---
title: "Pablo Castro"
category: "people"
role: "Distinguished Engineer and CVP"
company: "Microsoft"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pabloc"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Pablo Castro

## Profile
Distinguished Engineer and CVP at [[microsoft|Microsoft]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pabloc)

## Biography
Pablo leads the AI Knowledge team in the CoreAI division at [[microsoft|Microsoft]], where he focuses on building state-of-the-art information understanding and retrieval systems for AI applications and agents, including products such as Foundry IQ, Azure AI Search and Azure Content Understanding.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-pablo-castro-on-ai-and-knowledge]] — On AI and Knowledge (2026-06-29, 9:05am-9:25am)

## 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-pablo-castro-on-ai-and-knowledge|On AI and Knowledge]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-htM02KMNZnk` — 89,050 transcript words; 4 slide-derived text signals
- Transcript signals for `youtube-htM02KMNZnk`: model, code, models, loop, well, software, first, team.
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-htM02KMNZnk`: cycles, stacking, loops, tokens, tools, tasks, throughput, many.
- Evidence links for `youtube-htM02KMNZnk`: [[youtube-htM02KMNZnk]], [[youtube-htM02KMNZnk-transcript]], [[youtube-htM02KMNZnk-slides]], [[youtube-htM02KMNZnk-dense-slides]], [[youtube-htM02KMNZnk-reconstructed-slides]]

## Livestream Appearances
- [[2026-06-29-pablo-castro-on-ai-and-knowledge|On AI and Knowledge]] — [watch at 00:10:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htM02KMNZnk&t=628s) in WF2026: Software Factories & Keynotes (Day 1).