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 TranscriptXNFYMicrosoft Cloud For RetailAzure For RetailGuests:Orlando Fernandes works in Innovation & AI for the retail segment. He has the goal to create solutions that could change paradigms and create unique value.Follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn. Or visit his blog: https://medium.com/@orlando.ribas.Sahir Anand is the Principal Category Lead for the Microsoft Azure Cloud for Retail and Data & AI.Follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn.Hosts:Paul Maher is General Manager of the Industry Experiences Team at Microsoft. He was formerly CTO at Milliman.Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.David Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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AI in Retail Innovation with Orlando Fernandes

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 of the platform.Our guests today, Charles Lamanna and Ryan Cunningham, talk about what types of solutions people are building using the platform, who uses the platform and who the most common type of “Low Code” users are, Microsoft’s Dataverse as a key part of the Power Platform and what it is, and how someone new to these technologies gets up and running to try it out and get started.Episode Links:Episode TranscriptLow Code Application Development on AzureMicrosoft Power Apps on AzurePower AutomatePower Automate Robotic Process AutomationGuests:Charles Lamanna is the Corporate Vice President of the Business Applications & Platform (BAP) at Microsoft. He leads the engineering teams in the business applications & platform across both Product Management and Development. Follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn.Ryan Cunningham is the GM for Power Apps at Microsoft. Power Apps is the Low Code platform used by millions of people around the world to build apps that make their working lives better.Follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn.Hosts:Paul Maher is General Manager of the Industry Experiences Team at Microsoft. He was formerly CTO at Milliman.Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.David Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Microsoft’s Low Code Platform with Charles Lamanna and Ryan Cunningham

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 Sunil Ghogre and Yogendra Chordia, and Microsoft’s David Houlding about empowering life sciences organizations to meet supply chain challenges.Episode Links:Episode TranscriptSchrockenShrocken on LinkedInAzure Marketplace OfferMicrosoft HealthAzure MarketplaceAppSourceHow to get started partnering with MicrosoftMicrosoft for StartupsIgnite Sessions:What’s new in Microsoft Cloud for HealthcareLearn how Microsoft & Intel unlock the potential of edge & AI in healthcare to collect data & turn it into actionable insightsIntro to Mixed Reality Business Apps + Real-Life Use Cases in HealthcareGet started on your HealthTech JourneyGuests:Sunil Ghogre has over 30 years of diverse, global experience delivering exceptional manufacturing operations management and supply/sourcing expertise in the Pharmaceutical and Consumer industries.Follow him on LinkedIn.Yogendra Chordia is a technologist with 25+ years of enterprise software experience. At Schrocken he is focusing on applying his hi-tech supply chain experience in digitizing biopharma contract manufacturing supply chain.Follow him on LinkedIn.David Houlding is the Director of Strategic & Healthcare Engagements for Microsoft Azure. He served as Chair of the HIMSS Blockchain task force for over 2 years, and currently serves as an Advisor to the British Blockchain Association. He has technology interests and specialties in cloud, privacy, security, compliance, blockchain and AI.Follow him on LinkedIn or Twitter.Hosts:Paul Maher is General Manager of the Industry Experiences Team at Microsoft. He was formerly CTO at Milliman.Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.David Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Meeting Supply Chain Challenges in Healthcare and Pharma with Sunil Ghogre and Yogendra Chordia

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 discussed are some of the many announcements made by Microsoft at the annual Ignite conference, which was held recently. As always, there was a lot of big news that came out of Ignite. Microsoft’s Diego Tamburini, Principal Industry Lead for Cloud for Manufacturing gives the scoop.Episode Links:Episode TranscriptCrate.io.NET Core on GitHubPerceptAzure Percept: Edge intelligence from silicon to serviceGuests:Christian Lutz is the founder and president of Crate.io. He has over 20 years of experience as a startup entrepreneur with strong experience in enterprise software. Follow him on LinkedIn.Eva Schönleitner is CEO of Crate.io. She has extensive worldwide experience in the technology and industrial segments and has a track record of developing high-performing organizations. Follow her on LinkedIn and Twitter.Diego Tamburini is Principal Industry Lead for Cloud for Manufacturing at Microsoft. He helps build the best ecosystem for software partners developing manufacturing solutions on Azure and helps them be successful. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter. Host:David Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

