Microsoft's IT-focused Ignite conference—the one that to many of us is still more familiar as "TechEd"—starts on Monday. In a shake-up from the normal routine for these things, the opening keynote will be a short, one-hour affair, in which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will present the company's vision for the future. This will be followed by three separate technology keynotes running in parallel.

We'll be liveblogging the vision keynote at 9am Eastern time on Monday September 25 to learn about Microsoft's goals for cloud computing, machine learning, and how it plans to deliver on its stated (and rather wordy) goal of "empowering every person and every organization to achieve more."