Microsoft Chicago ran a great post encouraging Chicagoland tech professionals to get involved with Voices for Innovation. Here’s the post in its entirety… Tools for Engagement: Voices for Innovation Feeling frustrated about getting your voice across to a broader constituency? Need to hang out a bit more with people who have ideas on how to
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Once again, Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference—this year in Orlando from July 12-16—proved to be a whirlwind of great sessions and meetings, great parties, and great fun. The VFI Team talked with hundreds of partners, and our hope is that everyone we met will get more involved with our advocacy efforts to support technology and innovation
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Twelve of Voices for Innovation’s most engaged members form the organization’s 2015 Advisory Task Force. Long-time Microsoft partners, our Task Force leaders hail from California, Florida, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Washington DC. Members of the Task Force bring their diverse small business perspective to discussion of tech public policies. Task Force members
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ConQuest Technology Services founder and CEO Jon Sastre has a great piece up on the U.S. Partner blog about his participation in Voices for Innovation. He encourages partners to connect with us at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference next month in Orlando. Jon is also a member of VFI’s Advisory Task Force. Check out the
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Voices for Innovation is excited to be part of the 2015 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Orlando on July 12-16. Please join us for a 30-minute briefing about our planned activities at WPC and how you can connect with us at the event. We’ll also hear from partner members of our Advisory Task Force who will
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Microsoft Ignite is just two weeks away—and Voices for Innovation will be on hand. Ignite is Microsoft’s new unified enterprise technology event, bringing together the Management Summit, the Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and TechEd conferences. Ignite takes place at Chicago’s McCormick Place and runs May 4-8. Because Ignite brings together Microsoft customers and partners, we
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Yesterday Microsoft announced that the technical preview of the Skype for Business client—the next version of Microsoft Lync—is now available for customers to try before its general release in April. Skype for Business is based on the familiar Skype experience that over 300 million people use every day, and will greatly expand the ability of
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On March 5, we hosted what turned out to be a terrific webinar with Mark Hill, Microsoft VP for Open Source Software (OSS) Sales and Marketing Strategy. Mark highlighted the depth of Microsoft’s engagement with the OSS community, and how Azure is truly a heterogeneous environment, with Linux and many other OSS technologies running seamlessly
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On February 27, Microsoft General Counsel & Executive Vice President Brad Smith had a blog post on Microsoft on the Issues about a training that was hosted at the Microsoft Innovation and Policy Center in Washington, DC. Sponsored by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) for the 2015 Emerge Latino Conference, more than 100
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Mark your calendars and sign up for Voices for Innovation’s next webinar: Microsoft + Open Source: A New Era with New Opportunities Mark Hill, Vice President for Open Source Sales and Marketing, Microsoft Thursday, March 5, 10-10:45AM PST; 1-1:45PM EST Registration Has Closed Hear Mark Hill, Vice President for Open Source Sales and Marketing at Microsoft,
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Last week, President Obama traveled to Stanford University for the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection. At its heart, the event aimed to demonstrate that the White House recognizes the seriousness of emerging cybersecurity threats and means to increase government engagement on the issue. The economic and security stakes are enormous. At the
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Cloud adoption and innovation are driven by user trust. Individuals and businesses must be confident that their private information is secure and protected. Unfortunately, our nation’s current legal framework for digital privacy was developed nearly 30 years ago and does not contemplate the era of cloud-stored data or the borderless nature of the Internet. Now
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