Lars Lindstedt
Local Software Economy Lead
Lars.Lindstedt@microsoft.com Lars has been in the IT industry since 1986 working mainly in financial services and telecoms, as a consultant with a software company and then systems architect with a bank in the City of London before joining Microsoft in 1996, initially working as a systems engineer in the finance sector and subsequently as a solution architect with telco partners. In 2003 he became the manager of the newly created Microsoft Technology Centre, Thames Valley, a facility where customers and partners learn about Microsoft technologies and architect and design solutions using the Microsoft development platform. The MTC works with many leading-edge adopters of new technologies, and during the four years that Lars ran the facility a number of the prototypes developed there grew into solutions that delivered major new revenue streams for the customers and partners as well as for Microsoft. From 2007, as head of the Local Software Economy initiative for the UK, Lars focuses on how software delivers responsible economic growth in the UK and the factors that accelerate that growth, such as skills, innovation, entrepreneurship, investment, policy, etc. |