Derrick ConnellDerrick is one of the world's leading software executives in the fields of Search and AI. From 2011 to 2020 he was the corporate vice president for Microsoft's Search and AI business and one of the leading advisors to the current CEO Satya Nadella onthe company's AI strategy. During this period he created a profitable multi-billion dollar business for the company. Derrick also led global product and engineering teams comprised of 4,000 of the world's best product managers, machine learning scientists, software developers and designers, tasked with delivering global products and services directly to consumers via partners such as Apple, Amazon, Meta, Twitter and Yahoo, or through Microsoft products such as Windows, Office, Azure and xBox. He has also co-created products with companies such as; Apple with the integration of Microsoft's core AI service as part of Siri, Facebook with the co-development of a social search service, and a number of collaborations with Twitter, Amazon and Yahoo. He is the holder of multiple US patents and has multiple patents pending, including one with Bill Gates and others with several of the world's leading information retrieval computer scientists. He was a founding member of the team who created the Bing search engine the technology powers Microsoft's search engine. Derrick also led the development of many new search and AI features in Microsoft Windows, Office, and xBox. Over the course of his career at Microsoft he has worked directly with all three of the company's CEO's, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella.Derrick currently works as an advisor to many companies around the world, including the UK based Ocado. Advising them on their technology investments in robotics and AI. He also advises innovation start-ups in the field of mixed reality, helping them deliver on their vision of the Metaverse and AI to deliver products across multiple fields. One company, Mesmerise, recently launched a joint venture with the Mayo Clinic. Read More Read Less