TheWindows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) is a series of technical conferences and workshops, whereMicrosoft elaborates on its hardware plans for Windows devices.
The WinHEC from 1992 to 2008, which stood forWindows Hardware Engineering Conference, was an annual software and hardware developer-orientedtrade show andbusiness conference, whereMicrosoft elaborated on itshardware plans forMicrosoft Windows-compatiblePCs. From 2008 to 2015, WinHEC was then replaced in Microsoft's schedule by theProfessional Developers Conference, later merged into theBuild conference.
On September 26, 2014, Microsoft announced that WinHEC would be returning in 2015 in the form of multiple conferences held throughout the year.[1] The first conference was to be held in Shenzhen, China on March 18 to 19. The industry had changed significantly since Microsoft's prior WinHEC event, with innovation happening at a much quicker pace and across more geographically diverse locations. Because of that, Microsoft evolved WinHEC to be more than a single annual conference. WinHEC was to consist of technical conferences and smaller, more frequent, topic focused workshops that were local to the hardware ecosystem hubs. The WinHEC acronym also changed its meaning to "Windows Hardware Engineering Community".
On December 17, 2014, Microsoft announced that registration was open for the first of its re-launched WinHEC summit, taking place March 18–19, 2015 in Shenzhen, China. The company also announced thatTerry Myerson, Executive Vice President of the Operating Systems Group would keynote the event. They would discuss advancements in the Windows platform making it easier for companies to build devices powered by Windows as well as Microsoft’s growing investments in the Shenzhen and China ecosystem.
WinHEC will stay true to its strong technical roots. The agenda will be packed with executive keynotes, deep technical training sessions, hands-on labs, and opportunities for Q&A on topics across the spectrum of Windows-based hardware. For executives, engineering managers, engineers and technical product managers at OEMs, ODMs, IHVs, and IDHs who are working with or want to work with Windows technologies
