Join us for an enlightening session on building and using trustworthy AI applications that prioritize safety, security, and privacy. Discover best practices for AI security and mitigating emerging threats, learn how to develop applications with built-in safety and guardrails, manage compliance, and safeguard sensitive data.

Sarah Bird
Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI
Responsible AI innovation requires three pillars — forward-looking innovation, clear governance, and of course, the technology must work in practice.
That’s where engineering comes in. Sarah Bird leads Microsoft’s responsible AI engineering effort, working to accelerate the adoption and positive impact of AI by bringing together the latest innovations in research, product and policy. She helps to create and apply responsible AI principles, standards and tools across the company, and has led the cross-company group of experts to build Microsoft Copilot and Github Copilot, among other key Microsoft products.
Bird has been in the field of responsible AI since its inception. She is one of the founding researchers of the first responsible AI group at Microsoft, an active member of the Microsoft AETHER committee and contributed to the creation of the Microsoft Responsible AI Standard.
She received her Ph.D. in computer science from Berkeley, where her advisor was Turing Award winner Dave Patterson. Before joining Microsoft, Sarah was also a founding member of the AI ethics group at Facebook.
She is also the New York site lead for engineering and research at Microsoft and is passionate about New York as a place for technology development and innovation. Bird’s team is lighting the way in terms of what’s possible in responsible AI, showing real examples of AI that works safely and responsibly that are moving the field forward.
Bird was first introduced to engineering when two women engineers came to speak to her fourth-grade class. Seeing how that one small experience may have changed the trajectory of her life has made Bird passionate about mentorship and encouraging more women to get into the field of Responsible AI.
Bird’s passion for responsible AI is driven by her belief in the potential of AI and her recognition that we cannot realize its full potential unless we are able to have AI that is safe, responsible, fair and robust. This is the driving force behind her work.
“I’m so excited about the future and how AI can change the world. But the responsible AI part is critical. I see this as essential work in making AI a reality, and for me, this is really a labor of love.”.
That’s where engineering comes in. Sarah Bird leads Microsoft’s responsible AI engineering effort, working to accelerate the adoption and positive impact of AI by bringing together the latest innovations in research, product and policy. She helps to create and apply responsible AI principles, standards and tools across the company, and has led the cross-company group of experts to build Microsoft Copilot and Github Copilot, among other key Microsoft products.
Bird has been in the field of responsible AI since its inception. She is one of the founding researchers of the first responsible AI group at Microsoft, an active member of the Microsoft AETHER committee and contributed to the creation of the Microsoft Responsible AI Standard.
She received her Ph.D. in computer science from Berkeley, where her advisor was Turing Award winner Dave Patterson. Before joining Microsoft, Sarah was also a founding member of the AI ethics group at Facebook.
She is also the New York site lead for engineering and research at Microsoft and is passionate about New York as a place for technology development and innovation. Bird’s team is lighting the way in terms of what’s possible in responsible AI, showing real examples of AI that works safely and responsibly that are moving the field forward.
Bird was first introduced to engineering when two women engineers came to speak to her fourth-grade class. Seeing how that one small experience may have changed the trajectory of her life has made Bird passionate about mentorship and encouraging more women to get into the field of Responsible AI.
Bird’s passion for responsible AI is driven by her belief in the potential of AI and her recognition that we cannot realize its full potential unless we are able to have AI that is safe, responsible, fair and robust. This is the driving force behind her work.
“I’m so excited about the future and how AI can change the world. But the responsible AI part is critical. I see this as essential work in making AI a reality, and for me, this is really a labor of love.”.

Sumit Bhattacharyya
Principal Product Development Engineering
Experienced and Passionate Software Architect adept in bringing forth expertise in design, development and maintenance of software systems.

Anna Maria Brunnhofer-Pedemonte
Founder and CEO
Anna Maria Brunnhofer-Pedemonte is a serial founder and the CEO of Impact AI. For over a decade she has been focused on her "Northstar": creating AI that truly aligns with and understands humans. She is passionate about real-world evals, HCAI and AI Value Alignment. Anna Maria also actively engages in discussions about the opportunities and challenges for the AI sector in US and Europe.

John Israel
CISO
I am a business oriented CISO, and IT executive, with over 28 years of international leadership experience across Europe, Asia and the Americas. I believe that combining diverse perspectives with bold, timely decisions can transform the world. I take pride in challenging the status quo and grafting together the goodness of principled thinking, analytical decision-making, and diverse leadership experiences.

Markus Mooslechner
Executive Producer
Award-winning science communicator Markus Mooslechner specializes in making space science accessible through his "Space Café Podcast" and acclaimed works like "Collider Diaries." His innovative storytelling has earned Cannes recognition while advancing space sustainability. With Terra Mater Studios, he created the groundbreaking Planetary Defense Companion App, offering unprecedented public engagement with ESA and NASA's HERA mission.

Herain Oberoi
GM, Data & AI Security, Compliance, and Privacy
Herain is the General Manager for Microsoft’s Security for AI and Data Security, Data Governance, Data Compliance, and Data Privacy products. He is responsible for the business growth and marketing for the Microsoft Purview and Priva product families. He has spent over 17 years across Microsoft and AWS on business, product, and marketing leadership roles in the Data, Analytics, and AI domains. He was most recently the SVP of Product Strategy, Monetization, Pricing/Packaging, and Product Marketing at Okta.
Herain is passionate about leadership, emotional intelligence, communication, scaling businesses, and enabling organizations to prepare for adopting AI through best-in-class data security, governance, compliance, and privacy solutions.
Herain has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.B.A from Cornell University.
Herain is passionate about leadership, emotional intelligence, communication, scaling businesses, and enabling organizations to prepare for adopting AI through best-in-class data security, governance, compliance, and privacy solutions.
Herain has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.B.A from Cornell University.