Yitzhak Kesselman
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft IQ, Microsoft
Yitzhak Kesselman is listed as Corporate Vice President, Microsoft IQ, Microsoft. Yitzhak is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 18 November 2026.
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About
As the Corporate Vice President for the Fabric Team in Azure Data, Yitzhak Kesselman oversees the teams that deliver the Fabric Platform, Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, Fabric IQ, Microsoft IQ, Azure Messaging, and Observability. Prior to his current position, Yitzhak was leading Alphabet’s Monitoring products, critical for the reliability of their infrastructure and systems that serve 4B+ users worldwide. These capabilities provide actionable insights into service health metrics, consequently strengthening the reliability of all products from Google search to autonomous vehicles. Before joining Google, Yitzhak led Microsoft’s Power BI Platform team (now Fabric Platform team) that delivered the infrastructure, common functionality, and operations underpinning Power BI and other Azure Data cloud services. Under his leadership, the team scaled the platform more than 12x, earning it the best-in-class service by Gartner and Forrester. Across every initiative, Yitzhak’s work is grounded in
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Microsoft IQ: Build trusted AI agents that know your business Speaker · 18 November 2026
- Scale mission-critical data and AI applications with Microsoft Fabric Speaker · 18 November 2026
Spoke alongside
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- Adi Regev Partner Director of Product, Onelake Catalog & Governance · Microsoft 1 shared session
- Dipti Borkar Vice President, Microsoft · Microsoft 1 shared session
- Dorit Zilbershot Group Vice President, Product Management, AI Experiences & Innovation · ServiceNow 1 shared session
- Michel Porter Partner | EY Global Assurance Analytics Leader · EY 1 shared session
- Pankaj Arora Director of Product · Microsoft 1 shared session
- Tessa Kloster Principal PM Manager · Microsoft 1 shared session
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- 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