In this episode I spoke with Scott Densmore, VP of engineering at GitHub, focusing on GitHub copilot. Scott shared how GitHub Copilot is being used to make developers more impactful and the successes developers are having with the technology. Additionally, Scott shares a bit about how GitHub Copilot works and even gives us a forecast of upcoming fe…

Microsoft for Startups works with organizations to enable their success. This episode visits the programs available for founders and startups. In addition, the conversation includes how startups are leveraging AI and moving the state-of-the-art forward. Guests Hans Yang is General Manager Microsoft for Startups. He looks for new programs and platfo…

Madhan Arumugam Ramakrishnan, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft’s Cloud for Industry, introduces us to industry clouds. These industry-aligned clouds provide the full infrastructure of Azure and offer a way for software sellers to enable specific industries with relevant product offerings. As a early contributor to building Azure, Madhan has d…

On today’s episode of Azure for Executives, Sujit D'Mello joins us to discuss Mastodon and federated systems. This episode deviates a bit from our standard fare, but we thought it would be fun to delve into this topics. In addition to learning about the Mastodon micro-blogging system, Sujit helps us understand federated systems, their advantages, a…

In this timely discussion, we were joined by Zia Mansoor on the Azure for Executives podcast. Zia is Vice President for Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Data and AI Business. He shares his thoughts on the present and future of AI, the relationship between data and AI, what is driving the AI wave, and much more. Join us for this great conversation a…

We’re joined by Amanda Silver, CVP of Product in Microsoft’s Developer Division (DevDiv). She takes us through the present and future of developer tools and how organizations are making investments on next-generation development ecosystems. Guest information Follow Amanda on LinkedIn Topics discussed in this episode include the following. Visual St…

This is a unique episode. Short and sweet. Since David and Paul really don’t have a chance to introduce themselves in regular episodes, they thought it might be good to take an opportunity to do so in this episode. After introductions, they share announcements regarding the future of this podcast. Episode Links: Mastering The Marketplace Hosts: Pau…

Are you still considering a move to the Azure cloud? If so, this episode is for you. In this episode of the Azure for Executives podcast we discuss Azure Landing Zones, tools for helping organizations move their workloads into Azure. Beyond prescriptive guidance, Azure Landing Zones provide reference architectures for solutions of all sizes to help…

Today's episode focuses on the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure (CAF) with our guest, Global Engineering Lead for the CAF, Brian Blanchard. The CAF framework provides guidance for creating and implementing business and technology strategies for the cloud. We discuss moving your technology and business to Microsoft Azure and talk about s…

In this episode, we’re talking about how Microsoft engages with the developer community. Growing and maintaining a strong community of developers has always been important to Microsoft. Our developer relations team, led by Corporate Vice President of Developer Relations at Microsoft Jeff Sandquist, makes the world better for developers and enables …

Microsoft believes security and information privacy are fundamental rights. And Microsoft has taken this to heart with a Confidential Computing initiative as part of the overall Azure promise on trust and security. In this episode, Graham Bury, Eden Cohen, and Anna Montalat Campamar talk about what Confidential Computing is, what is Microsoft’s vis…

We are discussing what it means for technology executives to lead their companies through true digital transformations, both from technology and cultural change perspectives. We’ve mentioned digital transformation several times over various episodes. Today, we’ll be making digital transformation very tangible and providing guidance for leaders look…

Today we’re talking about opportunities partners have in marketing and selling their solutions through Microsoft’s commercial marketplace. Through our commercial marketplace, partners have an opportunity to unlock access to millions of customers at a worldwide scale. Here, you’ll learn how the commercial marketplace works and steps you can take to …

On this episode, we are talk about the Azure Marketplace in the retail space: how the Azure Marketplace can help retailers, and how the it may be important for your business, both as a customer or as a solution publisher with our guest, Orlando Fernandes of XNFY Labs. Episode Links: Episode Transcript XNFY Microsoft Cloud For Retail Azure For Retai…

Low Code solution creation is all the rage. A Gartner report even forecasts, “By 2024, 75% of large enterprises will be using low-code development tools.” In this episode we’re discussing Microsoft’s Low Code platform. We’ll hear why it can matter for you at a strategic level in your organization and we’ll also be digging down into the capabilities…

COVID-19 has presented major challenges to healthcare, and lately that’s included accelerating the development and delivery of vaccines and therapeutics at scale. Luckily, in recent months we’ve seen an acceleration in the supply lines of delivering vaccines from manufacturers to recipients. Today we are talking with Microsoft partner Schrocken’s S…

