Keynote Speaker

2019 Keynote Speaker: George Moore

Chief Technology Officer, Azure Global Retail Engineering, Microsoft Corp.

George Moore is one of the original founders of the Azure Engineering team in 2006, and over the last 13 years has designed and built many of the core components of the Azure Platform. He is presently the Chief Technology Officer for the Azure Global Retail Engineering team, focusing upon Artificial Intelligence and Big Data scenarios for retailers such as Starbucks, Nike, Walmart, H&M, Walgreens, Safeway, and others.  Previous to this role, he was the Chief Security Officer for Azure Compute, responsible for the platform and customer-facing security posture for the millions of servers which comprise the Azure public cloud. He is the named inventor for over 40 software patents, and was the 2018 Distinguished Speaker award winner for Microsoft’s Executive Briefing Center.