The Nordic Women in Tech Awards 2025 #NWiTA2025 celebrates and recognizes female role models who have made outstanding contributions to the tech industry. By highlighting their individual and collective achievements, we aim to promote their success and inspire others to follow their footsteps.

“We believe in the power of diversity and inclusivity, and our ultimate goal is to make a positive contribution to the tech industry by inspiring the next generation of diverse and talented tech professionals.”

It is my distinct honor and privilege to serve as one of the Global Judges for the 2025 edition of the awards. It is hubling to be asked to judge this prestegious award and highlight superstar women in tech role models for the world!

Here is the presentation of me that the event made: “We’re proud to have Magnus Mårtensson ☁ join our Global Jury this year! Magnus Mårtensson ☁is a pioneer in cloud technology and a true connector in the tech community. He has been inspiring and guiding leaders worldwide for decades.

Founder & CEO of Loftysoft AB
Microsoft Azure MVP & Regional Director
International speaker & organizer of CloudBurst + GlobalAzure
First-ever Azure MVP in the Nordics

Magnus Mårtensson ☁ brings decades of expertise and passion for innovation — and will help us crown the winners of hashtag#NWITA2025 at the Gala Ceremony on 10th October in Helsinki.”

There is a gala award ceremony that you can attend in Helsinki on October 9 and 10.

Here is the list of the Global Judges for Nordic Women in Tech Awards 2025:

• Hilde Asklund, Chief Technology Officer, Signicat
• Åshild Hanne Larsen, Vice President Subsurface Excellence & Digital
• Anna Radulovski, Founder & CEO, WomenTech Network; Author of “Chief in Tech”
• Amina Askaner, Social Impact Lead Co-founder, Amplify Voices
• Magnus Mårtensson, Cloud Technology Specialist Founder & CEO, Loftysoft
• Heidi Pech, DEI consultant, speaker and mentor
• Sigrún Jenný Bardadóttir, CEO of Memm.Care
• Jennifer Montague, Senior Director of Go-to-Market at Verdane
• Tove Keldsen, Communication Manager Association of Nordic Engineers (ANE)
• Dr. Ida Susana Fattah, Chief Executive Officer, Doktor Innovasjon AS
• Sólveig Hrönn Sigurðardóttir, Chief Technology Officer at Carbfix
• Melanie Nash, Sr. Client Executive, SoftwareONE
  

My first time visit to Irealand will be to speak at the excellent conference ESPC in Dublin on December 1-4 2025.

ESPC is Europe’s premier Microsoft 365 and AI conference and brings together leading experts and professionals from the Microsoft 365 and AI world. Star line up of speakers, the latest and greatest session content and workshops, lots of networking and even party fun. What’s not to like!? Attending will help you stay up-to-date on industry trends like AI transformation.

My session will be about Advanced Azure Architecture, which does sound like a bit of a mouthful as a conference topic. And it is. What I want to do is bring up as many classic cloud challenges as I might given that the session is only one hour. Maybe I could talk about this for a few days if given the opportunity, but most would probably be bored before I run out of things to talk about. I have consulted with enterprises and government organizations for quite some years now and have presently fourteen Azure MVP titles in my baggage. This is what I do – help my customers cloud become better – and in so doing, there are always some challenges that come back again and again in most every customer case. THAT is what my session is about!

My speaker profile: Magnus Mårtensson - Microsoft RD, MVP | ESPC Conference, 2025

I really hope I get to see you all at the new Microsoft and community conference Azure Dev Summit, in Portugal on October 13 – 16, 2025! It is going to be a super event with all the experts speaking about Azure, .NET, and Microsoft AI.

A new conference in Europe for the dev-crowd in the cloud – HOW COOL IS THAT! I don’t want to be the one to say “I am supere-exited”, but I really am!

Here is me giving a few hints to my topic at the conference: Azure Dev Summit 2025 My Session #azure #conference #technology #tech #developers

I am going to be there to speak about a favorite topic of mine Azure Monitoring, and I really hope to see you there too!

