Accelerating industry partner growth in the age of AI

Tuesday, November 19
7:30 PM - 8:15 PM Greenwich Mean Time
Duration 45 minutes
BRK266
On Demand
Breakout
In Chicago + Online

Join us for an insightful session exploring the vast industry opportunities for our SDC and SI partners. We’ll highlight the critical role partners play in our ecosystem and reaffirm our commitment to their success. This session will help partners maximize the value of AI and grow their businesses across: GTM Strategy, technical capabilities, and partner program benefits. This session will empower partners aiming to align with Microsoft’s vision and drive impactful industry customer engagements.

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Kathleen Mitford

CVP, Global Industry Marketing
Kathleen Mitford is Corporate Vice President of Global Industry at Microsoft. She joined the company in 2021 and leads a team responsible for providing industry solutions to customers to help them solve challenges and unlock opportunities specific to their industry through the Microsoft Cloud and Microsoft’s partner ecosystem.
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Satish Thomas

CVP, Microsoft Industry Clouds + Solutions (IC+S)
Satish is responsible for strategy, product management, and engineering execution for Microsoft Business & Industry Solutions. This organization and its partner ecosystem develop industry-leading solutions and AI-driven Business Applications. Prior to this role, Satish has held various engineering product management leadership roles at Microsoft spanning Microsoft Cloud for Industries, Microsoft Insights - Customer Data Platform (CDP), Microsoft AppSource, Microsoft’s business apps marketplace, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 team.
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Kathie Johnson

Kathie Johnson is the Chief Marketing Officer at Sitecore, a leader in digital experience technology that spans content, commerce, and experience solutions. Before Sitecore, she played a transformative role at Talkdesk, where she led the marketing organization during a period of significant growth from #66 to #8 on the Forbes Cloud100 list.
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Julie Sanford

Vice President, GTM Programs & Operations, Global Partner Solutions
As Vice President, Partner GTM, Programs, & Operations within Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft, Julie Sanford is responsible for the end-to-end go-to-market strategy across Microsoft’s commercial services partner ecosystem. Julie oversees the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, which is the single program that Microsoft goes to market with its partners, and is the primary way that we engage and invest in the ecosystem.