---
title: "Harald Kirschner"
category: "people"
role: "Principal Product Manager"
company: "Microsoft"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/digitarald"
twitter: "https://twitter.com/digitarald"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Harald Kirschner

## Profile
Principal Product Manager at [[microsoft|Microsoft]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/digitarald)
- [X / Twitter](https://twitter.com/digitarald)

## Biography
Harald Kirschner is a Principal Product Manager at [[microsoft|Microsoft]] working on VS Code and GitHub Copilot AI coding experiences for tens of millions of developers. He is active in the VS Code and developer-experience ecosystem and has spoken on agent memory, MCP, and AI coding tools.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-harald-kirschner-surviving-your-own-velocity-how-vs-code-ships-weekly-with-40-people]] — Surviving Your Own Velocity: How VS Code Ships Weekly with 40 People (2026-06-29, 3:20pm-3:40pm)
- [[2026-06-30-harald-kirschner-surviving-your-own-velocity-how-vs-code-ships-weekly-with-40-people]] — Surviving Your Own Velocity: How VS Code Ships Weekly with 40 People (2026-06-30, 1:30pm-1:50pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-harald-kirschner-surviving-your-own-velocity-how-vs-code-ships-weekly-with-40-people|Surviving Your Own Velocity: How VS Code Ships Weekly with 40 People]]
- [[2026-06-30-harald-kirschner-surviving-your-own-velocity-how-vs-code-ships-weekly-with-40-people|Surviving Your Own Velocity: How VS Code Ships Weekly with 40 People]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-eOxOzcw70f0` — 10 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-eOxOzcw70f0`: code, vibes, learning, clone, even, exists, fully, give.
- Evidence links for `youtube-eOxOzcw70f0`: [[youtube-eOxOzcw70f0]], [[youtube-eOxOzcw70f0-slides]], [[youtube-eOxOzcw70f0-dense-slides]], [[youtube-eOxOzcw70f0-reconstructed-slides]]