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2025 Winners announcement The Microsoft Power Women Awards are part of our continued mission to celebrate, elevate, and empower women in technology across its partner organizations in the EMEA region. This initiative is one of the ways Microsoft champions greater diversity and inclusion within our partner ecosystem, and beyond. This year, we were thrilled to receive 368 nominations from partners across 20 countries and […]
Joana Pires
Director Partner Go to Market Strategy - EMEA
The Microsoft Power Women Awards continue Microsoft’s commitment to inspiring the next generation and investing in female tech talent, empowering women to break barriers and transform the tech landscape. Women currently represent only 28% of all tech-related roles. While women represent over half of the workforce in non-STEM sectors, they make up just one-third in […]
Joana Pires
Director Partner Go to Market Strategy - EMEA
“The world is diverse. So, we can only serve the world, if we are diverse too,” says Verónica Pascual, CEO of ASTI TechGroup In the latest installment of our Manufacturing the Future video series, Veronica acknowledges the link between diversity and innovation that’s empowering hers and other manufacturing companies to find better ways to serve […]
Laurence Janssens
Microsoft Manufacturing Lead for Western Europe
As sustainable transformation continues to shape the manufacturing world, more organizations than ever are acknowledging the need to attract diverse talent. One organization leading the sustainable change is steel manufacturer, Tata Steel. Steel plays a vital role in supporting our society to continue to grow and flourish. In fact, so much of it is […]
Laurence Janssens
Microsoft Manufacturing Lead for Western Europe
Distance learning in Swedish primary schools has accelerated the development of effective hybrid teaching. Microsoft’s Jerker Porat visited Knutby school in Uppsala to study how they used Microsoft’s solutions in the absence of a physical school environment. In the film, Microsoft speaks to students, teachers and guardians about how they have collaborated to create a […]
Carla Gonzalez Fernandez
Microsoft, Modern Work & Surface
“When it comes to learning new technologies, having the space to explore and play around is very important. With the solution we’ve put in place, our students now have that possibility. They can learn in their own time, from anywhere.” Shaun McBrearty, Assistant Lecturer in Computer Science at IT Sligo is explaining how teaching and […]
Shilpa France-Miller
Microsoft Education, Western Europe
Streamlining Cloud Procurement and Empowering Innovation Across Europe European research and education institutions are increasingly turning to cloud-based solutions to enhance their capabilities, drive innovation, and foster collaboration. At the heart of this transformation is the OCRE (Open Clouds for Research and Education) initiative, an EU-compliant framework managed by GÉANT and designed to make cloud […]
Shilpa France-Miller
Microsoft Education, Western Europe
A new Microsoft laboratory at the Delft University of Technology is the latest step towards making quantum computing a reality.
Leentje Chavatte
Microsoft, Data & AI and Digital Transformation
Professor Leo Kouwenhoven is a key member of Microsoft’s quantum team – and leads a team of researchers and engineers at the Microsoft Quantum Lab in Delft, in the Netherlands. We asked Professor Leo why it’s so difficult to build a quantum computer. Why is it so hard to build a quantum computer? We don’t […]
Leentje Chavatte
Microsoft, Data & AI and Digital Transformation
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