Rodney Clark is the Vice President of Microsoft’s Worldwide Internet of Things and Mixed Reality Sales team. In this role, Rodney is responsible for building Intelligent Solutions, from edge to cloud, with partners across the ecosystem, and driving sales and go to market execution to accelerate solution development and customer solution implementation.

A 20+ year Microsoft veteran, Rodney has held a number of executive positions within the company including, General Manager of the Global Alliances, General Manager of Strategy and Sales for the worldwide small and medium business team, and General Manager of Microsoft Across America, a Technical Sales and Marketing Evangelism organization. Prior to Microsoft, Rodney spent nine years with IBM.

Outside of work, Rodney serves as an advisor of the Board of Directors for Children’s Museum Seattle and the Craig School of Business CSU-Fresno.

An information technologist with global experience in designing, deploying and managing new product launches and unique technology solutions across multiple industries and market segments. Success across domestic and international hardware and software sales, services, and operations, inclusive of product design, business development, sales and new routes to market.

Currently, Microsoft General Manager IoT Device Experiences. The Internet of Things (IoT) Device Experience Team is responsible for the global relationship management and sales performance of more than 8,000 OEMs that are designing and selling many of the most exciting and widely used devices such as Point of Sale, Self Service Kiosks, Digital Signage, ATMs, GPS/PNDs, Industrial PCs and even wearable and other emerging IoT device categories. Sales ecosystem includes silicon providers, ODM’s, value-added resellers, system integrators, independent service vendors, service providers as well as OEMs. Our mission is to accelerate and scale repeatable device-to-cloud solutions with device ecosystem partners globally.

Previously, CEO at DDNi. A Silicon Valley-based device to cloud platform ecosystem provider for consumer and enterprise computer manufacturers and suppliers. A complete lifecycle management solution that collects and analyzes device data, personalizes a user experience, narrowcasts communication channel and delivers incremental revenue and profit throughout the lifecycle of each device. General Manager at Lenovo Group International. Led the consumer personal computer business. Launched Lenovo’s first ever consumer products and services into North America and implemented a new supply chain model for selected retailers and distributors. IBM Director of Technology Group. Led sales, development, product design and marketing teams on new generation hard drive designs. Launched the world's smallest removable hard drive. Created a global consumer brand strategy, product development, retail routes to market and service and support.

Sarah Maston is a senior solution architect at Microsoft. She works with our partner ecosystem to build global scalable IoT solutions on Azure. She specializes in process architecture and data solution architecture.

She is the inventor of the Project Edison, a safety notification and response 3rd party solution accelerator, for which she won the Microsoft Polaris Award. In her 20 year career, she has architected many of the data warehouses out in the world including those at Monster.com, CouchSurfing.com, and Boston Medical Center. Prior to joining Microsoft, she won an Excellence & Eminence Award at IBM for the invention of the Nutrition Graph and an Innovation Award for the invention of Simple Data Pipe.

Carl Coken is the General Manager of IoT within the Partner Devices and Solutions organization at Microsoft Corp. His worldwide team is responsible for working with partners to help them build IoT solutions using Microsoft’s Azure IoT cloud services and other products and technologies.

Previously at Microsoft, Mr. Coken has held a variety of roles including Sr. Director of Worldwide OEM Server Engineering and Director of Strategic Alliances for the Management Solutions Division where he was responsible for the partner ecosystem for Microsoft’s System Center product family. Mr. Coken brings to Microsoft a wealth of experience in technology marketing, sales, engineering, alliances, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Coken held senior positions at SMARTS (a startup acquired by EMC), BMC Software, Inc., Digital Equipment Corp., and Compaq Computer Corp., both now part of Hewlett-Packard.

Tony Shakib leads Microsoft’s IoT Business Acceleration (IBA) team inside Azure engineering organization and drives the Azure IoT Eco-system and strategic business engagements for top 100 IoT Enterprise Accounts, Partners, Developers and ISV/Startups.

Tony is accountable for IoT customer value realization, business development, rapid solution deployment, joint customer GTM programs and accelerating time and process to large-scale commercial deployments.

The IBA team focuses on top industries such as IIoT/Manufacturing, Mobility/Connected Vehicle, Smart Spaces/Utilities, Retail, Healthcare, and Agriculture.

Microsoft IoT team develops unique IoT/AI/ML technologies and digital solutions for all industries. Microsoft is also the leader in the hybrid intelligent cloud and edge architectures and provides a comprehensive Platform-as-a-service and Software-as-a-service (IoT Central) capabilities for rapidly developing and deploying massively scalable IoT applications.

Tony has more than 27 years of business leadership and management experience in the communications space. As Vice President of IoT Vertical Business Solutions for Cisco, Tony led Cisco’s Internet of Things business development, Industrial solutions creation, Vertical thought leadership and customer relevancy across process manufacturing (oil & gas and mining), discrete manufacturing, transportation, utilities, smart city, M2M, retail, and defense verticals. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering with honors in Math from McMaster and Brock Universities in Ontario, Canada.

As the Principal Lead Program Manager, Azure Sphere, Danielle is very passionate about ideating, brainstorming, and managing creative processes to deliver bold new ideas and product stories that come to life across mediums and channels.

She specializes in developing value propositions, positioning, and messaging strategies by getting inside the minds of the customers and understanding their motivations, needs, and barriers. Danielle enjoys working in cross-functional teams and coaching and mentoring people.

Rebecca Christiansen leads Microsoft’s Azure IoT Co-Sell sales for the Americas, as part of the Worldwide IoT and Mixed Reality Sales team. Rebecca is responsible for driving accelerated IoT growth through Microsoft partners that have developed repeatable IoT solutions, bringing them to market at scale through GTM, sales readiness and co-sell program enablement. She has been with Microsoft for 5 years, spending her time working with OEM’s developing their IoT Strategy and onboarding their devices to Microsoft’s Azure Commercial Cloud while helping them monetize new revenue streams and digitally transform. Prior to her work in the IoT space, Rebecca worked as a regional sales development manager with one of Microsoft’s largest OEM partners to build and accelerate the growth of the US Windows business.

Prior to Microsoft, Rebecca spent nearly 10 years at Intel in Washington DC and California, spanning corporate finance and sales executive roles, most recently managing business development and sales execution for Hewlett Packard North America.

Dr. Rashmi Misra heads Artificial Intelligence Business Development, for Microsoft.

Working closely with ecosystem partners, customers and product teams Rashmi is responsible for proving forefront solutions and partnerships combining AI, mixed reality and Edge as well as other emergent technologies at Microsoft.

Rashmi has been at the forefront of intelligent systems for over 20 years, managing network applications, cloud, media, IoT and M2M businesses for HPE where most recently she was the Head of AI Solutions for High Performance Compute solutions.

Rashmi previously led Motorola's worldwide System Integration portfolio and was instrumental in deploying some of the first expert and AI systems mobile networks. She owns six international patents for intelligent optimisation, automated network health and monetisation of traffic on telecom networks.

Rashmi has a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence on Multi-Agent Reasoning Systems, from Exeter University, UK and an MBA from Warwick University, UK.

Daisuke Nakahara is IoT Architect of Microsoft's Worldwide Internet of Things and Mixed Reality Sales team. In this role, Daisuke is responsible for technical engagements with with partners to build IoT solutions.

With emergence of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technology, Daisuke also focus on implementing AI and ML in both cloud and edge devices.