Those who are new in development, let me tell you why Red Shirt is significant. Simple! It represents Scott Guthrie.
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Scott Guthrie (born 6 February 1975) is a graduate with a degree in computer science from Duke University. Now, Scott Guthrie has been an Executive Vice President of the Cloud and Enterprise group in Microsoft since February 2014. He has more than twenty years' experience assisting in Microsoft and developing software products. He runs the development teams that build ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, CLR, IIS, Media Server, and the Visual Studio Tools for Web Development and Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Azure, SQL Server, Windows Server, System Center, Active Directory, Visual Studio,.NET, Power BI, and our Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) and Operations Management Suite (OMS).
Guthrie, known for wearing red polo shirts during his public Microsoft speaking appearances, moved from being the Corporate Vice President of the .Net platform in the Developer Division, to head the Azure Application Platform team in the Business Platform Division in May 2011. He has been a major advocate for developers and has made a priority integrating open-source tools and technologies into the Microsoft stack. Guthrie unveiled the capabilities of Microsoft’s Azure-based Dynamics 365 service in a demo at a Summit conference in Tampa, Florida.
Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour '17
As executive vice president of the Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group, Scott Guthrie is responsible for the company’s cloud infrastructure, server, database, CRM, ERP, and management & development tools for businesses. His engineering team builds Microsoft Azure, SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Active Directory, System Center, Visual Studio and .NET.
The man in the red shirt will spend the whole day together with you deep diving into the technology. The event is hosted for developers and will include technical insight and live coding for 5 hours.
Why You Should Attend
The Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour ‘17 is FREE! It’s all about learning the new things on the cloud, for improving and developing skills of deploying and managing the cloud applications through robust demos.
Agenda
| Time | Description |
| 8:45 AM – 9:30 AM | Check-in & Welcome |
| 9:30 AM – 12:45 PM | Keynote w/ Scott Guthrie | Two 1.5 HR. Sessions w/ Short Break In-Between |
| 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM | Grab Some Lunch |
| 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM | Coding on Stage w/ Scott Guthrie | "Azure Tips & Tricks" |
| 2:45 PM | Thank You & Event Close |
Here is the description of the event.
| S.No. | City | Date | Location | URL |
| 1. | Chicago | October 18th | James Simpson Theater, Field Museum1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60650 | https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKFormID=0x2484878c86a |
| 2. | Dallas | October 17th | AT&T Field, Main Club 1 AT&T Way, Arlington TX 76011 | https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKFormID=0x2485524e355 |
| 3. | Atlanta | October 18th | Center Stage Theater1374 W Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30309 | https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKFormID=0x2485600c57e |
| 4. | Boston | October 19th | Seaport Boston200 Seaport Blvd, Boston, MA 02210 | https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKFormID=0x24856766c7b |
| 5. | New York | October 20th | Cooper Union30 Cooper Square, New York City, NY 10003 | https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKFormID=0x2485752468f |
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