Steve Gustavson
Corporate Vice President, Design & Research, Microsoft
Steve Gustavson is listed as Corporate Vice President, Design & Research, Microsoft. Steve is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 18 November 2026.
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About
Microsoft Responsibilities — Steve leads Microsoft's Copilot, Agents & Platform design and research teams, including interaction design, UX engineering, content strategy, design ops, user research, and product content. The role unites Microsoft's enterprise agent platform with the productivity surfaces where work actually happens — Agent 365, Dynamics 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Copilot experiences like Cowork and Autopilot — setting the experience bar for how AI agents become part of customers‘ day-to-day. Pre-Microsoft Work Experience — Before joining Microsoft, Steve spent three years as Group VP of Design for platform, AI, design systems, and innovation at ServiceNow. There he led design for Now Assist — ServiceNow's gen AI product — as well as all platform products and design systems, as well as product keynotes and vision demos. Prior to that, Steve spent 17 years at Adobe, including his time from the Omniture acquisition, where he held roles like Chief Creative Director a
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Beyond the Pilot: Turning Copilot & Agents into Business Value Speaker · 18 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Steve at events on B2DB.
- Srini Raghavan CVP, Copilot and Agents Ecosystem · Microsoft 1 shared session
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- 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
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