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AI for IT Professionals

TT02 Enterprise AI for IT Pros: Architecting, Securing, and Operating AI at Scale Tuesday August 4 8:00am - 9:15am

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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TH03 Getting Started with GitHub Copilot in VS Code Thursday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Mayuri Lahane, Software Engineer, AI Enthusiast

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TH07 The Art & Science of AI Prompting Thursday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Mike Nelson, Principal Technical Evangelist & Architect, Pure Storage

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TH08 Hype or Trend: Frontier Agents You Can Use Today Thursday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Karinne Bessette, Technologist, PS, Veeam

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TH12 Talk to AI Better: Advanced Prompt Engineering in Action Thursday August 6 11:00am - 12:15pm

Mayuri Lahane, Software Engineer, AI Enthusiast

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TH13 Problem-solving with Copilot AI and Power Automate Thursday August 6 11:00am - 12:15pm

Karinne Bessette, Technologist, PS, Veeam

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TH18 Wanted: Useful MCP Servers that Inspire & Solve Problems Thursday August 6 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Mike Nelson, Principal Technical Evangelist & Architect, Pure Storage

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TH23 Vibe Coding in Action: Practical AI Tips for Smarter Development Thursday August 6 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Mayuri Lahane, Software Engineer, AI Enthusiast

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TF01 Workshop: AI-Assisted Azure Management: Automating Scripts, Queries, and Deployments Friday August 7 8:00am - 5:00pm

Aleksandar Nikolic, PowerShell Magazine

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AI in Cybersecurity

CHOL04 Hands-On Lab: Cutting-Edge AI Defenses - Hardening RAG & Agentic Systems End-to-End Monday August 3 8:30am - 12:30pm

Pavan Reddy, Principal Developer, Automata LLC

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CHOL04 Hands-On Lab Continued Monday August 3 2:00pm - 5:30pm

Pavan Reddy, Principal Developer, Automata LLC

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CT05 The AI-Powered SOC: Reinventing the SOC with Defender XDR, Sentinel, and Security Copilot Tuesday August 4 8:00am - 9:15am

Alex de Jong, Speaker / Microsoft Evangelist / Trainer

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CT10 When AI Tools Go Rogue: Securing Agents, MCP, and Dev Assistants Tuesday August 4 9:30am - 10:45am

Pavan Reddy, Principal Developer, Automata LLC

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CT20 AI BOMs, CVEs, and Governance: Turning Panic into a Roadmap Tuesday August 4 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Pavan Reddy, Principal Developer, Automata LLC

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CW09 Build-a-Bot: Unleash Your Own Autonomous Agent with Microsoft Copilot Wednesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

Alex de Jong, Speaker / Microsoft Evangelist / Trainer

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CW14 Fast Focus: Inside the Black Box - How Large Language Models Like ChatGPT Work Behind the Scenes Wednesday August 5 1:15pm - 1:40pm

Mayuri Lahane, Software Engineer, AI Enthusiast

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CH09 Supercharge Your Endpoint DLP solution with Advanced Hunting and GenAI Thursday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Tatu Seppälä Microsoft MVP Security, Security Architect, Sulava

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CH15 Securing AI Agents with Identity: From Agent IDs to Zero Trust Governance Thursday August 6 11:00am - 12:15pm

Vijaya Lakshmi Nukala, Product Manager, Microsoft

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Azure: Public, Hybrid & Operations

TT03 Failover Clustering and the Private Cloud Tuesday August 4 8:00am - 9:15am

Rob Hindman, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

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TT16 Eliminating Secret Sprawl with Azure Managed Identity & Azure Key Vault Tuesday August 4 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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Blue Team

CHOL03 Hands-On Lab: Mastering Conditional Access - Unleashing Advanced Capabilities for Secure Cloud Access Monday August 3 8:30am - 12:30pm

Louis Mastelinck, Security consultant | MVP

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CHOL03 Hands-On Lab Continued Monday August 3 2:00pm - 5:30pm

Louis Mastelinck, Security consultant | MVP

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CT09 The Entra ID Pitfalls: Auth, Access, Privilege, Apps & Default Settings Tuesday August 4 9:30am - 10:45am

Louis Mastelinck, Security consultant | MVP

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CW04 Edge for Business in 2026: Is the Browser Becoming the New Security Perimeter? Wednesday August 5 8:00am - 9:15am

