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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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18 | Healthier Human Experiences - Communicating with...

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2019/04/07

Today's episode focuses on the life-cycle of creating healthier human experiences through communication, how to grow and maintain truly collaborative communication environments (especially with customers or clients), as well as the importance of mindfulness in a society that is becoming ever more digitally fatigued, and increasingly connected.Connie Barnes, National Manager for Healthcare and Life Sciences - Enterprise Sales at Microsoft, joins us and discusses her mindset and perspective on how she

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17 | Industry 4.0 - Part 1 - "Think Big, Start Small,...

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2019/03/23

Today you'll be excited to hear that this is the first of a multi-part segment where we focus specifically on Industry 4.0, which is the emergence of a novel epoch in human productivity and innovation where cloud technology (so things like predictive maintenance of machines and IoT devices with computing power at the edge) and automation come together to augment the human worker. Most of the conversation will be around the digital transformation of manufacturers, specifically in the high tech space,

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16 | Maximization of Connectivity…And Culture

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2019/03/09

Nate Yohannes joins us from Microsoft. Nate is currently a Director of Business Development, within the Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Intelligent cloud group, focused specifically on Microsoft’s strategic relationships with mobile operators and business development in emerging markets.Nate brings with him an impressive perspective on the importance of connectivity (energy) to our society, and why tackling big challenges that accelerate internet access, both physically and financially, have been on

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00:43:31

15 | The "Outcome" Seller: 5 Strategic Perspectives...

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2019/02/24

This talk covers 5 big perspectives I have discovered from my experiences, and the experiences and observations of peers, mentors, leaders, and people who have succeeded and won in the growth engine of the digital era: sales.The episode was based on a LinkedIn publication I posted on November 5, of 2018, by the same title: The "Outcome" Seller: 5 Strategic Perspectives on Selling in the Digital Era. They are:1. You have be customer obsessed - and this includes being smart enough on their topic

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14 | Developing Products Through Purpose and...

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2019/01/27

Today's episode features Tim Salau, an extraordinarily gifted and hard-working community builder, Tim is currently a Product Manager at Microsoft in Redmond, and works with the Customer Care Intelligence team, developing AI powered bot frameworks, to help customer service oriented businesses create, deploy, and manage bots through a broad suite of services, tools, and platforms.We cover the following items:-Communities, how they are built, and why they are important-The power of purpose, for

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00:53:52

13 | Building Platforms for Courageous Inclusivity &...

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2019/01/07

Ali Powell joins us for today's chat. Ali is currently the General Manager of Customer Success at Microsoft, representing large enterprise customers in the Southwest. Ali has almost 14 years with the business, and we talk broadly about his team's charter for customer success and why it's so important in the emerging digital and innovation economy. We also go deeper on topics ranging from customer understanding and empathy, all the way to building diverse and inclusive teams and how to go about

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12 | Evangelizing the Next Era of Human Intelligence...

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2018/12/02

Today's talk features Sara Nagy, an AI Evangelist at Microsoft, working with the Microsoft AI engineering team to help customers with their journey to a greater future through these advanced technologies.You'll find in this episode, a very informative and highly energetic talk on topics ranging from how to be thoughtful about your career path, what people at the top level are concerned about in regards to the future of AI, and what is working to unblock some of these big challenges.With over 1200

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11 | No More Fiction - The Real Impact of AI On Business

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2018/11/21

A fascinating talk with Cecil Sunder, a hyper AI Business focused solutions leader at Microsoft, where we spend the majority of the time talking about the tactical and strategic approaches for deeper partnerships with big businesses, and how Artificial Intelligence is being leveraged today, to create seamless customer experiences and to accelerate products to market. You are in for a treat!Big ticket items covered on the chat:1) How military experience helps develop effective approaches to

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10 | Driving Dramatic Change: Re-framing Problems &...

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2018/10/18

Randy Holloway joined Microsoft in 2004, and brings with him deep experiences working with global businesses, and leading private cloud and public cloud specialty teams. Now, as the leader of the Intelligent Cloud solutions team in the Southwest, his focus is centered around helping customers transform and adopt solutions, and creating an internal culture that drives business outcomes. Randy has the look and feel of a true visionary, and his excitement around building technology that focuses on

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00:39:26

9 | Understanding, Listening, & Empathy: The Path to...

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2018/09/17

Today's chat features Arleen Abarquez. Arleen is a digital advisor with Microsoft Digital, a customer facing team at Microsoft that helps big businesses re-invent themselves in the digital age. Arleen brings with her 30 years of experience in the technology industry, and her ability to understand large and strategic initiatives central to how businesses operate, and her ability to help businesses see through to their digital vision & journey, are the focal points of her success.Key Learnings

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8 | Accelerating to Higher Spaces of Development:...

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2018/08/11

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

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7 | First Year at Microsoft: My Top 10 Learnings

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2018/07/01

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!Here are the high level Top 10

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6 | Diversity & Tech: The Key to a Perceptive AI

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2018/05/29

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

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5 | Why The Crypto Craze? The Real Business Cases for...

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2018/05/03

Blockchain as an emerging technology trend has everyone from retail investors, to central banks flocking to gather data on how this can disrupt economies and decentralize currencies, but with all of the crazy behind this new world of digital currency, the wide application of the distributed ledger for use cases in the enterprise are staggering. Join us today with Kevin Leffew, a public sector blockchain SME at Microsoft, to dive into the details about how this technology is being used in businesses

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4 | Predicting AI: The Answer, the Dream, the Hype

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2018/04/12

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.Some

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3 | Gloves Off: The Real Deal on Data Security

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2018/03/29

"As you're walking around, you're fighting off all kinds of illnesses and I think security is that way, that you probably don't even realize when people are improperly using your networks, information, or stealing data" - Matt Hollingsworth on data security and big businessesIn this episode of The Data Binge Podcast, Matt Hollingsworth joins us to share his experiences with data security, what businesses should be thinking about when protecting themselves, and the perspectives all the way through

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2 | To PaaS, or Not to PaaS: Moving Your Data into...

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2018/03/12

"Scaling, we're all trying to do more with less, and do you really want your staff spending all this time managing things like infrastructure, managing assets that are depreciating…let's take security alone, maybe you have 10 full time security people, when you go to a cloud solution like Azure, you have thousands of security people, that is their full time job - to find vulnerabilities…you just can't have these kinds of resources when you own your own company as you can in Azure" - Kirby on why

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1 | The Evolution of the Data Platform

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2018/03/05

Derek Heckemeyer, Solution Specialist for Microsoft's enterprise data & AI solution area, joins us on the podcast today to share his thoughts on 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. -Some notable items covered in the

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