Brian Benz
Principal AI Advocate, Microsoft
Brian Benz is listed as Principal AI Advocate, Microsoft. Brian is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 17 November 2026.
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About
Brian is a Principal AI Advocate at Microsoft with 12+ years of experience helping developers succeed across AI, Cloud, and open-source technologies. He specializes in building technical strategy and trusted relationships with partners including GitHub, NVIDIA, Arm, Inc., Oracle, IBM, Broadcom and Red Hat, while keeping up with competitors including AWS, Google, and emerging players like CoreWeave.
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Build, observe, and scale AI-ready apps and workloads with AKS Speaker · 17 November 2026
- Build, observe, and scale AI-ready apps and workloads with AKS Speaker · 18 November 2026
- Build, observe, and scale AI-ready apps and workloads with AKS Speaker · 18 November 2026
- Build, observe, and scale AI-ready apps and workloads with AKS Speaker · 19 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Brian at events on B2DB.
- Vinicius Apolinario Principal Cloud Advocate · Microsoft 4 shared sessions
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
- Dona Sarkar Chief Troublemaker - Copilot and AI Extensibility 7 sessions