In this episode, we’re talking about the IoT (Internet of Things) space and the related data that drives the industry with two industry leaders from Crate.io who specialize in IoT data management: Christian Lutz, founder, and president, and Eva Schönleitner, CEO. Data in the IoT space is unique in many ways, most notably in shape and scale. Also di…

Insurance has some problems. It’s too complex, too expensive, and it doesn’t cover everyone. Our guest today, Rob Galbraith, the most interesting man in insurance and author of the book The End of Insurance as We Know It, says that tech can help though, but it must be relevant to the consumer’s needs. To support this hypothesis, he has coined the a…

In this episode, we talk about looking at various technologies and their impact on business and society. Our guest and digital speaker, Dr. Mark van Rijmenam, talks about cutting-edge tech like augmented reality and describes how wearables can be used by insurers to promote good health, which benefits both insurers and their clients. Microsoft Mesh…

In this episode, we talk about high-performance computing (HPC). HPC is important in many industries and lets us work with data at scale, operate on large media files, work with large AI and ML workloads, and run big batches of worker jobs. Tim Carroll, Director for HPC & AI for Research at Microsoft, and Evan Burness, Principal Program Manager for…

Most organizations producing software are moving their workloads to the cloud. In doing so they are typically choosing between 3 modes of cloud service, especially regarding their product architecture. The 3 main models for cloud offerings are IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Moving solutions to the cloud, or building a cloud-native solution, requires rethink…

Kohei Kurihara, co-founder of Privacy by Design Lab and President of the Tokyo chapter of the Government Blockchain Association, helps us understand the difference between public and private blockchain and talks about how blockchain can be used in data privacy scenarios, how blockchain fits into the larger IT ecosystem, and which industries are tak…

Acknowledging the pandemic in the UK is presenting some unique challenges. Andrew Busby, the founder of Retail Reflections and co-founder of SafePrem, talks about how is the pandemic is impacting retail in the UK and across the world and the digital technologies and trends retailers are specifically using that are really making a difference right n…

In this episode, we talk about making data-driven decisions using DataVisor with Jamshed Patel, Vice President of Solution Engineering. Nick Leimer, Principal Industry Lead in Microsoft Azure for Insurance, explains how seeing more fraud-based solutions in the insurance industry means moving to real-time analysis, alerting, and remediation with Dat…

In this episode, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic affected healthcare so rapidly in 2020 and whether these changes will stick in years to come. David Houlding, Director of Healthcare Experiences on the Microsoft Industry Experiences team, describes some of Microsoft’s current major initiatives around Healthcare like investing in AI. Our guests,…

In this episode, Alan Chhabra, SVP of Partners and SVP of Asia Sales at MongoDB, talks about MongoDB, a high-performance database best suited for Big Data applications and Agile software development practices. It offers a flexible data model, elastic scalability, and high performance. Microsoft Azure is one of the best places to run MongoDB workloa…

In this episode, Dr. Louise Beaumont talks about the idea of exploiting disruption: the most meaningful and promising disrupting trends or technologies she is watching, as well as how open and accessible data changes the landscape of financial services, and the technologies driving change around data usage. She also discusses the concept of open ba…

This episode is about the newly announced Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare which is now available! We delve into the capabilities of this industry-vertical cloud and get a sense of why industry clouds are starting to emerge with Microsoft’s Jenn Roth and John Doyle. Healthcare is in transition. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated healthcare technol…

In this episode, we discuss trends and technologies influencing and supporting the financial services industry with special guest, Nasir Zubairi, CEO of the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT), a public/private sector initiative to drive fintech and digitalization for Luxembourg's financial services industry. Nasir shares with us innov…

In this episode, we talked about retail and consumer goods with a focus on eCommerce and the fast-paced change the industry is seeing with our guests, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis Jason Goldberg, and Principal Industry Lead for Retail & CPG at Microsoft Sahir Anand. We talk about Microsoft’s retail and consumer goods strategies, inte…

We talked about Microsoft initiatives, solutions, and technologies in the energy sector with Darryl Willis. Darryl is the Vice President of Energy at Microsoft and he is responsible for driving digital transformation all around the world for companies within oil & gas, mining, renewables, and power & utilities. We’re all aware that energy sustainab…

In this episode, James Mastan of Audienz talks about The Business Transformation Playbook for the Azure Marketplace how to effectively go-to-market from the perspective of sales, marketing, operations, and other non-technical factors. When organizations decide to sell their solutions through the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace, it isn’t unusual fo…

This episode explores amazing technologies and techniques that add tremendous value to organizations looking for new and better ways to bring product to market and discusses simulations of real-world situations in the Azure cloud. Andy Byers, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Ansys, talks about product simulation priorities: more demand for com…

