Microsoft Ignite is an exciting moment full of new perspectives and product announcements alike. This year’s virtual conference focuses on 4 key themes of transformation: hybrid work, multi-cloud innovation, next gen business solutions, and end-to-end security. But what does this mean to you – decision-makers, IT professionals, developers? Come learn, share and network with fellow Cloud Advocates and MVPs and share your perspective! We’ll “unpack” the latest tech and share what the future of modern work might look like.

Who is it aimed at?

• Founders / Entrepreneurs / Decision-makers
• IT Professionals
• Developers
• Students or learning professionals interested in getting a pulse on the tech industry

Why should I attend?

• Learn from Cloud Advocates and MVPs in your own region
• Share your thoughts on the latest announcements from Microsoft
• Network with other professionals interested in what’s new / emerging

More learning / prerequisites:

• <a href=https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions>Microsoft Ignite Sessions</a>

Speaker info:
Sam Wronski, Regional Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Sam Wronski 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. He's run the World of Zero channel on YouTube for the past 5 years where he's taught software engineering and game development.

John Morehouse
John is currently a Principal Consultant with Denny Cherry & Associates living in Louisville, Kentucky. With over 2 decades of technical experience in various industries, John now focuses on the Microsoft Data platform and specializes in Microsoft SQL Server. He is honored to be a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, VMWare vExpert, 2016 Idera Ace, Friend of Red Gate, Sentry One PAC member & Community Ambassador. John has a passion around speaking, teaching technical topics and giving back to the technical community as much as possible. He is a user group leader, SQL Saturday organizer, and former PASS regional mentor. He is also a blogger, avid tweeter, and a frequent speaker at conferences whenever possible. If you want to find John, you can find him on Twitter (@sqlrus) or on his blog, http://sqlrus.com.

Annur Sumar
Annur is the CTO for MaeTech. A premier Microsoft technology consulting firm in the areas of DevOps, IT Automation, Cyber Security, Business Productivity and CRM. Annur is an industry recognized leader and a distinguished speaker around cloud platform design, technology driven process improvements, business strategy and cyber security. All of which are targeted in his work towards helping enterprise businesses in lowering total cost of ownership, reducing risk and improving productivity.

Prior to joining MaeTech, Annur served as a Vice President of Technology for Duff & Phelps and a Regional Director for Concurrency where he developed strong, business minded and customer oriented technology teams. As a Microsoft MVP and an industry expert, Annur brings 14 years of experience to work actively with Microsoft product groups to provide industry insight and strategic direction.