We are only 58 days away from the 2019 Disney Data & Analytics Conference that is taking place at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida. That is only 1,392 hours from now (not […]
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I’ll take my Starbucks with a shot of AI
Check out how Starbucks and Microsoft are teaming up to bring AI, IOT and Blockchain to enhance Starbucks’ customer experience
Microsoft Build 2019: Day 2 Recap
After a day spent traveling across the beautiful US of A, I landed in the home of Mount Rainer, great coffee, and tech giants for my first day at Microsoft’s 2019 Build Conference! On this […]
Microsoft Build 2019: Day 1 recap
Microsoft Build 2019 is officially underway in Seattle, Washington and the first day was pretty exciting. This is the 9th year that Microsoft has had a “Build” and this year’s focus is to empower developers […]
A glimpse into Microsoft’s Data and AI strategy
Recorded at Microsoft’s office in Bellevue WA, Brett and Kyle sit down with John “JG” Chirapurath, General Manager for Azure Data & Artificial Intelligence for Microsoft. JG talks about how Microsoft is helping their customers successfully […]
Microsoft Azure is expanding its AI capabilities
From real time crime detection using video surveillance to audio induced predictive maintenance, organizations are leveraging Artificial Intelligence to drive critical use cases. The concept of digital and business transformation has been around for a […]
Initial reactions to the NVIDIA acquisition of Mellanox
One of my favorite things is waking up on a Monday morning (not after daylight savings time), grabbing an iced coffee and browsing the internet for tech stories. Yesterday, I hit the mother-load… a major […]
In God We Trust, in AI We Verify
I recently had the opportunity to present a high-level overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to a large ecclesiastical and charitable organization as part of a day-long program on digital transformation. At a break one of […]
10 Takeaways from the Cloudera Hortonworks Merger
I recently sat in on the new Cloudera merger call to see what their strategy was going forward. In the past I’ve liked both Hortonworks and Cloudera for different products, so I was particularly keen […]
2019 Super Bowl Prop Bets: a data driven approach
IT IS SUPERBOWL TIME! In less than 4 days, the two best teams (not to be controversial but Saints should be playing) in the NFL will face off in Atlanta for Super Bowl 53. If […]