Harsha Bennur
Chief Solutions Strategist, Cloud & AI Partnerships, Microsoft
Harsha Bennur is listed as Chief Solutions Strategist, Cloud & AI Partnerships, Microsoft. Harsha is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 19 November 2026.
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About
Harsha Bennur has been working at Microsoft for over 28 years, and all her roles have been tied to empowering people, partners and customers to achieve more. Her motto is to practice empathetic and inclusive people leadership, use technology as an enabler to transform businesses, and have fun along the way. Most recently, she is the Tech Sales Leader for Top Global CSP’s within Microsoft Global Channel Partner Sales team and is excited to be working with our partners on transforming and monetizing their businesses during the AI era. Before that, she held various positions shaping Startup and Digital Natives strategy, industry strategy with the solution areas, partner strategy across channel and ISV partners. She also led services business development and delivery for some of Microsoft's largest government customers incubating new programs and driving transformation internally and externally. Harsha has always been a strong proponent of diversity, equity and inclusion; her efforts span
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- From Experimentation to Monetizing AI Speaker · 19 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Harsha at events on B2DB.
- Manoj Jain Managing Director, Frontier Partners · Microsoft 1 shared session
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