-1 to Microsoft with Kevin Scott
South Park Commons is delighted to host Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft, as part of our -1 to Now series!
Event Details:
10:30am: Doors Open
11am: Fireside Chat
Kevin Scott
Kevin Scott is Microsoft’s chief technology officer. He is an innovative leader driving the technical vision to achieve Microsoft’s mission, and is passionate about creating technologies that benefit everyone. He focuses on helping make the company an exceptional place for engineers, developers and researchers to work and learn. Scott’s 20-year career in technology spans both academia and industry as researcher, engineer and leader.
Prior to joining Microsoft, he was senior vice president of engineering and operations at LinkedIn, where he helped build the technology and engineering teams and led the company through an IPO and six years of rapid growth.
Earlier in his career, he oversaw mobile ads engineering at Google, including the integration of Google’s $750 million acquisition of AdMob. At AdMob, Scott was responsible for engineering and operations for the world’s leading platform for mobile monetization. Before joining AdMob, Scott held numerous leadership positions at Google in search and ads engineering and helped with the company’s early efforts establishing remote engineering centers.
Scott is the host of the podcast Behind the Tech, which features interviews with technology heroes who have helped create the tech industry of today. He also authored the book “Reprogramming the American Dream,” which explores how artificial intelligence can be realistically used to serve the interests of everyone, not just the privileged few.
As co-inventor on several patents around search and information extraction, he has also authored several publications on dynamic binary rewriting that collectively have been cited hundreds of times in other scholarly research.
📢 -1 to Now is a recurring speaker series at South Park Commons exploring how the world's best builders and thinkers took their ideas from -1 to 0 and beyond. Join us for the inside stories of their experiments, pivots, and breakthroughs on the way to where they are today.
Approval does not guarantee entry, doors will close when capacity is reached.
Doors will close promptly at 11am, with no late entry allowed.