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Known as the “Founder of SharePoint,” Jeff came to Microsoft because of the company’s approach to solving challenges and empowering people through software. A developer at heart, today Jeff leads Microsoft’s collaboration platform including Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive, which serve more than 1 billion people around the globe.
Outside of work, Jeff is an avid runner, and an avid fan of Disney and The Beatles. Jeff has an MBA from Harvard and a BS from New York University.
Jeff Teper will open ESPC with a keynote on The New Frontier of Work: Copilot, AI, and the Future of Microsoft 365. Watch now 👇
Jaime Teevan is Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow at Microsoft, where she is responsible for driving research-backed innovation in the company’s core products.
Jaime is world-renowned for her research into productivity and personalized search, and was recognized by TIME as one of the top 100 people to play an instrumental role in AI development and societal advancement.
She led the creation of M365 Copilot by integrating AI into Microsoft products, invented the first personalized search algorithm used by Bing, and coordinated the company’s hybrid work research during the pandemic. Previously she was Technical Advisor to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Jaime is an ACM Fellow and a member of the SIGIR and CHI Academies. She serves on the boards of Shutterstock, the Computing Research Association, and is an alumni fellow of Yale’s Board of Trustees.
She holds a Ph.D. in AI from MIT and a B.S. from Yale, and is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington.
At ESPC, Jaime will discuss: From One to Many: The future of AI is Collaborative
Heather currently serves as Principal PM Manager for the Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group, Collaborative Applications and Platform Group at Microsoft. She leads a charter of engagement, evangelism, and growth by building strategy, programs, and connections for our community members with Microsoft.
Heather is a former Microsoft MVP for Microsoft 365 Apps and Services. Over the past twenty-three years, Heather has been a marketing executive for multiple tech companies and Head Maven and Founder of her impact consultancy, Creative Maven.
As a consultant, executive event producer, and fractional Chief Marketing Officer, Heather has produced thousands of events, campaigns, and experiences in the high-tech and entertainment industries. She is also a corporate and community keynote speaker who hosts and moderates in-person and online events and company meetings. Heather loves sharing stories and interviewing people. Her sassy podcast, Mavens Do It Better, features extraordinary experts who light a spark in our world and will get a reboot in 2024. Heather is a published playwright, theatre actor, director, and graduate of the University of Washington School of Drama, Seattle, Washington.
Heather is originally from Michigan and Illinois and lives in Marina del Rey, California, close to LAX, so she can continue to travel and speak around the world about healthy workplaces, leveling up one’s power skills, community, and diversity & inclusion.
Together with Karuana Gatimu, Heather will keynote on: Beyond the Prompt: Building an AI‑Resilient Career with Power Skills
I am a business architect with a passion for people, technology and digital content. It’s the people and business outcomes that matter more than the tech! Using 25 years of technology and marketing experience I help drive usage and adoption of AI & Microsoft 365 services including Copilot, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Planner and Viva to land value in the real world.
Karuana is the executive producer of the Community News Bureau for Microsoft producing original content and amplifying the voices of others including Community Learning Channel, Mondays at Microsoft and Coffee in the Cloud on YouTube. My team delivers adoption.microsoft.com the flagship site for user enablement content for Microsoft.
I’m the author of the Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist & User Enablement courses.
Alongside, Heather Cook, Karuana will keynote on: Beyond the Prompt: Building an AI‑Resilient Career with Power Skills
Paula Januszkiewicz is the Founder and CEO of CQURE Inc. and CQURE Academy. She is also Enterprise Security MVP, honorable Microsoft Regional Director for CEE and a world-class cybersecurity expert, consulting customers all around the world. In 2017, Paula graduated from Harvard Business School.
She is a top speaker at conferences including Microsoft Ignite (she was rated No. 1 among 1,100 speakers at a conference with 26000 attendees), RSA (in 2017 in USA her two sessions were amongst the five hottest sessions), Black Hat 2018 USA or Gartner Security Summit. Her presentations gather thousands of people.
In 2019, Paula’s presentation was voted best of Black Hat Asia 2019 Briefings! Paula has 17 years of experience in the cybersecurity field, performing penetration tests, architecture consulting, training and seminars. Every year, before the pandemic, she took over 215 flights to provide security services, now she delivers tons of projects online.
Paula also creates security awareness programs for various organizations, including awareness sessions for top management. Paula is a member of the Technical Advisory Board at Royal Bank of Scotland – helping to keep its security at the highest level possible! What is more, Paula has access to a source code of Windows!
Watch her keynote Hacker’s Perspective on New Risks: Revising the Cybersecurity Priorities 2025 now 👇
As Data Scientist at Tecflix, Rafal focuses on making advanced analytics and artificial intelligence easy and useful for his clients.
He can help you find valuable, meaningful patterns and statistically valid correlations using data science and machine learning in data sets both big and small. Rafal is also known for his work in business intelligence, data protection, enterprise architecture, and solution delivery. While majority of his clients come from consumer and corporate finance, entertainment, healthcare, IT, retail, and the public sectors, Rafal has worked in almost all industries.
He has been a popular speaker at major IT conferences since 1998, and he had the honour of sharing keynote platforms with Bill Gates and Neil Armstrong. A natural educator, he explains complex concepts in simple terms in his enjoyably energetic style.
Rafal was born in Poland. He left it in 1990 to study computing in United Kingdom, where he earned BEng in Computing Science, followed by MSc in Foundations of Advanced Information Technology, at Imperial College, University of London. His studies were sponsored by Oxford Computer Group Ltd, where he later worked as a developer, trainer, and a consultant. Since 2000 he has worked for Project Botticelli Ltd, and in 2020 he founded a new online learning company, Tecflix.com.
Outside of IT, Rafal spends a quarter of every year finding abstractions in natural landscapes, expressing them through traditional, black-and-white, large-format film photography, making silver-gelatin prints by hand—see rafal.net. You can also follow Rafal on Twitter, or connect with him on LinkedIn.
You can watch Rafal’s keynote Will AI Become Intelligent? now 👇
