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