Thursday 8:30 AM - 9:40 AM · Ballroom 2

Keynote: From Databases to Agents: Building the Data Foundation for the Agentic Enterprise

Shireesh Thota

Corporate Vice President, Azure Databases – Microsoft

AI is redefining enterprise applications, and the organizations that lead this shift will be built on the strongest data foundations. Agents require transactional data, real-time context, persistent memory, analytics, governance, and enterprise-grade security across a unified platform. In this keynote, Shireesh Thota, CVP of Azure Databases, will walk you through how Microsoft is building the data foundation for the agentic enterprise. Azure SQL and Cosmos DB power operational intelligence, Azure Managed Redis provides low-latency memory and context, and Horizon DB delivers a cloud native managed PostgreSQL platform for modern applications. Microsoft Fabric unifies the enterprise data estate through OneLake, bringing together data, analytics, real time, and business intelligence all through a unified security and governance model and Rayfin accelerates intelligent application development with backend-as-a-service capabilities for data access, orchestration, and integration. Join us to learn how leading top Fortune 100 companies are turning their data into intelligence and building autonomous systems that reason, act, and drive business outcomes at scale.

Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room 320-321

Selecting the Correct Azure Data Solution for Your Application

Denny Cherry

Owner and Principal Consultant, Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting

There are several different data platform solutions for use within your application. Selecting the right option can make the difference between a well-performing application and a poorly performing one; not to mention the cost aspect of choosing the wrong solution.

In this session we'll look at the options of Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, and Cosmos DB to see when these are all going to be the correct option, and when these aren't going to be the right option; both from a price and performance perspective.