Myron Helgering Microsoft MVP, Solution Lead Security, Pink Elephant

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CW10 Protect Your Industrial Control Systems with Microsoft Defender for IoT Wednesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

John Joyner, Senior Director, Technology, Corsica Technologies

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CW13 Fast Focus: Connect Securely to Your Home Network Without a Single Firewall Port Open Wednesday August 5 1:15pm - 1:40pm

Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize

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CW19 How to Protect Your Business from the Threat of Unmanaged Devices Wednesday August 5 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Myron Helgering Microsoft MVP, Solution Lead Security, Pink Elephant

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CW20 LLMs Are Your New Junior Engineer: Using AI Safely in Security and IT Ops Wednesday August 5 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Heather Wilde Renze, CTO | Angel Investor | Author

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CW25 Achieve Zero Trust objectives with Defender for Cloud and Defender EASM integrated with Defender XDR Wednesday August 5 4:00pm - 5:15pm

John Joyner, Senior Director, Technology, Corsica Technologies

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CH14 Protecting Critical ICS & SCADA Infrastructure with Microsoft Defender Thursday August 6 11:00am - 12:15pm

Maarten Goet, Microsoft MVP & RD

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CH19 Security, Trusted Launch VMs (TVMs), Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Thursday August 6 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Christina Curlette, Program Manager 2 , Microsoft
Aabha Thipsay, Principal Program Manager , Microsoft
Michael Howard, Senior Director Red Team Engagement, Microsoft

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CF04 Workshop: Zero Trust Architecture as an Enabler Friday August 7 8:00am - 5:00pm

Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize

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Client & Endpoint Management

TT07 Comprehensive Guide to Windows Autopilot Scenarios Tuesday August 4 9:30am - 10:45am

Michael Niehaus, Programme Director and Master Inventor, 2Pint Software

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TW06 Old-time OS Deployment for the "Modern" Customer Wednesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

Michael Niehaus, Programme Director and Master Inventor, 2Pint Software

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TW17 Windows 11: Using local AI Silicon Wednesday August 5 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Michael Niehaus, Programme Director and Master Inventor, 2Pint Software

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TH01 Edge/Chrome Management Service - The Modern Way to Manage Browsers Thursday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Jörgen Nilsson, Principal Consultant, Onevinn - Ccmexec.com

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TH21 Troubleshooting Windows Clients in the Modern World Thursday August 6 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Jörgen Nilsson, Principal Consultant, Onevinn - Ccmexec.com

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TF02 Workshop: Go Cloud Native with Your Endpoint Management Friday August 7 8:00am - 5:00pm

Jan Ketil Skanke Security MVP, Enterprise Mobility MVP, Partner, CloudWay
Jörgen Nilsson, Principal Consultant, Onevinn - Ccmexec.com

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Core Infrastructure & Identity

TT11 Deep Dive into Windows Server Storage, Networking, Compute, and Security Tuesday August 4 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Dan Cuomo, Principal Program Manager , Microsoft
Jeff Woolsey, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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TT12 VMware to Hyper-V: Real-World Considerations for Before, During, and After the Migration Tuesday August 4 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Tony Joy, Principal Solution Architect, Summit

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TW01 Active Directory Basics, But Not the Easy Stuff! Wednesday August 5 8:00am - 9:15am

Derek Melber 21X Microsoft MVP in Active Directory, Group Policy, and Security, Strategic Advisor, Enterprise Identity

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TW08 DNS 101 - Fundamental Knowledge every IT Pro Must Have Wednesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

Dave Kawula, Principal Consultant, TriCon Elite Consulting

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TH22 Windows Server Operating System Management Best Practices and New Features Thursday August 6 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Artem Pronichkin, Senior Program Manager , Microsoft

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Demo Theater

Robopack Demo Theater: It's Not You; It's Apps (and baselines, and backups, and...) Tuesday August 4 2:35pm - 2:50pm

Harjit Dhaliwal, Director of Community & Events , Robopack
Clint Williams, Account Executive, Robopack

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PDQ Demo Theater: Built for Sysadmins, by Sysadmins: Manage Devices from Anywhere with PDQ Wednesday August 5 10:50am - 11:05am

