Fuel AI innovation with Azure Databases

Tuesday, November 19
7:30 PM - 8:15 PM Greenwich Mean Time
Duration 45 minutes
BRK188
On Demand
Breakout
In Chicago + Online

Data is the fuel for innovation, driving the development of transformative applications and artificial intelligence (AI). This session will explore how harnessing the power of data across the Azure databases portfolio can lead to groundbreaking advancements that enhance operational efficiency, deliver personalized user experiences, and revolutionize the way we interact with technology.

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Shireesh Thota

Corporate Vice President, Azure Databases
The mission of Azure Data is to help customers build a new class of data-first applications and drive a data culture where every employee can make better decisions based on data. Shireesh leads product management, engineering, and cloud operations for Azure Databases. The products in his team’s portfolio include Azure SQL Database (on-prem, Hybrid and Cloud), Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, and Azure MySQL.
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Arun Ulagaratchagan

CVP, Azure Data
Arun leads product management, engineering, and cloud operations for Azure Data, which includes databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging, and business intelligence. The products in his teams' portfolio include Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure MySQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, Power BI, and Microsoft Fabric.
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James Codella, PhD

Principal Product Manager
James is a Principal Product Manager working to enable planetary scale applications with Azure Cosmos DB. Specifically, he focuses on the Cosmos DB Query Engine and leads AI product work including state-of-the-art vector indexing and search with DiskANN, text and hybrid search, and other advanced information retrieval methods.
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Charles Feddersen

Partner Dir Program Management
Charles is the Partner Director of Product Management for Postgres on Azure, which includes the portfolio of Postgres managed services as well as the contributions that Microsoft to open source Postgres. In his current role Charles is responsible for product definition and strategy, roadmap, customer experience and overall success of Postgres services at Microsoft.
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Aditi Gupta

Senior Product Manager
Aditi is a Senior Product Manager with Azure Databases for MySQL group.
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Bob Ward

Principal Architect
Bob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft Azure Data team, which owns the development for Microsoft SQL Ground to Cloud. Bob has worked for Microsoft for 31 years on every version of SQL Server shipped from OS/2 1.1 to SQL Server 2022 including Azure SQL. Bob is a well-known speaker on SQL Server, Azure SQL, AI, and Microsoft Fabric often presenting talks on new releases, internals, and specialized topics at events such as SQLBits, Microsoft Build, Microsoft Ignite, PASS Summit, Fabric Community Conference, and VS Live.