Industry Sessions

To customize your products and services for your customers—and innovate at the speed that product-as-a-service requires—you need an agile, responsive production process. You need solutions that can help you enable an agile factory, a complex ecosystem of self-regulating machines and sites that customize output, optimally allocate resources and offer a seamless interface between the physical and virtual world.

With connected product innovation solutions, you can get real-time insight into which products and features customers are using without waiting for customer survey results. And with big computing capacity available on demand, you can iterate the next version of your product much more rapidly using digital twins, as well as simulation and analysis tools. Learn how to engineer new business value with sustainable products and digital services by digitally transforming the way products are designed, tested and verified for shorter design to market lead times.

Healthcare providers are recognizing the need for a more patient-centric approach to care that refocuses on the unique, personal needs of each individual. At the core of a seamless patient journey is the ability for health teams and healthcare departments to effectively collaborate, coordinate, and view patient information in-real time. So what’s stopping this from being a reality?

Healthcare providers need to engage patients and their family members in patient care decisions with secure personalized patient engagement solutions. They have to be enabled to rapidly analyze and get insights from data unique to each case so clinicians and patients can coordinate effectively on treatment plans for higher patient satisfaction. We will lead the conversation around interest in enabling personalized care to build stronger relationships, unlocking actionable patient insights to improve patient outcomes, and broadening virtual health capabilities to provide new avenues for care.

At Microsoft, we’re working hard to help create momentum to solve the climate change challenge. Every organization can go faster if they build on the work and experience of those that have been doing this work for decades. That is why we’re committed to delivering trusted, accurate, and easy to implement technology solutions to environmental challenges. Sustainability isn’t just something that we do from an operational standpoint – it’s at the core of our business.

By their very nature, buildings are big contributors to our climate crisis. In North America, residential and commercial buildings consume an estimated 40 percent of the total U.S. energy generation, 54 percent of natural gas consumption and more than 70 percent of national electricity consumption. Regulatory, compliance, green building standards are prompting efforts to curb environmental impact… and the task ahead is daunting. But the opportunity to use smart places technologies to improve efficiencies is enormous.