Alexandre Delarue, a Sr. Solution Architect on the Data & AI enterprise team at Microsoft, joins us for a deep conversation around unblocking seemingly impossible challenges, as fast as possible, and with as little resources as possible. In the ever evolving world of data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and deep learning, quick thinking, robust learning frameworks, and ambitious philosophies are the key to driving a business's competitive edge. Alex shares his secret sauce for high performance problem solving, the "Awesome Minimum".
7 | First Year at Microsoft: My Top 10 Learnings
Closing up an incredible first year at Microsoft, I take some time in this episode to share my top 10 learnings from the year. This is less a tech vignette and more what I've learned from peers, colleagues, leaders, and customers over the past 12 months. This is a great listen if you work in a big organization and strive to further develop your effectiveness with teams, increase your emotional IQ, or better understand your self development journey. Thanks for listening!
6 | Diversity & Tech: The Key to a Perceptive AI
Connie Fan, a data solution architect at Microsoft, joins us to share her experiences in the computer sciences, her journey as a female immigrant in a male dominated technology industry, and her perspective on the importance of diversity in this new era of AI. Some of the things we underscore in this episode: how homogeneous groups in AI programming are ultimately not good for business and for the world, how businesses should acquire high performance talent, and the importance of growth mindset in a dynamic field that is constantly changing.
5 | Why The Crypto Craze? The Real Business Cases for Blockchain
In this episode, Kevin Leffew, blockchain subject matter expert at Microsoft, joins us as we dive deep into the details about how blockchain is being used in businesses today, and what business leaders from operations to finance should be thinking about as they develop their digital strategy and continue to evolve organizations into data driven businesses.
4 | Predicting AI: The Answer, the Dream, the Hype
With all the hype and buzz around machine cognition and artificial intelligence (AI), it's hard for business leaders to decide how to adopt AI, let alone plan to embrace it through technological and cultural change within the business. In this episode of The Data Binge Podcast, Tony Abell, Data Solutions Architect for Microsoft, joins us to answer the tough questions around AI and what businesses should really be looking for as they prepare their digital strategies for a new era of technology.
3 | Gloves Off: The Real Deal on Data Security
Today we have Matt Hollingsworth on the podcast, Matt represents an absolute wealth of knowledge, and brings with him some great stories from his time on the product team at Microsoft.
2 | To PaaS, or Not to PaaS: Moving Your Data into the Right Neighborhood
Today we have Kirby Repko on the podcast, Kirby is such a great resource in the data base space, he's been helping our customers tremendously and he supports big businesses in the Data & AI solution area.
1 | The Evolution of the Data Platform
Derek Heckemeyer, Solution Specialist for Microsoft's enterprise data & Ai solution area, joins us on the podcast today to share his thoughts on how the landscape of how data is stored and utilized in big business, is fundamentally changing. Derek H. makes comments about the critical nature of how Microsoft's cloud, Azure, is allowing businesses to digitally transform, and why many customers are moving to an intelligent cloud intelligent edge mindset.