UNICC Presents at UN Tech Huddle at Microsoft Geneva

10 October, 2019

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Photo: UNICC

Prado Nieto, Chief, Business Relationship Management, Gabriel Galati, Head, Azure and M365 Services Unit and Shashank Rai, Chief Technology Officer, UNICC, attended the first UN Tech Huddle at Microsoft Geneva 7 October.

Gabriel presented UNICC’s Microsoft Azure and M365 services and Shashank presented a Data Lake implementation UNICC implemented for OCHA.

Some of the agenda topics were as follows:

  • Azure announcements and new solution areas – James Pearse (Senior Cloud Architect, TSI)
  • Modern Workplace Updates – Clint Conlin (MS Modern Workplace, TSI)
  • Cloud adoption framework – James Complin (MS Sr. Cloud Architect)
  • Cloud transformation and modernization through Microsoft CSE – Anaig Marechal (Cloud engineer, CSE)
  • UN System Digital Transformation Update – Alex Pinho (MS UN Lead, TSI).

The following was presented by MS partners:

  • Terraform on Azure – Tim Arenz (Senior solutions engineer, Hashicorp)
  • Cloud Security In Azure & O365 – Paul Keely (Born in the cloud).

Microsoft will run UN Tech Huddles on a quarterly basis in Geneva and New York focusing on Microsoft Cloud solutions, partner offerings and ISV solution areas. The next Tech Huddle will be scheduled early next year.