London Tech Week featured conferences, showcases and forums aimed at helping startups, entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, students and companies. Microsoft was a headline partner of the event, which featured speakers such as Cindy Rose, the company’s UK CEO, and Ben Medlock, the founder of SwiftKey. Here’s what happened:
Microsoft was a headline sponsor for London Tech Week, which saw many digital events take place across the capital
Cindy Rose, Microsoft UK CEO, and Ben Medlock, SwiftKey founder, talked about the fourth industrial revolution and AI
Microsoft held a Surface, HoloLens and Teams event in Wapping
The Surface Book, left, and Surface Laptop, right
Surface Pro, Surface Laptop and Surface Studio were released in the UK this week
Journalists and business leaders attended the event to get hands-on with the new devices
The Surface Studio is designed for artists and creators, and can be folded down almost flat
Black Marble demonstrated how they are helping police solve crimes using Microsoft HoloLens
The Surface Book, a two-in-one device
Unlike the Surface Pro, the Surface Book has a hard, more traditional keyboard
Cindy Rose, Microsoft UK CEO, also spoke about Surface devices. "The Surface Studio is unique," she said.
HoloLens is a mixed-reality device that puts holographic images in the room with you
The Microsoft mission
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