# CognitionX Emirates 2026

CognitionX Emirates 2026 is a premier technology event focused on AI, cloud, security, and modern software engineering, bringing together Microsoft MVPs, architects, developers, AI engineers, cloud professionals, students, and technology leaders to share real-world knowledge and practical expertise. Built around deep technical sessions, hands-on learning, and expert-led discussions, CognitionX creates a high-impact space for the community to explore Microsoft technologies, production-ready AI systems, secure cloud architectures, and the future of intelligent applications. As part of the global CognitionX event series, it supports knowledge sharing, professional growth, and community collaboration across regions, helping attendees gain practical skills, connect with experts, and move from technical awareness to real implementation.

## Event
- URL: https://cognitionx.org/en/event/cognitionx-emirates-2026
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- Start: Oct 14, 2026, 10:00 AM
- End: Oct 15, 2026, 5:00 PM
- Timezone: Asia/Dubai
- Location: Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Campus - Dtec
- Banner image: https://sbx.cognitionx.org/storage/v1/object/public/documents/event-images/1766853061373-hpf39kjfj4c.jpg

## Registration
- Registration URL: https://cognitionx.org/en/event/cognitionx-emirates-2026/reserve
- Create account: https://cognitionx.org/en/register
- Log in: https://cognitionx.org/en/login
- Update profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/dashboard/profile
- Registration opens: Aug 1, 2026, 7:04 AM
- Registration closes: Oct 10, 2026, 7:04 AM
- Registration deadline: TBD
- Profile requirements: Valid date of birth; Company; Role

### How to register
1. Create a CognitionX account or log in with an existing account.
2. Update your profile and complete the required fields before reserving.
3. Open the registration URL and reserve your spot: https://cognitionx.org/en/event/cognitionx-emirates-2026/reserve
4. Confirm the reservation. No payment is required.

### Tickets and pricing
- Price: Free
- Payment: No payment required

## Venue
- Name: Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Campus - Dtec
- Description: Dtec is the largest technology entrepreneur hub and coworking ecosystem in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Wholly owned by the Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the 10,000 square meter facility hosts over 1,000 startups and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) from over 70 countries.
- Address: Address: Technohub 1, Dubai Silicon Oasis Near Axiom HQ and RIT University - Dubai - United Arab Emirates
- City: Dubai
- Country: United Arab Emirates
- Capacity: 500

## Organizers
- Hazem Ali
- JAMEL ABED

## Speakers
### Hazem Ali
- Summary: Hazem Ali - Founder & CEO at Skytells, Inc
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/hazemali
- Job title: Founder & CEO
- Company: Skytells, Inc
- Bio: Microsoft MVP | Distinguished AI & ML Engineer / Architect
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drhazemali/
- GitHub: https://www.github.com/drhazemali
- Portfolio: https://www.facebook.com/drhazemx
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765135910493-v6em9nfp9c.png
- Qualifications: Microsoft AI MVP - Microsoft - 2025

### Tanya Gupta
- Summary: Tanya Gupta - Practitioner | Director at Harvard Business School | WIT North Region
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/tanyaagupta
- Job title: Practitioner | Director
- Company: Harvard Business School | WIT North Region
- Bio: AI & Cybersecurity | Author of Discovering The Silver Bullet | GHC Scholar | Director @WIT North Region | Harvard Business School
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyaagupta/
- Image: https://sbx.cognitionx.org/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1781612912657-b6ltrm5txgu.jpeg
- Qualifications: Harvard Business School

### Kasam Shaikh
- Summary: Kasam Shaikh - Enterprise Cloud & AI Apps Solution Engineer at Microsoft
- Job title: Enterprise Cloud & AI Apps Solution Engineer
- Company: Microsoft
- Bio: 5X Microsoft MVP | Founder of Dear Azure
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kasamshaikh/
- Image: https://sbx.cognitionx.org/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1781613890494-wbqdwarmrm.jpg
- Qualifications: Microsoft MVP

