Vojta Vondra
Partner Director of Engineering @ Microsoft
Vojtěch leads the Entra Edge and Quality organization at the Microsoft Development Center Prague. His teams build Microsoft Graph, secure Microsoft’s perimeter, protect every consumer and enterprise authentication request, and deliver tooling to manage the largest‑scale outages and incidents. Microsoft Entra secures access for every user, application, device, and agent across Microsoft. Previously, Vojtěch led product engineering at Productboard.
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From Talent Pool to Product Powerhouse: How Central Europe Won Microsoft's Trust
Ten years ago, Central Europe was "the place with great developers." Today, Microsoft moves critical product pieces here, including Microsoft Teams. Vojtech Vondra, the first locally promoted Microsoft Partner in Czechia, shares the 3-year playbook he used to earn full trust from US headquarters: building high performing teams, uncovering his ambitious yearly objectives, and actually hitting them, including the lessons learned. He'll break down what it takes to move a CE site from execution hub to product ownership. Plus, Vojtech gets personal. What the Partner title journey looked like, what he learned, and why he's now building a team ready to scale way beyond him. If you ever thought "dreaming big from Prague is unrealistic," this talk will change your mind.
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