Microsoft at London Tech Week: in pictures
London Tech Week featured conferences, showcases and forums aimed at helping startups, entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, students and companies. Microsoft was a headline partner of the event, which featured speakers such as Cindy Rose, the company’s UK CEO, and Ben Medlock, the founder of SwiftKey. Here’s what happened:
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- Microsoft was a headline sponsor for London Tech Week, which saw many digital events take place across the capital
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- Cindy Rose, Microsoft UK CEO, and Ben Medlock, SwiftKey founder, talked about the fourth industrial revolution and AI
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- Microsoft held a Surface, HoloLens and Teams event in Wapping
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- The Surface Book, left, and Surface Laptop, right
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- Surface Pro, Surface Laptop and Surface Studio were released in the UK this week
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- Journalists and business leaders attended the event to get hands-on with the new devices
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- The Surface Studio is designed for artists and creators, and can be folded down almost flat
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- Black Marble demonstrated how they are helping police solve crimes using Microsoft HoloLens
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- The Surface Book, a two-in-one device
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- Unlike the Surface Pro, the Surface Book has a hard, more traditional keyboard
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- Cindy Rose, Microsoft UK CEO, also spoke about Surface devices. “The Surface Studio is unique,” she said.
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- HoloLens is a mixed-reality device that puts holographic images in the room with you
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- The Microsoft mission