Leveraging technology to drive positive impact for businesses and people’s lives is what inspires Shirley. In her leadership roles at Microsoft, and throughout her 30+ year career in the industry, she has prioritized harnessing the power of technology to drive meaningful enterprise results. She does this by building and leading top performing, diverse and widely distributed sales teams who work with partners and customers to deliver intelligent systems and solutions. This is where Shirley thrives and in doing so drives a positive impact on the customer, partner and sales team satisfaction. Most recently this includes working with Microsoft partners to successfully bring digital business transformation to customers across the Asia region by delivering solutions built on Azure cloud services that collect and analyze data to deliver business insights and drive intelligent actions that have meaningful business and market impact.

In her ten years with Microsoft Shirley has held multiple leadership positions managing partner and customer engagement teams. Before Microsoft, Shirley co-founded a successful retail solutions start-up where she served as VP WW Sales & Business Development for six years. Preceding that Shirley held a variety of leadership positions with Fujitsu across geographies including the UK, Caribbean, and the Americas. Shirley Strachan is a passionate leader, a raving fan of technology, sales, business development, and strategy, who has also relished the opportunity to experience a multitude of cultures having lived and worked in numerous geographies during her career.

Pauline Hsiao is Azure Sphere Solution Specialist. Azure Sphere is Microsoft IoT team's new product portfolio to provide partners a highly secured MCU platform on IoT devices for end-to-end solutions. With more than 10 years experience in Microsoft on vertical industry, Pauline works with partners on IoT applications, and help partners to leverage Microsoft resources/programs for time to market to build a secure intelligent IoT world.

Noam King is the WW Internet of Things Device Experience Sales Strategy lead. In his role, Noam is constructing & leading the strategy for IoT, Azure Sphere & Mixed Reality partners to help transforming their businesses and drive scale. Noam has more than 25 year experience in the tech industry, he was a CTO in a couple of gold Microsoft partners, and in Microsoft was leading the business of the Azure cloud platform in EMEA in it's early days, and then of Artificial Intelligence & IoT. In the last 3.5 years, Noam was leading the IoT sales strategy of both our customer & partner motions in Microsoft HQ

Adeline Hsieh is a Principle Solution Specialist, IoT for Microsoft. In this role, Adeline helps Microsoft’s customers across ASIA to leverage the power of IoT to transform their businesses. Adeline began her career in Product Program at ASUStek and has led various projects and management role in Taiwan, across various of hardware devices from personal computing to networking devices.

Adeline also held a number of roles in Microsoft, including Senior account executives of OEM partners and IoT Solution specialist in Microsoft.

Adeline has BSs degree in Computing and Information system from Goldsmith College, University of London and MSc in Mangement of Information system from London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dr. Lin leads a team of talented IoT and cloud solution architects in Greater China Region for Microsoft. He accelerates developing of repeatable vertical IoT and cloud solutions with IoT Device and Solution partners. The team focuses on verticals including manufacture, retails, building/city, energy, healthcare, and agriculture. His expertise includes large cloud architecture, IoT device engineering, data mining, AI modelling, and media streaming.

Vice President of Turn Cloud Technology Service Inc. A graduate of University of Southern California (USC) with a master’s in science. With over 15 years of experience in the retail information system and technology industry, specializing in business integration analysis, customer relations management and after-sale services.

As the demand for multi-digital payments and cashless transactions increases, so will the demand for "smart retail" services increase from retailers to stay competitive. Responsible for leading the company’s integrated solutions of retail technology and financial technology, striving to achieve Turn Cloud’s goal of “New Retail, New Lifestyle” technology services. Allowing retailers to further enhance customer experiences for their businesses.

Strong expertise in shopping malls, department stores, F&B, chain convenient stores and supermarkets. Not only is she in charge of client development in Taiwan, but also in China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

Philip Chen is IoT Cloud Solution Architect from CDS IoT Team in Microsoft, based in Taipei. He works with OEM/ODM partners for IoT cloud solutions and intelligent edge design in different vertical of Azure IoT ecosystem. Before joining Microsoft, Philip served as software manager for TrendMicro leading engineers developing hybrid cloud management systems. Before his RD post, he was Cloud Solution Architect in TrendMicro and ASML. Also was with IBM of various posts including Advisory IT Architect and Software Engineer.

With more than 15 years experience on Embedded/IoT, Connie Chien works with many OEM/ODM in Taiwan to develop industry devices and solutions covering the applications of industrial automation, retail, lighting control, energy, transportation, healthcare, etc. Moreover, in the past 3 years, Connie has worked with partners on digital transformation through IoT by embracing intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge on Microsoft platforms that collect and analyze data to deliver business insights and drive intelligent actions that have meaningful business and market impact.

