Pablo Castro

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CVP & Distinguished Engineer Azure AI Search

Pablo is a Corporate Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. He currently leads the AI Knowledge team, part of the CoreAI division, where he focuses on building state-of-the-art knowledge understanding and retrieval systems for AI applications and agents, including products such as Azure AI Search and Azure Content Understanding. Pablo’s interests include information retrieval, machine learning, distributed systems, and database systems.

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Community Theater: Shaping the Future of Microsoft Foundry

2025-11-21 · Microsoft Ignite 2025

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with Roelant Dieben (Sopra Steria) , Pablo Castro (Azure AI Search) , Quirine van Walt Meijer (Microsoft) , Luis Bitencourt-Emilio , Shawn Henry (Microsoft)

AI/ML Microsoft

In this informal conversation, Roelant Dieben, AI MVP, engages Microsoft AI leaders on the future of AI and the role of community in shaping it. Discover how MVPs influence product direction through feedback loops, drive innovation with agentic AI, and help Microsoft build tools that reflect real-world needs. This session offers a candid look at how collaboration fuels the evolution of Microsoft Foundry.

Foundry IQ: the future of RAG with knowledge retrieval and AI Search

2025-11-19 · Microsoft Ignite 2025 Watch

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AI/ML Azure Microsoft RAG Cyber Security

Agents need context. How should we connect data to our agents for optimal context? In this session we will introduce Foundry IQ, the knowledge layer for agents, and the latest developments from Azure AI Search and Microsoft Foundry. Learn about multi-source RAG orchestration, retrieval steering, dynamic security controls and agentic RAG.