Microsoft Ignite runs November 17 to 20 in San Francisco. It’s Microsoft’s biggest enterprise event of the year, aimed at IT pros, developers, partners and the business leaders who sign the contracts.
Expect agents everywhere. Copilot, Azure AI and the tools to build, govern and secure AI agents across a company will take most of the keynote time. Security and identity are close behind, along with the less glamorous announcements that matter to admins: licensing, management, compliance and pricing.
Ignite is where Microsoft resets the enterprise roadmap for the next twelve months. Many organizations run on Microsoft 365 and Azure, so what’s announced here quickly becomes what IT departments have to plan, budget and train for.
If your company is a Microsoft shop, Ignite is your product roadmap in four days. Watching the keynote is the minimum.