What Keeps Chief Data Officers Awake At Night? (forbes.com) Recently, Microsoft has been hosting events for executives from more than 70 of our data and AI enterprise customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to provide a forum for participants to share their learnings and pain points, exchange…

Eleven Ways Tech Is Preventing And Reducing Domestic Violence (forbes.com) We have all been devastated by the pandemic — psychologically, financially and socially. The list goes on. For a portion of us, the pandemic posed an additional trauma — “intimate terror” as some call it. Domestic violence increased substantially during…

The Future Of Work: Why We Need Curriculum Innovation More Urgently Than Ever (forbes.com) The pandemic has excruciatingly widened the gaps in our society — wealthy vs. poor, majorities vs. minorities, educated vs. undereducated, tech savvy vs. laggards. And, even before the pandemic, we discussed the impact of AI/ ML…

My latest piece on the impact of the #Pandemic on #WomeninTech. While the article focuses on professional aspects, it’s also worth noting that women faced %10–100 increase in domestic violence on the home front, depending on where they live. Extraordinary times to empathize and support one another. Women In Tech…

It was a great pleasure to publish my first article in Forbes on Enterprise #Data and #AI Journey to #Cloud: Council Post: The Enterprise Data And AI Journey To The Cloud: Three Fundamental Milestones (forbes.com) Here is the article in full length: 2020 has been a whirlwind in the development…

#COVID19 created urgent needs for virtual agents. A fantastic team from Accenture, Microsoft, and Avanade created a solution that’s making a real difference around the world. For more, please visit Responsible AI-Powered Virtual Agent | Accenture.

As some of you know, I left Microsoft last January after eight magnificent years and joined Accenture. It has been a memorable start to say the least. During the first month I joined, we rolled out our ‘Next Generation Growth Model’ (aka NGGM), which I was informed, was the biggest…

Today, I am more than proud to celebrate the fact that our ‘Girls in AI’ Hackathons/ ‘Alice Envisions the Future’ volunteer program is becoming a formal Microsoft brand — meaning it will be executed by our 150+ subsidiaries around the world in a systematic manner. This global, programmatic approach should…

https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai-for-business/girls-in-ai-hackathons-update/