I'm with Jeff Sandquist, who's the CVP of developer relations
to talk about Microsoft learn live at Microsoft build and
how you can make the most out of all of
the new learn live material after the show. Welcome Jeff.
Hey, thanks Leslie. It's just so great to be here.
Yeah, totally. So let's dive right in for those who
aren't familiar with Microsoft Learn Live. What is it?
And how can people get involved?
Well, Microsoft learn is our free online training platform. Provides
interactive learning from Microsoft products. It's a platform where you
can learn the contents is micro based and then small
segments. You can learn 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there
and it's all self paced. And it's gamified just like
Xbox. I love that it's where you can earn your
way to be certified by completing different modules, unlocking achievements,
gaining points along the way as you go down.
Different learning paths that help you prepare for an exam
while learn live. You know, in the learn live sessions
are like a VIP backstage pass to the Microsoft learn
modules you're learning from the experts, the people who wrote
the content, built the product, or are Microsoft MVP's regional
directors who have deep practical domain expertise. They are the
people walking you through these modules live and adding their
personal stories, sharing tips, tricks and helping you. They host
discussions and answer your questions.
In real time, it's an incredible opportunity to learn the
material direct from the people closest to you. That's learn
life.
I love it. I especially love the gamification part as
a gamer myself, I think that's a really nice draw.
It's fun, it's really fun.
Yeah, So what if I'm not a developer is learn
live only for developers or?
That's the cool thing you know. Microsoft learn and Learn
lives not just for developers, it's free and it's available
to anyone interested in learning about Microsoft products. You know,
we're continuously.
Adding new content from pro code to no code. You
know the episodes are step-by-step and interactive. They're really built
to help you discover and really build your skills.
That's great, and what are the plans for learn live
at Microsoft build?
Learn live, you know produces a boost of sessions during
build, right? It's where we're streaming 20 sessions that are
focused on this and it maps to all the Microsoft
build content.
We get special access to experts around the company. You
know, huge variety of technologies and services that we feature
here at Microsoft build and so topics range from Microsoft
Teams Office 365 databases, infrastructure, AI, security and something. I'm
just really excited about is that the different sessions are
hosted in multiple languages, right? English core is French, German,
Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. You know the deep session is
going to be available both in English and Japanese, and
that's something new.
I know some of you are participating in, you know,
the Microsoft Cloud Skills challenge at build. Love that where
you can complete one of eight challenges to earn a
free Microsoft certification exam. And if you are we have
5 special episodes on learn live that are focused just
on the cloud skills challenge. Got to go check them
out AKA Ms build CC.
That is really exciting stuff and I love how accessible
it is for anybody.
That's free for anybody.
I love it. So how can viewers make the most
of Microsoft learn live after Microsoft build?
Well, you just gotta go visit it. Go check out
AKA dot Ms Slash learn live and that's where you'll
be able to find the 20 sessions that we're doing
around this and access well over 3000 modules focused on
what we're talking about here at build. If you do
attend a session that sparked your curiosity, I really encourage
you to don't stop learning. Go back, dig in deeper,
complete modules on.
Related to that topic that are on Microsoft learn, we
continue to add fresh content shows on demand content. Learn
modules like every day, Azure Cosmos, DVD, bicep, Azure stack,
Azure, arc. I might be a bit biased but I
don't think there's a better place on the planet to
learn the Microsoft Stack than learn live AKA dot Ms.
Learn live and really go check us out. You know
The thing is is you know with Azure Microsoft Cloud
you can build the next great thing wherever you are
in the world.
And with Microsoft learn you can learn how to do
so wherever you want on the planet. Let's take our
things that we learned to build and let's go build
the next generation of apps together and justice. Really thank
you.
Yeah, and thank you. That was really exciting. You've certainly
hyped it up for me. I can't wait to go
check out, learn live after build. I've been learning a
lot at build, so I want to go down that
rabbit hole a little.
Further, thank you, thank.
You, thanks for being here, Jeff.