Rick Claus
Principal Cloud Advocate Team Lead, Microsoft
Rick Claus is listed as Principal Cloud Advocate Team Lead, Microsoft. Rick is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 16 November 2026.
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About
I lead a team of infrastructure specialists who create technical content for the IT Pro audience. With over 25 years of experience in the hybrid infrastructure space I bring a unique and realistic perspective to modernization in the agentic AI world.
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Microsoft Ignite 101: Navigate, Connect & Maximize Your Experience Speaker · 16 November 2026
- Microsoft Ignite 101: Navigate, Connect & Maximize Your Experience Speaker · 16 November 2026
- Inside Azure engineering: Lessons from our own frontier transformation Speaker · 17 November 2026
- Sovereign cloud mythbusters: Separating fact from fiction Speaker · 17 November 2026
- IT operations as AI enablement Speaker · 20 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Rick at events on B2DB.
- Sonia Cuff Cloud Advocate Lead - Cloud Native & Linux Advocacy · Microsoft 3 shared sessions
- denizcan Billor Principal Software / Network Engineering Leader · Microsoft 1 shared session
- Eshaan Bhattad Software Engineer · Microsoft 1 shared session
- Pierre Roman Principal Cloud Advocate · Microsoft 1 shared session
- Ramya Sharma Senior Software Engineer · Microsoft 1 shared session
Others from Microsoft
- 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