### Dr. S. Gomathi
- Summary: Dr. S. Gomathi - Microsoft MVP | MCT Community Lead at Microsoft
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/gomathisri
- Job title: Microsoft MVP | MCT Community Lead
- Company: Microsoft
- Bio: Distinguished Solution Architect | Author & Award-Winning Scientist
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gomathisri/
- Image: https://sbx.cognitionx.org/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1781613444373-pv99p51bxy7.png
- Qualifications: Microsoft Data MVP - Microsoft

### Vishal Mishra
- Summary: Vishal Mishra - Chief AI Officer at NED
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/vishalkmishra
- Job title: Chief AI Officer
- Company: NED
- Bio: Expert in Orchestration and Configuration Management of test infra environments in an Automated way.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalkmishra/
- Image: https://sbx.cognitionx.org/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1781613226043-hxxzxwxgiyf.png

### Nilesh Shinde
- Summary: Nilesh Shinde - C. Leader / AI & Data Consultant at AWS
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/nilexshinde
- Job title: C. Leader / AI & Data Consultant
- Company: AWS
- Bio: Data and AI Consultant | Specialist | C. Leader, AWS
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nilexshinde
- Image: https://sbx.cognitionx.org/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1781623718179-osfswagtvp.jpeg

### Azam Marzook
- Summary: Azam Marzook - CTO at Kanj Technologies, UK
- Job title: CTO
- Company: Kanj Technologies, UK
- Bio: Microsoft MVP | CTO of Kanj Technologies, UK
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/azamnet
- Image: https://sbx.cognitionx.org/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1781723859068-jsejhqh98va.jpg
- Qualifications: Microsoft  MVP

### Tim Cadenbach
- Summary: Tim Cadenbach - Founder, Director at DevRel Index
- Job title: Founder, Director
- Company: DevRel Index
- Bio: Microsoft MVP | Director of DevRel Index | Head of Community @ DeepL
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcadenbach/
- Image: https://sbx.cognitionx.org/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1781728645468-fn79ihis6oi.jpg
- Qualifications: Microsoft  MVP

### B. Onur Okutucu
- Summary: B. Onur Okutucu - Microsoft MVP, Principal Architect at Collabix AI
- Job title: Microsoft MVP, Principal Architect
- Company: Collabix AI
- Bio: Microsoft MVP, Principal Architect
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakionur/
- Image: https://sbx.cognitionx.org/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1782855317293-hw1oqsapx76.png
- Qualifications: Microsoft  MVP - Microsoft

### Ahmed Abdelrazek
- Summary: Ahmed Abdelrazek - AI Strategist, Cloud Specialist at Microsoft
- Job title: AI Strategist, Cloud Specialist
- Company: Microsoft
- Bio: AI Strategist, Cloud Specialist, Founder of Sahaba Club
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/izoka/
- Image: https://sbx.cognitionx.org/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1782855576158-p2dacfgmaj.jpeg

### Jamel Abed
- Summary: Jamel Abed - Senior Developer Advocate
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/jamel-abed
- Job title: Senior Developer Advocate
- Bio: Microsoft MVP, Product Evangelist
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765545195477-f4cd1w94kyn.png
- Qualifications: Microsoft MVP - Microsoft

### Wiem Baazouzi
- Summary: Wiem Baazouzi - Doctor of Computer Science at ESPRIT
- Job title: Doctor of Computer Science
- Company: ESPRIT
- Bio: Doctor of Computer Science, ESPRIT - ML & Business Intelligence Specialist
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wiem-baazouzi-056271179/
- Image: https://sbx.cognitionx.org/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1783035103168-pkrj0jh8w7n.png

### Abhilekh Verma
- Summary: Abhilekh Verma - Master at ICFAI
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/abhilekhverma
- Job title: Master
- Company: ICFAI
- Bio: Microsoft MVP, Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhilekhverma/
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765545026245-9e5kbk5qr85.jpeg
- Qualifications: Microsoft MVP - Microsoft

### Ahmed Hussien
- Summary: Ahmed Hussien - Head of Security at SAK Holding
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/ahmed-hussien
- Job title: Head of Security
- Company: SAK Holding
- Bio: Ahmed Hussien is a cybersecurity-focused Mission Critical Engineer who transforms complex cloud and security challenges into clear, actionable strategies. With deep expertise in Azure security, cloud governance, and identity protection, Ahmed is known for bringing order to technical chaos — turning abstract threats into practical architectures that teams can actually implement.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/athussien/
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765135265424-x3yyv5d31q.png

