Customers are moving quickly to Frontier Transformation, where AI and agents are embedded as a repeatable, governed operating capability. As Nicole Dezen outlines in her recent post, Accelerating Frontier Transformation with Microsoft partners, Frontier Transformation is the moment when AI becomes a repeatable, governed capability embedded into the flow of work, business processes, and customer engagement. Customers are moving from targeted pilots to operating AI at scale, grounded in identity, data protection, compliance, monitoring, and change management.
This shift changes what customers look for in a partner. Customers increasingly want teams that can translate ideas into deployable solutions, then scale adoption and measurement so that AI runs reliably in production. That is why skilling matters. Skilling is how you build technical readiness and delivery confidence across sales, presales, engineering, and delivery roles. It is how you turn emerging demand into repeatable execution. It is also how you validate capability as the bar rises for governed, secure AI at scale.
This post shares the latest Frontier skilling opportunities across Microsoft Partner Skilling, designed to take partners from learning to customer impact faster. For deeper context on the Frontier engineering approach, read our recent post, Engineering the Frontier partner practice.
Frontier skilling starts here
Partners have told us they want skilling tied to real delivery motion, not just content. These Frontier-focused updates are designed to deliver role-based learning that builds practical readiness, plus clear ways to validate skills and align your team around how Frontier Transformation is delivered at scale.
New Partner Skilling discussion board
A dedicated Partner Skilling discussion board is now available for partners to discover skilling resources, connect with subject matter experts, and get questions answered across solution areas.
Build intelligent capacity with the Frontier Transformation Engineer badge
The Frontier Transformation Engineer badge is an individual credential focused on delivery readiness for Frontier Transformation. It brings together certifications, hands-on readiness, and pattern fluency aligned to how partners deliver at scale.
The badge journey includes three foundational certifications:
- GH-300 (GitHub Copilot)
- AI-102/AI-103 (Develop AI apps and agents on Azure)
- AB-100 (Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect)
It also includes project-ready learning and assessments across key solution areas, plus fluency in delivery patterns such as the Center of Excellence model and Hypervelocity Engineering model.
For AI practice leads, the business case is straightforward. Every badge holder expands what you can credibly deliver for customers and improves how you staff and scale as your teams standardize patterns and carry learnings across engagements. In practice, this means your engineers can design, deploy, and scale AI solutions using repeatable patterns that reduce delivery time and risk.
Frontier Transformation Engineer Summit | June 9–10
The Frontier Transformation Engineer Summit is a no-cost, live virtual event designed to accelerate partner readiness for the next era of AI-powered engineering and delivery. It is built to give partners a clear view of the strategy, skills, and execution model required to deliver high-impact Frontier solutions for customers at speed and at scale.
This year’s summit is organized into two dedicated tracks so you can bring the right people and align on a shared approach across your organization.
- Track 1, Partner Leadership Team, is designed for leaders shaping strategy and scaling capability. It focuses on what it means to be a Frontier partner, the business opportunity behind Frontier Transformation, and how to build a scalable Frontier practice. You will also get guidance on the strategic importance of the Frontier Transformation Engineer badge, how it can differentiate your organization in the market, and how to stand up a Center of Excellence to scale delivery across teams and regions.
- Track 2, Partner Engineering Team, is designed for the senior builders who deliver Frontier solutions. It includes hands-on technical sessions on the skills, tools, and execution model required to earn the Frontier Transformation Engineer badge and deliver customer impact quickly and consistently. Your engineers will learn the Hypervelocity Engineering framework, explore Frontier industry scenarios and reference architectures that support real customer execution, and get clarity on the Frontier Transformation Engineer role and skilling journey, including what they need to build, earn, and demonstrate.
The summit works best when you attend as a team. Bring practice owners, delivery leaders, and skilling leads to define your Frontier operating model and staffing plan, and include architects, engineering leads, and technical specialists who will standardize delivery patterns and drive the badge journey.
