Microsoft to bring US Build developer conference to Auckland in May
• New Zealand included in first world-wide Build conference tour
• Registrations now open for free attendance at 30 May event
AUCKLAND, 8 May 2015 – Microsoft New Zealand announced today that Build, its global conference for developers, will be making a stop in
Auckland on 30 May as part of the event’s first ever world-wide tour.
The Auckland event will feature keynote addresses delivered by three of the top Microsoft technical evangelists and
engineers from the company’s global research headquarters in Redmond, USA.
5,000 developers attended the global Build event held in San Francisco last week where the company declared its ambition
to have 1 billion active Windows 10 devices by 2018.
Nigel Parker, Director of Developer Experience for Microsoft NZ, says an Auckland-based Build event will be of great
benefit to Kiwi developers and their employers as it will give them a deep overview of what was presented at the US
event.
“We’ve never had a Build event here in New Zealand, but we know many Kiwis make the trip every year to the US event to
be amongst the first in the world to receive future Microsoft platform announcements,” says Parker.
Parker also says the Build event will be a great precursor to Microsoft’s annual technical training event, now called
Ignite NZ (formerly TechEd), which will be held in Auckland in September.
“This year we celebrate our twentieth year of hosting what’s become New Zealand’s largest technical training event for
developers and IT Pros. Ignite NZ will provide the opportunity for developers to go deeper into the concepts that they
will be introduced to at the Build event,” says Parker.
Speakers at the first New Zealand Build conference include keynote, Giorgio Sardo, Senior Director in the Developer
Experience group at Microsoft Corporation; Dave Crawford, Senior Design Program Manager at Microsoft; and Nikola Metulev, Program
Manager in the Engineering Engagement and Evangelism group at Microsoft.
Auckland Build is aimed at:
• Windows Store Developers
• Local ISV Developers/Architects (client focused)
• SI Developers/Architects (client focused)
• Enterprise LOB Developers/Architects (client focused)
• Game Developers
• Web Front-end Developers
• iOS/Android app Developers
For registrations and further information, visit https://auckland.build15.com/ today to secure your ticket at no cost.
Details:
Microsoft Build conference
Date: 30 May, 2015
Location: ANZ Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland
For more information on the Microsoft Ignite NZ conference, visit http://msignite.nz
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