Thursday 

Room 1 

13:00 - 13:15 

(UTC+10

Talk (15 min)

Break

Join our hosts Melissa, William and Lars in the breaks.

William Liebenberg

William is a Solution Architect at SSW with a strong focus on building enterprise solutions on Azure and enjoys developing great software engineering practices for teams.

William is an active member of the Melbourne developer community where you can find him attending or presenting at user groups, hack days and conferences every time he has a chance!

Recently in his spare time William combined his passion for IoT and BBQing to build his own smoker that can track the temperature and doneness of his tasty treats.

Lars Klint

Lars is a Principal Magician with Arkahna in Australia, an author, trainer, Microsoft Azure MVP, community leader, aspiring YouTube host and part time classic car collector. He is heavily involved in the space of cloud computing services, especially Azure, and is a published author, solution architect and writer for numerous publications. He has been a part of the software development community for the past 20 years and co-organises the DDD Melbourne community conference, organises developer events with Microsoft, and also runs a part time car restoration business. He has spoken at numerous technical events around the world and is an expert in Australian Outback Internet.

Melissa Houghton

Melissa Houghton is a Principal Software Engineer and Developer Relations at Azenix and a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies.

Her work is focused on application development using .NET, and Azure, but she has a wide variety of skills and is always open to learning new things.

An advocate for women in tech with a passion for leadership, technology and giving back to the community. She frequents tech events, is an international conference speaker, and organiser of various technical events.

Originally from California, Melissa loves to travel and now lives in Australia.