Barcelona | October 15, 2018 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Rodney Clark is the Vice President of the Worldwide Internet of Things Device Experience and Mixed Reality Sales team. In this role, Rodney is responsible for building Intelligent Solutions, from edge to cloud, with the more than 9,000 ecosystem partners, and driving sales and go to market execution to accelerate partner solution deployment.

A 19+ year Microsoft veteran, Rodney has held a number of executive positions within the company including, General Manager of the Samsung Alliance, General Manager of Operations & Sales Excellence for the Worldwide Small, Mid-Market Solutions and Partner Team, General Manager and Global Business Leader for the Worldwide SMS&P Public Sector, General Manager of Microsoft Across America, a Technical Sales and Marketing Evangelism organization. Prior to Microsoft, Rodney spent nine years with IBM in sales, marketing, and management capacities.

In addition to his professional career, Rodney is passionate about giving back to his local community. Rodney serves in an advisory capacity to the Board of Directors for the Children’s Museum Seattle. Rodney also serves on the board of trustees of Middlesex school in Concord Massachusetts.

Director of the Azure IoT Engineering Team on the Program Management side, responsible for Microsoft IoT Central, Azure IoT Suite, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service, our IoT Device SDK, the Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform and more.

Sarah Maston is a cloud solution architect in the Partner Device Solutions (PDS) IoT Solutions group at Microsoft. She is the IoT Solutions Lead for Microsoft’s Partner Ecosystem in the Americas. She specializes in process architecture and data solution architecture.

Prior to Microsoft, Sarah won an Excellence & Eminence Award at IBM for her invention of the Nutrition Graph and an Innovation Award for the invention of Simple Data Pipe. In her 20 year career, she has architected many of the data warehouses out in the world including those at Monster.com, CouchSurfing.com, and Boston Medical Center. Sarah holds a BA in Psychology and Women’s Studies from Boston University. She is a graduate candidate for the MLA in Information Management Systems at Harvard University.

Søren Lau leads Microsoft IoT Solution Sales in EMEA with business and organizational accountabilities designed to accelerate device-led cloud solutions with key partners and customers across the region. Søren is also a member of the worldwide IoT Solution Sales leadership team.

Galen Hunt founded and lead the Azure Sphere program at Microsoft Research, building the first end-to-end solution for creating highly-secured, connected MCU-based devices.

Patrick Ward is a Principle Solution Specialist, IoT for Microsoft. In this role, Patrick helps Microsoft’s customers across EMEA to leverage the power of IoT to transform their businesses.

Patrick began his career in Product Development at Nortel and has led various management roles in UK, Canada, and Ireland across telecoms, internet, financial services and cloud computing.

Patrick has held a number of roles in Microsoft, including Head of Audience Marketing and Director of Evangelism in Microsoft Ireland. As Windows Business Group Lead, he launched Windows 8, Windows 10 and Surface in the Irish market.

A native of Dublin, Patrick has a Degree in Electronic Engineering from Dublin Institute of Technology and an MBA from UCD Smurfit Business School.

Marcello Majonchi is a Program Manager at Microsoft where he works in the Azure engineering team driving strategy and product roadmap for Azure IoT Central. A veteran of the IoT space, he has a passion for helping people transform their work and life by designing new, simpler, and more efficient software solutions on the edge and the cloud, and evangelizing about the value that technology can unlock, publishing articles and books, and speaking at conferences and events.

Ben has been with BlueMetal for two years and is responsible for managing architects and developers as well as ensuring project delivery. He has been building with IoT solutions for a number of years in areas like industrial, residential, agriculture and heavy machinery. He has been writing software in .NET to solve business problems by introducing automation and building robust, cloud-based applications. He has worked in many industries including service-based organizations, lecture capture software, and commercial insurance. His passion is to be able to deliver value to his customers as well as building solutions where scaling and performance are part of the design from the first line of code to go-live.

Laurent Remont is the CTO of S&T and Kontron, a company offering Industrial IoT solutions and IT services. In 2017, S&T acquired Kontron, an embedded computing OEM, to become a leader in IoT solutions.

Leveraging software services from S&T and the edge computing products of Kontron, Laurent is driving the combined organization toward innovative end-to-end IoT solutions making customer’s digitalization journey easier and faster.

Laurent joined Kontron in 2016 as VP engineering and was then successively promoted CTO of Kontron and then CTO of S&T Group overall. Before this, Laurent holds various executive management positions in business, strategy and R&D at STMicroelectronics, driving successfully numerous innovations to business over 15 years. He started his career as a research engineer at Philips in Paris.

Laurent is 46, French and he lives in Munich. He holds an engineering degree from Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France (INPG-PHELMA).

Peter Hoffmeister is the Sr. Director of the IoT Ecosystem Technical Sales team within the Microsoft Partner Devices & Solutions organization. This mission of this worldwide team is to help Microsoft’s partners accelerate their digital transformation by helping them deliver repeatable edge-to-action IoT solutions rapidly to market and at scale.

Peter has been with Microsoft since 2007, largely in technical sales roles supporting a variety of partner ecosystems including local PC system builders and large multi-national OEM partners.

He has more than 25 years of experience across the manufacturing, PC and telecommunications industries with roles ranging from product design, program management, and engineering to product marketing. Peter received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Gonzaga University and MBA from the University of Washington.

Alex is an enthusiastic believer in the energy transformation envisioning solutions which offer efficiency and comfort in a secure, sustainable and easy to use way. He is leading the development of the E.ON Home Energy Management platform pioneering on the innovative Azure Sphere MCU.

Alex is an internationally experienced executive with ~20 years’ experience in Customer Value Management, Marketing and Product Development roles within industries like telecom, energy, financial services and retail, in large multinational companies (E.ON, Telstra, Vodafone and Aviva).