###  Luis Beltran
- Summary: Luis Beltran - PhD in Engineering Informatics at Tomas Bata University
- Speaker profile: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/luis
- Job title: PhD in Engineering Informatics
- Company: Tomas Bata University
- Bio: Microsoft Azure MVP
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-antonio-beltran-prieto
- Image: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/speaker-images/1765544456831-tzrzdbyihx.png
- Qualifications: Microsoft Azure MCP - Microsoft

## Schedule
### CognitionX Emirates 2026 Keynote: Initializing the Future
- Event topic ID: dfad2fbe-e842-40bc-891a-802a4b882c7e
- Topic ID: 2ad8571a-fd43-4789-a899-c3209713b06d
- Day: 2026-10-14
- Time: Oct 14, 2026, 10:00 AM to Oct 14, 2026, 10:30 AM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Hazem Ali, Jamel Abed
- Speaker profiles: Hazem Ali: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/hazemali; Jamel Abed: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/jamel-abed
- Track: Keynote
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Main Stage
- Description: A warm opening keynote that welcomes attendees to CognitionX Emirates 2026 and sets the tone for a forward-looking gathering around AI, cloud, data, and intelligent systems. The session introduces the vision behind CognitionX Emirates, highlights the importance of community, knowledge sharing, and responsible innovation, and frames the event as a space where engineers, leaders, researchers, and builders come together to explore what comes next in enterprise AI.

### Beyond the Boundaries: Building a Sovereign Enterprise AI Stack
- Event topic ID: ffbb3f1c-017a-4702-820a-2c246e15226b
- Topic ID: 22faab9a-95a4-4349-9bd5-69efa6ea7170
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2026-10-14
- Time: Oct 14, 2026, 10:30 AM to Oct 14, 2026, 11:00 AM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Hazem Ali
- Speaker profiles: Hazem Ali: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/hazemali
- Track: AI, Security, Engineering
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Main Stage
- Description: Building sovereign enterprise AI is not about putting a model behind a wall. It is about designing the full boundary around intelligence: where it runs, what data it can reach, which tools it can use, how developers integrate with it, and how every critical action can be governed and traced. It is far more architectural than most people think. Agents, deployed models, SDKs, private networks, identity, governance, and observability all have to work together as one controlled enterprise AI stack built for real production environments.

### The AI Agent Arena: Designing the Future Workforce with AI
- Event topic ID: 9107abfa-6f28-431b-8ac6-73a50f7fa397
- Topic ID: 30bafce2-cb61-48b5-ae3e-913fc522b2c3
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2026-10-14
- Time: Oct 14, 2026, 11:15 AM to Oct 14, 2026, 11:30 AM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Tanya Gupta
- Speaker profiles: Tanya Gupta: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/tanyaagupta
- Track: AI, Automation
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Main Stage
- Description: You'll learn How organizations are moving from AI assistants to AI-powered workflows, Identifying high-value opportunities for AI agents, AI governance, security, and responsible adoption, Human-AI collaboration strategies, Enterprise AI transformation patterns and lessons learned, Measuring business value and organizational impact

### Coffee Break & Networking
- Event topic ID: 06a74cef-39fa-4661-960e-20c70f920915
- Topic ID: a4eb4ff6-964f-43b5-a15b-d079516af204
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2026-10-14
- Time: Oct 14, 2026, 11:30 AM to Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 PM
- Type: break
- Track: Break
- Room: Lobby
- Description: A dedicated coffee, lunch, and networking break where attendees can relax, recharge, and connect with speakers, partners, and fellow participants.

