Brian Benz

Principal AI Advocate

Brian is a Principal AI Advocate on the Cloud Native Developer Relations team at Microsoft, with 13+ years of experience helping developers succeed across AI, Cloud, and open-source technologies. He specializes in building technical strategy and trusted relationships with partners including GitHub, NVIDIA, Arm, Inc., Oracle, IBM, Broadcom and Red Hat. Find him on most of the socials and GitHub at @bbenz. A current list of Brian's talks can be found at https://aka.ms/brianspeaking.

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MCP Dev Summit Toronto 2026

Oct 5, 2026 – Oct 6, 2026 · In person · scheduled

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AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026

Oct 22, 2026 – Oct 23, 2026 · In person · scheduled

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At this event: Microsoft

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Event agntcon-mcpcon-north-america-2026; role speaker; source title: Principal AI Advocate; source affiliations: Microsoft.
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Event mcp-dev-summit-toronto-2026; role speaker; source title: Principal AI Advocate; source affiliations: Microsoft.