[Post Event] Cluj Innovation Days, 2015 Cluj-Napoca

This week I had the opportunity to participate at Cluj Innovation Days. This two day conference is organized by ClujIT and every year it seems that is bigger and bigger. I was impressed that this year more than 400 people attended this conference.
The list of speakers was pretty impressive, a lot of big names from IT industry (especially from Google, Oracle).
I had the great opportunity to have also a session at this event where I talk about Azure IoT Services. Below you can find my slides from this event and some pictures.

Title:
IoT from an Azure Developer perspective

Abstract:
A few years ago 1.000 devices was a big number, two years ago 10.000 devices was an in interesting number, now 100.000 devices is a piece of cake. In the last few months, Microsoft Azure released a lot of services and features to support the Internet Of Things. As a developer we need to keep up with all this new features and know how to combine them in a final product. This session is dedicated to you, to the technical person inside you that wants to know how future will look like, what services are here to help us to make our life easier and how we can to use them. The presentation will be full with demos and lesson learns. We will take a deep dive into the services that are built for IoT era.

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