ABB & Microsoft IoT Meetup

Internet of Things related meetup is held at Microsoft Flux, a community space for startups to network and explore their business ideas. In this event you will hear about how ABB partners with and invests in start-ups, about the co-operation between ABB and Microsoft, what is ABB’s digital platform Ability and Microsoft’s IoT solutions

Meetup agenda:

17:00 – 17:30 Doors Open

17:30 - 17:40 Welcome to the meetup

17:40 - 18:00 Kurt Kaltenegger, Group Vice President, Technology Manager at ABB Technology Ventures. Speeding Up Innovation via Corporate Venturing

18:00 - 18:20 Simo Säynevirta, Group Vice President, Head of ABB Ability Platform Engineering. The role of Digitalization in the Energy and Industrial Revolutions

18:20 – 18:30 Break

18:30 - 18:50 Mikhail Chatillon, Software Development Engineer at Microsoft. Microsoft Building IoT Solutions with Microsoft Azure

18:50 - 19:10 Ville Rantala, Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft. Microsoft Co-engineering with customers and partners. Case example: Loriot.io

19:10 – 19:15 Closing words

19:15 – 20:30 Networking | Drinks & Snack provided

ABB is a leading technology company. We write the future together with our customers and partners, and as a part of our growth we are looking for new talents. Please check our open positions here (http://new.abb.com/fi/uralle).

ABB Technology Ventures (http://new.abb.com/about/technology/ventures) (ATV) is the strategic venture capital unit of ABB. ATV scouts the globe for breakthrough power and automation technology partners aligned with ABB’s goal to write the future of industrial digitalization.

The Microsoft Commercial Software Engineering team is a global team that focuses on tackling technical challenges hands-on together with developers, customers and partners. Examples of the teams work can be found here (http://www.microsoft.com/reallifecode) and the Partner Catalyst Team GitHub here (https://github.com/CatalystCode).