Summit Speakers

Donald Thompson is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, where he leads long-term innovation in AI and the future of work. He co-founded and leads a group at Microsoft focused on reimagining how organizations work in the agentic era.
Over the past 15 years, Donald has built advanced technologies that optimize business outcomes by operationalizing subject matter expertise — turning deep domain knowledge into systems that do real work.
His work sits at the frontier of what AI can become: active intelligence that doesn't wait to be asked, ambient intelligence that works alongside people without intruding, self-improving continuous systems that stay current and compound over time, and volitional and anticipatory systems that notice what needs doing before it's asked.