Strahinja Rodic

Strahinja is a Product Manager at Microsoft, specializing in enhancing the backup and restore features of Azure SQL Managed Instance. Before joining the Managed Instance team, he worked on Microsoft Fabric, where he contributed to developing Synapse Data Warehouse and serverless SQL pools in Azure Synapse Analytics. Strahinja is passionate about engaging with end-users, gathering feedback, identifying pain points, and crafting solutions to address their needs. In his life before Microsoft, Strahinja worked as a gameplay programmer, developing AAA video games.

Sessions for 2026

Building the Backbone of Agentic AI: A Unified Data Strategy with Microsoft Fabric

As we move from simple chatbots to autonomous Agentic Applications, the data requirements have shifted from static retrieval to dynamic interaction. Agents now need to read, write, and reason over data in real-time, blurring the lines between transactional (OLTP), real-time, and analytical (OLAP) workloads. In this session, we will demonstrate with a real application how Microsoft Fabric serves as the comprehensive "nervous system" for next-generation AI agents.