Marcus Ta, Sr. Account Executive, PDQ

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Fast Focus Sessions

TW11 Fast Focus: Strong Authentication in the Cloud: Introducing Entra Certificate-Based Authentication Wednesday August 5 1:15pm - 1:40pm

Richard Hicks, Founder and Principal Consultant, Richard M. Hicks Consulting

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TW12 Fast Focus: Building a Rapidly Deployable Secure Network Wednesday August 5 1:15pm - 1:40pm

John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Innovation Officer, Azure Innovators

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CW13 Fast Focus: Connect Securely to Your Home Network Without a Single Firewall Port Open Wednesday August 5 1:15pm - 1:40pm

Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize

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CW14 Fast Focus: Inside the Black Box - How Large Language Models Like ChatGPT Work Behind the Scenes Wednesday August 5 1:15pm - 1:40pm

Mayuri Lahane, Software Engineer, AI Enthusiast

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CW15 Fast Focus: Configuring Cross-Tenant Access for Secure Collaboration Wednesday August 5 1:15pm - 1:40pm

Myron Helgering Microsoft MVP, Solution Lead Security, Pink Elephant

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General Sessions

TechMentor X Cybersecurity Live! Keynote: Windows Server Futures Tuesday August 4 11:15am - 12:15pm

Neil Hinnant, PM Director, Windows Server , Microsoft
Elden Christensen, Principal PM Manager , Microsoft

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TechMentor Panel - AI in the Enterprise: Governance, Risk, and the IT Pro’s New Headache Wednesday August 5 11:15am - 12:15pm

Stephen L. Rose, AI Adoption and Change Management Strategy Consultant
Richard Hicks, Founder and Principal Consultant, Richard M. Hicks Consulting
Karinne Bessette, Technologist, PS, Veeam

Moderated By: Dave Kawula, Principal Consultant, TriCon Elite Consulting

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Cybersecurity Live! Panel - AI Changed the Battlefield: What Defenders Must Rethink in 2026 and Beyond Wednesday August 5 11:15am - 12:15pm

Myron Helgering Microsoft MVP, Solution Lead Security, Pink Elephant
John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Innovation Officer, Azure Innovators
Tatu Seppälä Microsoft MVP Security, Security Architect, Sulava

Moderated By: Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize

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Hands-On Labs

THOL01 Hands-On Lab: PowerShell Toolmaking Tips - Build Reusable Tools Worth Sharing Monday August 3 8:30am - 12:30pm

Sean Wheeler, Principal Content Developer – PowerShell, Microsoft
Steven Judd Microsoft MVP, Senior Principal Consultant, Novus Consulting

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THOL02 Hands-On Lab: Security Copilot Boot Camp - From Beginner to Power User in One Day Monday August 3 8:30am - 12:30pm

John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Innovation Officer, Azure Innovators

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CHOL03 Hands-On Lab: Mastering Conditional Access - Unleashing Advanced Capabilities for Secure Cloud Access Monday August 3 8:30am - 12:30pm

Louis Mastelinck, Security consultant | MVP

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CHOL04 Hands-On Lab: Cutting-Edge AI Defenses - Hardening RAG & Agentic Systems End-to-End Monday August 3 8:30am - 12:30pm

Pavan Reddy, Principal Developer, Automata LLC

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THOL01 Hands-On Lab Continued Monday August 3 2:00pm - 5:30pm

Sean Wheeler, Principal Content Developer – PowerShell, Microsoft
Steven Judd Microsoft MVP, Senior Principal Consultant, Novus Consulting

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THOL02 Hands-On Lab Continued Monday August 3 2:00pm - 5:30pm

John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Innovation Officer, Azure Innovators

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CHOL03 Hands-On Lab Continued Monday August 3 2:00pm - 5:30pm

Louis Mastelinck, Security consultant | MVP

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CHOL04 Hands-On Lab Continued Monday August 3 2:00pm - 5:30pm

Pavan Reddy, Principal Developer, Automata LLC

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Microsoft 365 Operations & Identity

TW03 The Hive Mind: Copilot Learnings from the Community Wednesday August 5 8:00am - 9:15am

Joy Apple Microsoft MVP , Director of Partner and Customer Success, Orchestry
Diego Domingos da Silva Microsoft MVP, Solutions Architect | Community Speaker

