Bob Familiar

Director at Microsoft

Bob Familiar is the Director of the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Boston. The MTC is an innovation hub for Microsoft’s customers providing them the opportunity to engage and collaborate with Microsoft on their most challenging issues related to becoming a Digital Business. The MTC provides Strategy Sessions, Architecture Design, Hands-On Workshops, Hackathons and works with customers to design and build Rapid Prototypes for connected products, augmented reality, and the application of artificial intelligence within business scenarios. Bob is a software industry veteran with over 34 years of experience as a software developer, architect, consultant, evangelist, and author of two books, ‘Microservices, IoT and Azure’ and ‘Business in Real-Time using Azure IoT and Cortana Intelligence Suite’. He is a frequent industry speaker on enabling businesses to realize the full benefit of digital transformation through the application of lean engineering.