Sylvain Ekel is an IoT Solution Architects Manager within the Partner Devices and Solutions organization at Microsoft Corp. His team is responsible for working with partners across EMEA to help them build IoT solutions using Microsoft’s Azure IoT cloud services and other products and technologies. Sylvain has more than 20 years of technical and business experience in the embedded and Internet of Things market. Prior to Microsoft, Sylvain was an embedded and electrical design engineer and for the last 15 years in Microsoft, he has held multiple technical sales leadership positions, managing teams and partners across industries and device categories. Amongst other, he held roles driving projects in commercial electronics and media devices, industrial and manufacturing systems, retail, healthcare, and mobility.