### Azure Security: Building the Castle That's Never Finished
- Event topic ID: 9edbfcc8-6755-45c2-a73b-117a4e703e5b
- Topic ID: 493c3dfb-f091-4e6f-b29c-95271917ba41
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2026-10-14
- Time: Oct 14, 2026, 12:00 PM to Oct 14, 2026, 12:30 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Ahmed Hussien
- Speaker profiles: Ahmed Hussien: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/ahmed-hussien
- Track: Security
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Main Stage
- Description: This is the current build. We treat your Azure estate as a castle that is never finished. Identity as the gate. Zero Trust as the rule that nobody walks the halls unchecked. Terraform as the blueprint, so the walls go up the same way every time. Then the hard part. The doors you never drew. How AI adoption quietly punches new openings, why managed identities and diagnostic settings are load-bearing walls people treat as decoration, and what a blast radius really looks like when one corner falls. You leave with a practitioner's checklist, not a vendor pitch. A castle you keep building in daylight, with the gate open and the guards awake.

### In Action: Hacking the Silicon Behind AI
- Event topic ID: 7fc778ed-3acb-47b4-bb7c-fe32d209334c
- Topic ID: af42a636-5c9c-4ba3-a16c-8b7e7f89811e
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2026-10-14
- Time: Oct 14, 2026, 12:30 PM to Oct 14, 2026, 1:00 PM
- Type: live-demo
- Level: Expert level
- Speakers: Hazem Ali, Ahmed Hussien, Abhilekh Verma
- Speaker profiles: Hazem Ali: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/hazemali; Ahmed Hussien: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/ahmed-hussien; Abhilekh Verma: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/abhilekhverma
- Track: Cybersecurity
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Main Stage
- Description: Expert-level Cybersecurity session, Attendees will understand how modern AI security extends beyond models, frameworks, and application boundaries into the execution substrate itself. We will examine how GPU architectures, memory hierarchies, kernel scheduling, interconnect fabrics, inference runtimes, and multi-tenant accelerator environments introduce security assumptions that are often overlooked in traditional threat models. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how adversaries can target AI systems at the compute layer, how trust boundaries erode within high-performance AI infrastructure, and how to architect defensible, verifiable, and resilient AI platforms from silicon to inference.

### Hacking Agentic AI: Prompt Injection, Tool Abuse & Real-World Exploits in Autonomous Systems
- Event topic ID: db5fae89-b0ff-4f36-9df5-5e5d4035c0e3
- Topic ID: e0588dc2-e23d-4d2d-88fb-a9086f82b5c7
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2026-10-14
- Time: Oct 14, 2026, 1:00 PM to Oct 14, 2026, 1:30 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Abhilekh Verma
- Speaker profiles: Abhilekh Verma: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/abhilekhverma
- Track: Security
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Main Stage
- Description: As AI evolves from static models to agentic systems capable of autonomous decision-making, the attack surface expands dramatically. This session explores how modern AI agents—powered by LLMs and external tools—can be exploited through prompt injection, tool manipulation, and data poisoning. Through real-world demos and attack simulations, we will break down how attackers bypass safeguards, hijack AI workflows, and execute unintended actions across integrated systems. The talk also covers mitigation strategies including guardrails, context isolation, and secure agent design. Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of AI attack vectors and defense mechanisms in modern production environments.

### Ask the Experts: AI, Infrastructure & Security
- Event topic ID: fc91ef42-3fa1-4df0-8e7a-5a8eb9f3577a
- Topic ID: cf5affaf-a689-469c-8b8e-f7dd9131fa24
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2026-10-14
- Time: Oct 14, 2026, 2:00 PM to Oct 14, 2026, 3:00 PM
- Type: panel
- Speakers: Tanya Gupta, Hazem Ali, Kasam Shaikh, Jamel Abed, Dr. S. Gomathi, Vishal Mishra, Abhilekh Verma, Ahmed Hussien
- Speaker profiles: Tanya Gupta: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/tanyaagupta; Hazem Ali: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/hazemali; Jamel Abed: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/jamel-abed; Dr. S. Gomathi: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/gomathisri; Vishal Mishra: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/vishalkmishra; Abhilekh Verma: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/abhilekhverma; Ahmed Hussien: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/ahmed-hussien
- Track: AI, Infrastructure, Security
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Main Stage
- Description: An interactive panel discussion bringing together experts in artificial intelligence, infrastructure, and cybersecurity to answer audience questions and share practical insights from real-world implementations. The session explores how organizations can design scalable AI systems, build reliable infrastructure, secure modern workloads, and balance innovation with governance, resilience, and operational readiness.

