Move your customers from AI interest to execution by tapping into skilling opportunities designed to strengthen delivery readiness and sharpen sales execution. This month's skilling focus is about going beyond AI pilots to deliver real outcomes, securely and across teams.
In May and June, Microsoft is delivering high-impact, in-person learning opportunities that can scale readiness across your broader team through role-based learning journeys, equipping you to drive AI-powered solutions and exceed customer expectations.
The in-person skilling difference
In-person skilling creates a different kind of readiness. You get face-to-face time with experts, hands-on practice, and peer-to-peer pattern sharing that is hard to replicate through self-paced content alone. The result is faster capability build, clearer delivery expectations, and better alignment between technical teams and sellers.
For many partners, the winning approach is a blend:
- In-person learning to build depth, practice real scenarios, and tighten delivery quality in Agentic AI in Copilot Studio, app modernization, sovereign cloud conversations, and AI-powered analytics in Microsoft Fabric.
- On-demand skilling to scale knowledge across your broader team and reinforce learning over time across topics like Microsoft Fabric IQ, agentic AI, Microsoft Defender XDR, and Microsoft Agent 365.
Below is a list of recommended in-person learning opportunities.
Microsoft AI Tour for Partners: Hands-on learning that accelerates readiness
Join the upcoming Microsoft AI Tour for Partners in Zurich for hands-on, role-based skilling that turns AI momentum into repeatable execution. You will dig into the latest product innovations, build practical depth through guided sessions and labs, and take away clear next steps you can apply across customer engagements. Check the Zurich listing on Partner Skilling Hub for the date, location, and registration details.
Regional Project Ready and Tech Deal Ready workshops: Skill up where you build and sell
If you are looking for role-based, hands-on readiness that connects directly to real delivery scenarios, regional Project Ready and Tech Deal Ready workshops are designed for that. These are one-day or two-day, in-person events delivered at Microsoft offices worldwide, with instructor-led sessions and immersive labs covering topics such as building and governing agents on Microsoft’s AI platform, modernizing apps and databases, and deploying, optimizing, and implementing threat protection with Microsoft Sentinel.
These regional sessions provide valuable skilling and insights if you want to:
- Standardize delivery patterns across a growing team.
- Reduce implementation friction through hands-on scenarios and repeatable guidance.
- Strengthen presales and technical selling with clearer solution mapping, scoping, and deployment expectations.
By combining the delivery readiness of Project Ready courses and the pre-sales and technical deal shaping of Tech Deal Ready courses, you can create a shared operating rhythm across the lifecycle of an engagement, from early qualification through delivery and adoption.
To get more from the experience:
- Choose one or two priority solution areas for May and June, and commit to attending a workshop on each topic.
- Bring a real customer scenario so you can refine your approach and deliverables during the workshops.
- Capture outputs as reusable assets like templates, checklists, and reference architectures your teams can apply repeatedly.
Discover regional in-person workshops through the Partner Skilling Hub and filter by workshop type and audience.
Build readiness for what’s new in Fabric
FabCon and SQLCon Atlanta introduced new Microsoft Fabric capabilities, including simplified migration pathways, Fabric IQ enhancements, new data and operations agents, and the Database Hub. Watch the keynote, then share our blog to spark customer conversations. Capture the moment and build your team’s readiness with a lineup of skilling options.
Invest in skilling now so your team is ready to translate the latest Fabric innovations into customer outcomes.
Get more value from Microsoft Build by preparing now
Microsoft Build is where many partners recalibrate technical priorities for the next wave of customer conversations. Join us for the 2026 event, June 2–3, in-person in San Francisco or online.
To get more value from Build, preparation is the differentiator. Here are some strategies partners use:
- Set your Build focus areas now for your team to track, choosing three priorities most relevant to your solution plays and customer segments.
- Align technical and sales leaders on what they want to learn, validate, and take away from the event.
- Ready your teams in May and early June through in-person AI Tour and regional workshops.
- Commit to a post-Build working session with a clear activation plan for the 30 to 60 days following the event where you can update your pitch, refine your delivery approach, and launch one targeted campaign or customer motion.
Register for Build today.
Live virtual events and on-demand skilling opportunities
To get the most from May and June skilling and show up to Build ready to act, combine in-person depth with on-demand scale. Use hands-on, scenario-based sessions to build muscle memory and tighten delivery quality, then reinforce learning across your broader team with targeted on-demand content.
Presales Cloud Week, part of the Skills2Win initiative, is designed for partners to turn AI conversations into sales opportunities using real-world scenarios and case studies.
Upcoming sessions for this live virtual event:
- Tuesday, May 5, 8:00 AM – Friday, May 8, 12:00 PM IST
- Tuesday, May 5, 9:00 AM – Friday, May 8, 1:00 PM BST
New CSP SMB skilling: Microsoft 365 Copilot + BSKUs learning journeys
Learning journeys are structured, outcome-driven paths that guide teams from foundational knowledge to real-world execution, so you can move faster from learning to revenue. The Microsoft 365 Copilot + BSKUs learning journey, available in both a Sales Ready + Tech Deal Ready phase and a Project Ready phase, gives you a clear, role-aligned path to build readiness that maps to how small and medium-sized business (SMB) deals are sold and delivered.