The Future of Computing and AI in IOT with Eva Schönleitner and Christian Lutz

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 acronym S.C.A.L.E.D. to focus on the technologies he believes are transforming the insurance industry. He tells us what it means and explains each part in detail.Additionally, usual host Paul Maher takes on a guest role this week as a former CTO at Milliman and talks about what some of Microsoft’s big investments in insurance are and how Microsoft AI technologies are impacting insurers and financial services as a whole.Episode Links:Episode TranscriptThe End Of Insurance As We Know It (Rob’s book)Azure for Financial ServicesAzure for InsuranceGuest:Rob Galbraith is the most interesting man in insurance. He is a keynote speaker, media contributor, and bestselling author of The End of Insurance as We Know It. He is the Insuretech Business Series man of the year for 2020.Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.Special Guest:Paul Maher is General Manager of the Industry Experiences Team at Microsoft. He was formerly CTO at Milliman.Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.Host:David Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

The Emerging Technologies of Insurance with Rob Galbraith

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 enables presence and shared experiences from anywhere – on any device – through mixed reality applications. Additionally, he talks about the democratization of AI and what is happening there, both good and bad.Episode Links:Episode TranscriptDatafloqDatafloq on TwitterQuantum computing at MicrosoftAzure QuatumQ# and the Quantum Development KitGuests:Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is the Digital Speaker. He focuses on the Future of Work and how to build the organization of tomorrow using emerging technologies that include big data analytics, blockchain, the Internet of Things, tokenomics, and Artificial Intelligence.Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter. Visit his website at thedigitalspeaker.com.Dr. van Rijmenam has also authored and co-authored several books. Check them out!Think Bigger - Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your BusinessCo-author of the book Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and Our WorldThe Organisation of Tomorrow (discusses how AI, blockchain, and big data turn every business into a data organization.)Host:David Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

The Future of Work and Building the Organizations of Tomorrow with Dr. Mark van Rijmenam

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 HPC & Big Compute in Microsoft Azure tell us what high-performance computing is and why it’s unique, how it is being used in the industry today, benefits of the new HPC VM over what people have used in the past on Azure, and for people who are not using HPC today, how they can get it up and running!Episode Links:Episode TranscriptMicrosoft Azure HPCAzure HPC by industryMore performance and choice with new Azure HBv3 virtual machines for HPCGuests:Evan Burness is the Principal Program Manager for HPC & Big Compute in Microsoft Azure.Follow him on LinkedIn.Tim Carroll is the Director for HPC & AI for Research. He is also a HPC Global Black Belt at Microsoft.Follow him on LinkedIn.Hosts:Paul Maher is General Manager of the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.David Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Next-Level High Performance Computing on Azure with Tim Carroll and Evan Burness

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 rethinking how we sell and distribute our software. Cloud-first sales models can be very different than traditional sales pipelines. Today we are focusing on Software-as-a-Service applications as a vehicle for selling cloud-based solutions. Our guest, Ercenk Keresteci explains that SaaS applications are the de-facto model for companies licensing their software.Episode Links:Episode TranscriptWhat is SaaS?Publish solutions on the Azure MarketplaceClients for different programming languages and samplesGuest:Ercenk Keresteciis a Microsoft Principal Architect with a focus on manufacturing and the Internet of Things. He has a specific focus on these industries while helping partners onboard their solutions onto the Microsoft Commercial Marketplace.Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.Host:David Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Building and selling Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions with Ercenk Keresteci

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 taking up blockchain today.Additionally, David Houlding, Director of Healthcare Experiences at Microsoft tells us what investments in blockchain he is seeing particularly around data privacy.Episode Links:Episode TranscriptMicrosoft Azure Blockchain SolutionsAzure Blockchain ServiceAzure Blockchain WorkbenchGovernment Blockchain AssociationGuests:Kohei Kurihara is the co-founder of Privacy by Design Lab and has deep experience with blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. He is the president of the Tokyo chapter of the Government Blockchain Association.Follow him on LinkedIn or Twitter.David Houlding is Director of Healthcare Experiences at Microsoft. He has 26+ years of experience in healthcare spanning provider, payer, pharmaceutical, and life sciences segments worldwide, he also has deep experience and expertise in cloud computing, privacy, security, compliance, blockchain, and AI / ML. Responsibilities include leading an expert team and program to accelerate key healthcare partners of Microsoft with Azure, Marketplace, and GTM jumpstart (co-marketing, and co-selling) to help them grow worldwide.Follow him on LinkedIn or Twitter.HostDavid Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Using blockchain to secure data with Kohei Kurihara

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 now.We also discuss how Microsoft is taking part in some of the technologies or trends Andrew describes, and what Microsoft and other retailers are seeing in the retail space in response to COVID challenges.Episode LinksEpisode TranscriptAndrew’s ArticlesSafePremBehind the Mask PodcastSafePrem BlogSafePrem on TwitterMicrosoft in RetailRetail Trends Playbook for 2021Azure Machine LearningAzure Digital TwinsAzure Synapse AnalyticsAzure MarketplaceAppSourceGuestAndrew Busby is the founder of Retail Reflections and co-founder of SafePrem. Andrew is a Top 20 global retail influencer, Forbes contributor, IBM Futurist, keynote speaker, retail writer & analyst.Follow him on LinkedIn or Twitter. HostDavid Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

