Frontier Firms are emerging — human-led and agent-powered

Most organisations know AI matters. Fewer know how to close the gap between ambition and execution, between business and IT, between experimentation and real impact.

Across five days, Microsoft Cloud & AI Frontier Week moves from strategy, to building intelligent applications and agents, to unifying trusted data, to preparing the environment to scale, and finally to applying it hands-on.

In the opening Keynote, Fiona Carney — Microsoft's VP and COO for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa — lays out what separates Frontier Firms from everyone else: why agentic AI is the inflection point, what the Frontier Success Framework looks like in practice, and how Azure is powering this shift at enterprise scale.

This is the session that sets the tone for the entire week. If you only attend one thing — make it this.