Lorraine Bardeen
Corporate Vice President, AI Strategy & Transformation, Microsoft Frontier Compnay, Microsoft
Lorraine Bardeen is listed as Corporate Vice President, AI Strategy & Transformation, Microsoft Frontier Compnay, Microsoft. Lorraine is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 17 November 2026.
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About
Lorraine Bardeen is Corporate Vice President, in Microsoft’s Frontier Company, leveraging Microsoft’s internal breakthroughs to help global customers across industries. Her role focuses on translating AI transformation from vision to measurable outcomes, with a strong bias toward execution. Grounded in Microsoft's own transformation as Customer Zero, she partners deeply with executive teams to align ambition with what can be delivered at scale, driving growth and innovation for customers and employees. She previously served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Microsoft’s Commercial Solution Areas, partnering across sales and engineering to identify high impact AI patterns, accelerate innovation, and deliver scalable IP from proof of concept to deployment through trusted, reusable patterns and technical accelerators. These accelerators enabled customers to adopt AI with speed, confidence, and strong governance. Over a 23-year Microsoft career, Lorraine has held several engineering and
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
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