Microsoft CVP Sumit Chauhan: AI-Powered Future & Tech Leadership

Sumit Chauhan is the Corporate Vice President of Office Product Group at Microsoft. 🚀 This episode is brought to you by Quill Meetings. 🚀 She heads up a wide portfolio of Microsoft 365 experiences, guiding product, design, and engineering teams for both M365 Copilot and M365’s flagship applications and creator tools. Her portfolio includes M365 Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Designer as well as Microsoft 365’s video solutions. She and her team are working to evolve the way we accomplish modern productivity across our lives, with a mission to create the next generation of authoring and storytelling experiences powered by new and powerful AI services. Prior to this, Sumit led the Office Engineering team. Her multi-disciplinary team was responsible for driving radical improvements in engineering workflow. Under her leadership, the Office team revolutionized its engineering methodology, moving from three-year cycles to continuous engineering with monthly "evergreen" releases. She also drove significant improvement on the core infrastructure for legacy engineering systems. Since joining Microsoft in 1996, Sumit has held numerous engineering leadership roles and is recognized for her technical acumen and product leadership. Earlier in her career, Sumit focused on development in Excel and led the Access product through several releases. In May 2021, Sumit was recognized by Forbes in the magazine’s 30 Inspirational Women series. She is an avid supporter and board member of Pratham Seattle – Pratham is an innovative learning organization created to improve the quality of education in India. Topics:

• Integrating AI into everyday work
• Building a culture of innovation within large, established organizations
• Developing a successful career at an iconic tech company

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