Microsoft Ignite 2026

Discover how the AI Economics Command Center connects AI consumption, business value, and human-AI performance to reveal what your AI investment is producing, why outcomes vary, and where to act next. Powered by Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Agent 365.

Reinvent factory operations with Manufacturing OS, powered by Microsoft Fabric and AI Foundry, where humans and agents work together to diagnose issues, guide decisions and act in real time.

Intelligent Stores is the platform retailers need to close that gap — connecting physical store signals to a network of AI agents that act on inventory gaps, equipment issues, and staffing needs before they affect the customer.

Copilot Workflow Guide is an agent concept that explores how signals about an employee’s context, such as their role, upcoming meetings and current workflow, could be used to surface relevant Copilot tools, approved prompts and peer-developed best practices, helping organisations scale more effective ways of working with AI.

Exclusive to Accenture and Avanade clients at Ignite, this interactive workshop helps leaders move from AI experimentation to business impact. Led by Microsoft Innovation Hub specialists alongside Accenture and Avanade, participants explore opportunities, prioritize high-value use cases, align on business outcomes, and leave with clear next steps to accelerate transformation and value realization.

Tuesday, November 17 | 8:00-10:00 AM PT | Gallery Ballroom, Level 2

What happens when AI meets the next frontier of R&D? Join leaders in research and development for an engaging panel exploring how organizations across industries are bringing together data, technology and human expertise to accelerate innovation. Hear perspectives on reimagining how research gets done—and what it takes to turn new capabilities into measurable business value, responsibly and at scale.

Tuesday, November 17 | 10.30-11:30 AM PT | Atelier II, Level 3

Explore how emerging and high-growth organizations can overcome talent, technology and resource barriers with Agentic AI as a Service to rapidly design, deploy and scale AI agents.

Tuesday, November 17 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PT | Gallery Ballroom, Level 2

This panel is the conversation that comes after the keynote: the hard, high-stakes work of turning enterprise-grade components into systems your regulators, your board, and your customers can actually trust.
What boxes do you have to check to move from promising components to scalable, value-generating systems — without breaking compliance, the budget, or the trust of your regulators?

Tuesday, November 17 | 1:00–2.30 PM PT | Atelier I, Level 3

Explore how organizations are combining Oracle and Azure to support AI initiatives, modernize applications and manage increasingly complex technology environments. The discussion will focus on architecture choices, migration experiences, security considerations, Building AI apps across Oracle and Microsoft eco systems and lessons learned from operating across cloud ecosystems.

Tuesday, November 17 | 6:00-8:00 PM PT | Gallery Ballroom, Level 2

Explore how leaders are moving from AI adoption to outcomes, combining AI, cloud, data, security and agentic capabilities to improve decisions, accelerate innovation and drive business value.

Wednesday, November 18 | 7:30-9:30 AM PT | Gallery Ballroom, Level 2

Explore how manufacturing leaders are scaling AI across engineering, factories and supply chains, using agentic solutions like Factory OS to unlock intelligence and drive profitable growth.

Wednesday, November 18 | 11:30 AM-1:00 PM PT | Gallery Ballroom, Level 2

Explore how retail and consumer goods leaders are scaling AI across supply chains, marketing, customer engagement and operations to build more intelligent businesses and drive measurable growth.

Wednesday, November 18 | 1:00–2.30 PM PT | Atelier I, Level 3

Explore how organizations are bringing Microsoft Azure and Databricks together to advance their AI ambitions and realize greater value from their AI investments. The discussion will examine how business context, governance, AI economics and evolving data architectures — and the lessons organizations are learning as they build and operate AI — can help translate AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes.

@ Moscone Center

Join Tony Leraris, CIO of Accenture, to discover lessons from one of the world’s largest Microsoft 365 Copilot deployments and learn what it takes to move from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide transformation at scale.

@ Moscone Center

Join Accenture and Avanade to explore how Adaptive MxDR, powered by Microsoft Security technologies, can help organizations secure agents, govern non-human identities and build trust in the agentic enterprise.