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Rik Hepworth

Rik Hepworth

Chief Consulting Officer, Black Marble; Microsoft MVP (Azure); Microsoft Regional Director

Bradford, United Kingdom

As Chief Consulting Officer at Black Marble, Rik helps organisations large and small use Cloud better. Whether that is a new adoption where governance and management are key, or an application modernisation project where technology choice and team knowledge are important factors in success.
Through his public speaking and community involvement, Rik is a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Programme award for his work with Azure. He is also proud to be a member of the Microsoft Regional Director Programme. As an event organiser, speaker and lapsed blogger, Rik is keen to share his knowledge with the community, and encourage and support others as they do the same.
His grey hair is an indication of how long he has worked in IT, and in that time he's done most things you'd expect of an IT Pro: From crawling under floors pulling cables, to managing large scale automated OS rollouts, to architecting solutions for on-premises and cloud. Now he spends more time working with his customers' management, sharing that breadth of experience and learning.

Awards

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Cloud Architecture

CloudBrew 2023 - A two-day Microsoft Azure event Sessionize Event

December 2023 Mechelen, Belgium

ESPC23 - European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference Sessionize Event

November 2023 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Techorama Netherlands 2023 Sessionize Event

October 2023 Utrecht, The Netherlands

Azure Lowlands 2023 Sessionize Event

June 2023 Utrecht, The Netherlands

KCDC 2023 Sessionize Event

June 2023 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference

November 2022 Copenhagen, Denmark

CloudBrew 2022 - A two-day Microsoft Azure event Sessionize Event

November 2022 Mechelen, Belgium

Techorama Netherlands 2022 Sessionize Event

October 2022 Utrecht, The Netherlands

KCDC 2022 Sessionize Event

August 2022 Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Azure Lowlands 2022 Sessionize Event

June 2022 Utrecht, The Netherlands

IglooConf 2022: Midsummer Sessionize Event

June 2022 Helsinki, Finland

DDD 2021 Sessionize Event

November 2021 Reading, United Kingdom

Global Azure 2021 Sessionize Event

April 2021

Techorama 2020 BE Sessionize Event

May 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium

Global Azure - At the Home of Computing Sessionize Event

April 2020 Bletchley, United Kingdom

Azure Lowlands Sessionize Event

January 2020 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

IglooConf 2020 Sessionize Event

January 2020 Helsinki, Finland

CloudBrew 2019 - A two-day Microsoft Azure event Sessionize Event

December 2019 Mechelen, Belgium

Microsoft Ignite

October 2019 Orlando, Florida, United States

Global Online Azure Bootcamp - Ireland Sessionize Event

April 2019 Dublin, Ireland

Techorama NL 2018 Sessionize Event

October 2018 Ede, The Netherlands

CloudBrew 2017 - A full-day Microsoft Azure event Sessionize Event

November 2017

Rik Hepworth

Chief Consulting Officer, Black Marble; Microsoft MVP (Azure); Microsoft Regional Director

Bradford, United Kingdom