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<div data-ux="FeaturedText" data-aid="CONTENT_WELCOME_DESCRIPTION_RENDERED" data-typography="BodyAlpha"><p>Join us in Redmond, WA at the Aloft|Element hotels on 21-23 March 2025 for the North America MCT Summit. This is your opportunity to learn and to network with Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) from all over the world.&nbsp;</p><p>We are returning to the 3-day format for 2025. Take advantage of the $400 early registration price when you register before 18 January 2025. After that date, a $450 registration price applies.</p><p>The summit will include content that is covered under the MCT non-disclosure agreements. For this reason, the event is limited to MCTs, Microsoft full-time employees, and sponsors.</p><p>Why Attend?</p><p>Technology - Learn about new and emerging technologies like Microsoft Copilot and AI from expert instructors and early adopters. Learn how to teach specific courses and technologies from MCTs with extensive experience in those courses and technologies.</p><p>Community - Our motto is work hard, play hard. You come to the summit to learn, but you also come to network and reconnect with friends and colleagues. At the summit you can also meet members of the Microsoft Learning team and get answers to all your questions.</p><p>Improve Your Craft -&nbsp;Our agenda includes many sessions that cover soft skills. Learn how to engage your in-person and online learners, create better presentations, and use all the assets at your disposal to create the best possible experiences for learners.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></div>

<div><p><span data-contrast="auto">The </span><b>North America MCT Summit</b><span data-contrast="auto"> is a </span><b>Microsoft Certified Trainer</b><span data-contrast="auto"> event held annually near Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA. The 2025 Summit will be held March 21-23 at the Aloft Element hotels in Redmond, WA.&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></p></div>
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<div><p><span data-contrast="auto">The objectives for the Summit are to enable the MCT community to learn about emerging technologies; get the latest information about upcoming changes to training, certification, and the MCT program; discuss the training business; and improve presentation and instructional skills.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></p><div><p><span data-contrast="auto">This year's agenda includes:</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></p></div>
<div><ul><li data-leveltext="•" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335551671&quot;:0,&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;•&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="0" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Keynotes and breakout sessions on the use of emerging technologies in organizations external to the MCT/Microsoft Learn community.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></li></ul></div>
<div><ul><li data-leveltext="•" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335551671&quot;:0,&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;•&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Briefings on the latest training and certification developments from Microsoft Learn.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></li></ul></div>
<div><ul><li data-leveltext="•" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335551671&quot;:0,&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;•&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Interactive sessions facilitated by MCTs and other experts on the training industry and other topics relevant to successful trainers.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></li></ul></div>
<div><ul><li data-leveltext="•" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335551671&quot;:0,&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;•&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Social and networking events</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></li></ul></div>
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<div><p><span data-contrast="auto">As a sponsor, you will be recognized, and your representative(s) can attend non-confidential conference sessions and meet with MCTs and representatives of Microsoft Learning during the summit.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></p></div>
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<div><p><b>Once again, </b>the North America MCT Summit is being organized entirely by MCTs.<span data-contrast="auto">&nbsp; Although the Microsoft Certified Trainer program is partnering with us, their commitment only covers a portion of event expenses. Thus, your sponsorship would be greatly appreciated.&nbsp;</span></p></div></div>

2025 North America MCT Summit

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MCT Program Updates from Microsoft

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Join Cait Huntsman, Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Certifications, as she reflects on changes to the certification strategy and experience over the last few years and gives a preview into what’s next.

Certifications: Looking Back and Looking Forward

Thanks to Azure AI Studio, developers, data scientists and cloud teams can all use the same single interface to manage AI solution development. Starting from the creation of a Hub and Project, you learn how to compose a custom Copilot using PromptFlow, and calling this prompt from your .NET application. 

Learn in this session from Peter De Tender, Technical Trainer in the WWL West US team, everything you need to get you warm to start exploring and building custom Copilots yourself. and as typical in Peter's sessions, this will be more live demos, code and only a minimum of slides.

Developing Custom Copilots with Azure AI Studio, PromptFlow and .NET

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3 years ago, I developed a Blazor .NET frontend for Azure DevOps, allowing internal Microsoft Trainers to deploy Azure demo scenarios using a one-click approach. 

early FY25, a decision was made to revamp this concept, and make a similar tool available to both internal Microsoft trainers as well as Microsoft Certified Trainers like yourself. 

In this session, Peter will cover the history, present and future of the tool, what the WWL project v-team approach looked like, and most importantly, showing how you can start leveraging the demo scenarios for your Azure classes, right after the Summit. And if you like the solution, you will also learn how you and any other (Azure) MCT can contribute to the success of this tool.

What if You Could Deploy 50 Azure Demo Scenarios Using 1 Line of Code?

Although we have significantly advanced the computing world over the past 20 years, our progress has been solely tied to increasing the number of transistors within microprocessors, speeding up memory subsystems, faster disks, and the like. At some point, we realized that specific actions could be performed in parallel, leading to the emergence of multi-core processors. Despite all the power available today, some problems cannot be solved with the classical approach. The most well-known example is finding two of the largest prime numbers that, when multiplied, give a chosen number (upon which all modern encryption systems rely). As we increase the number base, this task would take classical computers hundreds and thousands, or even hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Quantum computers can solve this problem in just a few seconds. If this story has intrigued you, attend this lecture to get an idea of what awaits us soon, probably much sooner than we are ready to accept.