Microsoft Ignite 2025 is almost here and this year, the spotlight is on AI. From November 18–21, 2025, Microsoft is bringing Ignite to San Francisco’s Moscone Center, with a rich digital experience for online attendees as well. The event is shaping up to be a front-row seat to the future of AI, Copilot, Power Platform, Teams, security, and the modern workplace.
With hundreds of sessions packed into four days, it can be hard to decide where to focus your time. To make it easier, we have curated 10 must-attend sessions that cut across Copilot, Power Platform, Teams, SharePoint, Azure, security, and responsible AI. These sessions will help technology and business leaders understand not just what Microsoft is announcing, but how to turn those innovations into impact.
Let us dive into the sessions that deserve a prime spot on your Ignite 2025 agenda.
1: Opening Keynote – The Next Wave of AI Transformation
Speakers: Judson Althoff, Scott Guthrie, Charles LaManna, Ryan Roslansky, Asha Sharma
This year’s opening keynote marks a major moment for Microsoft Ignite. Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, steps into the keynote spotlight, joined by senior engineering leaders as they unveil the next wave of AI innovation for organizations worldwide.
Expect this session to set the direction for the year ahead: how Microsoft sees AI, Copilot, agents, and the cloud reshaping industries and what it means to become a true frontier organization. From new platform capabilities to customer stories, this is where you will hear how Microsoft plans to empower every person and every organization to operate at AI speed. If you only have time for one session at Ignite, make it this one.
2: Building for Everyone – How Accessibility is Shaping the Future of AI
Speakers: Preety Kumar (Deque Systems), Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft), Ed Summers (GitHub)
Accessibility has always been a catalyst for innovation, from curb cuts and audiobooks to screen readers and adaptive devices. This session brings that history into the AI era. Join Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Microsoft’s Chief Accessibility Officer, and leaders from Deque and GitHub as they explore how designing for disability is shaping trustworthy AI for everyone.
You will hear how accessibility principles are influencing AI products, how inclusive design reduces risk, and why building with the disability community leads to experiences that work better for all users. If your organization is serious about ethical AI, inclusive user experiences, and compliance, this is a must-attend conversation that moves accessibility from checkbox to strategic advantage.
3: Reimagining Software Development with GitHub Copilot and AI Agents
Speakers: Mario Rodriguez (Microsoft), Luke Hoban (Microsoft)
Development teams with strong DevOps practices are best positioned to take full advantage of GitHub Copilot and AI agents. This session shows you why. You will see how AI is rewiring the entire software lifecycle: planning, coding, testing, reviewing, securing, and operating applications at scale.
The speakers will walk through practical scenarios where Copilot and agents help teams ship faster without sacrificing security or quality. Expect guidance on how to embed AI into your existing toolchain, how to balance human and AI roles, and how to standardize AI-assisted workflows across your organization. If you are a CTO, DevOps lead, or engineering manager, this session offers a clear blueprint for the AI-accelerated SDLC.
4: The Future of Power Platform – AI-powered and Enterprise-grade
Speakers: Ryan Cunningham (Microsoft)
AI is not just an add-on to Power Platform — it is reshaping how apps, workflows, and agents are conceived, designed, and governed. In this session, Ryan Cunningham offers a look at the next generation of Microsoft Power Platform, where agents, AI-assisted plans, and modern workspaces become the default way to build solutions.
You will see how makers can use natural language, visual designers, or code to build solutions that run at enterprise scale, with governance and security built in. For organizations modernizing legacy apps or scaling low-code across departments, this session will clarify how Power Platform is evolving into a single, managed platform for apps, automation, and agents—not just individual tools.
5: Microsoft Teams – The AI-powered Platform for Work
Speakers: Ilya Bukshteyn (Microsoft), Kerry Perez Heffernan (Microsoft)
Microsoft Teams continues to evolve from a collaboration app into an AI-powered work platform. In this session, you will get an end-to-end look at the latest innovations across Channels, Chat, external collaboration, Meetings, Events, and Rooms, all with Copilot and AI at the core.
The focus is on making experiences simple, smart, and secure for both users and admins. Expect to see how AI can summarize discussions, surface decisions, improve meeting quality, and make cross-organization collaboration safer and more seamless. If your organization runs on Teams—or plans to—this session will help you plan the next wave of hybrid work experiences.
