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The Data Binge

Welcome to the Data Binge Podcast, hosted by Derek Russell, a digital strategist in big tech helping enterprise businesses become empowered through data. This podcast focuses on providing perspectives on how Microsoft is positioning its cloud, AI, machine learning, and other data driven tech, across various industry verticals.

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58 | Identifying Opportunities for AI - Advocacy,...

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2021/01/10

Today's discussion features a LIVE interview hosted by Chat Mode, a system integrator focused on implementing conversational AI, located in Bellevue Washington. This particular LIVE discussion is part of a multi segment series, the Chat Mode Insight Series - a sharing of best practices, information, and insights around everything chatbots, voice and AI technology. Chad Oda, the host of the program and head of consulting at Chat Mode, engages with me in this discussion around AI adoption, program

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00:50:33

57 | A Culture of Creating Hope, Strength, and Joy |...

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2020/12/27

Today's episode features Joe Forline. Joe is a Sr. Manager of Chapter Advancement at Make-a-wish America. Make-a-wish creates life changing experiences for children with critical illnesses. Founded in 1980, Make-a-wish has granted over 330,000 wishes for children with critical illnesses in the US, and 15,800 wishes in 2019 alone - when a child's wish is granted by Make-a-wish, it helps build the physical and emotional strength needed to combat critical illness. This idea, making contributions of

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00:31:56

56 | The New Culture of Work | Bridging the Digital...

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2020/12/13

Today's episode is a Simply Tech LIVE interview featuring my co-host, Ali Mazaheri, and our special guest, Gina Loften. Gina is the Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft US, where she connects business leaders to unique perspectives that inspire them to drive the future of their business and accelerate and deliver digital transformational journeys built on deep customer knowledge and industry expertise.Prior to Gina's career at Microsoft, she led global initiatives for IBM’s Watson, served as IBM’s

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00:58:09

55 | Robotics, Machine Intelligence, and the New Era...

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2020/11/30

Today's episode features Brandon Rohrer, Principal Data Scientist at iRobot. iRobot is an American robotics company that designs and builds consumer robots, including the Roomba, an AI powered autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner. Brandon is also the founder and lead instructor of an online course, "End-to-end Machine Learning", or E2EML, is a fun and very helpful learning environment focused on helping students learn the fundamental concepts in python based machine learning & AI. E2EML just hit

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00:46:51

54 | Personalized Learning for Every Child |...

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2020/11/15

Today's episode is a Simply Tech LIVE interview featuring my co-host, Ali Mazaheri, and our special guest, Elnaz Sarraf. Elnaz is the Founder & CEO of ROYBI, an investor-backed EdTech company that raised $4.2 million in its seed round, focusing on early childhood education and self-guided learning through artificial intelligence. Roybi is the creator of Roybi Robot, an interactive language learning tutor for children 3 and older, featuring 500+ lessons, 70 Subject Categories, and 70,000

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00:37:19

53 | Leadership, Navigating Fear, Finding Empathy |...

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2020/11/01

Today's episode is a solo discussion, culminating the top 10 learnings I've pulled away from a little over 3 years working at Microsoft US. These learnings were the outcome of numerous collaborations with amazing colleagues, mentors, and leaders within the Microsoft ecosystem and network. None of these were possible without the incredible opportunities provided by a thriving culture that is incentivized on empathy, creating impact for others and leveraging the impact of others, and a dynamic sense

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01:18:25

52 | Hire for Character, Train for Skill | What...

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2020/10/18

Today's episode is a LIVE recording of The Data Binge podcast, hosted on LinkedIn, featuring Mike Sarraille, and George Randle. the co-authors of "The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent". The Talent War is available for pre-order, and scheduled to be made available anywhere you can buy books, on November 10th, 2020, in line with the United States Marine Corps Birthday, hallmarking the same day in 1775, when the Continental Marines were established.Mike Sarraille

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00:35:20

51 | Leadership, Sustainability, and Solutions for...

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2020/10/04

Today's episode is a Simply Tech LIVE interview, capturing a new mini-series the program is doing on Transformations in Industry, Manufacturing. The episode features our guest co-host, Greg Vigil, Industry Director for Manufacturing at Microsoft - who is Microsoft’s in-vertical expert on all things industry related - and our very special guest for the episode, Tracy Galloway, US Vice President of Manufacturing at Microsoft. Tracy has more than 20 years of experience in technology, some of her

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00:47:26

50 | Empathy - The Most Effective Journey to...

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2020/09/20

Today's episode is a Simply Tech LIVE interview featuring my co-host, Ali Mazaheri, and our guest, Ed Essey. Ed is the Director of Intrapreneurship & Incubation in the Microsoft Garage, a program that delivers and drives a culture of innovation, and is largely responsible for coming up with some very creative Microsoft AI products that exist today in the market. One of which is Video Indexer, a media AI technology that makes it easier to extract insights from videos. The product has won numerous

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01:03:30

49 | Advancing the Careers of Diverse Leaders |...

