Azure DEV Meetup Munich Blog

Join Henk Boelman, Amy Boyd, Seth Juarez, and Eric Boyd for a warm welcome to the Global AI Bootcamp 2019, a dialogue about the latest and greatest from Azure AI, interesting behind the scenes stories, and some exciting news ahead.

Ulrich Knechtel | NVIDIA, CSP Partner Manager, EMEA

Dr. Ulrich (Uli) Knechtel held business development, sales and marketing positions in leading technology companies including AT&T, Silicon Graphics, AMD and Dell before he joined NVIDIA. Uli is highly experienced in several industries in conjunction with compute technologies like HPC, data analytics, AI and graphics and worked with customers and partners across Europe, in the Middle East and in South Africa.

João Pedro "jota" Martins is a Global Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, covering strategic US customers in Europe and based in Munich.

Mohit Chhabra is working as Software Engineer at Medialesson GMBH, Germany. He is currently Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Microsoft Azure and former leader of BDotnet (India's Biggest offline community). He has deliver more than 50 sessions in the community and international conferences. Prior to this, Mohit was Microsoft Student Partner and Mozilla Student Representative. He was also India's first Azure Champion and first person to intern in Microsoft Technology Center.

Luis Beltran | Microsoft MVP
Luis is a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer, and lecturer at Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya in Mexico. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Engineering Informatics at Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic.

Luis is a fan of software development, particularly mobile apps with Xamarin integrated with cloud computing services, such as Azure. Moreover, Artificial Intelligence is amazing and one of his favorite topics!

Julian Mehne works as a data scientist at doubleSlash Net-Business GmbH in Munich. As a trained environmental engineer he is especially interestested in the application of AI and machine learning in industrial applications.

At Microsoft Germany, Pina Meisel is responsible for communication on innovation topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Mixed Reality & HoloLens. In her private life she is also interested in new technologies and developments, especially in the field of (mobile) digital photography. In her free time she finds the perfect balance to the digital world in sports, literature, outdoor and travel.

Felix Schober, Premier Field Engineer - Microsoft

Felix Schober is a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft helping and teaching customers the ins and outs of Dynamics 365.

Before joining Microsoft, he focused on software development with a healthy dose of machine learning mixed in. He has a master’s degree in information systems from the Technical University of Munich. During university he researched in the fields of computer vision and natural language processing.
This knowledge helped him to co found a startup which used machine learning to classify DVB-T streams into commercials and regular TV program.

Oliver Will is managing Partner at Obungi. He is passionate about designing and implementing Data & AI solutions on Microsoft Azure

Timo Demler is an experienced IT Consultant and certified Azure AI Engineer at doubleSlash Net-Business GmbH with focus on cognitive services, machine learning and AI.

secunet Security Networks AG, Business Developer, Munich

Jens Kulikowski is the Business Development responsible for Secunet’s industrial, medical and critical infrastructure portfolio. Jens is the secure IoT innovation leader and in this role responsible for solutions and services for smart factories and critical and sensitive areas like mining, manufacturing, medical or energy.
He has over 15 years of experience and worked prior for companies in the critical infrastructure sector, transit and in the military cyber warfare sector.

Freelancer Data Science

Nicolas Kuhaupt studied mathematics both in Germany and in the United States. He got passionate about the topics of Big Data and Data Science during his masters thesis. He then worked as a Big Data Consultant and later changed to Fraunhofer IEE to work as a Research Data Scientist. Beginning in 2020, he will work as a Freelancer in Data Science.

Zukunft Mobility GmbH

I am a Master Thesis student at Zukunft Mobility GmbH. I am pursuing my masters in Automotive Engineering at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt. I am an avid traveller and TV show addict