{"id":50136,"date":"2025-04-15T12:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/americas-partner-blog\/?p=50136"},"modified":"2025-04-22T08:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:46:59","slug":"americas-partner-skilling-news-april-2025-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/americas-partner-blog\/2025\/04\/15\/americas-partner-skilling-news-april-2025-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Americas Partner Skilling News: April 2025 Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATED April 21, 2025<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Find upcoming skilling opportunities you won’t want to miss.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

See also Partner Skilling Resources<\/a> and the Partner Skilling Calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NEW: <\/strong><\/em>Access the new Sales Skilling Flyer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Skilling Spotlight<\/h2>\n
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Proactive resiliency: Reduce risk for reliable workloads<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The “Azure Essentials: Proactive Resiliency” workshop is designed to equip Partners and Workload Owners with the knowledge and tools to enhance the reliability of their workloads for cloud and AI investments. This workshop introduces proactive resiliency, emphasizing the importance of preparing for inevitable outages to keep critical workloads reliable. Participants will learn about the value proposition of conducting proactive resiliency engagements, engagement details, and next steps.<\/p>\n

April 22-24, 2025
\nIST, BST, PDT<\/p>\n

Click here to register<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Microsoft AI Agents Day for Partners<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Learn the importance of Agentic AI and the Microsoft story to bring this to life across the core platforms of Copilot, Copilot Studio and AI Foundry. AI Agents Days for partners is a comprehensive virtual training event designed to empower Microsoft partner teams with a cross-solutions narrative on the importance of Agentic AI to their business transformations and jobs to be done.<\/p>\n

April 22-25, 2025
\nIST, BST, PDT<\/p>\n

Click here to register<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Spotlight<\/h2>\n
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Cosell Operations Service for Skilling (AskSkilling<\/a>)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Co-sell Operations Service for Skilling<\/strong> is a new service where partners can submit skilling related questions to our agents. The agents will respond within 24 hours.<\/p>\n

This service helps partners understand the skilling offers available to them in their area and ensures they have the resources they need to build skilling capacity and capability.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re invited to join the upcoming Office Hours to learn more about this new skilling service. During these sessions our team will review the Partner Skilling Playbook, review the H2 skilling events calendar and answer any skilling questions you may have.<\/p>\n

Please find below the schedule for sessions based on your time zone:
\n<\/strong>May 14, 2025: Asia 1:00 PM IST | EMEA 9:30 AM BST | Americas 10:00 AM PDT<\/p>\n

These sessions\u00a0are scheduled for the 2nd Wednesday\u00a0of every month.<\/p>\n

Register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For any questions or support, email AskSkilling<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Top<\/a><\/p>\n

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Certification Weeks<\/h3>\n

A five-day event to prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications and help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.<\/p>\n

Cert. Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Modern Work\u200b & GitHub<\/a>
\nApr 28-May 2 (IST, BST, PDT)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Cert. Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Security<\/a>\u200b
\nApr 28-May 2 (IST, BST, PDT)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Azure<\/a> | Business Applications<\/a> | Modern Work<\/a> | Security<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Sales & pre-sales skilling<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Enhance your sales and pre-sales capabilities with expert-led training to boost your skills, communicate value, and accelerate the customer journey.\u200b<\/em><\/p>\n

Microsoft Power Hour for Sellers<\/a>
\nApr 29 (IST) April 30 (PDT, BST) May 6, 13, 20, 27 (PDT)
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GitHub Partner Bootcamp<\/a>
\nMay 6-7 (IST, BST, PDT)<\/em><\/p>\n

Sales & pre-sales skilling<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Azure Project Ready<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Enhance your Azure skills to effectively architect, deploy, and implement cloud and AI solutions, ensuring you are project-ready and can drive customer success.\u200b<\/p>\n

Azure OpenAI<\/a>\u200b
\nApr 29 \u2013 May 2 (IST, BST, PDT)\u00a0<\/em>\u200b<\/p>\n

Proactive resiliency: Reduce risk for reliable workloads<\/a>\u200b
\nApr 22-24 (IST, BST, PDT) <\/em>\u200b<\/p>\n

Build and extend your own agents using pro-code capabilities<\/a>
\nMay 13 \u2013 15 (IST, BST, PDT)\u00a0<\/em>\u200b<\/p>\n

Secure and govern Microsoft 365 Copilot with Microsoft Purview<\/a>
\nMay 13 (IST, BST, PDT)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Microsoft Fabric Workshop (2 tracks)<\/a>\u200b
\nMay 6-8 (IST, BST, PDT)\u00a0<\/em>\u200b<\/p>\n

