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Are you interested in connecting with your local student community?

Join us for the Microsoft Student Summit North America, a free 3-hour long event that offers higher education students like you the opportunity to engage with the Microsoft student developer community and innovate with like-minded people in your area while building technical skills.

• Hear from Microsoft leaders, Cloud Advocates, Microsoft MVPs, and Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors about Microsoft tools, programs, and developer communities
• Learn about resources for students, get career advice, and understand Microsoft tools, programs, and developer communities that can help further your career in tech
• Build an initial portfolio of skills, including GitHub, Visual Studio Code, and Azure, and apply those skills in fun activities and challenges
• Celebrate the kickoff of the Microsoft Imagine Cup where community leaders will share how you can immediately start innovating for good and see what exciting things are in store for this year’s Imagine Cup competitors
• Discover and network with your local Microsoft student developer community and community leaders
• Share your thoughts on what you would like to see more of in your local student developer community

Join your community leaders in North America for an inspiring and memorable local student community kickoff - get ready to connect, discover, and innovate!

Agenda:
9:00AM PDT- Welcome to Student Summit 2022!
• Scott Hanselman, Microsoft
•Khushboo Verma, Microsoft Student Ambassador

9:10AM PDT- Meet your local hosts
• Chris Noring, Academic Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
• Mireille Tan, Microsoft Student Ambassador

9:15AM PDT- Keynote Speaker: My Journey into tech
• Dhiraj Hariramani, Microsoft Student Ambassador and Founder

9:30AM PDT- Career Panel
• Dhiraj Hariramani, Microsoft Student Ambassador and Founder
• David Patrick, Microsoft MVP
• Antonella Avogadro Amadei, Microsoft Intern ​
• Eleanor Lewis, Microsoft Software Engineer

10:00AM PDT- Imagine Cup Launch
• Pablo Veramendi, Microsoft

10:05AM PDT - Imagination Collaboration Activity
• Evelyn Arias, Microsoft Student Ambassador ​
• Manuel Ortiz, Microsoft Student Ambassador ​
• Shashidhar Reddy Javaji, Microsoft Student Ambassador

10:25AM PDT- BREAK

10:30AM PDT- What is the Cloud
• Vidushi Gupta, Microsoft Student Ambassador
• Vedant Bahel, Microsoft Student Ambassador

10:50AM PDT – Launch into the Cloud with GitHub Pages
• Thomas Gauvin, Microsoft Product Manager 
• Ricardo Prins, Microsoft Student Ambassador

11:35AM PDT – Imagine Cup Panel
• Team KAPI

12:00PM PDT – Closing
• Chris Noring, Academic Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
• Mireille Tan, Microsoft Student Ambassador

Prerequisites
All students are welcome and encouraged to attend! We highly recommend you activate your Azure for Students offer, create a GitHub account, and register for the Imagine Cup to come ready to learn and have fun during the Student Summit. Once you register for the Imagine Cup, you’ll have the opportunity to join the Imagine Cup Discord server (https://aka.ms/ImagineCupDiscord) and chat with other students attending the Student Summit.

• Azure for Students Activation: https://aka.ms/azureforstudents
• GitHub Account Creation: https://github.com
• Imagine Cup Registration: https://aka.ms/ImagineCup2023