Burt Lien is currently an IoT Solution Architect in Microsoft IoT Sales Team. He oversees Microsoft Azure Sphere and devices in IoT solutions from technical perspectives.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Lien worked with Arm Security IP Group as Staff Engineer, responsible for SoC licensees' silicon IP integration and conducting security training programs. Before that, he worked for a first-tier Taiwan IC company as Technical Manager in multiple disciplines, ranging from signal processing, codecs, media framework to embedded security.

Burt Lien is the inventor of five US patents. He received his Master of Science degree from EECS college, National Taiwan University.

Terry primarily manage Azure IoT opportunities for TW OEM customers and activate regional partners to enrich IoT ecosystem. Prior to join Microsoft, Terry acted as business development manager in Synnex to advocate Microsoft technology for IoT partners.

Johnny is the manager of the Intelligence Peripheral Application Unit, which spearheads Innodisk’s integrated AIoT effort. Additionally, as an MVP of Microsoft Embedded System and a Trainer of Windows Embedded Training program, Johnny has been leading and developing integrated software and hardware solutions for the past 5 years.

Experience:

Microsoft MVP Embedded System 2013-2016

Windows Embedded Standard 7 Train the Trainer

As Delta CIO, she implements innovative technology into Delta Electronics, Inc., and integrates information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) for smart manufacturing to support Delta’s digital transformation and upgrade to Industry 4.0.

Steve is Senior Advisor in Chairman Office overseeing AAEON’s technologies forward-looking and new business strategy; also leading an IoT team focusing on smart city & smart manufacturing devices and solutions. Prior to that, he was the CEO of AAEON Technology based in Taiwan, and completed the merger with ASUS Group, a Taiwanese PC giant in 2011. Since joining AAEON, he served as President & Chairman of AAEON US office in charge of US & Canada operation. His previous experience includes business & product management roles in AT&T Bell Labs over 15 years.

PTC Taiwan IOT business development director who help manufacturing industry to realize industry 4.0/smart manufacturing value by implementing AR, Machine Learning and M2M connectivity new technologies.

Jason Liu is the product director of Avalue Technology. With more than 10 years experience in the Industrial and Embedded industry, Jason also heads Avalue Intelligent Systems and Solution program for the transmission of IOT trend.

Avalue’s leaders realized the enormous potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) early on, Jason’s Intelligent Solution dept. was the pioneer to move swiftly and capture potential market opportunity of IoT-driven digital transformation.

He committed to building a smart business, evolving from a hardware-only model to offering smart devices and intelligent solutions and services in retail industries.

Jackie Yang is a Principal Product Manager at AICS organization in ASUSTek COMPUTER. He leads smart factory solution team to upgrade factories capabilities with AI such as intelligent detection, prediction and self-optimization which result in manufacturing cycle time reduction, increasing yield rate and decreasing manufacturing cost.
Prior to Jackie joined ASUS, he was a product line director of connected devices and head of software engineering at Quanta Computer Inc.

Being a Principle PM Manager, Anne Yang leads Partner Engineering Team of Cloud and AI Platform Group in Microsoft Taiwan to work with ecosystem partners to ship intelligent edge devices that light up features and services in Azure Cloud Platform. As Taiwan is known for hardware development, Anne’s team collaborate closely with internal stakeholders and Taiwan ecosystem partners to ship a number of devices across various form factors, ranging from Internet of Things, phones, tablets, PCs, large displays and AI development kits.

Anne holds MS and BS degrees from National Tsing-Hua University. As a veteran in ICT industry, she had worked for globally well-known companies such as Acer and Texas Instruments. Anne’s career with Microsoft starts back in summer 2002, as a PM of Windows Hardware Engineering Group, and is still an ongoing chapter.

Louis Lu is an Advantech director of Embedded IoT Group and Industrial IoT architect to realize AIoT solution, where he leads development efforts in embedded operating systems O/S and Driver, MCU firmware, IoT Edge intelligent, cross-cloud IoT cloud solution, AIoT solutions integration, and connectivity system of systems. Louis was also the Technical Champions for the NTU IoX lab and NCTU IoT lab In 13 year of Advantech working experiences, Louis has highly experienced executive coach and having led the S/W development in different functionalities. Facilitate different diverse IoT devices adopted with latest IoT standard technologies, play the role of chief of Embedded IoT architect to design new technologies for Advantech’s AIoT solutions.

Louis has 22 years’ work experiences on the S/W development and expertise in Assembly, C, C#... including 5 years in chipset design knowledge, published holds 4 patents in security and critical handling applications.

Andy is a software engineer in the Strategic Engagements & Industrial IoT under Microsoft’s Cloud & AI Product Group. He is responsible for enabling strategic partners to build world class IoT solutions powered by Azure IoT and AI platform, jointly to drive through the entire solutions lifecycle from envisioning, development, and deployment for end customers.