Blaize Stewart is an AI and enterprise architecture leader, technology strategist, Microsoft MVP, author, and international speaker with more than two decades of experience spanning software development, infrastructure, cloud computing, distributed systems, enterprise architecture, and artificial intelligence.

His career began with programming and network administration while still in school and evolved through software engineering, cloud architecture, consulting, and enterprise architecture into senior technology leadership. Today, his work is centered on enterprise AI, architecture strategy, AI adoption and governance, modernization, and the organizational decisions required to turn emerging technology into sustainable business capability.

Blaize currently serves as AVP, AI and Enterprise Architecture at GBLI | Global Indemnity. He is a 10-time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, with current recognition in AI and Microsoft Foundry, as well as an O'Reilly author, technical educator, conference speaker, and longtime open-source contributor.