Microsoft Events presents an Ignite 2025 session featuring Sarah Bird, Natasha Crampton, Florent Ricci, and others, focusing on how Microsoft’s Trustworthy AI principles drive real-world capabilities and secure AI deployments.

Trustworthy AI at Microsoft: From Commitments to Capabilities

Session Overview

Presented at Microsoft Ignite 2025, this session features Microsoft leaders Sarah Bird, Natasha Crampton, Florent Ricci, Vivek Sinha, and guest industry experts. They discuss how Microsoft’s Trustworthy AI approach is implemented through commitments (security, sovereignty, safety, sustainability), product capabilities, and research.

Key Pillars of Trustworthy AI

  • Security: Prioritizing AI system security throughout design and deployment
  • Sovereignty: Respecting data residency and regulatory requirements
  • Sustainability: Ensuring AI innovations align with environmental commitments
  • Safety: Applying rigorous testing, validation, and risk assessment

Practical Implementations

  • Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio: Showcase responsible AI development tools, policy implementation as code, and change management for AI projects
  • Discussions around pre-deployment risk assessments, verification practices, and user education
  • Collaborations involving partners like Palo Alto Networks and Stanley Black & Decker highlight real-world adoption and new trust-building methods

Session Highlights by Chapter

  • Securing AI and Agentic Workflow Innovation: (Palo Alto Networks)
  • AI Design Principles & Trust Building via Testing: (Stanley Black & Decker)
  • Cross-Team Collaboration: Treating AI adoption as a team sport; educating users for greater trust
  • Navigating Legal and Security Challenges: Strategies for managing deployment risk in regulated environments
  • Pre-deployment Testing & Gamified Fact-Checking: Empowering users to validate AI outputs and sources
  • Global Deployment: Balancing consistency with necessary regional flexibility
  • Policies as Code: Using automated policy enforcement and change management for AI governance

Learn More

  • Sarah Bird
  • Natasha Crampton
  • Florent Ricci
  • Vivek Sinha
  • Ian Swanson

This session provides actionable insights for teams looking to build, deploy, and govern AI solutions on Microsoft platforms, keeping trust, risk management, and security at the forefront.