Sharmila Chokalingam

Sharmila Chokalingam is an AI product marketer focused on multi-model enterprise adoption: helping organizations choose foundation models for specific business problems and deploy them securely. In 2024, she was a senior product marketing manager at Microsoft working on Azure AI.

At the AI Engineer World’s Fair, she illustrated the Azure AI Model Catalog through three distinct enterprise applications: EY’s use of generative AI for professional tasks such as documentation and summarization; CMA CGM’s application of Mistral models to customer-service workflows; and Bridgestone’s use of Nixtla’s TimeGen model for demand forecasting.

Her Azure AI conference session emphasized that companies may need multiple specialized models across different workflows, alongside continuous model evaluation, responsible AI practices, and enterprise data privacy. She highlighted practical concerns about whether customer prompts and proprietary information are shared with model providers or used for training, positioning governance and security as essential requirements for moving AI applications into production.