### Coffee Break & Networking
- Event topic ID: 0e8ae090-da94-4623-9391-d305cc9e3dd8
- Topic ID: a4eb4ff6-964f-43b5-a15b-d079516af204
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2026-10-14
- Time: Oct 14, 2026, 3:00 PM to Oct 14, 2026, 3:30 PM
- Type: break
- Room: Lobby
- Description: A dedicated coffee, lunch, and networking break where attendees can relax, recharge, and connect with speakers, partners, and fellow participants.

### Your AI Is Leaking Data - Here’s How to Fix It with PII Shield
- Event topic ID: 9fb0d969-e37f-464d-97f8-b108f9dbd5be
- Topic ID: c43f2c6d-aa00-46bb-93d5-a69235991678
- Day number: 1
- Day: 2026-10-14
- Time: Oct 14, 2026, 3:30 PM to Oct 14, 2026, 4:15 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Kasam Shaikh, Nilesh Shinde
- Speaker profiles: Nilesh Shinde: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/nilexshinde
- Track: Governance
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Main Stage
- Description: We’ll explore how PII Shield enables developers to adopt LLMs responsibly without slowing down innovation. The talk will walk through its architecture, including real-time PII detection, redaction strategies, reversible tokenization, and seamless reintegration of responses. You’ll also see how it fits into existing cloud-native and API-driven environments, making it easy to enforce compliance and privacy policies across all AI interactions. Through practical scenarios and design patterns, this session will demonstrate how to: Prevent data leakage in prompts and responses Maintain context and usability while protecting sensitive information Implement a scalable, centralized privacy layer for LLM workloads Align AI solutions with enterprise security and regulatory requirements

### Automating Security Posture with Multi-Agent Systems on Azure AI
- Event topic ID: ba661096-3bc6-424f-970c-4627f732c8d9
- Topic ID: d988ea84-b6d4-4cde-a813-09cf76580034
- Day number: 2
- Day: 2026-10-15
- Time: Oct 15, 2026, 10:30 AM to Oct 15, 2026, 11:00 AM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Azam Marzook
- Track: AI, Security
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Main Stage
- Description: Security teams are drowning in alerts, policy lookups, and compliance checks while attackers increasingly use AI to move faster than ever. Manual processes can no longer keep pace. This session shows how multi-agent AI systems on Azure AI can automate the reasoning layer of security operations, not just the data layer. We'll walk through a working multi-agent architecture: a coordinator agent that classifies incoming security queries and routes them to specialist agents for policy lookup, incident response, and compliance mapping all grounded on a shared enterprise knowledge base, with live web grounding for real-time framework and threat intelligence.

### Community & DevRel in 2026: Are developers still talking to us?
- Event topic ID: a1857c7c-566d-4a2b-8cd2-46a1b750b22c
- Topic ID: cd879761-d155-419f-9aaf-424a554ff8f2
- Day number: 2
- Day: 2026-10-15
- Time: Oct 15, 2026, 11:05 AM to Dec 15, 2026, 11:45 AM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Tim Cadenbach
- Track: Dev, Engineering, DevRel
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Main Stage
- Description: Something interesting is happening in the developer world. For years, DevRel and community teams focused on documentation, forums, Discord servers, meetups, and events. If developers had a question, they would search, read docs, or ask in the community. In this talk we’ll explore what has changed in the developer ecosystem and what that means for community building and DevRel work. We’ll look at how AI assistants are changing discovery, documentation, learning, and even advocacy. More importantly, we’ll discuss how DevRel teams can adapt and use these tools themselves instead of competing with them.

