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James Codella, PhD

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James Codella, PhD

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Principal Product Manager Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft

James is a Product Manager at Azure Cosmos DB, where he drives AI product strategy in NoSQL, vector search, and AI-powered database services. With more than 15 years of experience in data, analytics, and machine learning, he has published over a dozen academic publications and has five patents. James holds degrees from Cornell University (B.S., M.Eng.) and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He resides near New York City with his wife and puppy.

Bio from: Microsoft Ignite 2025

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How Veeam delivers planet-scale semantic search with Azure Cosmos DB

When building enterprise-grade apps, your database must deliver massive scale and rapid, relevant search. Azure Cosmos DB provides reliable data storage, vector search, and full-text indexing. Explore new capabilities designed to simplify development and enhance AI and search performance. Learn from Azure Cosmos DB engineering team and Veeam on how to optimize any-scale scenarios for efficient and fast search.

From DEV to PROD: How to build agentic memory with Azure Cosmos DB

Confidently adopt AI and manage your AI apps, agents, and platforms. From assistive copilots to autonomous digital workers, gain visibility and control to prevent data oversharing, manage sprawl, defend against threats, and ensure compliance.

Agentic AI for creatives with Microsoft Foundry and data

Industries are embracing AI to empower artists, designers, and storytellers. In this breakout session, we’ll explore how agentic AI—powered by Microsoft Foundry and Azure databases—is enabling creatives. Join us to hear from three visionary customers: Pantone, TomTom, and Kantar. You’ll learn proven patterns for integrating AI into creative pipelines—from semantic search and generative design to intelligent agents that collaborate with humans.

Serverless GenAI: building scalable RAG apps with Azure Cosmos DB | BRK193

In this session, we’ll explore advanced strategies for scalable serverless RAG applications using Azure Cosmos DB and DiskANN. Topics include architecture simplification, data synchronization, scalability challenges, and multi-tenancy. We’ll discuss the latest developments in vector search, full-text search, and hybrid search in Azure Cosmos DB, showcasing real-world use cases from our customers like EY. Learn how to get started easily with LangChain and Semantic Kernel.

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀: * Bhaskar Bhatt * James Codella * Zhe Li

𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: This is one of many sessions from the Microsoft Ignite 2024 event. View even more sessions on-demand and learn about Microsoft Ignite at https://ignite.microsoft.com

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