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โย Kirill Gavrylyuk hosts a keynote conversation with leaders from Vercel, OpenAI, Walmart, and AMD on building modern applications, AI, and data at planetary scale.
Joined by Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Jonathan Lee (OpenAI), Andrew Liu (Microsoft, Azure Cosmos DB), and Steve Berg (AMD), the panel explores how today’s most demanding workloads are built, scaled, and run on Azure Cosmos DB โ and where modern data platforms are headed next.
๐ค Connect with Kirill Gavrylyuk
๐ Kirill Gavrylyuk is Vice President for Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft, leading product and engineering since the Cosmos DB launch in 2017.
๐ผ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirillgavrylyuk/
๐ค https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/kirill-gavrylyuk
๐ค Connect with Guillermo Rauch
๐ Guillermo Rauch is CEO of Vercel and creator of Next.js. Originally from Buenos Aires, he is known for open-source work on Socket.IO and Mongoose.
๐ผ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rauchg/
๐ https://x.com/rauchg
๐ https://vercel.com/
๐ค https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/guillermo-rauch
๐ค Connect with Jonathan Lee
๐ Jonathan Lee is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, working on the infrastructure and systems that power OpenAI’s frontier AI models.
๐ผ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-lee-78824166/
๐ค https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/jonathan-lee
๐ค Connect with Andrew Liu
๐ Andrew Liu is Principal GPM on the Azure Cosmos DB team at Microsoft, helping customers build novel experiences on Azure’s distributed database.
๐ผ https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliuy/
๐ https://x.com/aliuy8
๐ค https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/andrew-liu
๐ค Connect with Steve Berg
๐ Steve Berg is CVP & GM, Server CPU Cloud at AMD, leading platform enablement for AMD hyperscale accounts with 29+ years in cloud infrastructure and semiconductors.
๐ผ https://www.linkedin.com/in/berg-steve/
๐ค https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/steve-berg
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Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 is a free virtual developer event focused on building modern, scalable applications with Azure Cosmos DB. Sessions feature Microsoft engineers, product teams, and members of the global developer community sharing real-world solutions and best practices.
Originally streamed on April 28, 2026 | 9:00 AM โ 2:00 PM PT
๐ Useful Links
โข Explore all sessions on-demand โ https://aka.ms/CosmosConf26Playlist
โข Take the Cosmos Conf Challenge. First 500 to complete gets a voucher for 100% free certificate exam for DP-420 โ https://aka.ms/CosmosDBConfChallenge
โข Azure DB Cosmos Conference 2026 Post-Event Survey โ https://aka.ms/CosmosConf2026Survey
โข Visit the conference website โ https://aka.ms/azurecosmosdbconf
โข Subscribe to Azure Cosmos DB on YouTube โ https://www.youtube.com/@AzureCosmosDB
โข Follow Azure Cosmos DB on X โ https://x.com/AzureCosmosDB
โข Follow Azure Cosmos DB on LinkedIn โ https://www.linkedin.com/company/azure-cosmos-db/
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