Ron Pessner
Corporate Vice President, Product Management, Microsoft
Ron Pessner is listed as Corporate Vice President, Product Management, Microsoft. Ron is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 17 November 2026.
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About
Ron Pessner is a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft Security, where he leads Getting Customers Ready for AI, an effort to help organizations establish and continuously strengthen the security foundation required to confidentially adopt AI and defend against AI-accelerated threats. Working across Microsoft Security and teams throughout the company, Ron leads a unified approach for getting ready for AI that helps customers understand their security posture, prioritize their most important risks, take high-impact hardening actions, measure progress, and prevent posture drift over time. Prior to joining Microsoft Security, Ron led Product Management for the M365 Copilot App team in the Office Product Group defining new productivity experiences with M365 Copilot. Ron also led the transformation of Office applications into tools for collaborative work. Prior to joining Office, Ron was a Group Program Manager in Windows, where he led the Windows 10 Mobile release and the calling, messaging
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Build secure foundations to scale AI across your organization Speaker · 17 November 2026
- Guardrails That Accelerate: Matching AI Ambition to Risk Appetite Speaker · 19 November 2026
Spoke alongside
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- Hammad Rajjoub Director · Microsoft 1 shared session
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