The technologies of securing physical space during the pandemic with Andrew Busby

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 DataVisor.While we’re seeing early adopters embrace technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence to help drive their businesses forward with autonomous systems, the uptake is much slower than one might expect. The number of companies willing to turn over their operations to a real-time-system vs. a report-analyze-act sort of model is surprisingly small.Some organizations have taken the approach of capturing all kinds of data in hopes they will glean insights after capturing anything and everything they can get their hands on. Jamsheed explains how using this technique has panned out for companies trying to find insights from their data estates or data lakes and shares interesting data sources he looks at to make determinations about threat vectors and real-time remediation.Episode LinksEpisode TranscriptMicrosoft Azure Synapse AnalyticsDataVisor.comDataVisor on LinkedIn and TwitterAzure MarketplaceAppSourceGuestsJamshed Patel is Vice President of Solution Engineering at DataVisor. DataVisor is a Microsoft partner and makes powerful and comprehensive fraud and risk solutions for various industries.Follow him on LinkedIn.Nick Leimer is Principal Industry Lead in Microsoft Azure for Insurance.Follow him on LinkedIn or Twitter. HostsPaul Maher is General Manager of the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.David Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Real time data-driven decisions and responses with Jamshed Patel and Nick Leimer

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, Irma Rastegayeva and Evan Kirstel of eViRa Health talk about what interesting technology and trends are in healthcare right now, as well as how technology can best serve healthcare to be more agile in serving current strains in the healthcare system, and how we, as consumers, are now using wearables like Fitbits and Apple Watches to take in-home monitoring of our own health to the next level.Episode LinkseViRa HealthFollow eViRa Health on LinkedIn or Twitter.Microsoft HealthAzure MarketplaceAppSourcePartner Center: how to get started. HealthcareIndExp@Microsoft.comAzure MarketplaceAppSourceGuestsIrma Rastegayevais a former Googler, software engineer, and technical manager, turned Digital Storyteller and Coach for clients in healthcare, life sciences & health tech. She is particularly focused on the patient journey.Follow her on  Twitter or LinkedIn.Evan Kirstel a tech influencer and evangelist with 30 years of experience in enterprise sales, alliances, and business development. He brings a unique perspective to remote work, social, mobile, and the voice/video/web collaboration market and cloud technology.Follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn.David Houldingis the Director of Healthcare Experiences on the Microsoft Industry Experiences team. He has extensive experience in healthcare and related technologies, most recently cloud, blockchain, and AI.Follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn.HostsPaul Maher is General Manager of the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.David Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

COVID-19 Driven Changes in Healthcare – Will They Endure? with Irma Rastegayeva and Evan Kirstel

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 workloads securely and efficiently.Alan discusses trends to be watched in the non-relational database space, MongoDB for website development, as well as the many other uses of the platform, how their experience has been from his side in offering MongoDB Atlas on Azure, and how he sees the future of MongoDB evolving within Azure.Episode LinksMongoDB WebsiteAutomated MongoDB Service on Microsoft AzureFollow MongoDB on Twitter or LinkedIn.GuestAlan Chhabrais responsible for Worldwide Partners as well as running Asia Sales at MongoDB.He is a frequent speaker at industry events where he regularly leads discussions on how cloud computing, IoT, and big data can help CIOs meet their business objectives.Follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn.HostsPaul Maher is General Manager of the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.David Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

High-performance, flexible, and scalable databases with mongoDB with Alan Chhabra

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 banking and its goal to provide services we didn’t know we needed, but now can’t live without, and the value of industry vertical marketplaces.Episode LinksBanking Industry Home - For various articles and papers.Capital Markets Home - Among other things, you’ll find a great e-book on Enabling the capital markets firm of the future.Financial Services BlogGuestDr. Louise Beaumont has a soft spot in her heart for true innovation and disruption in financial services. She works with legislators and regulators to drive positive disruption with established organizations to cope with disruption, and with start-ups to exploit disruption. As such, she has a rounded perspective on FinTech’s future and the smart, open and accessible data required to fuel it.Follow her on LinkedIn or Twitter.HostsPaul Maher is General Manager of the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.David Starr is a Principal Azure Solutions Architect in the Marketplace Onboarding, Enablement, and Growth team at Microsoft. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Disrupting Financial Services with Dr. Louise Beaumont

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