By Laura Hyde |
Microsoft Ignite 2026 will bring together business leaders, security professionals, IT experts, developers and other partners from the global Microsoft community when it takes place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, USA, from 17-20 November.
Throughout the event attendees will hear from key Microsoft executives such as Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO, Judson Althoff, CEO of commercial business, and Nicole Dezen, chief partner officer and corporate vice president of global partner solutions. They will speak as part of a comprehensive programme of sessions designed to enable attendees to grow their AI expertise and learn how they can use Microsoft’s technologies to achieve measurable business outcomes. The session programme will cover themes including AI and agentic workflows, cloud and infrastructure, AI security and governance and more.
The opening keynote, delivered by Nadella and Althoff, will cover what lies ahead for AI, cloud, security and data platforms across the Microsoft ecosystem.
The winners and finalists of Microsoft’s Partner of the Year Awards 2026 will be celebrated at the Ignite Frontier Transformation Partner keynote on Wednesday 18 November. The session will see Dezen and Althoff joined by Mala Anand, executive vice president and chief customer officer; Ralph Haupter, executive vice president and chief risk officer of small, medium enterprises and channel; and Stephen Boyle, corporate vice president of enterprise partner sales. They will explore how organisations are redesigning work, scaling AI adoption and accelerating customer outcomes, as well as looking at what these shifts mean for the capabilities and services partners build and deliver for customers around the world.
Over the following days, attendees will be able to participate in hands-on labs and innovation sessions covering the Agent 365 control plane, hybrid cloud strategies, Copilot’s agent factory, building and deployment of AI-powered applications and more.
On-site certification training will enable attendees to gain recognised industry credentials. Meanwhile, the Ignite Hub will enable them to connect with Microsoft experts and partners and explore solutions.
Find out more and register for Microsoft Ignite 2026 on the official website.
Arrow
A Microsoft reseller delivering licensing, managed services, architecture and professional services wanted to scale its cloud business without adding operational complexity. Working with Arrow, the company migrated its entire Microsoft customer base in a single weekend. ArrowSphere Cloud then became the operational backbone of its Microsoft practice, replacing manual billing and reconciliation with automated workflows, real-time licence and cost data, Microsoft Azure insights and customer self-service. The impact goes beyond efficiency. With less administration, fewer errors and faster access to information, the reseller’s technical teams can spend more time on strategic customer work and developing new Microsoft opportunities.
Everpure
The Everpure platform provides a resilient hybrid-cloud foundation for planned Microsoft Azure migrations. Everpure customer Red Lobster, America’s largest seafood restaurant company, faced a costly risk: relying on ageing, fragmented legacy systems to support over 545 locations and a $1 billion annual seafood supply chain. The company’s chief information officer calculated a multi-day outage at roughly $13 million in lost inventory alone. Red Lobster consolidated its data management on the Everpure platform – and has since maintained 100 per cent uptime and eliminated interruptions to business operations.
Red Lobster has now streamlined its digital ordering and takeaway services, integrating seamlessly with third-party delivery partners through cloud-based solutions.
Shure
As organisations upgrade their meeting spaces for modern AI-powered environments, they need collaboration technology that is easy to deploy, manage and scale. Through its partnership with Microsoft and its IntelliMix Collaboration Portfolio, Shure makes it easy for organisations to bring high-quality collaboration to more meeting spaces. From IntelliMix Bar Pro to the pre-configured IntelliMix Room Kits, Shure’s solutions simplify room deployment, support efficient IT management and enable organisations to deliver clear audio and video for every meeting. By making it easier to standardise and scale collaboration technology across the workplace, Shure enables organisations to support AI-powered experiences that unlock actionable insights in Microsoft Teams Rooms with tools like Copilot and Facilitator.
Zensai
Zensai’s Human Success Agent is a partner AI agent built on Microsoft Agent 365, Microsoft’s control plane for AI agents. Generally available since May 2026, it turns workforce data into real-time insight for leaders: how the organisation is tracking against its learning, performance and engagement goals, the ability to drill into any department, and suggestions on what would improve the picture. It runs inside the customer’s own Microsoft 365 tenant, governed through Microsoft Entra. At launch, Microsoft’s corporate vice president Srini Raghavan said partners like Zensai are extending Microsoft 365 Copilot with agent-based experiences that help customers unlock more actionable insights across learning, engagement and performance.