Leveraging technology to drive positive impact for businesses and people’s lives is what inspires Shirley. In her leadership roles at Microsoft, and throughout her 30+ year career in the industry, she has prioritized harnessing the power of technology to drive meaningful enterprise results. She does this by building and leading top performing, diverse and widely distributed sales teams who work with partners and customers to deliver intelligent systems and solutions. This is where Shirley thrives and in doing so drives a positive impact on the customer, partner and sales team satisfaction. Most recently this includes working with Microsoft partners to successfully bring digital business transformation to customers across the Asia region by delivering solutions built on Azure cloud services that collect and analyze data to deliver business insights and drive intelligent actions that have meaningful business and market impact.

In her ten years with Microsoft Shirley has held multiple leadership positions managing partner and customer engagement teams. Before Microsoft, Shirley co-founded a successful retail solutions start-up where she served as VP WW Sales & Business Development for six years. Preceding that Shirley held a variety of leadership positions with Fujitsu across geographies including the UK, Caribbean, and the Americas. Shirley Strachan is a passionate leader, a raving fan of technology, sales, business development, and strategy, who has also relished the opportunity to experience a multitude of cultures having lived and worked in numerous geographies during her career.

Pauline Hsiao is Azure Sphere Solution Specialist. Azure Sphere is Microsoft IoT team's new product portfolio to provide partners a highly secured MCU platform on IoT devices for end-to-end solutions. With more than 10 years experience in Microsoft on vertical industry, Pauline works with partners on IoT applications, and help partners to leverage Microsoft resources/programs for time to market to build a secure intelligent IoT world.

Sarah は、パートナー エコシステムと連携して、Azure のグローバルでスケーラブルな IoT ソリューションを構築しています。プロセス アーキテクチャとデータ ソリューション アーキテクチャの専門家です。 また、安全性に関する通知と対応のサードパーティ製ソリューション アクセラレータである Project Edison の共同創設者であり、Microsoft Polaris Award を受賞した経験を持ちます。

Windows IoTチームの使命は、「すべてのデバイスビルダーにとって最適なプラットフォームとサービスになる」ことです。アンドリューは、マイクロソフトのIoTデバイスパートナーグループ内の販売戦略および運用のシニアディレクターとして、急速に変化するIoTデバイスビジネスのビジネス変革計画と運用能力開発の両方をリードしています。

マイクロソフトでの17年間で、アンドリューは、マイクロソフトの英国子会社のエンタープライズセールス、エンタープライズサービス、パブリックセクター、マーケティング＆オペレーション部門で職務に就き、スモール＆中規模ソリューション＆パートナーグループおよびOEM部門。マイクロソフトに入社する前は、英国政府内でさまざまなエンジニアリング、管理、および政策決定の役割を担っていました。

アンドリューは、イギリスのヨーク大学を卒業し、電子工学の修士号を取得しました。彼は公認エンジニアであり、外部の仕事は熱心なピアニストです。

Dr. Rashmi Misra heads Artificial Intelligence Business Development, for Microsoft.

Working closely with ecosystem partners, customers and product teams Rashmi is responsible for proving forefront solutions and partnerships combining AI, mixed reality and Edge as well as other emergent technologies at Microsoft.

Rashmi has been at the forefront of intelligent systems for over 20 years, managing network applications, cloud, media, IoT and M2M businesses for HPE where most recently she was the Head of AI Solutions for High Performance Compute solutions.

Rashmi previously led Motorola's worldwide System Integration portfolio and was instrumental in deploying some of the first expert and AI systems mobile networks. She owns six international patents for intelligent optimisation, automated network health and monetisation of traffic on telecom networks.

Rashmi has a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence on Multi-Agent Reasoning Systems, from Exeter University, UK and an MBA from Warwick University, UK.

Tim has worked in IT for over 20 years across a variety of technical, project, analysis, support and sales orientated roles in both Australia and the UK. Working in small and large organisations has given him exposure to many complex and diverse infrastructures.

Over the past 7 years Tim has been an SME within the Mobile Device Management space and more recently part of a large retailers Disruptive Technologies Team as a technical architect and strategy resource.

While contributing to many different projects including ML, Image recognition and re-identification, his primary focus as technical lead was developing IOT strategies, leading IOT projects and POCs across retail, supply chain and services.

Tim has a real passion for technology innovation and its ever-increasing influence on industry and has created a number of successful thought leadership groups to collaborate and network.

Tim is looking forward to helping customers develop IOT strategies and utilise Azure services to unlock critical insights from digitized assets to drive digital transformation.

Veli-Matti is a Chief Technology Officer with Insight in Sydney, Australia. Veli started his career with the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1998 as a customer facing consultant, and has since worked in the Information Management field delivering solutions for global enterprise customers. He has worked with Microsoft SharePoint since Tahoe Beta 2 release in mid-2000. Veli was the Lead Technical Architect responsible for HP Services Global Knowledge Management Systems and deployment of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server architecture for HP’s 200,000 users.