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TW18 Stop Drowning in Updates: Build a System for Microsoft 365 Admin News and Roadmap Alerts Wednesday August 5 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Diego Domingos da Silva Microsoft MVP, Solutions Architect | Community Speaker

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TW21 Unlocking the Power of Copilot Automation: A Beginner's Guide Wednesday August 5 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Stephen L. Rose, AI Adoption and Change Management Strategy Consultant

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PowerShell, Automation & DevOps

THOL01 Hands-On Lab: PowerShell Toolmaking Tips - Build Reusable Tools Worth Sharing Monday August 3 8:30am - 12:30pm

Sean Wheeler, Principal Content Developer – PowerShell, Microsoft
Steven Judd Microsoft MVP, Senior Principal Consultant, Novus Consulting

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THOL01 Hands-On Lab Continued Monday August 3 2:00pm - 5:30pm

Sean Wheeler, Principal Content Developer – PowerShell, Microsoft
Steven Judd Microsoft MVP, Senior Principal Consultant, Novus Consulting

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TT01 PowerShell 7.6 and Beyond: What’s New for Automation and Administration Tuesday August 4 8:00am - 9:15am

Jason Helmick, Program Manager, PowerShell team, Microsoft
Sean Wheeler, Principal Content Developer – PowerShell, Microsoft

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TT06 Professionalize your PowerShell Tools using PlatyPS Tuesday August 4 9:30am - 10:45am

Jason Helmick, Program Manager, PowerShell team, Microsoft
Sean Wheeler, Principal Content Developer – PowerShell, Microsoft

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TT18 Configuration Management with DSC v.Next Tuesday August 4 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Jason Helmick, Program Manager, PowerShell team, Microsoft

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TW16 Tactical and Functional PowerShell for the AD Administrator Wednesday August 5 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Derek Melber 21X Microsoft MVP in Active Directory, Group Policy, and Security, Strategic Advisor, Enterprise Identity

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TW23 GitHub for Newbies Wednesday August 5 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Mike Nelson, Principal Technical Evangelist & Architect, Pure Storage

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TH11 AI Tools for Better PowerShell Scripting Thursday August 6 11:00am - 12:15pm

Aleksandar Nikolic, PowerShell Magazine

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Purple Team

CT15 Creating Classifiers from Scratch to Identify Sensitive Data with Microsoft Purview Tuesday August 4 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Myron Helgering Microsoft MVP, Solution Lead Security, Pink Elephant

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CW15 Fast Focus: Configuring Cross-Tenant Access for Secure Collaboration Wednesday August 5 1:15pm - 1:40pm

Myron Helgering Microsoft MVP, Solution Lead Security, Pink Elephant

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CW24 Mastering Purview Data Security Solution Design: Lessons from Years of Deployments Wednesday August 5 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Tatu Seppälä Microsoft MVP Security, Security Architect, Sulava

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Ransomware Industry

CT04 How Ransomware Became a Billion-Dollar “Startup” (and What Defenders Can Steal from Their Playbook) Tuesday August 4 8:00am - 9:15am

Heather Wilde Renze, CTO | Angel Investor | Author

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CH05 A Decade of Ransomware Thursday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Maarten Goet, Microsoft MVP & RD

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CH24 Forward to the Past and Back to the Future - Cybercrime in 2025 and Beyond Thursday August 6 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize

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Red Team Tactics and Techniques

CH09 11 Ways to Hack Windows 11 Thursday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize

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CH20 Secrets & Safeguards: How Windows Protects Credentials Thursday August 6 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Dashmeet Kaur Ajmani, Security Software Engineer, Microsoft

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CH25 When Security Fixes Break the World: Lessons from a UAC Bypass Patch Thursday August 6 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Dashmeet Kaur Ajmani, Security Software Engineer, Microsoft

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CF03 Workshop: Securing On-Premises Servers with Defender for Cloud and Azure Arc Friday August 7 8:00am - 5:00pm

Aidan Finn Azure MVP, MD, Consultant, Trainer, Cloud Mechanix

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Security for IT Professionals

THOL02 Hands-On Lab: Security Copilot Boot Camp - From Beginner to Power User in One Day Monday August 3 8:30am - 12:30pm

John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Innovation Officer, Azure Innovators

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THOL02 Hands-On Lab Continued Monday August 3 2:00pm - 5:30pm

