Welcome to #JulyOT! All throughout the month of July the IoT teams at Microsoft are inviting you to join us in learning all about this fast growing and popular technology. You can read more about #JulyOT and catch all our great resources at https://aka.ms/JulyOT.

The term 'Internet of Things' was coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999 to refer to connecting the Internet to the physical world via sensors. Since then, the term has been used to describe any device that interacts with the physical world around it either by gathering data from sensors, or providing real-world interactions via actuators (devices that do something like turn on a switch or light an LED), generally connected to other devices or the Internet.

This lesson covers some of the introductory topics around the Internet of Things, and shows a basic ‘Hello World’ project with a microcontroller.

Useful Event Resources:
https://aka.ms/iot-beginners
https://julyot.dev
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Speaker:
Jim Bennett, Regional Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Jim is a Regional Cloud Advocate focusing on building out and skilling communities in the Pacific North West, with a focus on the Microsoft Reactor in Redmond, Washington. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and is happy he moved to Redmond in time to be locked down at home and not see the office he came to work in, or the places he wanted to visit. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer in the mobile, desktop, and scientific space. He's spoken at conferences and events all around the globe, organized meetup groups and communities, and written a book on mobile development.

Accommodations
If you are in need of any accommodations to attend this event, please email Reactor@Microsoft.com and we will do our best to support you.