22-25 April 2026 
Borko Novakovic
Borko Novakovic is a Principal Group Product Manager in SQL team in Azure Data organization, who joined Microsoft 14 years ago. He’s been working on various projects in SQL, as an individual contributor and manager.
Over the last couple of years, he’s been working as the product leader for Azure SQL Managed Instance, platform-as-a-service option in Azure SQL portfolio that streamlines migration and modernization of SQL Server applications from on-premises to Microsoft Azure.
Prior to Managed Instance, Borko worked on major programmability and query troubleshooting improvements in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database, such as Temporal Tables, Query Store and Automatic Tuning. During his career in Microsoft, Borko had been engaged in product improvements for Microsoft Analytics Platform System and HDInsight.
Before joining Microsoft, Borko had opportunity to build Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solutions and flexible data integration pipelines within Asseco SEE, a European ISV that offers software solutions for financial industry vertical.
Sessions for 2026
Build Secure, Scalable AI Applications with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
Azure SQL Database Hyperscale is built for modern AI apps with native vector indexes, semantic search, and low-latency RAG. Scale securely with up to 30 replicas and 150MBps log speed. Invoke models via T-SQL and Azure AI Foundry to modernize mission-critical workloads.
When AI meets your database: Securing sensitive data in Azure SQL in an AI-driven world
As AI becomes embedded in every application, protecting sensitive data in Azure SQL is vital. This session explores how to secure sensitive data from AI agents and design a defense-in-depth model using Azure SQL's existing security stack - modern authentication, granular access control, data protection, monitoring, auditing, and more - to confidently use Azure SQL to power AI applications.