Control for Azure Files 10:00, Premium SSD v2 Disk: Best Price-Performance Block Storage for VMs and Containers 11:45, Best Practices for Infrastructure as Code CI/CD on Azure 11:30, Marketplace Image Protection: Safeguarding Workloads Through Patching and Graceful Deprecation 10:45, Optimizing File Storage for AI and Cloud-Native Workloads on Azure 12:30, Modern Ingress for AKS: Introducing Application Gateway for Containers (AGC) 12:00, Operating Hybrid at Scale: Real-World Azure Arc Patterns for Governance, Security, and Cost Control 11:30, Cut Storage Costs, Boost ROI: Optimizing Your Storage TCO on Azure Object Storage 13:15, End-to-End Security on AKS Using Azure Application Gateway for Containers with Managed Cilium 12:45, Run At-Scale On-Premises and Cloud Assessments and Migrations to Azure Storage 12:15, How to Build Resilient Networks Using Azure Networking, What’s New in Azure Software Load Balancing 14:00, Deployment Stacks: Getting Started 13:30, Modernize VDI with Azure Files and Entra Cloud-Native Identities 13:00, AKS Networking at Scale, CNI, Security, and Multi-Cluster Networking with Accelerated Performance 14:30, Accelerating Automated VM Image Pipelines with Azure Image Builder and Azure Compute Gallery 14:15, Operating Azure Backup at Scale: Day-2 Excellence for IaaS, PaaS, and Storage Workloads 13:45, Kubenet Deprecation, Futureproofing AKS IPAM and Dataplane Configurations 15:00, Troubleshooting Kubernetes Networking with an AI Diagnostic Assistant 14:15, Implement Zero-Tolerance Downtime Web Apps with Azure Front Door 14:45, Closing: Azure Infrastructure Applied Skills and Certifications What to do right now Block your calendar, May 19, 20, and 21, 8:00 AM PT start each day. Check out www.azureinfrasummit.com for more information. Register, it’s free. Pick your sessions, the online schedule has ICS files for each session. Build your personal track across Build, Operate, and Optimize. Bring your team, the agenda is deliberately wide: platform engineers, SREs, storage folks, network folks, AKS operators, IaC builders, and backup/DR owners will all find their sessions. We put a lot of work into making sure every slot earned its place, these are engineering-delivered, production-grounded, no-fluff sessions. The speakers are the people shipping the features you’re using in Azure. Can’t wait to see you online May 19–21. Until then, Cheers! Pierre RomanJoin us at Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 for deep technical Azure infrastructure content
Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 is a free, engineering-led virtual event created for IT professionals, platform engineers, SREs, and infrastructure teams who want to go deeper on how Azure really works in production. It will take place May 19-21, 2026. This event is built for the people responsible for keeping systems running, making sound architecture decisions, and dealing with the operational realities that show up long after deployment day. Over the past year, one message has come through clearly from the community: infrastructure and operations audiences want more in-depth technical content. They want fewer surface-level overviews and more practical guidance from the engineers and experts who build, run, and support these systems every day. That is exactly what Azure Infra Summit aims to deliver. All content is created AND delivered by engineering, targeting folks working with Azure infrastructure and operating production environments. Who is this for: IT professionals, platform engineers, SREs, and infrastructure teams When: May 19-21, 2026 - 8:00 AM–1:00 PM Pacific Time, all 3 days Where: Online Virtual Cost: Free Level: Most sessions are advanced (L300-400). Register here: https://aka.ms/MAIS-Reg Built for the people who run workloads on Azure Azure Infra Summit is for the people who do more than deploy to Azure. It is for the people who run it. If your day involves uptime, patching, governance, monitoring, reliability, networking, identity, storage, or hybrid infrastructure, this event is for you. Whether you are an IT professional managing enterprise environments, a platform engineer designing landing zones, an Azure administrator, an architect, or an SRE responsible for resilience and operational excellence, you will find content built with your needs in mind. We are intentionally shaping this event around peer-to-peer technical learning. That means engineering-led sessions, practical examples, and candid discussion about architecture, failure modes, operational tradeoffs, and what breaks in production. The promise here is straightforward: less fluff, more infrastructure. What to expect Azure Infra Summit will feature deep technical content in the 300 to 400 level range, with sessions designed by engineering to help you build, operate, and optimize Azure infrastructure more effectively. The event will include a mix of live and pre-recorded sessions and live Q&A. Throughout the three days, we will dig into topics such as: Hybrid operations and management Networking at scale Storage, backup, and disaster recovery Observability, SLOs, and day-2 operations Confidential compute Architecture, automation, governance, and optimization in Azure Core environments And more… The goal is simple: to give you practical guidance you can take back to your environment and apply right away. We want attendees to leave with stronger mental models, a better understanding of how Azure behaves in the real world, and clearer patterns for designing and operating infrastructure with confidence. Why this event matters Infrastructure decisions have a long tail. The choices we make around architecture, operations, governance, and resilience show up later in the form of performance issues, outages, cost, complexity, and recovery challenges. That is why deep technical learning matters, and why events like this matter. Join us I hope you will join us for Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, happening May 19-21, 2026. If you care about how Azure infrastructure behaves in the real world, and you want practical, engineering-led guidance on how to build, operate, and optimize it, this event was built for you. Register here: https://aka.ms/MAIS-Reg Cheers! Pierre Roman
We Want to Hear From You!
As we build this community together, we’d love to hear from you—what topics are you most interested in exploring? Are there specific challenges, technologies, or ideas you'd like us to focus on in future sessions or roundtable discussions? Let us know what you’d like to see and who you’d like to hear from, and we’ll work to bring in the right voices and insights.
