Leveraging the Microsoft Community
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Presentation by Mr. Imran Vilcassim, Country Manager at Microsoft Sri Lanka, conducted at the Jaffna IT Week 2014 in University of Jaffna
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- 4. Heritage “A PC on Every Desk and in Every Home” Bill Gates, 1975
- 5. The World Has Changed 2005 2013
- 8. CEO
- 10. Demands 10
- 11. Acquiring Competencies 11 Microsoft Certifications Training workshops MVA
- 12. Microsoft Certifications 12 Server Windows Server, Exchange Server, Lync, SharePoint, Microsoft Azure Desktop Windows, devices Applications Office, Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics Database SQL Server Developer Visual Studio, SharePoint Applications, Microsoft Azure
- 13. What we offer … 13 DreamSpark Technical Communities MVA Imagine Cup BizSpark Student Partners
- 14. What we offer … 14 DreamSpark Free Microsoft Software for students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education streams Windows Client, Project, Visio Visual Studio SQL Server Windows Store accounts Expression Studio www.dreamspark.com
- 15. What we offer … 15 MVA Microsoft Virtual Academy provides free online training for everyone Over 100 training courses 2 million signed up students www.MicrosoftVirtualAcademy.com
- 16. What we offer … 16 Technical Communities 20000+ members Sri Lanka .NET Forum / DevHelp (FB) Monthly Meeting - First Thursday 6.00 – 8.00 Sri Lanka IT Pro Forum Monthly Meeting – Last Wednesday 6.00 – 8.00 SharePoint Forum Monthly Meeting – Second Wednesday 6.00 – 8.00 SQL Server Universe Monthly Meeting – Third Wednesday 6.00 – 8.00 Student Champs Monthly Meeting – Second Friday 6.00 – 8.00
- 17. What we offer … 17 Imagine Cup World largest student technology competition 3 main competition categories and many special awards (www.imaginecup.com) • World Citizenship • Innovation • Games Local Competition Rounds fb.com/imaginecupsrilanka
- 18. What we offer … 18 BizSpark Free Software, Support and Visibility for startup companies Software | Support | Visibility for startups To qualify, startups must be: Developing Software Privately held and making less than US $1M in revenue per year Less than 5 years old
- 19. What we offer … 19 Student Partners Biggest Student Tech Community in the country 4000+ Active members 60 Student Ambassadors Regular Training activates on new technologies Monthly Student Champs Meeting fb.com/studentchamps
- 20. INNOVATION OPPORTUNITY PARTNERSHIP 10,000 students Changing the world Through Imagine Cup 45 startups Supported by Microsoft BizSpark 2,000 App Devs Trained on Windows Phone and Windows 8 App technologies 90,000 entries in Innovative Teachers and Students School competition in 2013 20,000 members in technical communities 15,000 youth Trained on ICT/Industry specific curricula 25,000 migrants equipped With ICT skills 20,000 teachers Trained and 3 million Students reached through Partners in Learning 1,000,000 young people Enabled with workforce skills and technical Training through Microsoft YouthSpark 20,000 students from universities trained on Microsoft technologies 500 rural schools Empowered with Microsoft Mouse Mischief interactive learning system 30,000 students Received a total of 6.5 billion rupees Worth of software through DreamSpark 400+ village ICT centers $4.0 Million in cash and software donated to nonprofit organizations Years 30 Employees 3 Awards For Citizenship Elevating Education Enabling SME’s Youth Productivity Transforming Citizen Services 1000 schools Program Empowered with Microsoft Technologies
- 21. 21 We would like to see some of the best Sri Lankan Entrepreneurs from Jaffna
Notes de l'éditeur
- Microsoft is one of the most well-known and pervasive companies in the world today. Our products are used by billions of people every day across the globe, as part of the way they live, work, learn and play. So, maybe, you think you know us well already? Well today, I want to share with you the past, present and, especially, the future of Microsoft. We have a rich and proud history, we are currently transforming our business and we have a very exciting future ahead of us.
- Four key points: We’re 125,000 employees. We’re a global company. Today, we operate in over 190 countries. And we’re diverse. Yes, we are a software company. So naturally we have a lot of mathematicians, engineers, software designer and computer scientists. We employ, for example, over 1,000 PhD’s. But we also offer plenty of opportunities for a very wide range of individuals – sales, marketing, finance, customer services, we employ musicians, Oscar winners, social anthrapologists, story-tellers etc etc Finally, in every country were we operate, we want to make a lasting and sustainable contribution to our local community. One of our primary areas of focus here is education, where we are committed to helping realize the potential of young people. As one example, we have a program called Partners in Learning which offers software, services and support to schools and colleges. I am pleased to share with you that this program has already benefited more than 40M students and 2M teachers here in Asia Pacific.
- I said we had a rich and proud history and one that is fairly well-known in our industry. Microsoft was founded in 1975 by two young friends – Bill Gates and Paul Allen. They saw a magazine cover, shown here, that featured the world’s first affordable “personal” computer. As you can see, it really didn’t amount to much – no screen, no keyboard, sound or graphics etc – not even an operating system. But it was the first PC as we know it today. These two friends built the first operating system for this rudimentary computer – called MS-DOS – and Microsoft was born. <<Click>> From the beginning, the founders had a simple, but compelling vision – a PC on every desk and in every home. Now at that time, the world was dominated by mainframe computing, so this was a highly-radical vision, one that the world was not necessarily prepared for. But, by and large, that vision came true.
- These images sum up the rapid pace of change that has happened from here to there. We will always be ‘here’, trying to figure out what ‘there’ looks like so we can help create it. This image shows the importance of always imagining a future that seems impossible. I am inspired by the thought and strategy going into what ‘there’ looks like.
- Now today, there are two trends that are really dominating our industry and causing it to radically transform. The first is that the PC is not the only device anymore. In fact, there has been an explosion of a wide variety of different devices – PCs, of course, but also mobile phones, tablets, hybrid devices. And this will continue as computing becomes more pervasive through trends like Wearable Computing. So Microsoft needs to transform too, it needs to follow the market and expand beyond the PC. This is one reason why we have chosen to acquire Nokia’s Devices and Services business.
- And, more recently, we have changed the leadership of the company, announcing long-term veteran of our company Satay Nadella as only the 3rd CEO in our 39 year history.
- http://www.rasmussen.edu/student-life/blogs/main/careers-high-demand-college-graduates/