{"id":6647,"date":"2016-11-03T23:45:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T23:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2016-11-04T00:55:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T00:55:16","slug":"future-decoded-2016-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/11\/future-decoded-2016-highlights.htm","title":{"rendered":"Future Decoded 2016 highlights (#FutureDecoded)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two years ago, I attended Future Decoded<\/a> – Microsoft’s largest UK event, which has taken place each November for the last few years at the ExCeL centre in London. It’s a great opportunity to keep up to date with the developments in the Microsoft stack, with separate Business-focused and Technical-focused days and some really good keynote speakers as well as quality breakout sessions.<\/p>\n

Future Decoded has particular significance for me because it’s where I “met” risual<\/a>, who have been headline sponsors for the last 3 events. After the 2014 event, I decided to find out more about risual and, in May 2015 I finally joined the “risual family”<\/a>. This year I was lucky enough to be on one of our five<\/em> stands (one headline stand in the form of a Shoreditch pub, complete with risuAle<\/a>, and one each for our solutions businesses in retail, justice, education and productivity). I had a fantastic (if very tiring) day connecting with former colleagues, customers, industry contacts and potential new customers – as we chatted about how risual could help them on their digital transformation journey.<\/p>\n

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They are back with a bang. Come and take a look @risual<\/a>. Returning in style #FutureDecoded<\/a>. pic.twitter.com\/WF6aSw7sre<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Microsoft Business (@MSFTBusinessUK) November 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Whilst I wasn’t able to attend a lot of the sessions, indeed I was consulting with a customer in the north-east of England on the first day, I did manage to catch the day 2 keynote and was blown away with some of the developments around machine learning and artificial intelligence (maybe more on that in another post). I also noticed the teams behind the Microsoft Business (@MSFTBusinessUK<\/a>) and Microsoft Developer (@MSDevUK<\/a>) Twitter handles were tweeting sketch notes, which I thought might be a useful summary of the event:<\/p>\n

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Check out this great sketchnote wrap up of Day 1 #FutureDecoded<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/klAfWXQf0i<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/UIqaHsgU7U<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Microsoft Business (@MSFTBusinessUK) November 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The #risual<\/a> office seems pretty quiet today after all the hustle and bustle of #FutureDecoded<\/a>, so here\u2019s some sketch notes; before and after pic.twitter.com\/YAeN53nDE8<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mark Wilson (@markwilsonit) November 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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4000+ visitors, 19 keynotes, and a whopping 130 breakout sessions… That’s a wrap for Tech Day and another inspiring #FutureDecoded<\/a>! pic.twitter.com\/7zJZYTw7bu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Microsoft Developer (@msdevUK) November 2, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n