Events

October 2025 Free Microsoft Events, Training, and Workshops

Jason Berberich

01 Oct 2025 — 3 min read

Hi, everyone! Before we get to everything happening in October, I want to make sure you can catch up with two events that generated some big announcements in September:

FabCon Vienna: Microsoft Fabric: Vision & Roadmap (FabCon Keynote part one)
Microsoft Secure: Empowering defenders in the era of agentic AI with Microsoft Sentinel

Next, we have two big conferences coming up in the next couple of months, both with free virtual options:

October 28 & 29: GitHub Universe
November 17–21: Microsoft Ignite

Onto October’s events!

Microsoft Hackathon

October 28th: Activate Generative AI with Azure

Microsoft Virtual Training Day

October 7th & 8th: Develop Your Own Custom Copilots with Azure AI
October 9th & 10th: Data Fundamentals
October 20th & 21st: AI Fundamentals
October 22nd & 23rd: Migrate and Secure Windows Server and SQL Server Workloads
October 28th & 29th: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft Discovery Hour

October 1st: Build Unique GenAI Experiences that Scale
October 7th: Unify Your Intelligent Data and Analytics Platform
October 15th: Accelerate Developer Productivity with AI
October 30th: Unify your Data Platform

Microsoft Technical Workshop

October 8th: Develop AI-Powered Apps with Azure AI Foundry

Microsoft Tech Brief

October 7th: Migrate and Secure Windows Server and SQL Server
October 14th: Activate your Data for AI Innovation with Fabric and Databricks
October 23rd: Build Unique GenAI Experiences that Scale
October 28th: Activate Your Data for AI Innovation with Azure Databricks

Microsoft Virtual Briefing

October 2nd: Migrate and Modernize your IT Estate with Azure
October 7th: Prepare your data for AI innovation: Introducing Microsoft Fabric
October 8th: Prepare your data for AI innovation - Introducing Microsoft Fabric
October 9th: From Prompt to Profit: Latest updates for Azure OpenAI
October 16th: Microsoft Datacenter Tour: Virtual Experience
October 16th: Introducing Azure AI Foundry: Design, customize and manage AI Apps and Agents
October 21st: Microsoft Datacenter Tour: Virtual Experience
October 22nd: Prepare your data for AI innovation: Introducing Microsoft Fabric
October 22nd: Microsoft Fabric Roadshow
October 23rd: Migrate and Modernize your IT Estate with Azure

Microsoft Webinar

October 21st: Differentiate with AI-powered Intelligent Apps

…In a Day Workshops

October 3rd: Real-Time Intelligence in a Day - Pragmatic Works
October 8th: Fabric Analyst in a Day - Orion Systems Integrators LLC
October 9th: Fabric Analyst in a Day - Pragmatic Works
October 10th: Fabric Analyst in a Day - Pragmatic Works
October 14th: Fabric Analyst in a Day - Pragmatic Works
October 15th: Fabric Analyst in a Day - Fortude
October 15th: Real-Time Intelligence in a Day - Pragmatic Works
October 16th: Fabric Analyst in a Day - Pragmatic Works
October 16th: Real-Time Intelligence in a Day - Pragmatic Works
October 17th: Fabric Analyst in a Day - Covenant Technology Partners
October 21st: Fabric Analyst in a Day - Kanerika
October 22nd: Fabric Analyst in a Day - Pragmatic Works
October 23rd: Fabric Analyst in a Day - Royal Cyber
October 23rd: Fabric Analyst in a Day - Softcrylic
October 24th: Real-Time Intelligence in a Day - CloudThat
October 24th: Fabric Analyst in a Day - Quadrant Technologies
October 29th: Real-Time Intelligence in a Day - Kanerika
October 30th: Real-Time Intelligence in a Day - Axis Group

Microsoft Reactor

Note that all of these Reactor sessions are livestreamed on YouTube and recorded for later viewing.

October 3rd: Develop message-based solutions
October 6th: Empowering AI Driven App Development with Fabric Databases
October 7th: Python + AI: Large Language Models
October 8th: Python + AI: Vector embeddings
October 8th: GHAS Without the Guesswork: Streamlined Enablement with Modus Create
October 8th: Season 5, Episode 4 | Agents, Orchestration & MCP: Peeking Inside the AI Toolkit
October 9th: Turning Data into Insights with Copilot and Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric
October 9th: Python + AI: Retrieval Augmented Generation
October 14th: AKS Automatic Hackathon Kickoff Call AMER/EMEA
October 14th: Python + AI: Vision models
October 14th: AKS Automatic Hackathon Kickoff Call AMER/APAC
October 15th: Python + AI: Structured outputs
October 16th: DP-700 Part 1: Implement and Manage Analytics Solutions
October 16th: VS Code Live: 1.105 Release
October 16th: Python + AI: Quality and safety
October 21st: DP-700 Part 2: Ingest and Transform Data
October 21st: Modernize Spring Apps from SQL to CosmosDB with GitHub Copilot
October 21st: Python + AI: Tool calling
October 21st: Run open models on Serverless GPUs
October 22nd: Python + AI: AI agents
October 23rd: DP-700 Part 3: Monitor and Optimize Solutions
October 23rd: Python + AI: Model Context Protocol
October 27th: Elevate Your Agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
October 28th: DP-700 Exam Prep: Prepare for Exam Day and Open Q&A
October 28th: Reimagining Business Process Automation with Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps
October 29th: Unified Data & AI Workflows with Fabric, Databricks & AI Foundry
October 29th: Ask Me Anything: Data Engineering in Microsoft Fabric
October 30th: Securing and Scaling AI Workloads with AI Gateway in Azure API Management
October 30th: Azure Logic Apps Community Day 2025