Keynote: Lessons and Insights from Tech Transfers at Microsoft by Christian Bird

The author discussed how a risk assessment system went from a website with a few visits per day to a web-service service thousands of requests per day. He discussed the tradeoffs they faced and the design decisions they made to a system that automatically adds high expertise reviewers to code reviews. In addition, he discussed what they learned from the research projects that never succeeded at Tech Transfer. Finally, he proposed what he believe to be open problems in tech transfer and the way the research community interacts with software development practitioners today.