Find upcoming skilling opportunities you won’t want to miss. See also the full Partner Skilling Calendar and Partner Skilling Playbook. ….
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Find upcoming skilling opportunities you won’t want to miss.
See also the full Partner Skilling Calendar and Partner Skilling Playbook.
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LevelUp for Partners
LevelUp sponsored by Microsoft is a self-directed, self-paced interactive learning management system tailored to Microsoft Partners. Partner organizations have flexibility to purchase seat capacity to meet their skilling needs.
LevelUp offers partners high-value sales, pre-sales, and technical courses across all Microsoft Cloud Solution Areas and GTM Solution Plays:
- Sales skilling to enable Microsoft partner sellers to build mindshare & sell more effectively
- Pre-sales skilling to enable Microsoft partner tech sellers to convert mindshare into customer projects
- Project Ready skilling with hands-on-labs to improve delivery team deployment capability
For more information on this offering, including how to purchase seats, please refer to the LevelUp Playbook. For support, please contact LevelUpHelp@technofocus.com.
Regional Skilling Services is now live
The Regional Skilling Service desk is designed to help managed partners close skilling gaps, drive certifications, and support Microsoft priorities. This service offers reactive support, PDM-led partner outreach, key resources, and guidance to enhance partner capabilities in areas like AI, cybersecurity, Microsoft 365, and more.
Email AskSkilling@Microsoft.com to learn more about Microsoft partner skilling offerings, resources, support, and feedback.
Introducing the GPS Consumption Led Skilling Program
We are pleased to announce the Consumption Led Skilling (CLS) program, formerly known as Account Led or Consumption Led Enablement. This initiative equips GSI, GCS, and Enterprise SI partner delivery teams with L300+ project-ready skills through exclusive live virtual instructor-led training and hands-on labs. Designed for partner teams working on won client projects, the program ensures they are technically prepared for successful project outcomes.
Trainings Offered: The program covers a wide range of Solution plays available in the Partner Project Ready Workshop Catalog.
Key Features:
- Availability: Open to GSI, GCS, and Enterprise SI partner delivery teams working on client projects for which the contract between the partner and client is already signed.
- Training delivery: Dedicated private live virtual instructor-led L300+ depth training with hands-on labs.
Qualification: Consumption Led Skilling triage v-team reviews and prioritizes requests based on business justification and Azure Consumption Revenue impact.
How to Request CLS Training: Contact your skilling manager to request CLS training for your delivery team.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to enhance the CLS program to better serve our partners and drive successful project outcomes.
Upcoming events: Copilot (sales, pre-sales, and technical skilling)
SMB Sales Bootcamp
The SMB Sales Bootcamp is a multi-day partner sales event that will cover key sales and go to market topics aimed to help grow partner capabilities to successfully sell the Microsoft Cloud to SMB customers. Join this sales bootcamp to learn about the massive opportunity in the small and medium business space (one of the fastest growing businesses within Microsoft), overview of Microsoft SMB FY25 Solution Plays and the hero products, understand the SMB AI and Copilot narratives, and resources to land more SMB deals. This will be brought to life with real use case scenarios and objection handling best practices.
Jan 28-30, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT
GitHub Copilot Certification – Generally Available
We are thrilled to announce that the GitHub Copilot certification exam is now generally available! This is an exciting opportunity for individuals looking to validate their skills with GitHub Copilot.
We believe this certification will play a vital role in helping professionals enhance their expertise and drive success in their projects.
For more information, please visit the certification landing page. You can also find the GitHub Copilot study guide, which includes links to the Microsoft Learning paths to help prepare for the exam.
Copilot Sales Champion
This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. The Microsoft 365 Copilot Sales Champion program is an on-demand and interactive learning path available on a “first come, first served” basis while seats are available.
Registration link: Copilot Sales Champion
Access Code: XQLW-TDDJ
Copilot Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)
Power your AI transformation with Copilot and the Copilot Stack Bootcamp
Jan 21-23, 2025
PDT, IST, GMTBuild and extend your own agents using pro-code capabilities
Jan 28-31, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT
Upcoming events: Azure
Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program
Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.
Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: AI & Security
Accelerate your path to certification and mastering the intricacies of AI, cybersecurity, threat protection, incident response, and more with Security certification week events:Korea AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025China AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025Registration coming soon
On-demand certification prep content
Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft Official Curriculum and presented in a modular format for each certification course.
Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)
Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.
Build and Modernize AI Apps Workshop
Jan 20-23, 2025
PDT, IST, GMTMicrosoft Fabric Workshop: Admin and Governance
Jan 28-29, 2025
PDT, IST, GMTMicrosoft Fabric Workshop: Data Warehousing
Jan 28-29, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT
Upcoming events: Business Applications
Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program
Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.
On-demand certification prep content
Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.
Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)
Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.
Full contact center solution with Power Platform and Dynamics 365
Jan 28 – Feb 20
PSTEnhance business performance planning in Dynamics 365 Finance
On-demand
Available January 29Registration coming soon
Upcoming events: Modern Work
Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program
Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.
On-demand certification prep content
Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.
Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)
Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.
Frontline Worker technical bootcamp
Jan 22-23, 2024
PDTJan 29-30, 2024
PDT
Upcoming events: Security
Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program
Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.
Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Security & GitHub
Stay ahead of the curve and get ready for certification by gaining cybersecurity expertise with the Security track and advancing your coding skills with the GitHub track.
Jan 27-31, 2025
Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Security
Accelerate your path to certification and mastering the intricacies of cybersecurity, threat protection, incident response, and more with Security certification week events:
Japan Security Certification Week (only security)
Feb 17 – 21, 2025Korea AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025China AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025Registration coming soon
On-demand certification prep content
Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.
Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)
Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.
Implementing Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Identity and Cloud apps Bootcamp
Jan 21-23, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT
Upcoming events: Industry specific skilling
Microsoft AI Envisioning Webinars for Industry
Encourage your partners to join our Microsoft AI Envisioning Webinars for Industry! These sessions are perfect for ISV or SI partners who are new to AI and looking to enhance their business. The webinars will provide valuable insights into AI’s impact on various industries, showcase practical use case examples, and guide partners in identifying business problems that can be solved with AI.
Click here to register: Retail | Manufacturing | Healthcare | Sustainability | Financial Services
Industry Sales Bootcamp
The goal of the industry sales bootcamp is to address the latency that exists between customer/field and partner enablement by developing a programmatic partner sales bootcamp day. The day consists of a 4-hour, interactive session with interactive session with AM and PM sessions available to suit different time zones.
Industry AI Business and Capability Envisioning Event Series
We are excited to announce the continuation and expansion of our virtual Industry AI Business and Capability Envisioning event series, specially designed for ISV and SI partners. This is your chance to dive into the transformative world of AI and discover how it can revolutionize your business and benefit your clients.
AI for Sustainability
On demand
Click here to registerAI for Healthcare
On demand
Click here to register
Upcoming events: SMB Resellers
Azure Infrastructure SMB Sales Champion
This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. The Copilot for Microsoft 365 Sales Champion program is an on-demand and interactive learning path available on a “first come, first served” basis while seats are available.
Registration link: Azure Infrastructure SMB Sales Champion
Access Code: MIAB-EIIH
