Senior Product Manager
Germany
Session Abstract
Come hear the story of a team of product managers at Microsoft — distributed across Norway, Germany, and Kenya — who went from hating AI to using it in everyday tasks. At first, we rolled our eyes at hearing about AI or Microsoft 365 Copilot. It felt like extra noise on top of already full workloads. But after experimenting with small, low-risk use cases, something shifted: we began to see how AI could amplify our strengths, fill in our gaps, and raise the overall quality of our work — not just make it faster. In this session, I’ll share what we tried, what worked (and what didn’t), and how we became one of the first teams in our org to fully embrace AI — offering practical strategies to help other teams move from resistance to real results.
Note to event organizers
Over the past nine months, my team has been a pioneer in adopting AI tools within my organization in Microsoft. In this session, I plan to share practical, real-world examples of how we made AI part of our everyday work: organizing data so it’s usable by Microsoft 365 Copilot, relying on meeting transcripts to drive follow-ups, and showing how each team member uses AI differently — from vibe coding and writing complex queries, to drafting spec documents, challenging ideas, researching markets,
Ajla Badza
Ajla Badza is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft working on the future of knowledge work. She currently focuses on agentic and proactive scenarios in Microsoft 365 Copilot. What she brings to the stage is both sides of the AI shift: shaping the products that drive it, and rethinking her own work because of them. Her talks focus on the honest realities of changing how knowledge workers operate — what actually shifts, what gets in the way, and what teams can do to make the best of AI today while preparing for what's coming next.