Bas Brekelmans
Software Engineer, Microsoft
Bas Brekelmans is listed as Software Engineer, Microsoft. Bas is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 17 November 2026.
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About
Bas Brekelmans is a software engineer at Microsoft who started the Copilot Cowork project. Since joining Microsoft in 2014, he has worked across Dynamics, Power BI and Customer Insights, and on AI Builder and Power Virtual Agents, and served as CTO of Copilot Studio before launching Cowork, the cloud-hosted agent that plans and carries out multi-step work across Microsoft 365. He holds a master's degree in software engineering from the University of Amsterdam.
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Delegate complex work: Hands-on with Copilot Cowork Speaker · 17 November 2026
- Beyond the Benchmark: Evaluating Copilot and AI Tools Speaker · 18 November 2026
- Delegate complex work: Hands-on with Copilot Cowork Speaker · 18 November 2026
- Delegate complex work: Hands-on with Copilot Cowork Speaker · 19 November 2026
- Delegate complex work: Hands-on with Copilot Cowork Speaker · 19 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Bas at events on B2DB.
- Emmanuel Miranda-Steiner Partner Software Engineer - Copilot Cowork · Microsoft 4 shared sessions
- Amber Waisanen Product Marketing · Microsoft 1 shared session
Others from Microsoft
- Christian Sarafidis Chief Executive EMEA Financial Services 13 sessions
- 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