ISTA speaker
Ayca Bas
Developer Advocate, Microsoft
Confirmed for ISTA 2026
The ISTA 2026 programme is not published yet, so no session is listed here for that edition. See what is confirmed.

Biography
Ayca Bas is a Developer Advocate at Microsoft, working at the intersection of product, engineering, and developer communities to drive the practical adoption of AI. She designs and scales developer programs, hands-on experiences, and content frameworks that turn complex capabilities into structured and applied learning journeys. Her work focuses on building repeatable programs that enable developers to go from exploration to implementation at scale. She regularly shares insights and learnings with the broader developer ecosystem on LinkedIn.
One edition
Role and company as each edition published them — a title changes between years, and the archive is kept as it was.
- 2026
Developer Advocate
One story featuring this speaker
Microsoft's Ayca Bas comes to ISTA 2026 from the gap between an AI demo and a shipped feature
Her published trail is not documentation but hackathons — and the unglamorous business of getting a copilot out of a studio and into Microsoft Teams, where colleagues and their permissions actually are.



