Amit Bahree

Accomplished engineering and technology leader with 25 years experiences in technology and proven ability to build and grow multiple teams. Results oriented with strong blend of strategy, technology, engineering, and management delivering business critical solutions for leading organizations.I am a passionate and experience building great products, and great teams that push the boundaries of technology to create innovative experiences and outcomes for our customers. I love building great teams that create innovative experience and products – combining a mix of ingenuity, engineering, and, solving real world complex problems.With roots in applied research, I strive to be a trusted leader and lifelong learner who operates at the intersection of what is possible, and what can be possible and change the market landscape.At Microsoft, I am part of Azure AI platform and responsible to build the next set of AI products and services in Cognitive Services. Collaborating with our scientists and researchers at MSR, bringing cutting edge innovations from research to scale for our customers across millions of users across the full spectrum of Azure cognitive services – Vision, Speech, Language, and Decision AI.Specialties: Product and engineering leadership, machine learning, artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, responsible AI, digital ethics, bots, robotics, cloud platforms, algorithms, protocols and hiring and building world-class teams.In the past, for enterprises I have been responsible for: Emerging tech, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Modern Engineering, and Thought Leadership. The emerging tech topics are wide, interesting and intertwined and range from AI, Automation, Machine Learning, Extended Reality (AR, VR, MR), Blockchain, IoT, Digital Ethics, to name a few.I am a keynote speaker, authored a few papers and a book, hold a few patents. I hold an MSc in Software Engineering from The University of Oxford and an BSc in Computer Science from The University of Pune.