Marco Casalaina
Vice President of Products, Core AI and AI Futurist, Microsoft
Marco Casalaina is listed as Vice President of Products, Core AI and AI Futurist, Microsoft. Marco is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 18 November 2026.
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About
Marco Casalaina is VP Products of CoreAI and AI Futurist at Microsoft. He leads the AI Futures team, which finds trends and develops products that will lead to the next generation of AI. He has previously led a number of teams across Azure AI, including Azure OpenAI, Vision, Speech, Decision, Language, Responsible AI, and AI Studio. Prior to coming to Microsoft, Marco led the Einstein AI team at Salesforce. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- How SThree is reimagining recruitment with human-led AI Speaker · 18 November 2026
- Building context-aware agents with Microsoft IQ Speaker · 19 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Marco at events on B2DB.
- Ayca Bas Principal Cloud Advocate · Microsoft 1 shared session
- Nick Folkes COO · SThree 1 shared session
- Timo Lehne CEO · SThree 1 shared session
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- 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