I lead Microsoft’s enterprise AI agent strategy. Here’s what every company should know about how agents will rewrite work

Charles Lamanna is a former startup founder, now Microsoft Corporate President, who spent his early years revolutionizing development with intuitive low code platforms like Power Platform. Today, Charles leads Microsoft’s Business and Industry Copilot division and is the engineering visionary behind agentic business transformation at Microsoft.   

In his role, Charles works with customers to advance faster, innovate smarter, and empower their teams by embedding AI agents into every process and workflow, ushering in a once-in-a-generation shift happening within industries, business processes and the way work gets done.