- Land and expand Copilot opportunities in the Sales Ready + Tech Deal Ready journey: Built for Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners with SMB motions, this Sales Ready + Tech Deal Ready learning journey strengthens customer conversations, business value storytelling, and objection handling. Sharpen technical deal shaping, learn how to position Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Business, and turn Microsoft 365 renewals into upsell opportunities through tighter sales and technical collaboration. Learn more and start your journey in LevelUp.
- Deploy, configure, and scale with confidence in the Project Ready journey: Designed for technical teams delivering Copilot in SMB environments, this Project Ready learning journey builds hands-on capability to implement Copilot and extend with agents, deliver secure and compliant SMB environments using Microsoft 365 tools, and apply best practices for deployment, automation, and adoption. Explore this journey today.
Microsoft Agent 365 & Microsoft 365 E7 partner learning journeys
Turn AI ambition into scalable, secure execution by building the skills to land, sell, implement, and govern intelligent agents with confidence. These structured, outcome-driven paths guide teams from foundational knowledge of Microsoft Agent 365 and Microsoft 365 E7 to real-world application.
With dedicated Sales Ready and Project Ready learning journeys, partners can strengthen customer conversations, connect AI capabilities to clear business value, and deliver enterprise-grade deployments grounded in security, compliance, and responsible AI. The result is a faster path from skilling to revenue, and a stronger role in driving customers’ Frontier Transformation with AI agents at scale.
Explore the learning journeys:
Watch this video to learn how Microsoft 365 E7 brings together Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Entra Suite, and Agent 365 along with Work IQ—supporting a human-led, agent-operated enterprise.
Check out these upcoming live trainings to go deeper and progress your Microsoft 365 E7 & Agent 365 learning journeys:
Migrate and modernize highlights in May and June
May and June are pivotal months to lead customer cloud transformation as agentic AI accelerates migration momentum and modernization outcomes. Microsoft is investing heavily in empowering you to seize the opportunity. Here are ways you can capitalize:
- Deepen your knowledge at the Microsoft Azure Summit: Migrate and Modernize with Agentic AI on April 23. Encourage your Americas-region customers to attend and learn how AI-assisted migration tools can modernize database estates faster and with more confidence. Partners can also review the Partner Preview for early insights and guidance to prepare for customer conversations.
- Build hands-on expertise in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. New innovations designed to reduce complexity while meeting mission-critical requirements include the Oracle-to-PostgreSQL AI Migration Tool, Azure Migrate Discovery and Assessment, Premium SSD v2, and new V6 compute SKUs. You can also drive value conversations with database savings plans, with savings of up to 35% across eligible database estates, aligned to the refreshed database narrative. Register for the Project Ready workshop (June 16–18 IST and June 17–19 BST and PDT) to learn how you can design secure, scalable architectures, complete migrations from multiple platforms, and build AI-powered applications using vector search and GraphRAG.
- Accelerate deal closure and earn rewards. Nominate projects for Azure Accelerate, plan migrations with Dr Migrate, access no-cost deployment assistance through Cloud Accelerate Factory, and earn up to $175,000 USD for qualifying customer Migrate & Modernize engagements as a Solutions Partner* with certified software** designation.
Scale skilling across your organization with the Partner Skilling Hub
As you mix in-person experiences with on-demand readiness, the Partner Skilling Hub is the central access point that brings together LevelUp, Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy, the AI Tour for Partners, and regional events. It is also designed to support planning and tracking organizational skilling.
Exercise this simple operating rhythm to scale skilling:
- Use in-person events like AI Tour and regional workshops to build depth and align teams on real scenarios.
- Use learning journeys and LevelUp to scale readiness across roles and geographies.
- Reuse what you build. Turn workshop outputs and learning artifacts into repeatable playbooks your teams can apply across customer opportunities.
May and June are your windows to build readiness that compounds. Invest in hands-on learning now, scale what your teams learn through structured journeys, and stay focused on practical execution that translates directly into customer outcomes and growth.
*“Solutions Partner” refers to a company that is a member of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program and may offer software, services, and/or solutions to customers. Reference to “Solutions Partner” in any content, materials, resources, web properties, etc. and any associated designation should not be interpreted as an offer, endorsement, guarantee, proof of effectiveness or functionality, a commitment, or any other type of representation or warranty on the part of Microsoft. All decisions pertaining and related to your business needs including but not limited to strategies, solutions, partner selection, implementation, etc., rest solely with your business.
**A certification is (1) specific to the solution’s interoperability with Microsoft products and (2) based on self-attestation by the solution owner. Solutions are only certified as of the date the solution is reviewed. Solution functionality and capability are controlled by the solution owner and may be subject to change. The inclusion of a solution in the marketplace and any such designations should not be interpreted as an offer, endorsement, guarantee, proof of effectiveness or functionality, a commitment, or any other type of representation or warranty on the part of Microsoft. All decisions pertaining and related to your business needs including but not limited to strategies, solutions, partner selection, implementation, etc. rest solely with your business.