Our second interview was with Ben Lower, a Senior Programme Manager at Microsoft, who works with Kinect and HoloLens – how cool is that!

Unsurprisingly, Ben was enthusiastic about HoloLens! Having got to try it myself, I totally agree :D

Find out what Ben had to say.

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Between us and the interviews we managed to squeeze in some great sessions, starting with the Surface Hub and developing apps for it. The Surface Hub was excellent, and in the Expo area I got to try one :D

Also went to sessions on XAML, Cortana and Digital Inking! It was hard to choose which sessions to cover as there …

Jeff Sandquist was the first of the interviews we had at Build, and he was so friendly and encouraging. We wanted to make sure we kept the interviews short, as they are all busy people – so my key question for Jeff was what his highlights of Build were.

We were very nervous but he completely put us at our ease, and …

Having fallen asleep before 9pm on Day 1, we were up bright and early and ready for Day 2.

This was going to bring not just great sessions, but also the first of our #BuildBites interviews...

We had a terrific opportunity to interview some of the interesting people in the development world whilst at Microsoft //build/ …

So much happened on Day 1, need to split it into several posts!

In the Keynote, they announced that a small number of Build attendees would get to try out HoloLens, and we all had to apply to get our names.  I was delighted, amazed, and so so excited to be chosen! No one else I know at Build were chosen, so it was a …

There was so much going on throughout Day One of Build, but for me the best bit was the Q&A with Satya Nadella!!

My sister and I are here as students at Build, 2 out of only 100.  Plus, I am the youngest at 13 - most of them seem to be university students (like Caitlin).  And lots of them are Microsoft Student …

It was an early start for the Day One Keynote at Build - but that was OK, thanks to jetlag, we were up at 5:30am anyway!

There was the usual crush for the Keynote - so many people keen to be present for the exciting announcements - so much more exciting in person than online! There was a real buzz in the hall, it was …

After a long day of travel on the Monday, we spent Tuesday out and about exploring in San Francisco.  The weather was glorious - bright and sunny but cool with it!

Took time to do some shopping - we checked out the Microsoft store!

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We are getting very excited, as in less than two weeks we will be in San Francisco for //build! We attended before, back in 2013, and it was great fun.  Plus San Francisco is an amazing city, looking forward to be being back.

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