The Azure AI Ecosystem for Real-World Enterprise ROI

Enterprise AI success is no longer about choosing the right model or writing better prompts — it’s about building the right ecosystem.

In this session, we explore the Azure AI ecosystem from a delivery and architecture perspective, showing how real-world AI solutions emerge from the combination of data platforms, semantic foundations, agent orchestration, pro-code and low-code experiences, and securely exposed tools and APIs. Drawing on Microsoft’s latest Ignite announcements—Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, and Work IQ—we’ll unpack how Microsoft is converging on a unified intelligence layer that makes AI agents useful at enterprise scale.

You’ll see how these capabilities map to practical architectures, where teams typically go wrong on the path to AI ROI, and which patterns consistently succeed. The focus is on delivering measurable value today—search, summarisation, decision support—while deliberately preparing for the next wave of agent-driven systems.

This talk is aimed at developers and architects who want to move beyond demos and build AI platforms that scale, govern, and deliver real outcomes.