Anna Hoffman

Anna Hoffman is a Program Manager at Microsoft leading a team focused on the growth and strategy of the Microsoft database services. Anna has a BS in Engineering and MS in Analytics from Georgia Tech. Anna has worked in Microsoft Research, AI Engineering, and Microsoft Services in her time at Microsoft, spending several years working to democratize AI via tools and services like Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Learning, and SQL Server (Machine Learning Services and Big Data Clusters). For the past few years, she has worked on the Azure SQL product team to democratize Azure SQL, and recently expanded to look at growth and strategy across Microsoft databases. Anna is one of the authors of Practical Azure SQL Database for Modern Developers, available from Apress Media. Anna is also the host of Data Exposed, available on YouTube.