Indian-American software engineer Vaniya Agrawal who ‘shamed’ Microsoft CEOs at company’s 50th anniversary celebrations, disrupts Microsoft event again

The Indian-American engineer Vaniya Agrawal who disrupted Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebrations in April this year again created disorder at another high-profile Microsoft event. In the latest incident, she disrupted Microsoft’s ongoing developer event, Build 2025. Microsoft Build is the company’s annual developers conference. Vaniya Agrawal, along with another fired Microsoft employee Hossam Nasr, shouted at Microsoft’s head of security for AI, Neta Haiby.

Haiby was co-hosting a Build session on best security practices for AI, alongside Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s head of responsible AI, when these two former Microsoft employees disrupted the talk to protest against the company’s cloud contracts with the Israeli government.