Veli is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, TechReady, Connections, Microsoft TechNet and MSD2D Web Casts and a co-author of three books on Microsoft SharePoint. Veli has been a member of number of Technical Review Boards, including the Microsoft Developer Advisory Council for SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and lead a number of Technical Adoption Programs for early adopter customers since 2003.

David Burton leads asBUILT DIGITAL, focused on the company’s mission of creating a smarter built world. asBUILT provide a digital foundation, to manage, utilise and maintain your digital twins. The primary focus is to assist asset owners managing their information of the built world, the spatial database becomes the foundation of all utilisation and operational information of the facility. David loves the challenge of helping to digitise an industry that has been very stubborn to change. David’s background of growing up in construction and having various construction delivery roles ensures a unique detailed understanding of the problems the industry faces. David believes making information available and visible in real time will help AEC industry to work together, become more productive, and deliver projects with greater confidence and better outcomes.

Analisa leads the marketing for IoT solutions and is focused on how Microsoft can go to market with our partners. Across the portfolio of IoT solutions, Analisa is responsible for the IoT solutions value proposition, global marketing strategy, and supporting partner co-sell motions. She also works in partnership with product marketing, engineering and sales to provide training, resources and programs to reduce barriers, foster beneficial relationships and enable partners to confidently bring IoT solutions to market.

Daisuke Nakahara is IoT Architect of Microsoft's Worldwide Internet of Things and Mixed Reality Sales team. In this role, Daisuke is responsible for technical engagements with with partners to build IoT solutions.

With 15+ years of experience as a Windows developer, Daisuke Nakahara focuses on building IoT solutions from device point of view. His expertise includes architecting and designing iot solutions, building devices, writing device code, interacting with cloud backend, and running workloads on the edge devices.

With emergence of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technology, Daisuke also focus on implementing AI and ML in both cloud and edge devices.

Nicoleは、アジアのIoTパートナーのゼネラルマネージャーです。 彼女は15年間マイクロソフトに勤務し、ラテンアメリカ、クラウドとエンタープライズ、OEMで職を歴任しました。 彼女は、DXおよびGSMOのアメリカ大陸でAzureを立ち上げた先駆者でした。 また、クラウドベースのCMS（後にSalesforceに買収された）であるSitemasherの販売およびマーケティングの共同設立者兼VPでした。 マイクロソフトに入社する前はロックウェルのオートメーションに10年間勤務していました。 Nicoleはハイテク分野で27年以上の経験を持ち、国際ビジネスでBBAとMBAを取得しています。

Matt is the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence Lead for Microsoft Australia, where he is responsible for building and executing the national go-to-market strategies for these technology areas. He also works directly with customers and partners to advise on best-practice implementation of this technology, both technically and organisationally.
Previously, he was the IoT Technology Specialist in Telstra’s Chief Technology Office. He led the development of vehicle collision technology leveraging the 4G network, explored new business models for improve the uptake of sustainable tech in agriculture, and built Australia’s first publicly-accessible IoT Lab for end-to-end design, testing, and prototyping of IoT solutions.

Transformational entrepreneurial leader who consistently unlocks growth across multiple industries: telecommunications, real estate, security, health, consumer electronics and advanced manufacturing.

Builder of high performance teams with strong ethical foundations of integrity, care and passion. Excels at bridging the gap between commercial product development and technical understanding to strategically identify and deliver growth initiatives leveraging digitisation to generate new business value.

Strong new product development credentials built on solid technical- and customer centric foundations. Recognised for new product development through multiple awards including the prestigious Red Dot Award. Recognised as a thought leader in IoT and digitisation.

Formally qualified in multiple disciplines - law, commerce, network engineering, project management and continuous improvement bringing a healthy balanced view of commercial and operations.

Dale Rankine is CEO and co-founder of Reekoh, an award-winning and Gartner-recognised integration platform and product suite, transforming enterprises by bringing together IoT, business applications and open data. As well as being a serial entrepreneur, Dale is a well-regarded international speaker, strategist and mentor on IoT and product-focused technology startups. He is an experienced tech entrepreneur and has been part of the Australian digital landscape for over two decades in a multitude of roles. Dale's deep subject matter knowledge and hands-on technical experience across IoT, cloud and mobile, and has been central to assisting numerous startups, consumer and enterprise companies in developing new digital products and experiences.

Simon McDougall is the Mixed Reality Program Lead at Saab Australia. He has been working with mixed reality since the HoloLens was first announced and his team has managed to deliver multiple projects to a range of customers including defence, health and the resources sector.

Anita leads the silicon and hardware ecosystem partnerships and enablement for Azure Sphere. Her previous experience include new product strategy and engineering leadership in the semiconductor industry.