Rome, Nov. 12 (Askanews) – New productivity tools, development of a ‘cloud’ smart and an innovative combination of hardware and software to meet the needs of people. Are the three ambitions of the new Microsoft told by CEO Satya Nadella, his first public Italian, in front of a packed house of about 3,000 young people between software developers, students and professionals. In his speech on the occasion of Future Decoded 2015, a major event dedicated to innovation that has animated the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Nadella told the strategy and the key ambitions of Microsoft, in a world dominated by the Internet now use in mobility and the same cloud computing.Nadella focused his speech on the stage on the stories of three teams of young people who have benefited from the support of Microsoft at various levels and that exemplify the Italian creative genius can produce innovation impact for real the society. “It ‘s really exciting to see what you are doing with developers these technologies. This morning I was able to meet some of you and I could know their stories, inspirational,” he said Nadella.La first application is called BabyGoldrake and created by a team of sixteen high school supported by an expert on Microsoft technology – MVP Most Value Professional. This team has created a solution that through a reader of brain waves allows to operate the toy or device controllable by electrical signals, such as a track for toy cars, but also a robot. The project “Brain waves play games” has been developed from the Microsoft Universal Platform and Microsoft Azure cloud services and has already been tested in some hospitals, and found positive effects on children hospitalized and also allowing those with more severe conditions of play. “These guys – said Nadella – have had the insight to create a framework of applications for children in hospital who have no mobility, so they can make things happen only with their brain waves. What struck me is empathy that these developers with users who seek to serve. Guys Italian school who are dreaming big “.Melixa, instead, is a startup that has created thirty and markets an innovative system of monitoring for beekeeping , which exploits the Microsoft cloud Azure for the development and production of the processing system and data storage, with the aim of offering to beekeepers and research centers to a system for the control of the apiary professional in order to ensure the ‘operational effectiveness of care of the bees. Through the Internet of Things and data processing hive it is possible to monitor the well-being of bees, and the balance of the environment in terms of biodiversità.HeartWatch is a startup born of the experience of a team of twentysomethings who participated in the last edition of Microsoft Imagine Cup technology competition overall and who developed the application HeartWatch, with the advice of the doctors of the San Raffaele, that service can detect cardiac arrhythmias by the beat analysis and report unforeseen anomalies, analyzing the data generated by the interaction between two devices, such as a smartphone and a wearable device. The app was made possible thanks to the technology of Microsoft Band – can detect the user’s biometric data in real time – and the power of cloud services Microsoft Azure – able to handle the huge amount of data – and can geolocalize the patient, allowing you to send relief in a particular place and to report the problem to a list of friends and acquaintances via SMS.Con the goal of supporting the growth of new businesses in order to promote the internationalization of Italian, Italian Microsoft announced, on the occasion of the visit of Nadella, GrowITUp, a new three-year program of accelerated enterprise that will offer incubation services, mentoring, support and provision of capital. Microsoft manages and supports along with Fondazione Cariplo the acceleration program and the training program designed to support the enhancement of startups within the CariploFactory, a veritable factory of ideas, and to Invitalia, the National Agency for the attraction investment and enterprise development of the Ministry of Economy. The latter will pay activities Advisor and due diligence on startup that may be subject to capital funding risk. “The visit of Satya Nadella – said Carlo Purassanta, CEO of Microsoft Italy on the sidelines of the visit – was enlightening, because managed to transfer a wide audience the essence of the new Microsoft, but even more because he managed to excite and engage young people, who represent the future of our country. Microsoft has always invested to support them through programs like YouthSpark, which already formed 250 thousand children in Italy, and BizSpark, which has already supported 3 thousand startups. Now we want to go further with a new program of acceleration of enterprise that will mobilize all Italian investments to support homegrown startup “
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