Darren Jefford is a Lead Software Architect for the Microsoft Services Technology Office who partner closely with our Engineering and Research teams to explore emerging technology with key customers helping them to innovate and transform. Darren’s focus in the last 12 months has been on the Artificial Intelligence platform including Cognitive Services, Bot Framework and Cortana helping to build our technical strategy whilst leading our initial engagements in this space. Darren has over 20 years of experience across software engineering and architect roles delivering large-scale solutions and has been at Microsoft for 15 years.