Jay Parikh
Executive Vice President, Microsoft
Jay Parikh is listed as Executive Vice President, Microsoft. Jay is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 18 November 2026.
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About
Jay Parikh is a seasoned executive, board member, and advisor to some of the world’s fastest growing and most successful consumer, developer, and enterprise technology companies. As Executive Vice President of CoreAI at Microsoft, Parikh leads the organization building the end-to-end agentic system required to build, ship, and run AI agents in the Enterprise. His teams, including GitHub, also build the tools and platforms developers need to create the next generation of software. Previously, Parikh was CEO of a cloud security startup and, before that was Facebook’s global head of engineering and infrastructure. For more than a decade, he led the teams that built and operated the physical infrastructure and software that supported the company’s growth from 300 million people to more than 3 billion. His teams worked across the stack, from data centers, servers, and subsea cables to software, data, AI, and security systems. Through leadership roles in the Open Compute Project and Telecom
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Harnessing Your IQ with a continuously improving agent platform Speaker · 18 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Jay at events on B2DB.
- Arun Ulagaratchagan Executive Vice President, Microsoft Azure · Microsoft 1 shared session
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- 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