Austin Laugesen
Principal Group Product Manager, Microsoft
Austin Laugesen is listed as Principal Group Product Manager, Microsoft. Austin is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 19 November 2026.
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About
Austin is a Group Product Manager at Microsoft responsible for Power Apps code apps and apps running in Copilot Managed Runtime. His work focuses on helping developers turn line-of-business web apps into enterprise-grade applications while benefiting from the management, governance, and security capabilities of Power Platform and Copilot Managed Runtime. Previously, Austin led product initiatives across Power Platform, including the introduction of Power Platform Monitor to help operations teams and developers detect health degradations across apps, flows, and agents. He also helped expand external-user support for end users and makers, introduced new licensing capabilities, and delivered governance features such as Conditional Access for individual apps. Before Power Apps, Austin worked across Windows Phone and Windows, leading engineering teams that built the Network Speed Test app, cloud services that helped Windows users discover and connect to public Wi-Fi, richer push-notificatio
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Building and governing trusted AI agents in financial services Speaker · 19 November 2026
- Deploy solutions at scale with Power Platform or Copilot Managed Runtime Speaker · 19 November 2026
Spoke alongside
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- Zohar Raz Group Product Manager Power Platform Governance · Microsoft 2 shared sessions
- Azsure Dorton Engineering Manager · State Farm 1 shared session
- Nicholas Balestrino Executive Director, AI and Innovation Partnerships · Novartis 1 shared session
- Ryan Jansen Principal Software Engineering Manager · Microsoft 1 shared session
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- Tyler Pichach Global Head of AI Strategy and GTM for Payments and Banking 12 sessions
- Justin Garrett Principal Program Manager Lead, DevRel, Azure Experiences & Ecosystems, Cloud + AI Engineering 10 sessions
- Karuana Gatimu Director, Scale Experience Group 10 sessions
- Heather Cook Principal PM Manager, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group 9 sessions
- Nitya Narasimhan Senior Cloud Advocate (AI) 9 sessions
- Brad Smith Vice Chair and President 8 sessions
- Lee Stott Principal Cloud Advocate - Core AI 8 sessions
- Lorena Mora Senior Product Manager | Microsoft Intune & Windows 8 sessions
- Sonia Cuff Cloud Advocate Lead - Cloud Native & Linux Advocacy 8 sessions
- Bethany Jepchumba Developer Relations 7 sessions
- Paolo Pialorsi Senior Developer Advocate 7 sessions