6: SharePoint – The Knowledge Platform for Copilot and Agents
Speakers: Adam Harmetz (Microsoft), John Mighell (Microsoft)
If you are wondering how Copilot and AI agents actually deliver relevant responses, this is the session to bookmark. Microsoft positions SharePoint as the knowledge platform for Copilot—an intelligent layer that organizes and enriches content so AI can understand it.
You will discover how innovations like Knowledge Agent can automatically curate content, apply metadata, and improve content quality at scale. Combined with no-code agents built directly in SharePoint, organizations can create specialized agents that truly understand their sites and libraries. This session is essential for intranet owners, information architects, and anyone planning a Copilot-ready knowledge strategy.
7: Enhance Data Security Investigations with Microsoft Purview
Speakers: Katerina Athanasiou (Microsoft), Christophe Fiessinger (Microsoft), Daniel Gawarecki (Toyota Motor North America), Caroline Lee (Microsoft)
As AI expands access to data, security and compliance teams need deeper visibility than ever before. This session introduces how Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations (DSI) uses generative AI to perform deep content analysis—going beyond logs and metadata to understand what is actually inside files, emails, and messages.
You will learn how DSI helps security operations and data security teams work together, investigate incidents faster, and mitigate risks more effectively using integrated Purview-Defender workflows. Real-world insights from Toyota Motor North America add a practical lens on scaling investigations in complex environments. If you are responsible for safeguarding sensitive data while adopting AI, this session belongs at the top of your security track.
8: Our Agentic Era – Building Accessible and Responsible AI for Everyone
Speakers: Natasha Crampton (Microsoft), Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft)
As AI moves from passive copilots to autonomous agents, the stakes around accessibility and responsible AI rise dramatically. In this session, Natasha Crampton, Microsoft’s Chief Responsible AI Officer, and Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer, unpack how these two disciplines intersect in the age of agents.
They will show how Microsoft is building safe, accountable agentic systems, grounded in both responsible AI principles, and lived disability experience. You will walk away with concrete ideas on how to design AI systems that are inclusive by default, transparent in operation, and governed with clear guardrails—critical guidance for public sector bodies, regulated industries, and enterprises scaling AI beyond pilots.
9: Overview of Managed Solutions and Secure Ops in Power Platform
Speaker: Ryan Jones (Microsoft)
As Power Platform becomes the foundation for enterprise-wide apps, workflows, and agents, governance and secure operations become non-negotiable. This session offers a practical overview of managed solutions, secure environments, and operational best practices for Power Platform in an AI-driven world.
You will learn how capabilities such as Copilot Studio, managed environments, environment strategies, and ALM tooling come together to protect data, streamline development, and maintain compliance—without slowing down innovation. This is a must-attend for platform owners, CoE leaders, and IT teams who want to scale Power Platform responsibly.
10: End-to-End Migration of Applications with AI Agents to IaaS and PaaS
Speakers: Ashish Babbar (Microsoft)
Cloud migration has always been complex—but AI-powered migration agents are changing the game. In this session, you will see an end-to-end demonstration of how Azure’s new migration agents can discover, assess, plan, and execute migrations of applications, databases, and dependencies to Azure IaaS and PaaS.
The focus is on reducing complexity, minimizing risk, and speeding up time-to-value. You will explore real-world scenarios, migration patterns, and best practices for modernizing legacy workloads while keeping performance, resilience, and compliance front and center. If you are planning a major migration or looking to refresh your cloud strategy for the AI era, this session will give you concrete next steps.
Make the most of Microsoft Ignite 2025
These 10 sessions offer a balanced mix of vision, architecture, security, and hands-on guidance across AI, Copilot, Teams, Power Platform, SharePoint, Purview, and Azure. Together, they provide a solid roadmap to:
- Understand how Microsoft is re-platforming work around AI and agents
- Prepare your data, security, and governance foundations for Copilot
- Scale low-code and Power Platform without losing control
- Build a more accessible, responsible, and inclusive AI strategy
For a complete list of sessions and to build your personalized schedule, you can explore the official Microsoft Ignite 2025 session catalog.
The AgreeYa team is excited about Microsoft Ignite 2025 and the possibilities it opens up for our customers and partners. We will continue to share insights on how Microsoft Ignite 2025 announcements connect to services such as Microsoft 365, Copilot for GCC, Power Platform, Data & AI, Cloud & Infrastructure, and Managed Services.
If you would like to discuss how to turn your Ignite learnings into an actionable roadmap for your organization, get in touch with our Microsoft experts and we would be happy to help you plan the next steps in your AI journey.