Energy & Resources Industry Director - EMEA, Microsoft

Yara Alatrach is an AI and energy strategy leader working at the intersection of technology, partnerships, and industry transformation. At Microsoft, she works with executives and government stakeholders to shape large-scale AI and cloud transformation programmes from agentic AI deployments with national oil companies to responsible AI adoption frameworks for the energy sector. With a career spanning reservoir engineering, strategy consulting, and global technology, Yara brings a rare end-to-end perspective on how AI is reshaping the energy industry, from the field to the boardroom.