Heavy-hitting keynote speakers set to inspire at TechEd
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1st July
2013
Heavy-hitting keynote speakers set to inspire at TechEd
Enhancing human intelligence with big data, and strengthening human capability through technology, will be on the agenda for more than 2,000 people at Microsoft TechEd New Zealand 2013.
Microsoft is proud to announce that Kiwi-born TED Fellow, Sean Gourley, and the driving force behind Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform, Scott Guthrie, will be keynote speakers at this year’s Microsoft TechEd technology conference.
Sean Gourley brings a wealth of academic and corporate experience. Gourley is a physicist, decathlete, political advisor, Rhodes Scholar, and entrepreneur. He is originally from New Zealand and helped start New Zealand’s first nanotech company. Gourley turned his scientific mind to analysing complex data to understand what makes us go to war, when, and why.
In 2010 Gourley launched Quid, a big data company that builds software to augment human intelligence. He counts some of the biggest companies and governments in the world as customers, who use Quid to understand everything from political protests to high frequency trading.
Sean will be joined by Scott
Guthrie – one of Microsoft’s understated yet legendary
developers. In 2008 at age 32, Guthrie became one of the
youngest Corporate Vice Presidents at Microsoft when he took
up the role within Microsoft's Server and Tools Business
division. He is responsible for the teams that build the
.NET Framework, Silverlight, the XAML runtimes for Windows
Phone and Windows 8, and many of the tooling features within
Visual Studio. In 2011, Guthrie took the lead of the Windows
Azure Application Platform Team.
Running from September
10th to 13th, Microsoft TechEd New Zealand will feature 144
breakout sessions spanning 10 technical tracks, in addition
to this world-class keynote address.
To purchase conference tickets or find out more, visit https://newzealand.msteched.com/
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