
Omar Aftab
Omar Aftab is Vice President of Conversational AI, and leads a broad portfolio of conversational AI, bot building and other Copilot products at Microsoft, including Copilot Studio, Azure Bot Framework, Azure Bot Services, Nuance MIX, etc. Omar has been a leader at the company on a variety of AI efforts over decades, ranging from conversational understanding, natural language and speech recognition, and Cortana to Business AI systems and various bot building technologies and products. He was a founding member for Cortana and has launched and led various other products in the AI space, such as Power Virtual Agents, Copilot Studio and more. Omar graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with multiple undergraduate and graduate degrees.