Earlier this year I was awarded Microsoft MVP for the 4x time in my career for my contributions in the AI community. Some of these contributions include speaking at conferences and meetups such as Microsoft AI Tour, Season of AI, Lightning Talks, writing articles for technical magazines, podcasts, webinars and so on.. 
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I was awarded in the AI Platform award category, more specifically the Trustworthy AI technology area: A sub-genre in the Azure AI Foundry ecosystem. This of course was something I was very proud of, seeing how a lot of my contributions circle around the importance of Trustworthiness and Responsible AI.

However this category far from covered all my contributions in the AI community, many of which involves contributions to various Microsoft AI products and projects, integrating with ML services, OpenAI and Semantic Kernel, sustainability aspects and architectural design of AI systems, not necessarily related to Trustworthiness.

well I guess in a sense everything is related to Trustworthiness if you want to shoehorn it.

Microsoft continuously revisits and consolidates the structure of the MVP award categories and so I was very pleased, and surprised, when I noticed that I’ ve been moved to the a new award category so as of September 2025, I'm a Microsoft MVP in Azure AI Foundry! 

And as of today, there are only six Swedish Microsoft MVP's in the Azure AI Foundry award category: Find all Microsoft MVP's here.

Might seem like a minor change from the outside but for me but this enables me to continue to focus broadly on my contributions to the Microsoft AI ecosystem and not having to worry about not having enough contributions in one very specific narrow genre to maintain the award.

I will of course continue promoting Responsible and Trustworthy AI strategies and advisory since this is a topic close to my heart, alongside my other more implementation-focused AI contributions. A much welcomed change to the award categories, thanks Microsoft!

Feels like receiving the award twice in the same year! 🥳