Microsoft Partner Skilling: Empowering Innovation and Transformation

Welcome to Microsoft Partner Skilling – FY26 Edition

In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, continuous skilling is no longer optional, it’s a competitive necessity. Microsoft Partner Skilling provides the knowledge, tools, and training you need to build expertise in AI, cloud, sales, pre-sales, and delivery roles.

With a variety of learning opportunities, including skilling playbooks, expert-led sessions, hands-on events, and on-demand content, you can develop the capabilities to drive business transformation and maximize customer impact. Wherever you are in your learning journey, our skilling resources help you stay ahead and succeed in an ever-changing industry.

The Importance of Skilling in FY26

The stakes for skilling continue to rise. According to recent studies, employees worldwide increasingly expect more frequent skill updates, and organizations are prioritizing investments in upskilling and reskilling. For Microsoft partners, this presents a unique opportunity to fuel innovation and business growth.

In FY26, Microsoft is doubling down on partner skilling by:

• Launching a unified Skilling Hub that brings together all learning resources in one place.
• Expanding role-based tracks—Certification Ready, Project Ready, and Sales/Deal Readiness—to support every stage of the partner journey.
• Prioritizing high-demand areas such as AI and Copilot solutions, cybersecurity, compliance, and cloud transformation.
• Offering more immersive formats, from technical and commercial bootcamps to Simu-live training sessions and hands-on projects.
• Rewarding partners who invest in skilling with incentives, certifications, and expanded benefits.

By leveraging these resources, partners can strengthen their capabilities, accelerate customer impact, and stay ahead in one of the most transformative eras for our industry.

Partner Skilling playbooks, newsletters, and guides

Microsoft provides partner playbooks, newsletters, and guides to keep you up to date on technical knowledge and training opportunities. These resources are updated monthly, so be sure to check out the latest version:

📌 Download the latest Partner Playbooks, Newsletters and Guides

• Biweekly partner skilling update – Stay updated by subscribing to this Newsletter:  EMEA – English (EN-GB)
  • Learn about the latest in technical and sales enablement events

• Partner skilling playbook (with AI & Copilot)
  • Learn about enablement offerings to help skill your organization.

• Project Ready Workshops and sales/presales catalog
  • Complete catalog of Technical Deployment Partner Project Ready Workshops.

Project Ready Workshops

Partner Project Ready Workshops offer intermediate to advanced training events designed ​to help experienced technical professionals deepen their capability in specific lines of technology. ​Taught by seasoned instructors, each workshop focuses on a specific topic to help drive deep skills applications across priority solution plays.

Unlock your Microsoft AI Cloud potential with Partner Skilling Hub

AI Business Solutions

Empower customers to boost efficiency, reduce costs, and connect their people, processes, and data with intelligent solutions like Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Cloud and AI Platforms

Lead AI transformations for customers by migrating workloads to Microsoft Azure and building powerful AI solutions with tools like Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, GitHub, and Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Security

Strengthen and simplify your customers’ security posture with our complete set of offerings—from endpoint protection, identity management, cloud application security, and data classification to event and incident management.

Join the Regional Skilling Tour

Take part in in-person skilling events across EMEA and strengthen your technical and business expertise with Microsoft. Each session is designed to provide practical guidance, peer collaboration, and hands-on learning to help you accelerate customer success.

📌 Why attend?
✔️ Explore the latest Microsoft technologies and solutions
✔️ Build practical skills with expert-led sessions and hands-on labs
✔️ Gain insights to drive faster delivery and adoption with your customers
✔️ Connect and collaborate with peers and Microsoft experts

📌 Upcoming Events: Find all upcoming in-person events here: Regional Skilling Tour Events

Microsoft AI Tour for Partners

Join us for the Microsoft AI Tour for Partners — a global series of in-person events showcasing breakthrough advancements that will take your business to the frontier of AI.

Discover lessons learned from real-world deployments, explore sales best practices, and gain hands-on experience with Microsoft’s Cloud & AI Platform, Security, and AI Business Solutions. This event equips you with the tools to accelerate customer success and build the Frontier Firm of the future.

End the day in conversation with experts from Microsoft.

The Microsoft AI Tour for Partners is coming soon to several cities around the world with 4 location in EMEA: Frankfurt (Dec 2), London (Feb 26), Paris (Mar 10), Zurich (May 5).

📌 Pls subscribe to an upcoming Microsoft AI Tour for Partners event

Meet skilling requirements faster with Certification Weeks

Build your AI and cloud skills and accelerate your path to certification with advanced, role-based Certification Week events. For beginner and intermediate learners, Certification Weeks offer expert-led training that helps you master the intricacies of Azure AI. Participation in Certification Weeks also helps organizations meet Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program skilling requirements.

Organizations with Microsoft Certified Individuals are qualified to offer specialized services, which helps distinguish them from competitors and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty—while unlocking further opportunities and incentives from Microsoft.

Certification Weeks occur around the globe and throughout the year. Register today to enhance your technical capabilities:

EMEA Cloud & AI Platforms + Security Certification Weeks

EMEA AI Business Solutions Certification Weeks

LevelUp

LevelUp sponsored by Microsoft 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.

Cosell Operations Service for Skilling

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

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.

For any questions or support: AskSkilling.