28 Microsoft hosted over 800 sessions, demonstrations and expert-led labs at the Ignite event in Chicago, USA, in November 2024. Among the innovations demonstrated were Copilot agents, Copilot Analytics, the portable cloud PC solution Windows 365 Link, and a new application platform called Azure AI Foundry. Hundreds of Microsoft partners and customers also launched new products – like C3 AI’s Enterprise AI app on Microsoft Azure, Holistic AI’s version 2.0 of the Holistic AI Tracker and Quantexa’s Unify Workload for Microsoft Fabric. Microsoft Ignite MARKETWATCH: EVENT REPORT Nicole Herskowitz, corporate vice president of modern work and business applications at Microsoft, spoke about the new Interpreter agent in Microsoft Teams, which enables real-time speech-to-speech interpretation in meetings. Charles Lamanna (left and top), corporate vice president of business and industry copilot at Microsoft, discussed updates to Copilot Studio that will make it easier for developers to build AI agents A spotlight on security Microsoft expanded its custom silicon portfolio with a new inhouse security chip, the Azure Integrated hardware security module (HSM). This is designed to harden key management for encryption so sign-on keys remain within the bounds of the HSM without compromising performance. Microsoft Security Exposure Management became generally available. The solution tracks the relationship between devices, data, identities and other connections to provide customers with a comprehensive, dynamic view of their IT assets and potential cyberattack paths. Exposure Management also helps security and IT teams measure the effectiveness of their cyber hygiene and security initiatives, such as zero trust and cloud security. Microsoft will host the largest public security research event in history: the Zero Day Quest. This new competition, which will take place on 19 January 2025, aims to attract the world’s best security experts to tackle high-impact scenarios critical to Microsoft and its partners’ customer security. It will also focus on discovering any vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s own products. Microsoft covered several key themes during Ignite, including the power of partnerships, accessibility and security. The following announcements highlight Microsoft’s latest innovations and efforts to address critical industry challenges 1 2 3
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