[Online] Laurent Ellerbach - My Internet of Things Journey

Sponsored by PJG Creations Ltd, Tech Nottingham, JetBrains and Calyx.

About the Event:

We'll be kicking off at 18:30BST for an open networking chat on Zoom, before kicking our talks off at 19:00.

We'll also be streaming the Meetup on YouTube and we'll tweet out the link as soon as we know what it is!

If you struggle at all, then get in touch ASAP so we can help!

What we'll be doing:

My Internet of Things Journey:

Laurent Ellerbach will share his Internet of Things (IoT) Journey through concrete examples he has been implementing over years in his house and for his own usage.

This will cover a vast set of technologies from Arduino, .NET nanoFramework, .NET IoT, Home Assistant, Bot Framework, Azure IoT and other Azure services and a lot of homemade hardware and hacking!

Our speaker:

Laurent Ellerbach:

Laurent Ellerbach is Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft. He is working for 25 years in Microsoft and loves technologies especially anything related to Internet of Things (IoT). In his current role, he is helping customer in the manufacturing and automotive industry to transform to the Cloud by co-engineering with those customers on the latest Azure technologies.

Laurent is also a core contributor of .NET IoT (https://github.com/dotnet/iot/) and .NET nanoFramework (https://www.nanoframework.net/), part of the core team for both project, one managed by Microsoft, the other one fully community driven.

Laurent is a big fan of Lego, owning hundreds kilos of Lego and thousands of official Lego set. He is as well a Lego® Serious Play® facilitator. This methodology allows to solve complex problems in a fun way buy building with Lego bricks. He is using it internally at Microsoft in various workshops.

Laurent always mix his passions and work, so he is using has house as an environment to implement in production new technologies. And reuse this in his job.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurelle/
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/ellerbach
GitHub: https://github.com/Ellerbach

Swag:

We'll be giving away a JetBrains license to one lucky attendee as well as a piece of specially chosen IoT Kit courtesy of Calyx!