Omar Aftab
Vice President, Microsoft
Omar Aftab is listed as Vice President, Microsoft. Omar is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 18 November 2026.
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About
Omar Aftab is Vice President of Conversational AI, and leads a portfolio of Conversational AI and Contact Center AI capabilities at Microsoft. Omar has been a leader at the company on a variety of AI efforts over decades, ranging from conversational understanding, natural language and speech recognition, Cortana and more. He was a founding member for Cortana and has launched and led various other products in the AI space, such as Copilot Studio, Power Virtual Agents, Contact Center AI and more. Omar graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds multiple undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Microsoft Contact Center Intelligence: modernize without rip and replace Speaker · 18 November 2026
- Build Customer-Facing Agents in Copilot Studio, Teams, and CCI Speaker · 19 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Omar at events on B2DB.
- Jason Xian Senior Product Manager · Microsoft 2 shared sessions
- Bishan Dass Senior Director · Siemens Healthineers 1 shared session
- Chris Povolish Sr. Manager of IT · Publix Super Markets, Inc. 1 shared session
- Heidi Elmore Head of Product Marketing, Dynamics 365 Contact Center · Microsoft 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