Luc Van de Velde

Luc Van de Velde is Director of the Developer & Platform group at Microsoft Belgium and is a member of the Board at the Microsoft Innovation Centre in Mons, Belgium. In this role he’s responsibility for winning the hearts and minds of technical audiences and students and get them thinking about the next big technology swing. He started at Microsoft in ’99 leading the consulting department, and after that he worked on building the partner channel. Part of his job is leading the Software + Services paradigm shift in Belgium of which cloud computing is one of the important chunks.