Interacting with Technology - by Text, Face, Voice and
Touch - Microsoft
In this session Microsoft will introduce you to some of the technologies they use daily in their job roles. They will talk about remote working and how easy it is to interact and collaborate in a unified way with their colleagues across the world. They will also introduce you to Microsoft Surface – which allows you to interact with your computer in a totally new way.
Speaker: Eileen Brown
Eileen Brown moved into IT after spending 10 years as a navigating officer in the Merchant Navy. She moved into IT at a containership company, migrating the company from their Mainframe email system to MSMail. She joined Microsoft in 2001 in the Mission Critical Windows team. She now works in the Developer and Platform Evangelism group, managing the team of Technical Evangelists. She is technically responsible for Unified Communications technologies and maintains a successful blog. However, her life isn’t spent entirely at her laptop. Away from work, she makes jam and chutney in awesome quantities, tends her flock of chickens, and grows organic vegetables and fruit and races around the countryside in her home built 6.6 litre cobra replica car. As much as possible, whenever she encounters warmer waters, she scuba dives to get away from the phone.
Speaker: Jane Lewis
Jane Lewis currently works as a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft based out of the UK Headquarters in Reading. This is a very technical focussed role and involves working with all of the leading blue chip companies around the UK. Previous to Microsoft Jane worked in various parts of the IT industry including training, consultancy, public sector, manufacturing and the Royal Navy. In her spare time Jane enjoys cheering along her two sons Will and Jack aged 8 and 6 years old from the side of a football pitch. Also she enjoys running and has completed six half marathons to date.