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GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop interviews Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsofts Cloud and Enterprise Group, at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (GeekWire photos/Kevin Lisota)

Cloud computing is the new operating system.

Thats what one venture capitalist said on stage at the inauguralGeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, and its a reminder of why it was so exciting to welcomemore than 600 folks to our first technical event ever on Wednesday in Bellevue, Wash.

It was an action-packed daythatshowcased the cutting-edge cloud-related trends and ideas that are transformingthe technology world.

We had a great lineup of speakers and presenters folks like Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie; Docker CEO Steve Singh; Cloud Foundry Foundation Executive Director Abby Kearns; and others who shared insight about the world of cloud computing and addressed pressing technical questions to our attendees about everything from DevOps to serverless computing.

It is no understatement to say that public cloud computing is revolutionizing how technology is used, wrote Fortune reporter Barb Darrow, who attended the event.

We loved hosting a world-class conference of this kind in the Seattle area, which manyconsiderthe epicenter of the cloud industry with companies like Amazon and Microsoft, in addition to countlessstartups that are all building cloud-related technologies.

This is an incredible community with incredible technology talent, said Singh, who announced thatDocker is opening an office in the area, yet another Bay Area company planting its flag up north.Obviously, its cloud city as well.

The day kicked off with a fireside chat featuring Guthrie,executive vice president of Microsofts Cloud and Enterprise Group.

Microsoft is learning from Amazon.com, borrowing some of the companys guiding principles in a competition to provide web-based technology services, Seattle Times tech journalistMatt Day reportedfrom the event.

The morning continuedwith Power Talks featuringKearns, the executive director of Cloud Foundry; Joe Beda, Heptio co-founder and co-creator of Kubernetes;Sunny Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Apptio; andSwami Sivasubramanian, vice president ofAmazon AI.

Before lunch,Fortunes Darrow interviewedGreg DeMichillie, Googles director of product management, office of the CTO, Google Cloud.

A break for lunch allowed attendees to network with each other and check out sponsor booths with cool giveaways like free airline tickets and e-readers; VIP attendees and speakers were able to connect at a special VIP meal.

Attendees spent the afternoon soakingup knowledge atthree separate technical tracks DevOps, Microservices/Serverless and Artificial Intelligence as well as a business track that featureda venture capital panel, a media panel and a startup showcase.

Our last on-stage discussion featured Singh and his Docker colleague Scott Johnston.

We ended the day with a fun party at Salesforces new Bellevue office, which won theGeekiest Office Space award at our GeekWire Awards event in May.

Itwas also funwelcoming backGuillaume Wiatr, who sketched drawings inspired by on-stageinterviews and presentations.

Check out photos from the photo booth here:

You can read all our coverage from the Cloud Tech Summithere. Well be posting videos from the on-stage discussions soon, so stay tuned for that.

Thanksto Kevin Lisota for snapping photos of the event, and to all of our attendees for being apart of it all. And of course, a big thanks to title sponsor, Salesforce, and all our other GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit sponsors for helping to make this event happen:

Gold sponsors: Smartsheet, Northeastern University-Seattle, City of Bellevue, F5 Networks, Salesforce, Axon, Owen Media, CenturyLinkand Capital One.

Silver Sponsors: Acumatica, Moz, Expedia, OfferUpand Chef.

Supporting Sponsors: Avalara, Foster School of Business Technology Management MBA, Madrona Venture Group, First Tech Federal Credit Union, Lighter Capital, EY,Knolland Architecht.

Exhibitors: ALLtech, Nintex, ATI, Sysgain, DB Best Technologies,Washington State Opportunity Scholarship, StrataCore, WeWork and ExtraSlice.

Well see you at our next event the second annual GeekWire Sports Tech Summit later this month on June 21-22 in Seattle.

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