In his role as Vice President, General Manager – Azure Edge AI Devices, Platforms and Services, Moe Tanabian leads a multidisciplinary organization that includes engineering, product management, program management, design and ecosystem. The team has a clear mandate to create new markets, products & technologies in IoT/Edge AI through integration of platforms from silicon to service. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked for Samsung as Corporate Vice President and CDO of Smart Devices and IoT Platforms where he led and developed several new product categories of AI and IoT-based products that integrated HW, SW and various forms of AI, including smart speakers, robots, ambient intelligent spaces, smart appliances, and more. Before Samsung, Moe worked for AWS and Amazon and built several IaaS, and PaaS cloud services, and devices including Amazon Fire Tablet, Amazon Fire Phone, and Amazon Fire TV. Moe started tinkering with Digital and Analog Electronics and wrote his first line of code when he was a young teenager. After finishing engineering in college, he worked as a software engineer for over a decade. Later in his career he developed a great sense of respect for and interest in product and design disciplines, and how magical products are an intersection of leading-edge engineering, great design and fluid business model. He holds a MSc from Carleton University in Canada in Computer & Information Science, a MBA from Queen’s School of business in Canada and studied with Clay Christensen at Harvard Business School on Disruptive Innovation. He also studied design at Stanford school. Moe is a Senior member of the IEEE.