Kadri Umay is a Principal in Microsoft Cloud for Industry, Energy Data Services Group, focusing on Fortune 500 customers and partners delivering market impacting digital transformation initiatives on Microsoft Azure. He is based in Redmond, Washington. Kadri’s work includes engaging with internal and external stakeholders globally to develop a technology and business strategy and platform to deliver data platform capabilities addressing the needs of Microsoft’s largest customers in the energy industries in today’s disruptive market conditions. He works with the Microsoft Azure Industry teams mapping industry architectures to technology requirements and helping to define the features of the new products and capabilities.  Current projects include collaboration with Microsoft’s partner ecosystem to enable software capabilities on Microsoft Cloud in the areas of Energy Data Services, High Performance Compute, Remote Visualization, Data Platforms for Energy Industry, Energy Transition and technology implications, working with Microsoft’s largest customers, partners, field teams and standards bodies such as OSDU, PIDX. Before joining Microsoft in September 2000, Kadri worked in the process control and instrumentation industry developing and managing SCADA and automation projects. His experience includes software development, solution and enterprise architecture, project management, data science and new business/market development, and strategic alliances in the oil and gas, mining, chemicals and energy industries.  Kadri holds a BSc on Electrical and Electronics Engineering and MSc on Process Control and Mathematical Modelling of Dynamic Processes.