New Learning Journeys now available
Learning Journeys are structured, role-based skilling paths that bring multiple courses together so your teams can build capability with a shared destination, not isolated learning. They work best when you use them as an operating rhythm across sales, technical, and delivery roles, aligned to the outcomes you want to deliver and the patterns you want to standardize. These journeys are designed to move you from sales conversations to deployment faster.
In this update, new Learning Journeys focused on Microsoft 365 Copilot plus Microsoft Agent 365 and Microsoft 365 E7 are now available.
As you plan your Frontier skilling motion, you can also use the Frontier Transformation Engineer Learning Journey as a reference for how role-based skilling connects to delivery readiness. It is organized as a structured path with certifications, project-ready learning and assessments, and delivery pattern fluency, including Center of Excellence and Hypervelocity Engineering.
Build the skills to strengthen customer conversations with Microskilling
The latest offering designed to serve partners on their skilling journey, Microskilling is an autonomous learning modality that delivers clarity through a holistic, curated experience. Build the skills needed to stay current with product changes, strengthen customer conversations, and take action faster through short, high-impact videos and podcasts featuring leadership perspectives. This platform is purpose-built to accelerate learning, which can translate to more time with customers and more deals closed. Access the Microskilling platform today through the Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub.
Build AI skills at Microsoft AI Skills Fest
Register now for Microsoft AI Skills Fest, a no-cost digital skilling event taking place June 8–12. Designed so partners can stay ahead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, attendees can build in-demand AI skills, gain practical insights, and discover ways to deliver innovative solutions, deepen customer relationships, and stay competitive in a rapidly evolving market.
Certification Ready with LevelUp
Certifications remain a practical way to validate capability and build customer trust, especially as customers evaluate readiness for secure, governed AI at scale. They also give your teams a shared baseline across roles, which is important when you are standardizing delivery patterns and scaling execution across regions and customer segments.
LevelUp certification prep on-demand gives you structured preparation resources you can build into your skilling plan, across solution areas and roles. Right now, there is also a limited-time exam voucher offer tied to LevelUp certification prep, where scoring 80% or higher on an eligible course assessment can unlock a free Microsoft exam voucher, subject to terms and conditions.
Build What’s Next with Partner Skilling live sessions
Join the live Build What’s Next with Partner Skilling sessions to get the latest on Frontier skilling investments, Learning Journeys, upcoming events, and new tools like the AI Skilling Agent. You will leave with a clear view of the Microsoft Frontier Transformation skilling strategy, what is coming next in Frontier engineering events, and how the AI Skilling Agent and Learning Journeys fit into planned platform enhancements. You will also get region-specific skilling updates and events relevant to your market.
Register for the June session by region:
Register for Microsoft Build and MCAPS Start for Partners
It’s not too late to register for Microsoft Build 2026, with online participation still available. Running June 2 and 3, Build offers hands-on technical learning for developers and IT professionals, including AI workflows, coding sessions, workshops, and breakout discussions with Microsoft and GitHub leaders.
Register on the official Microsoft Build site and use the session catalog to plan your agenda. For a deep dive on Fy27 priorities, plan to join us for MCAPS Start for Partners in July. Registration is now open.
Take action now
Start aligning your team around Frontier readiness. Bring your AI, skilling, and delivery leads together to define your approach and next steps.
- Start the Frontier Transformation Engineer badge journey for your senior builders.
- Register for the Frontier Transformation Engineer Summit and align on patterns you will standardize across engagements.
- Launch Learning Journeys for core roles, pairing sales readiness with technical and delivery readiness.
- Build a certification readiness sprint with LevelUp prep resources.
The Frontier Firm opportunity is accelerating, and customers are looking for partners who can operationalize AI and agents as a governed capability with trust and intelligence built in from the start. Skilling is how you build that readiness and scale it across your teams.
Start now. Align your leaders on the badge journey, bring your senior builders to the summit, and use Learning Journeys and certification readiness to strengthen your Frontier delivery capability.