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2020/09/06

Today's episode features a dialogue with Kendra Crook, Sr. MBA Prep Coach at Management for Leadership for Tomorrow or (MLT). MLT is a non-profit organization specifically focused on changing the face of leadership in the private and social sectors, by driving break through results for individuals and institutions. The Rising Leaders that MLT seeks to target and then develop, are high achieving Black, LatinX, and Native American's, and this is accomplished through a portfolio of programs ranging

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00:55:22

48 | "Data Science for All - Feeding the AI Economy

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2020/08/23

Andrew Strong is the Head of Business Operations at Correlation One, an organization headquartered in New York, focused on building technologies, programs, and frameworks that help companies find, evaluate, and train the world's best data science and analytics talent. Andrew finished his undergrad at Stanford University, with a BS in Management Science & Engineering, and spent the first decade of his career in roles ranging from heavy analyst type engagements with the likes of oil & gas

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47 | Authentic CEO Communications - Developing an...

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2020/08/09

Today's show is a Simply Tech LIVE interview featuring my co-host, Ali Mazaheri, and our guest, Caitlin McCabe. Caitlin has been at Microsoft for almost 11 years, and is currently the Sr. Director of CEO Communications in the office of Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella. Across the discussion, Caitlin visits the key constructs of what it means to truly understand and be acutely aware of all constituents on a global scale, and the global impact and responsibility that is placed on the shoulders of the

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46 | The "Why" of Creating a Show - A Starter...

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2020/07/26

Today's episode is a recording of a LIVE interview discussion, hosted on LinkedIn LIVE, featuring a program called "The Example Show" produced by Ryan Swanstrom. Ryan is a heavily credentialed Software Engineer, with a Masters in Math from Iowa State University, and a PHD in Computational Science and Statistics. Ryan's experience spans across over 20 years of working with notable enterprises including Northrup Grumman, all the way through to organizations like Wells Fargo and Microsoft, and most

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45 | Re-imagining the K-12 Education Experience -...

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2020/07/13

Today's discussion features Ian Connell. Ian is an Investment Principal at Charter School Growth Fund, a non-profit focusing on making multi-year philanthropic investments in public charter school networks. Charter School Growth Fund supports nearly 480,000 students, around 90% are students of color, and around 75% come from economically disadvantaged families. Charter School Growth Fund uses an approach similar to the venture funding model, to identify the country's best public charter schools, and

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44 | Exploring the Realities of Racism Through...

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2020/06/28

Today's discussion features Courtney D. Cogburn and Jeremy Bailenson. Courtney is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Columbia University, Courtney is on the faculty of the Columbia Population Research Center and a faculty affiliate of the Center on African American Politics and Society and the Data Institute. Courtney's work focuses on the ways that society characterizes and measures racism, the effects of cultural racism in media, as well as the effects of racism on cultural inequalities in

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43 | **Happy Juneteenth** - Celebrating Freedom in 2020

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2020/06/19

This episode is recognizing today, Friday, June 19th, 2020, Juneteenth or otherwise known as Freedom Day. This State holiday, which is now observed by 46 states, originated from June 19, 1865, commemorating the day the remaining black slaves in the Confederacy were made aware of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation - which was an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln, on January 1st, 1863, changing the federal legal status of black slaves in the confederate states, from slaves to free

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42 | Anchoring Humanity in Compassionate Conversation

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2020/06/14

Rodney Campbell and Keith Richardson are hosts of the More in Common Podcast, where their work around guest discussions, focuses on amplifying voices, and abstracting stories that leverage real human experiences. Keith and Rodney are professional conversationalists, but in the context of having really tough conversations, and having them well. As a result of their podcast they also launched a consulting business, where they help organizations engage in the fundamental fact that we all have more in

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41 | Building AI to Reflect Our Diverse World

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2020/05/31

Noelle Silver is the VP of Digital Technology at National Public Radio (NPR), where she leads the engineering organization across initiatives ranging from the Alexa skills platform to mobile application development. Noelle has over 20 years of experience in tech. As a Principal Program Manager in the enterprise voice group at Microsoft AI, she led programs that empowered developers with AI algorithms that help applications see, hear, speak and understand user needs across the Microsoft application

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40 | The (2) Most Important Financial Decisions of...

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2020/05/17

Today's discussion, features, Jeremy Schneider, self-made multi-millionaire, retiree at 34 years old, and now founder of Personal Finance Club (@personalfinanceclub on Instagram), an organization built with the sole purpose of spreading the word that living below your means and investing early and often in index funds, is the most efficient and effective path to building wealth. Jeremy turned down a handsome offer from Microsoft 17 years ago, after interning as a software developer. Armed with a BS

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39 | Enhancing the Virtual Meeting: Why Technology Is...

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2020/05/05

Today's discussion features Matt Homann, CEO and Founder of Filament, an organization that designs, facilitates, and hosts collaborative meetings, conferences, off-sites and any type of human collaboration environment, with the objective of enabling meetings to produce measurable results that move organizations forward.For more than 20 years, Matt has been involved in the leadership spaces of designing creative experiences in everything including learning, skill building, collaboration and knowledge

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