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 — and where modern data platforms are headed next.

👤 Connect with Kirill Gavrylyuk
📝 Kirill Gavrylyuk is Vice President for Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft, leading product and engineering since the Cosmos DB launch in 2017.

💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirillgavrylyuk/
🎤 https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/kirill-gavrylyuk

👤 Connect with Guillermo Rauch
📝 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.

💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/rauchg/
𝕏 https://x.com/rauchg
🌐 https://vercel.com/
🎤 https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/guillermo-rauch

👤 Connect with Jonathan Lee
📝 Jonathan Lee is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, working on the infrastructure and systems that power OpenAI's frontier AI models.

💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-lee-78824166/
🎤 https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/jonathan-lee

👤 Connect with Andrew Liu
📝 Andrew Liu is Principal GPM on the Azure Cosmos DB team at Microsoft, helping customers build novel experiences on Azure's distributed database.

💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliuy/
𝕏 https://x.com/aliuy8
🎤 https://developer.azurecosmosdb.com/conf/#speaker/andrew-liu

👤 Connect with Steve Berg
📝 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.

💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/berg-steve/
🎤 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 – 2:00 PM PT

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Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 Keynote