>> IoT in Action is a series of
events that will give you an opportunity to learn
everything you need to know about Microsoft in IoT and Analisa and
Sarah are on the show today to talk about IoT in Action Events.
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>> How everyone, you're watching the Internet
of Things show I'm Olivia your host.
Analisa and Sarah are here to talk about IoT in action.
Thanks very much for joining the show.
>> Thank you for having us.
>> So can you introduce yourself
rapidly Analisa maybe first to our audience.
>> Sure. My name is Analisa Roberts and I
run our worldwide partner marketing team.
>> Okay.
>> I'm Sara Maston and I'm a solution architect that
works with our partner ecosystem to build out globally,
scalable, repeatable IoT solutions.
>> Awesome. IoT in Action is
an event that your teams have been driving and
Microsoft has been adopting that is
addressed to customers and partners building IoT solutions.
It's been running for what, three years now, right?
>> Yes.
>> So can you tell me how it's been doing over these three years.
>> Yeah sure. So this is our third year.
We've seen a lot of increase
in participation both from partners and customers.
We had over 10,000 people attend last year,
and we were in 25 cities around the world.
This year we're actually growing to over 33 cities.
So we will most likely be in a city
somewhere near you or close to everyone that's watching.
>> All right, I like that. I'll be at some of them.
>> Yes you will.
>> Yes I will. I signed myself up for that.
So the first event with
these new series of IoT in Action will be in Santa.
Clara. Sarah can you give us a sneak peek of what to expect there.
>> Sure. We're going to follow the process of bringing
a solution to life with
real stories where you go from a business case,
a problem to solve,
we move into the technical demo.
This is where we're going to bring up two of
our partner architects to tell
their story about how they use an architectural design session.
We're going to double-click into
a few goodies coming out on Azure, no spoilers.
Then actually I'm excited to see your session.
>> I'll be there.
So we'll actually run a panel.
We will have some people year on a panel I'm going to ask them
tricky questions and try and make
sure that they are out of their comfort zone.
It's always the best year.
The idea is to actually look into
how Microsoft helps our customers and partners
unlock opportunities or would like to call
the hidden opportunities that IoT
offers. That's going to be fun session.
>> Yes it will be.
>> So tons of sessions, each
of the events will be a bit different.
So we have that series that people can
find information on iotinactionevents.com,
we'll repeat that one couple of times.
Any last thing that you want to bring
up to our audience to get them excited?
>> I think one of the great thing is is
that we'll be going around the world.
So as you said October 10th is Santa Clara.
We'll be going to Warsaw, London,
Toronto, Auckland, Shenzhen, Tokyo.
I know I'm missing a few.
>> Washington DC.
An important one too is New York.
So what we do is we actually do this as a pre-date to NRF,
the National Retail Federation show.
So for that IoT in Action,
we will pivot the content slightly,
we'll still follow the arc that Sarah was talking about.
We will have more of a retail pivot to it.
Same thing with when we go to
Orlando for the hems the health care.
So that IoT in action will also
have more of a healthcare pivot to it.
So lots of sessions,
lots of events around the world and a lot of
really good partners and demos and information we'll be sharing.
>> So great. So the event IoT in
Action is going to be all over the place right,
around the world check.
There's going to be free food for everyone, check,
fantastic content, check, what am I missing here?
>> I think the other important thing to
share is that last year we had over
a 117 different partners onstage with us around the world,
and this year we're looking to double that.
So we're going to have a lot of
our partners that are going to be showing up onstage with us.
>> I love it.
>> Yeah. In Santa Clara we're welcoming
up Brian Hamilton who's coming
from Arrow Electronics and Amira Jalal
who's coming in from Techdata,
and that's going to change.
Every place we go,
we're going to have new partners, new demos.
>> Surprise guests.
>> Never the same.
>> Surprise guests chic check.
>> Yeah.
>> Awesome. Love it. What are you waiting for?
Its iotinactionevents.com,
register, learn more about the locations,
the dates and join the event.
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