Keynote
The Microsoft Build Tour brings the best of Microsoft Build right to you.
Developers building Line of Business or consumer applications using Cloud or traditional desktop technologies will hear firsthand from Microsoft experts about the latest technical news and updates from the Microsoft Build conference. After the keynote, we'll host a full day of practical sessions covering recently released Cloud and Windows technologies you can use today in your own applications.
Speakers
Andy Wigley
Andy Wigley is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft DX (Developer eXperience), working with partners and our engineering teams to build great solutions with Windows, Azure and Cortana. He joined Microsoft in 2012, and before that was prominent in the mobile app developers' community and was awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 10 consecutive years. Andy is well-known for presenting many instructional video series on Microsoft Virtual Academy and on http://channel9.msdn.com such as the Developers' Guide to Windows 10 and is a regular speaker at major industry conferences.
Dave Crawford
Dave Crawford is a Senior Design Program Manager in Windows. He has designed and built some of the most popular and well-known apps on the Windows platform over the years and now spends his time helping partners bring their experiences to Windows and new devices. He loves a good cup of Earl Grey in the morning, visiting Japan, photography, and architecture. He has two rescue cats called Pixel and Luna who are trying to destroy his home in adorable ways.
Etienne Margraff
Senior Developer Engineer at Microsoft, Etienne is in the dev universe since more than 15 years. Geek and passionate about technology, Etienne plays with HTML5, JavasCript, CSS, Visual Studio, and Xamarin. He is doing some 3D too and contributes to the 3D webGL engine babylon.js (www.babylonjs.com). He is the co-creator and lead of the open-source tool Vorlon.js (www.vorlonjs.io), a cross-plateform tool to debug websites and node.js processes. He speaks at many different conferences such as TechDays, Kiwi Party, DroidCon, meetups... You can follow him on twitter (http://www.twitter.com/meulta) or on his blog (http://meulta.com).
Jeff Burtoft
Jeff Burtoft is a Principal Program Manager for Web Apps at Microsoft and a devoted supporter of the web community. He loves Web Standards, JavaScript and 1980's skateboarding videos. Additionally, Jeff is co-author of HTML5 Hacks (O'Reilly Media), a core developer for Manifoldjs and PWABuilder, and a contributor to other open source projects. Jeff blogs at thishereweb.com and can be found on twitter @boyofgreen.
Larry Lieberman
Larry Lieberman is a Principal Development Manager in the Developer Experience team at Microsoft Corporation. He's focused on driving programs and processes that are all about making sure Microsoft developer platforms can solve the real-world problems that developers want to solve. This means sitting down with a lot of developers, figuring out what they're trying to do, learning what works and what doesn't, and then working with engineering teams to get our platforms to do what they need to do in order to work better. He's determined to drive Microsoft to be the best, relevant, most developer focused company around. @larryalieberman
Shen Chauhan
Shen is a Senior Program Manager in Windows who speaks and codes with a British accent. Shen has spent almost 10 glorious years at Microsoft working passionately on a mixture of client technologies, and leading dev teams. Shen can often be found coding UWP goodness, feeding his unhealthy addiction to chocolate and wearing shiny shoes. You check out more on www.shenchauhan.com or follow him on Twitter @shenchauhan.
Vlad Kolesnikov
Vlad is a Senior Program Manager for Mixed Reality at Microsoft focusing on More Personal Computing technologies. He started 15 years ago as a C++ developer of CAD applications and spent much of his early professional career building various kinds of applications – from large geospatial systems to consumer Windows apps. A huge fan of Machine Learning and Mixed Reality, a regular host of This Week on Channel 9, and can be found on Twitter @vladkol
Tomasz Wiśniewski
Tomasz Wisniewski is a Technical Evangelist in Microsoft Poland. His day to day work involves working with partners and clients on creating great new applications which use the newest technologies from Microsoft portfolio (but not only!).
