My second interview was with Ben Lower, and he talked about learning to programme as a kid with Logo, and how teachers can keep things interesting in the classroom with some of the great tools out there like Scratch or Alice, or even Kinect! Find out what Ben had to say. …

After Caitlin has interviewed Jeff on Build itself, it was my turn to come out from behind the camera and talk to Jeff about the importance of teaching children to programme, and what we can do to encourage teachers. This is an important subject to me as when I’m in my Code Club at school, my teacher often asks me for …

As the only women in technology we managed to speak to at the conference, I wanted to ask Michele what she thought we could do to help encourage girls to take up computing as a career – and liked how she emphasised the wide range of options available as a career – it’s not just about programming. Find out what Michele …

Michele was our only non-Microsoft interviewee, and our final one of the whole conference! Michele, as well as being a CIO, is also a Microsoft Regional Director and Azure MVP. She loved the conference, thought it was great, and it was marvellous to talk about cross-platform development with Michele. Find out what …

It was great to talk to Scott Hanselman about his highlights of Build. Scott is a Principal Program Manager Lead in the Microsoft Developer Division, and he was able to give an example of how Microsoft can produce cool technology that has a real useful purpose for him in his day to day life, enabling developers to …

One of the key announcements at Build was Microsoft Edge, and Jason is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for the new browser! Though his big takeaway was focused around what Microsoft can do with Data! Find out what Jason had to say. 

Martin Woodward was our only interviewee we knew already! He spoke about the .NET Foundation and the Open Source community, and was really enthusiastic about HoloLens (everyone is very enthusiastic about HoloLens!), but watch his video to find out what was his best bit! …

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. ![](/blogs/Calicowind/image.axd?picture=/2015/Build …

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 …