Speakers

Trevor Noah is best known for being the Emmy Award-winning host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central and for hosting the Grammy Awards for five consecutive years. He has written, produced, and starred in 12 comedy specials, and his “Off The Record” tour has sold out worldwide. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood,” as well as the #1 New York Times bestseller “Into the Uncut Grass.”  He launched the Trevor Noah Foundation to improve access to quality education for underserved youth in South Africa. Trevor now hosts an original Spotify podcast titled What Now? With Trevor Noah and heads up his production company Day Zero Productions.

Mustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI, a division of Microsoft focused on advancing consumer AI products. The division includes products and associated teams including Copilot, Bing, Ads, Monetization, MSN and Edge, alongside the core AI team amongst others. Microsoft AI is working to bring the benefits of AI to every person and organization on the planet, safely and responsibly. 

Before joining Microsoft, Mustafa was co-founder and CEO of the start-up Inflection AI, where he worked on building a personal AI for everyone. Prior to that he was co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, and VP AI Products and Policy at Google. He is the author of the international bestseller, The Coming Wave.

Dr. Rukmini Iyer is Corporate Vice President  leading engineering and execution across Advertising and Monetization experiences in Microsoft AI. She oversees a global, multi-billion dollar market place, driving innovation in AI-powered monetization, machine learning, and large-scale infrastructure. Rukmini also serves on the Technical Advisory board for Microsoft Research India and the Microsoft Bay Area Board of Directors.

Nikhil Kolar is Vice President of MSN at Microsoft, where he leads the Content Ecosystem and Growth team. He oversees global content partnerships and drives platform innovation to deliver trusted, personalized news experiences to millions of users worldwide.

Jordi Ribas, Ph.D., is Corporate Vice President of Search & AI at Microsoft, leading the product, engineering and growth teams for all of Bing worldwide including experiences, maps and platform. Dr. Ribas and team were responsible for the launch of Bing Chat, Copilot and Copilot Pro which were foundational for the new Gen AI era of Copilots at Microsoft. 

Dr. Ribas’s team continues to contribute advanced search grounding (RAG), Responsible AI, and other search technologies to Copilot, and their innovations are being leveraged across the company in products and services in Azure, Office and Windows.

Kit Thambiratnam is a General Manager at Microsoft, leading MSN Product and Content Engineering focused on billion-scale AI value across MSN, Copilot, and Bing. He is passionate about combining deep AI expertise, core user value, and product simplicity to innovate and impact at scale.Kit Thambiratnam is a General Manager at Microsoft, leading MSN Product and Content Engineering focused on billion-scale AI value across MSN, Copilot, and Bing. He is passionate about combining deep AI expertise, core user value, and product simplicity to innovate and impact at scale.