A presentation I delivered on May 17th @ the Shangri-La Hotel in Vancouver with our partner Avanade

2. Evolution to the Digital Age

3. Microsoft Mission
Empowering every person and every organization
on the planet to do more and achieve more.”
“A computer on every desk
and in every home”
Empowering every person and every organization on the planet to
do more and achieve more.”
Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO
“A computer on every desk and in every
home”

4. Empower every person and every organization
on the planet to achieve more

5. Fourth Industrial Revolution
Big Data IntelligenceCloud

6. Digital Disruption

7. 67
Years
25
Years
15
Years
The time to adapt to disruptions is shrinking
Source: BBC
A hundred years ago, the average lifespan of a
company listed on the S&P 500 index was 67 years
75% of the S&P 500 will be new
(not on the index today)
25% of the S&P 500 will
be ones on the index today
In the 2020s…

8. Digital Disruption in Canada
“Online grocery shopping represents less
than 1 per cent of the overall $120-billion of
annual sales in the Canadian sector, analysts
estimate. But those sales are expected to rise
at three to four times the rate of those made
in-store, making up 3 per cent of total sales
by 2018
- Profitero

9. Our Digital Disruptors…

10. Renault (Lotus) F1 Race Company

11. JJ Food Service Video

12. Digital Transformation

13. INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACE
PROVEN BUSINESS LOGIC
CONTINUOUS LIFE TO YOUR SYSTEM
BUSINESS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE
THE NEW DYNAMICS AX
ANATOMYOF A BRAND NEW OFFERINGWITHKNOWN BUSINESSLOGIC

15. Thomas Mayer, COO of Renault F1 Sport

16. Customer Case Study: The Umbra Group

17. ANNOUNCING: DATACENTER IN CANADA
24 Regions Worldwide, 19 ONLINE…huge capacity around the world…growing every year
 100+ datacenters
 Top 3 networks in the world
 G Series – Largest VM in
World, 32 cores, 448GB Ram,
SSD…
Operational
Announced/
Not Operational
Central US
Iowa
West US
California
North Europe
Ireland
East US
Virginia
East US 2
Virginia
US Gov
Virginia
North Central US
Illinois
US Gov
Iowa
South Central US
Texas
Brazil South
Sao Paulo
West Europe
Netherlands
China North *
Beijing
China South *
Shanghai
Japan East
Saitama
Japan West
Osaka
India South
Chennai
East Asia
Hong Kong
SE Asia
Singapore
Australia South East
Victoria
Australia East
New South Wales
India Central
Pune
Canada East
Quebec City
Canada Central
Toronto
India West
Mumbai

18. >85%
of Fortune 500 use
the Microsoft Cloud

19. Excited Press & Analysts