Why even care about Developer Velocity?

Have you heard of the term Developer Velocity, and wondered why it even matters for you?

Join Steph and Chris as they run through Microsoft's transformation from shipping boxed products to always-on online services. Developer Velocity is a critical part of that journey to ensure the teams can keep delivering value to their end-users at scale. In this session, you will learn about some of the tips & tricks that Microsoft used along the way.

Speaker Details:

Steph Locke is the Digital & App Innovation Manager at Microsoft
and heads up a team of digital and app innovation architects helping some of the UK’s biggest organisations use the cloud to deliver more value faster.

She has a broad technology background in data, AI, and software, and has experience running consultancies and startups. Steph loves open source and understands the impact accessible tech can have on empowering people, so dedicates her spare time to helping others improve their tech adoption. She was previously a Microsoft Most Valued Professional for five years in a row and now sits on the board of the SQL Saturday Foundation. She is also a co-chair for the EU SME Digital Alliance AI Focus Group.

Chris Reddington is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft UK with a focus on 'Digital & Application Innovation'. By day, he works with stakeholders in startups and enterprises from developers and system admins through to Heads of Division and CTOs on accelerating their journey to the cloud, while actively listening and working with the Azure Engineering teams to further improve the Azure Platform. He focuses primarily on Cloud Solution Architecture, Cloud Native Solutions (including JAMStack and Kubernetes), GitHub, Azure DevOps and DevOps principals.

In his spare time, Chris runs his own blogging, podcasting and content platform for the community. Check out Chris' latest work over at www.cloudwithchris.com. He is powered by Twitter Followers and YouTube Subscribers, so if you like the content - Consider a follow/subscribe!