A Day at the Dutch Microsoft Headquarters

Last week Bryan Sumter and I received a phone call from Microsoft. We were asked if we could fill in for a speaker who couldn’t make it that day. We seized this upportunity to visit the Microsoft HQ for the first time in our lives. This presentation was almost Identical to our MixEssentials presentation, but this one was a more interactive one.

On our way to Microsoft dealing with the typical Dutch weather scenario..

Coffee
First of all the coffee, served by the Coffee Company, was tremendously nice. I will lie if I told you it was the best I had so far, but it fell in this order of goodness.

Presentation
The audience consisted of about 60 people from the IT educational branch. Most of them were managers and some of them were actually teachers, who all had their own expertise: developers, designers, system administrators, network administrators and so on..

At least you can find the exit in case of..

We showed the applications we built using new Microsoft technologies so that teachers could understand how these technologies could benefit the students in their future careers.

Bryan Sumter, me and Maarten Jan Vermeulen (Microsoft Student Partner)

Drinks
At the reception we had some nice conversations with diverse teachers, who all were positive about our presentation. They asked or we proposed to give presentations or maybe even workshops at their schools.

Tuesday 14 October we’ll have another meeting with Maarten Jan Vermeulen, which I’ll probably cover afterwards!