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2025 Microsoft Conference Calendar: For Partners, IT Pros and Developers

Here's your guide to all the IT training sessions, partner meet-ups and annual Microsoft conferences you won't want to miss.

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Event Date Location Audience
Microsoft Partner FY26 GTM Kickoff Event July 22 Virtual Partners
Securing IT in the AI Era July 23 Virtual AI and cybersecurity pros, IT decision makers
Biz Apps Partner Summit July 23 - 24 Seattle, Wash. Partners
Asynchronous and Parallel Programming in C# July 24 - 25 Virtual Developers
Black Hat Aug. 2 - 7 Las Vegas, Nev. Cybersecurity pros
Visual Studio Live! Aug. 4 - 8 Redmond, Wash. Developers
CISO NY Aug. 6 - 7 Chicago, Ill. CIOs, CISOs, cybersecurity pros
DEF CON Aug. 7 - 10 Las Vegas, Nev. Cybersecurity pros
Microsoft 365 & Copilot / AI Conference Aug. 11 - 15 Atlanta, Ga. Microsoft 365 admins, AI pros
TechMentor Aug. 11 - 15 Redmond, Wash. IT pros, IT decision makers
AI Accelerate Aug. 19 - 21 San Diego, Calif. IT decision makers
AppDirect Thrive Aug. 25 - 27 Austin, Texas Partners
VMware Explore Aug. 25 - 28 Las Vegas, Nev. IT pros, cloud admins, IT decision makers
CloudX Sept. 3 - 5 Santa Clara, Calif. Cloud admins, IT pros, developers
Blue Team Con Sept. 4 - 7 Chicago, Ill. Cybersecurity pros
North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit Sept. 7 - 9 Branson, Mo. Microsoft 365 and cloud admins
Visual Studio Live! Sept. 8 - 12 San Diego, Calif. Developers
Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Sept. 15 - 18 Vienna, Austria AI and data pros
Workplace Ninja Summit 2025 Sept. 22 - 25 Trafo Baden, Switzerland IT pros
The Experts Conference Sept. 30 - Oct. 1 Minneapolis, Minn. IT and cybersecurity pros, Microsoft 365 admins
Black Hat SecTor Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 TBA Cybersecurity pros
Pax8 Beyond EMEA Oct. 5 - 7 Amsterdam, Netherlands Partners
Kaseya DattoCon Oct. 6 - 8 Miami, Fla. Partners, MSPs
it-sa Expo & Congress Oct. 7 - 9 Nuremberg, Germany Cybersecurity pros
FIDO Authenticate Oct. 13 - 15 Carlsbad, Calif. Cybersecurity pros
Oracle CloudWorld Oct. 13 - 16 Las Vegas, Nev. IT pros, cloud admins, IT decision makers
Community Summit North America Oct. 19 - 23 Orlando, Fla. Power Platform and Dynamics 365 admins
PyTorch Conference Oct. 22 - 23 San Francisco, Calif. Developers
GitHub Universe Oct. 28 - 29 San Francisco, Calif. Developers
Power Platform Community Conference Oct. 28 - 30 Las Vegas, Nev. Power Platform and Dynamics 365 admins
Ingram Micro ONE Nov. 2 - 4 National Harbor, Md. Partners, IT decision makers
DCD>Connect Nov. 3 - 5 Lansdowne, Va. Datacenter admins
Directions Nov. 5 - 7 Poznań, Poland Dynamics partners
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Nov. 10 - 13 Atlanta, Ga. Developers, cloud admins
Commvault SHIFT Nov. 11 - 12 New York, N.Y. Cybersecurity pros
.NET Conf Nov. 11 - 13 Virtual Developers
Live! 360 Nov. 16 - 21 Orlando, Fla. Developers, IT, AI and cybersecurity pros
Supercomputing Nov. 16 - 21 St. Louis, Mo. IT pros, IT decision makers
Microsoft Ignite Nov. 17 - 21 San Francisco, Calif. IT pros, IT decision makers
PASS Data Community Summit Nov. 17 - 21 Seattle, Wash. DBAs, SQL admins, data pros
AWS re:Invent Dec. 1 - 5 Las Vegas, Nev. Developers, cloud admins, IT decision makers

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