Robert Bruckner is a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Microsoft Agent 365 and Microsoft Dataverse. He leads architecture of interoperable business data and enterprise agent platforms, spanning Power Platform connectors and MCP servers, enabling real-time grounding, action-taking, and event-driven workflows. His work focuses on advancing enterprise AI agents that are powerful, enterprise-ready, and trustworthy – anchored in secure agent identity, grounded business context, governed actions, end-to-end observability, risk monitoring, compliance, and ecosystem integration.