Sarah Bird
Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI, Microsoft
Sarah Bird is listed as Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI, Microsoft. Sarah is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 18 November 2026.
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About
Sarah Bird leads a team that works across Microsoft to help make AI systems trustworthy – both for the company and for customers building with AI – by surfacing emerging risks, creating ways to test for them, and building mitigations and controls to help build AI systems responsibly. An expert in responsible AI implementation, Sarah has helped teams develop and ship major AI products responsibly, including GitHub Copilot and Microsoft’s Copilot, bringing together the right mix of research, product, and policy to translate responsible AI principles into real-world engineering practices. Sarah was one of the founding researchers in the Microsoft FATE research group and contributed to the creation of the Microsoft Responsible AI Standard. Sarah is an active contributor to the open-source ecosystem; she led the product development of responsible AI tools including ONNX, Fairlearn and PyTorch 1.0. More recently, Sarah and her team released ASSERT, an open-source tool to automate AI safety e
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- The trust foundation for the next era of intelligence Speaker · 18 November 2026
- Trust at scale: Governance lessons from Microsoft Speaker · 18 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Sarah at events on B2DB.
- Andrew Welch Executive Director · AI Trust Forum 1 shared session
- Bogdan Demeny Innovation Director · AI Trust Forum 1 shared session
- Mohammad Abuomar Partner Software Engineer · Microsoft 1 shared session
- Natasha Crampton Intern · Microsoft 1 shared session
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- 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