McKinsey at Microsoft Ignite 2026

November 17-20, San Francisco

At Microsoft Ignite 2026, McKinsey and Microsoft are showcasing what it takes to turn Agentic AI from potential into performance. Together, we move companies to the frontier of AI, leading with outsized outcomes and at speed to deliver lasting measurable results.

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McKinsey Executive Reception​

When: November 18, 2026
Who: Technology CXOs and Executive Leaders

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Delphine Nain Zurkiya
Senior PartnerBoston
A leader in the North America Life Sciences and Technology Practices
Lari Hämäläinen
Senior PartnerSeattle
Leads McKinsey Digital and advanced analytics (AI) work, helping clients transform through technology
Brian McKeon
Senior Manager, Alliances & Ecosystems, Microsoft AllianceCharlotte
Drives digital and cloud transformations with a focus on scaling client impact through the Microsoft Alliance
Brian Elliott
Founder & Senior Advisor, Periscope and Senior PartnerNew Jersey
Leads merchandising and revenue growth transformations, leveraging advanced analytics, big data, and digital redesign
Dr. Tim Fountaine
Senior PartnerSydney
Helps public and private organizations with their most important strategic, operational, and technology-related issues
Rohin Bhasin
Senior Client Development Advisor, Microsoft AllianceSouthern California
Drives digital and cloud transformations, scaling client impact through the Microsoft Alliance
Alex Panas
Senior Partner and Global Leader, Industry SectorsBoston
Helps public and private organizations across all major global industries with their most pressing strategy, commercial, investment, M&A, and operational topics
Tara Balakrishnan
Associate Partner, Software PracticeSeattle
Helps enterprise software companies scale through AI transformations and product strategy

Client impact

Scaling executive sales pitches for a software player in 3 weeks
Using Microsoft Copilot studio, we delivered a proof of concept and roadmap to scale AI-assisted sales messaging across business verticals, resulting in faster preparation, persona-based narratives, and sharper articulation of value for the C-suite.
Accelerating agentic AI deployment at leading pharmaceutical company
We accelerated AI-driven sales and marketing for a global pharmaceutical leader in four weeks using Microsoft’s AI Foundry. Through the platform, we launched two AI solutions: a Copilot that boosted sales insights and revenue by 1–2%, and a marketing platform that cut content costs by 5–20% and time-to-market by up to two weeks.
Automating contract compliance analysis for a med-tech company through AI on Microsoft’s platform
We developed an AI-driven contract dashboard on Microsoft’s platform to analyze thousands of contracts, identify compliance risks, and quantify financial impact. The proof of concept saved hundreds of review hours and uncovered a 1–2% revenue opportunity by closing compliance gaps.
Streamlining multi-cloud operations and advanced Azure adoption for a leading health insurer
We partnered with Microsoft on a multi-year initiative to develop an integrated Azure migration strategy aligning application disposition, economics, and cloud foundations. A $100B business with over 150 applications was successfully migrated to the cloud in 16 months.
Migrating data estate and optimizing business functions at a major Asian conglomerate
We developed the architecture design to guide the data-platform build and trained over 200 team members to ramp up capabilities across business functions with an estimated earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) impact of $25 million.
Transforming business and customer experience at a major US real-estate investor and developer
Leveraging the Microsoft Azure IoT hub, we developed and launched a digitally enabled resident application, a first-of-its-kind health-monitoring solution, and a new business capability focused on digital innovation.
Helping a leading wireless-equipment manufacturer build a “factory of the future”
Using Microsoft’s IoT platform as the factory’s technology foundation, we delivered a use-case strategy, roadmap, and industrial IoT platform in 16 weeks.
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Article
The AI operating system: A new way for CEOs to run the enterprise
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An AI operating system can become an enterprise’s “second brain,” but only if CEOs rethink how management itself evolves.
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Article
Upgrading software business models to thrive in the AI era
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AI is transforming software from a tool that enables work into a platform that actively performs and orchestrates work. How should...
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Article
One year of agentic AI: Six lessons from the people doing the work
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Deploying agentic AI successfully isn’t easy. Here’s what we’re learning about how to get it right.
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Reimagining life science enterprises with agentic AI
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Agentic AI is poised to boost the benefits from AI by changing its role from tool to coworker and catalyzing an end-to-end reimagining...
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Article
The end of inertia: Agentic AI’s disruption of retail and SME banking
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AI agents are poised to make sophisticated money decisions for customers, reshaping banking and affecting billions of dollars...
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Report
Seizing the agentic AI advantage
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A CEO playbook to solve the gen AI paradox and unlock scalable impact with AI agents.
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Blog Post
McKinsey and Microsoft drive business value creation with gen AI agents enabled by Copilot Studio
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Continuing their alliance, McKinsey and Microsoft are using the power of gen-AI-based agents to help organizations reinvent their...

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