AI ENGINEER SHANGHAI 2026
Marco Casalaina
VP Products, Core AI & AI Futurist
Microsoft
Talk · Proposed focus
From Models to Working Enterprise Agents
November 5 · 10:00-10:25 · Main stage →
Shanghai time (UTC+8) · Tentative program; changes will be communicated.
How models, data, tools and execution boundaries come together in a useful enterprise workflow, and what changes when an agent moves from a demo into ongoing use.
About the speaker
Marco Casalaina is VP Products of Core AI and AI Futurist at Microsoft. He leads the AI Futures team, which finds trends and develops products that will lead to the next generation of AI. He has previously led a number of teams across Azure AI, including Azure OpenAI, Vision, Speech, Decision, Language, Responsible AI, and AI Studio. Prior to coming to Microsoft, Marco led the Einstein AI team at Salesforce. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.