### RAG but for tools: Meet Foundry Toolbox
- Event topic ID: bb5867d0-896f-4684-b8cb-e30d4370162c
- Topic ID: 760945df-0fa9-4c36-bb72-0636f847c3c4
- Day number: 2
- Day: 2026-10-15
- Time: Oct 15, 2026, 11:45 AM to Oct 15, 2026, 12:20 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers:  Luis Beltran
- Speaker profiles:  Luis Beltran: https://cognitionx.org/en/speakers/luis
- Track: AI
- Room: Main Stage
- Description: Through practical demos and architecture walkthroughs, we'll show how to reduce integration complexity, improve governance, and accelerate agent development by connecting agents to a single endpoint instead of dozens of individual services. Whether you're building enterprise copilots, multi-agent systems, or AI-powered applications, you'll leave with a new mental model for tool orchestration and a blueprint for scaling agent ecosystems without creating tool chaos

### Coffee Break & Networking
- Event topic ID: 3375e3b4-f573-488a-930f-02929b1d29e2
- Topic ID: a4eb4ff6-964f-43b5-a15b-d079516af204
- Day number: 2
- Day: 2026-10-15
- Time: Oct 15, 2026, 12:30 PM to Oct 15, 2026, 1:00 PM
- Type: break
- Room: Restaurant 
- Location: Restaurant
- Description: A dedicated coffee, lunch, and networking break where attendees can relax, recharge, and connect with speakers, partners, and fellow participants.

### Agents Gone Wild: The Best (and Worst) AI Agents You Can Build with Microsoft Today
- Event topic ID: 7a231a34-d168-4124-9867-2963b2654abe
- Topic ID: 046499f5-3db0-45f1-b68a-5578d14b62db
- Day number: 2
- Day: 2026-10-15
- Time: Oct 15, 2026, 1:00 PM to Oct 15, 2026, 1:30 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: B. Onur Okutucu
- Track: AI, Cloud
- Room: Main Stage
- Description: AI agents are everywhere—but not all of them should exist. In this session, we’ll explore how to build powerful, practical AI agents using Microsoft’s modern AI stack, including Azure AI services, Azure AI Foundry, and Copilot-ready integrations. Through real-world examples, we’ll look at useful agents such as a support assistant that summarizes customer tickets, a knowledge agent that answers questions from internal documentation, and an automation agent that triages alerts from cloud infrastructure. But we’ll also explore the “gone wild” side—agents that hallucinate policies, automate the wrong tasks, or create chaos when guardrails are missing. By the end of the session, participants will understand how to build practical AI agents, integrate them with enterprise systems, implement safety and governance controls, and decide when an AI agent is the right solution—and when it absolutely isn’t.

### Agentic Engineering for Everyone
- Event topic ID: 5853c1be-db48-4ccc-bb08-bf62973a2c4e
- Topic ID: 7d6ecc43-cb57-4a05-bbb7-14e38251df36
- Day number: 2
- Day: 2026-10-15
- Time: Oct 15, 2026, 1:30 PM to Oct 15, 2026, 2:00 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Ahmed Abdelrazek
- Track: AI Tools
- Room: Main Stage
- Description: Attendees will learn how to design, deploy, and manage AI agents responsibly using Microsoft tools, understand where agents add real value, and recognize common design mistakes before they cause problems.

### Power BI: From Data to Decision
- Event topic ID: 8e9092c9-82d6-459a-829c-6756f1832f31
- Topic ID: e043b6ce-dfca-4d4c-b473-1503390bb4b9
- Day number: 2
- Day: 2026-10-15
- Time: Oct 15, 2026, 2:00 PM to Oct 15, 2026, 3:30 PM
- Type: session
- Speakers: Wiem Baazouzi
- Track: Business
- Room: Main Room
- Location: Main Stage
- Description: This session introduces participants to Microsoft Power BI and demonstrates how raw data can be transformed into meaningful insights and strategic decisions. Participants will explore data preparation, interactive dashboard creation, data visualization techniques, and real-time reporting through practical examples and hands-on demonstrations. The session also highlights how organizations use Business Intelligence to monitor performance, identify trends, and support data-driven decision-making.

## Sponsors
### Microsoft
- Tier: platinum
- Featured: Yes
- Logo: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/sponsor-logos/1765232739159-o2mko7j06ws.png

### Skytells
- Tier: platinum
- Featured: Yes
- Website: https://www.skytells.ai
- Logo: https://sb.cognitionx.live/storage/v1/object/public/documents/sponsor-logos/1765235333535-4osw52yj1l6.png

## Sitemap
- https://cognitionx.org/en/agents/ is a full sitemap for agents as to what is available on the platform, including events, speakers, sponsors, and more.