The Techorama conferences are most certainly best of breed when it comes to tech conferences in Europe. This year I was fortuante to speak at Techorama Belgium 2025 about brand hew Microsoft features that are (finally) in public preview. My session was “Application Centric Observability in the Cloud”.

I have been following the Azure Monitoring team for a very long time, in fact since it was started quite a few years ago in 2018 at Microsoft Ignite.

The news I spoke about consist of two things: 1) Service Groups a new Core Azure Platform governance feature. This allows you to group together instances of resources and relate them to one another in a diagram. This information is then persisted to the Azure Platform and for the first time Azure now understands what resources makes up your application for you. 2) Azure Monitoring Health Models are built to use the new Service Groups feature. The Health Model understands what your application Service Group is and can help you monitor and undrestand any application problems.

I have spoken about Monitoring in Azure for a long time. Trying to remember for how long, I came across this old presentation deck where I, lo and behold, spoke about several things including... Monitoring!

It was  an absolute pleasure to speak at Techorama, I recommend it to anyone, and I hope to speak there again in the future.

My speaker profile at Techorama Belgium 2025:

Hello there and welcome to be the STAR in an episode of my podcast the Cloud Show!

All you need is a single topic to discuss for twenty minutes and the lime light will be all yours!

This is a weekly live podcast featuring a conversation on one specific topic per episode, with a carefully balanced and concentrated format. This provides a valuable yet focused insight from an industry specialist and makes it easy for you – the STAR of the episode – to appear because the whole thing only takes thirty minutes (30) in your calendar!

The goal of your episode is for You to share with the world, something important, passionate, and/or top of mind, that you know is relevant for a “leader in a Cloud Project” to hear! Of course a topic can bee deeply technical and wonderfully geeky. It can also be on adjacent matters, such as project management, team building, or personal health. Given the limited time of an episode, detailed demos are not in scope. That said, a lot of goodness can be shared in the time alotted and the show will not be filled with a lot of extra content. To the point, so to say!

The show has been going for a while now and below you can see testimonials and a list of previous guests!

How to get on the show

The easiest way is to book your own time slot on the show (you must use an M365 account)! If that fails you can simply reach out to me through any of the social media options here on this page (bottom left).

Testimonials

Previous guests have been kind and have left comments on their experience on the show:

	"Magnus is a very engaging host and has a real knack for asking the right questions at the right time. As a result, The Cloud Show has the same vibes as catching up with an old friend." – Adele Carpenter [Watch to the episode]
"Conversation with Magnus is never dull! It was a pleasure to take part in the Cloud Show: Insightful conversation in a relaxed atmosphere with a charming host. Since taking part in an early episode, I've really enjoyed watching the show and learning from Magnus' broad range of guests." – Rik Hepworth [Watch to the episode]
	"I had the pleasure of joining Magnus on The Cloud Show, a podcast on which you can share your greatest passions and interests about anything Cloud-related some time ago. Magnus always makes it feel like having a drink with a friend while sharing your latest learnings and having a laugh about the bumps you hit along the way. That said, I must remind you to wear your bow-tie or heels… After all, you’ll be the star of the show!" – Laila Bougriâ [Watch to the episode]
"When Magnus asked me to be on the Cloud show, I didn’t know what to expect. But I just clicked the invite link, connected to the meeting and after chatting for about half an hour, we were done before I knew it. 9/10 experience. Why not 10/10? We could have had this conversation in a bar, over a drink. That would have been better, but only ever so slightly." – Hanna Engel [Watch to the episode]
	"Magnus has an exceptional talent for creating a comfortable and engaging atmosphere in every conversation. I had the pleasure of being on the Cloud Show twice, and each time was a fantastic experience. I really enjoyed how the discussion was guided, making it easy to share insights and stories." – Olena Borzenko [Watch to the episode]
"No one can make you shine like Magnus. Inquisitive and on point, professional and respectful. After the recording you will both be happy with the result." – Hanna Engel [Watch to the episode]

Previous guests