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As artificial intelligence evolves, it’s changing how we learn.
Marcus Fontoura walks us through a transformative journey of learning and what it means for us and generations to come. His talk explores what parts of learning will remain fundamentally unchanged and what will likely change with AI.
Marcus Fontoura is currently in his second tenure as Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, where he works as CTO for Azure Core. He is also the author of A Platform Mindset: My lessons from developer to CTO, published in 2025 by 8080 Books.
Most recently, he was the CTO at Stone.co (2022 2025), where he led the engineering organization. Previously, in his first tenure as Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft (2013-2022), Marcus worked as the chief architect for Azure Compute and led the Azure efficiency team. Marcus also had posts at Google, Yahoo, and IBM Research. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Princeton University and has received his Ph.D. in Computer Science by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil (PUC-Rio) This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
As artificial intelligence evolves, it’s changing how we learn.
Marcus Fontoura walks us through a transformative journey of learning and what it means for us and generations to come. His talk explores what parts of learning will remain fundamentally unchanged and what will likely change with AI.
Marcus Fontoura is currently in his second tenure as Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, where he works as CTO for Azure Core. He is also the author of A Platform Mindset: My lessons from developer to CTO, published in 2025 by 8080 Books.
Most recently, he was the CTO at Stone.co (2022 2025), where he led the engineering organization. Previously, in his first tenure as Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft (2013-2022), Marcus worked as the chief architect for Azure Compute and led the Azure efficiency team. Marcus also had posts at Google, Yahoo, and IBM Research. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Princeton University and has received his Ph.D. in Computer Science by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil (PUC-Rio) This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