Build and Modernize AI Apps<\/a>\u200b
\nMay 13 -16 (IST, BST, PDT)\u00a0<\/em>\u200b<\/p>\n

Azure Databricks: Migration & integration<\/a>\u200b
\nMay 13-15 (IST, BST, PDT)\u00a0<\/em>\u200b<\/p>\n

Secure Migration<\/a>\u200b
\nMay 6- 8 (IST, BST, PDT)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Azure Project Ready<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Business Applications Project Ready<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Enhance your expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform to streamline deployments, helping you become the go-to expert for client projects.<\/p>\n

Secure and Govern Power Platform at enterprise scale<\/a>
\nApr 29-May 1 (PDT, IST, BST)<\/em><\/p>\n

SAP integration with Power Platform<\/a>\u200b
\nMay 13-14 (IST, BST, PDT) <\/em><\/p>\n

Business Applications Project Ready<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Modern Work Project Ready<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Accelerate your path to Modern Work certification to master Microsoft 365 tools and productivity solutions, empowering your team and boosting efficiency.<\/p>\n

Modern Work Project Ready<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Security Project Ready<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Accelerate your path to Security certification to master cybersecurity and threat protection, ensuring you can effectively safeguard modern IT environments.\u200b<\/p>\n

Threat Protection and Incident Response with Microsoft Sentinel<\/a>\u200b
\nApr 22-23 (IST, BST, PDT)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

CSP Practice build on Threat Protection <\/a>& Data Security with ME5<\/a>\u200b
\nMay 6-7 (IST, BST, PDT) <\/em><\/p>\n

Security Project Ready<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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GitHub<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Validate your skills with GitHub Copilot to enhance your expertise and drive success across projects.<\/p>\n

Access the GitHub Copilot study guide<\/a>, to help prepare for the exam.<\/p>\n

GitHub Copilot Certification<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Industry events<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Enhance Your Industry Expertise: Leverage sales and AI training to foster innovative solutions, accelerate business growth, and deliver tailored strategies for complex challenges.<\/p>\n

Industry skilling<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Top<\/a><\/p>\n

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Partner meetup for Microsoft Azure<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Join this community to get invited to a series of weekly webinars designed exclusively for Microsoft Partners. These sessions will provide an opportunity to connect with Microsoft Experts and learn about the latest Azure, Data, and AI Services, features, programs, and technical content.<\/p>\n

Feb-June 2025 Weekly Thursdays
\nPST\/PDT<\/p>\n

Click here to register<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Copilot Sales Champion <\/strong><\/h3>\n

This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. Microsoft 365 Copilot Sales Champion is an on-demand and interactive learning path available on a \u201cfirst come, first served\u201d basis while seats are available.
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\n<\/em>Registration link: Copilot Sales Champion<\/a>
\n<\/u>Access Code: XQLW-TDDJ<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Top<\/a><\/p>\n

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LevelUp for Partners<\/strong><\/h3>\n

NEW<\/strong>: LevelUp sponsored by Microsoft<\/a> is an on-demand, self-paced LMS that provides skilling resources for Technical Project Ready with labs and Sales Ready skilling for the Microsoft Cloud Solution Areas and GTM Solution Plays.<\/p>\n

Partner organizations have the flexibility to purchase additional seat capacity to meet their immediate skilling needs.<\/p>\n

ACTION<\/strong>: For more information on this offer, including how to purchase seats, please refer to the LevelUp Playbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For support, please contact LevelUpHelp@technofocus.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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GPS Consumption-Led Skilling initiative<\/strong><\/h3>\n

NEW<\/strong>: Solve critical technical skills gaps in your Delivery teams with just-in-time, live private ILT deployment skilling with access to real-world hands-on-lab experiences.<\/p>\n

This skilling offering is available for MPL SI partners with a confirmed MSX Opportunity ID anchored GTM Solution Plays.<\/p>\n

The initiative covers a wide range of Solution plays available in the\u00a0Partner Project Ready Workshop Catalog. <\/a><\/p>\n

ACTION<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>Please contact CLE_VTEAM@microsoft.com<\/a> or your PDM, PTS, PSA and Account Executive to submit your training request.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Get \u201cDeal Ready\u201d with upcoming partner sales events\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

NEW: A series of partner skilling events and webinars designed exclusively for Microsoft Partners. These sessions will provide an opportunity to connect with Microsoft Experts and gain proficiency with proposal building best practices supporting overall deal readiness.<\/p>\n

These weekly series will provide quick sessions with interactive Q&A from our SMEs to better fit your schedule. All content and recordings will be available on-demand.<\/p>\n

Register for the following upcoming partner series below:<\/p>\n