Microsoft Reactor

It's spooky season for those who celebrate Halloween, and to get in the spirit (spirit - get it? 👻) we thought it would be fun to hack on some pumpkins and power them with some electronics and IoT goodness! We'll be showing you how you can build an IoT Jack-O-Lantern with a Raspberry Pi and Python or C# to create cool effects! Come and join us and learn how to make Boo-tiful decorations this Halloween.

About the Speakers:

Sam Wronski (They/Them) is a Regional Cloud Advocate at Microsoft focused on empowering the San Francisco area to build awesome things with Azure. Sam has spent years building applications and tooling powered by containers and kubernetes. They have run World of Zero YouTube for the past 5 years where they've taught software engineering and game development.

Renee Noble is the Regional Cloud Advocate for the Sydney Reactor and the Australia region. She's passionate about technology, education, community, and bringing them all together in-person and online.
A self-proclaimed "Jane of all trades", Renee has worked in sectors across tech, outreach, and education. She's worked in ML and web development in the past, dabbles in embedded tech, and is always keen to learn more!
Renee is a passionate women in tech advocate, spending her spare time leading the Girls' Programming Network to support women and girls in tech. She also runs her own business, ConnectEd Code, working to bring exciting coding opportunities to kids and teachers. Beside teaching and tech she loves swing dancing, cats, and having a ridiculous number of plants.

Jim Bennett 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, as well as a passion for the internet of things. 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, organised meetup groups and communities, and written a book on mobile development.