Building a Tech Community: The Windows Insider Program with Dona Sarkar

Personal and professional background – growing up in Detroit, taking up computer science, working at Siebel, etc.

Upcoming speaking engagement at a conference on digital inclusion

Journey to working with Microsoft

Career highlights in the past 14 years

Being a woman in tech: changes she has seen, her thoughts on the topic

How she encourages open-mindedness when people don’t come from a highly diverse background in a corporate team

About #DotheThing – what it is, her principle

Thoughts on encouraging students about the future possibility of careers that don’t even exist

The meaning behind #NinjaCat

Releasing code to the Insider Fast ring – wanting to have in cocreating product and making a better world using technology. Is it starting to flow over into other technology areas inside Microsoft?

Building a 16.5-million-people community – keeping the communications and the engagement level up; how they maintain the momentum year in and year out

Dona’s Ten Commandments for Community

Thoughts on the future of the Windows Insider Program

Advice to teams wanting to kick off a program from 0 and build a tech community