Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 Keynote

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โ€‹ย 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.

๐Ÿ‘ค Connect with Kirill Gavrylyuk
๐Ÿ“ Kirill Gavrylyuk is Vice President for Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft, leading product and engineering since the Cosmos DB launch in 2017.

๐Ÿ’ผ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirillgavrylyuk/
๐ŸŽค https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/kirill-gavrylyuk

๐Ÿ‘ค Connect with Guillermo Rauch
๐Ÿ“ 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.

๐Ÿ’ผ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rauchg/
๐• https://x.com/rauchg
๐ŸŒ https://vercel.com/
๐ŸŽค https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/guillermo-rauch

๐Ÿ‘ค Connect with Jonathan Lee
๐Ÿ“ Jonathan Lee is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, working on the infrastructure and systems that power OpenAI’s frontier AI models.

๐Ÿ’ผ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-lee-78824166/
๐ŸŽค https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/jonathan-lee

๐Ÿ‘ค Connect with Andrew Liu
๐Ÿ“ Andrew Liu is Principal GPM on the Azure Cosmos DB team at Microsoft, helping customers build novel experiences on Azure’s distributed database.

๐Ÿ’ผ https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliuy/
๐• https://x.com/aliuy8
๐ŸŽค https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/andrew-liu

๐Ÿ‘ค Connect with Steve Berg
๐Ÿ“ 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.

๐Ÿ’ผ https://www.linkedin.com/in/berg-steve/
๐ŸŽค https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/steve-berg

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

๐Ÿ”— Useful Links
โ€ข Explore all sessions on-demand โ€” https://aka.ms/CosmosConf26Playlist
โ€ข 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
โ€ข Azure DB Cosmos Conference 2026 Post-Event Survey โ€” https://aka.ms/CosmosConf2026Survey
โ€ข Visit the conference website โ€” https://aka.ms/azurecosmosdbconf
โ€ข Subscribe to Azure Cosmos DB on YouTube โ€” https://www.youtube.com/@AzureCosmosDB
โ€ข Follow Azure Cosmos DB on X โ€” https://x.com/AzureCosmosDB
โ€ข Follow Azure Cosmos DB on LinkedIn โ€” https://www.linkedin.com/company/azure-cosmos-db/

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