Chris Henley is a fun and energetic representative of Microsoft. He works on the Developer Platform Evangelist team at Microsoft as an IT Professional Evangelist in the western region and is the co-author of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration Instant Reference from Sybex press. Chris is a regular speaker and presenter at user groups, Technet events, and major conferences around the US.
He has extensive experience in the world of computer networks. He is passionate about the way that technology helps people. He has an entertaining and insightful style of communicating technical information and of making difficult concepts easy to understand. He is an expert in server architecture and network design. He loves to push the envelope of what we think about computers, and what software can do. Chris spends his spare time playing XBOX360 with his wife and kids, fly fishing, camping, hiking, and searching for the best chocolate cake on planet earth.
I spent some time in Los Angeles California this last week working with college and university students from around the United States. They were competing in the Imagine cup finals in the categories of photography, software design, and game design. I was so impressed with the work that they had done. I took some video footage while at the event and wanted to share some of it with you so you could get an idea of what the competition is like.
Watch some of the competition.
This years imagine cup has an environmental sustainability theme. The projects all focused on the environment and our impact on it. Busloads of High School kids for around the greater LA area came in to look at the projects. It was so nice and refreshing to see their take on the future of software and our technologies.
Microsoft is focused on environmental sustainability and I was able to corner Mark Aggar (one of Microsoft's Environmental technologists) for a short interview about his participation at Imagine Cup and some of his thoughts around how software might impact the environment.
Watch the interview with Mark Aggar.
I really enjoyed my experience at imagine cup and got to meet some great innovators and make some new friends.