John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Innovation Officer, Azure Innovators

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TT13 A Passwordless Reality Check: What Actually Happens When You Kill Passwords Tuesday August 4 1:15pm - 2:30pm

John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Innovation Officer, Azure Innovators

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TT17 Security Copilot + Defender XDR: Turn Your SOC from Overwhelmed to Optimized Tuesday August 4 3:00pm - 4:15pm

John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Innovation Officer, Azure Innovators

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TW11 Fast Focus: Strong Authentication in the Cloud: Introducing Entra Certificate-Based Authentication Wednesday August 5 1:15pm - 1:40pm

Richard Hicks, Founder and Principal Consultant, Richard M. Hicks Consulting

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TW12 Fast Focus: Building a Rapidly Deployable Secure Network Wednesday August 5 1:15pm - 1:40pm

John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Innovation Officer, Azure Innovators

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TW22 Moving To Zero Trust: Entra Private Access for Always On VPN Administrators Wednesday August 5 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Richard Hicks, Founder and Principal Consultant, Richard M. Hicks Consulting

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TH02 On Premises Groundhog Day for Certificates: Mastering the 47-Day Public TLS Lifetime in Windows Environments Thursday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Richard Hicks, Founder and Principal Consultant, Richard M. Hicks Consulting

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TH06 Mastering Entra ID Privileged Identity Management: What, Why, and How to Do It Right Thursday August 6 9:30am - 10:45am

Jan Ketil Skanke Security MVP, Enterprise Mobility MVP, Partner, CloudWay

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TH16 Securing your Entra Identities in 2026 Thursday August 6 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Jan Ketil Skanke Security MVP, Enterprise Mobility MVP, Partner, CloudWay

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TH17 Conditional Access Gone Wrong: Debugging, Breaking, and Rebuilding Your Policies Thursday August 6 2:00pm - 3:15pm

John O'Neill, Sr., Chief Innovation Officer, Azure Innovators

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Soft Skills & Career Development for IT Pros

TT08 How to Prepare, Plan, and Execute Successful Adoption Tuesday August 4 9:30am - 10:45am

Karinne Bessette, Technologist, PS, Veeam

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TW02 From Data Chaos to Copilot Clarity: Real Customer Journeys to Successful Adoption Wednesday August 5 8:00am - 9:15am

Stephen L. Rose, AI Adoption and Change Management Strategy Consultant

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TW07 The Burnout Equation: Why Smart IT Teams Break — and How to Build Ones That Don’t Wednesday August 5 9:30am - 10:45am

Heather Wilde Renze, CTO | Angel Investor | Author

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Threat Intelligence & Human Risk

CT14 Securing Your Software Supply Chain Tuesday August 4 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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CT19 The Purview Power Hour: Master Microsoft’s Data Governance in 75 Minutes Tuesday August 4 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Alex de Jong, Speaker / Microsoft Evangelist / Trainer

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CW05 Insider Threat: First Aid for a Misunderstood Risk Vector Wednesday August 5 8:00am - 9:15am

Tatu Seppälä Microsoft MVP Security, Security Architect, Sulava

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CH04 Escalation Paths to Attack Active Directory Certificate Services Thursday August 6 8:00am - 9:15am

Derek Melber 21X Microsoft MVP in Active Directory, Group Policy, and Security, Strategic Advisor, Enterprise Identity

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Workshops

TF01 Workshop: AI-Assisted Azure Management: Automating Scripts, Queries, and Deployments Friday August 7 8:00am - 5:00pm

Aleksandar Nikolic, PowerShell Magazine

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TF02 Workshop: Go Cloud Native with Your Endpoint Management Friday August 7 8:00am - 5:00pm

Jan Ketil Skanke Security MVP, Enterprise Mobility MVP, Partner, CloudWay
Jörgen Nilsson, Principal Consultant, Onevinn - Ccmexec.com

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CF03 Workshop: Securing On-Premises Servers with Defender for Cloud and Azure Arc Friday August 7 8:00am - 5:00pm

Aidan Finn Azure MVP, MD, Consultant, Trainer, Cloud Mechanix

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CF04 Workshop: Zero Trust Architecture as an Enabler Friday August 7 8:00am - 5:00pm

Sami Laiho, Chief Research Officer, Adminize

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