In our first panel episode, Sahir Anand hosts Microsoft partners to discuss effective digital experiences that are driving ecommerce systems and the supply chain. We hear from our panel of thought leaders about how retailers are successfully acting with agility, especially in the coming holiday season. In addition, the conversation covers how Azure…

In this episode we discuss how Azure and our partner ecosystem supports the media and communications industries including current applicable trends and technologies. And some of the tech is pretty amazing. We cover the Azure services media and communications organizations find most valuable and the outcomes experienced by several partners and custo…

This episode is for anyone looking to take their business to the next level by becoming a Microsoft partner, or for existing partners who want to make the most of their benefits. We’re joined by Casey McGee, Vice President for ISV Partner Strategy at Microsoft, who focuses exclusively on our thriving partner ecosystem. Casey shares ways to partner …

This episode examines Microsoft Team and other productivity tools with a special focus on remote work. The conversation includes the value of our partner ecosystem and how they have added tremendous value to Microsoft’s productivity suite of tools. Learn how Microsoft Teams has become a platform for life, work, and learning. Hear the story of Teams…

Meet the next generation of technologists and the Microsoft programs that support them. Jennifer Ritzinger and Pablo Veramendi talk with us about the developers you want for your next round of interns! Skilled students are building sophisticated solutions serving many industries and in this conversation we discuss how Microsoft is supporting them. …

The ways companies are managing data is rapidly changing. New patterns and technologies focused on data management are emerging to help. Join Todd Singleton, General Manager of Solutions in the Azure Data Group at Microsoft, to hear how Microsoft is bringing solutions to help with the explosion of data. In this episode we discuss how to gain insigh…

The Internet of Things (IoT) has taken off in a huge way and is impacting industries far beyond the traditional use cases. In this episode we discuss modern IoT solutions and capabilities including managing large scale IoT implementations, Microsoft-specific devices, using Azure IoT services, IoT on the edge, developing IoT solutions, and even runn…

In this final episode of a 2-part series on Azure Storage and DataLake, Vamshi Kommineni shares some things with us of interest to any technology decision maker. We discuss what backup, recovery, disaster planning, failover, governance, and other factors look like regarding storage solutions. Further we dive deep into customer use cases and stories…

In this first of a 2-part series, Vamshi Kommineni takes us through Azure Storage and Data Lake from the perspective of industry use cases and relevant capabilities. Not only do we learn about the different capabilities of these services, but we also cover discuss their use at hyper-scale and what that can mean for customers. Vamshi shares several …

In this episode we hear how Microsoft and its partners are focused on helping financial services organizations meet the demands of today. Specifically, the guests discuss how Microsoft is helping with the COVID-19 situation, including things like fraud detection and enabling employees. Additional topics include how Microsoft is empowering customers…

Çağlayan Arkan, Microsoft’s Vice President and Global Sales Lead for the Manufacturing Industry at Microsoft, joins in this episode to talk about how Microsoft is engaging manufacturing and the supply chain. The discussion covers the current situation for manufacturers during in the current COVID-19 pandemic and how Microsoft is reaching out to cus…

Retail has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Shelley Bransten, Karen Garrette, and Sahir Anand join David and Paul to discuss how retailers are responding to the current crisis along with what to expect during and after recovery. We introduce the Microsoft for Retail team and how it works with partners and customers to solve the biggest retai…

Our Microsoft for Health panel looks forward to the future of healthcare. As healthcare responds to the current COVID-19 crisis, it is accelerating its adoption of technologies that would have taken years to implement before the current need for change. The panel discusses how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is impacting healthcare tod…

Microsoft for Healthcare is working hard to help healthcare throughout the COVID-19 crisis and to plan for what comes after the pandemic. Our guests discuss how Microsoft is responding to the current COVID-19 crisis as well as their mission in healthcare and the future of the industry. Our guests describe how they work with partners to find the rig…

Join us in this episode about the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace, the way to buy and sell software from Microsoft partners. Publishers and buyers of Azure-based cloud software will be interested in this show, whether learning how to sell your solution or how to buy an offered solution. The Microsoft Commercial Marketplace consists of two storefro…

Transcript Uncrowd’s Friction/Reward Index, or FRi, platform answers retail's most fundamental question, “Why do customers choose retailer x over retailer y?” It then shows exactly how to win in more shopper missions, identify safe cost reductions, and optimize operations. The Friction/Reward index is fundamentally about showing when and why a cust…

Transcript Solix Technologies, Inc., is a leading big data application provider that empowers data-driven enterprises with optimized infrastructure, data security, and advanced analytics. We discuss sources of our data explosion and how companies can benefit from this data by connecting silos of data together. And, the cultural change that comes wi…