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The Cloud & AI Summit 2026

A premier community conference focused on Microsoft Azure, AI, and the Microsoft technology stack. Three days of deep technical sessions for developers, IT pros, and technology leaders.

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50Speakers
2Sponsors
27On the bill · sessions
38Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at The, in alphabetical order.
Aditya Rokade
Cloud,AI & DevOps | Public Speaker · Wolters Kluwer
Annemarie Merchant
MCT | Azure Enthusiast | MBA · Microsoft
Avindra Fernando
Principal Architect | Fractional CTO | AI-Driven Development & Modernization | Conference Speaker
Barret Blake
#MicrosoftMVP, architect@NimblePros · NimblePros
Becky Bertram
Owner · Savvy Technical Solutions
Benjamin Michaelis
Software Engineer at IntelliTect, Co-Author of Essential C#, Spokane .Net User Group Leader · IntelliTect
Bodhisattva Das
Security Engineer · RUDRA Cybersecurity
Brendan Daly
Senior Solution Architect · NRI North America
Brian Gorman
Microsoft Azure MVP, Speaker, Author, Trainer, and .Net Developer
Brian Haydin
Microsoft Cloud & AI Architect | Azure • GitHub • Power Platform · Concurrency
Chad Green
Sr. Systems Architect · Jasper Engines & Transmissions
Charles Lakes II
Microsoft MVP BizApps | Creative Solution Architect · The II Lakes Group
Chris Ayers
Principal Software Engineer · Microsoft
Chris Cusumano
Senior Data Engineer · Microsoft
Cory House
Author / Consultant
David Dean
Principal Architect & Data Intelligence Technical Lead · MicroAge
Donnie Taylor
MVP - Azure and Cloud/Datacenter Mgmt · GM
Eldert Grootenboer
Principal Product Manager · Microsoft
Eric Boyd
Founder & CEO · responsiveX
Freek Berson
EUC & Bicep Enthusiast | Microsoft MVP · Parallels
Greg Beaumont
Microsoft Data & AI Technical Specialist
Isaac Levin
Developer Advocate · Sonar
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
ArchitectNow
Covenant Technology Partners
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Agenda

Selected from 27 sessions on the bill.
  • TBA

    Accelerating Incident Response with OpenTelemetry and MCP: Building Agentic Observability System

    The growing complexity of cloud-native environments has made incident detection and remediation increasingly challenging, with engineers often spendin...

    AI
  • TBA

    Achieve Zero Trust objectives with Defender for Cloud and Defender EASM integrated with Defender XDR

    ‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ expresses the simple logic behind the Defender for Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud W...

    Security
  • TBA

    Adaptive Cloud in Action: Azure Arc and Intelligent Operations

    This session positions Azure Arc as the foundation of Microsoft’s Adaptive Cloud model, which enables consistent operations across hybrid, edge, and m...

    Cloud Operations
  • TBA

    AgentOps for Real: Evals, Tracing, and Regression Tests for AI Agents

    Putting an agent into production without evals and tracing is like stepping into a cave with a dim headlamp and no map. You’ll keep moving… right up u...

    AICloud OperationsDevOpsSecurity
  • TBA

    A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Dataverse: From Data Model to Working App

    When Magrathea needs to orchestrate planetary production and manage cosmic-scale projects, Dataverse emerges as the improbably perfect solution, bring...

    Low Code
  • TBA

    AI Agents in GitHub Actions: Automate Beyond YAML

    Your CI pipeline runs on every push and it can tell you that the build failed but it still can't tell you *why* the build failed. You have automated t...

    DevOpsPro Code
  • TBA

    AI on the Edge

    Edge AI is not a new phenomenon. This session will show how models for video, audio, and sensor data run on devices close to where data is created. Th...

    AI
  • TBA

    AI Powered Observability: Master Your App Performance with Azure Application Insights

    Modern apps move fast, and your visibility needs to move even faster. In this session, you will learn how Azure Application Insights, now backed by AI...

    AI
  • TBA

    AI Readiness & Governance in Microsoft 365

    As organizations accelerate AI adoption through Microsoft 365 Copilot and generative AI capabilities, success depends not only on licensing and enable...

    AI
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 38 companies, parsed from the program.

38 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
2Sponsoringsponsor only
36Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

18% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite510%
  • Founder / Owner24%
  • Director / Head of24%
  • Manager / Lead816%
  • Product12%
  • Engineer · IC2448%
  • Other roles816%

Of 50 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Microsoft5V
  2. 02ArchitectNowSp
  3. 03Covenant Technology PartnersSp
  4. 04Microsoft2V
  5. 05ArchitectNow1V
  6. 06BenkoTIPS Consulting Services1V
  7. 07Bespin Global1V
  8. 08Cisco1V
  9. 09Concurrency1V
  10. 10Corsica Technologies1V
  11. 11Covenant Technology Partners1V
  12. 12EPAM Systems1V
  13. 13Geneca1V
  14. 14GM1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified2
100% of 2