Smart Restart: Learnings

I did a webinar on learnings from the Smart Restart and how companies can look at their employees, operations, and customers to make the most of the opportunity.

Bots… am I working for you, or you working for me?

I hate self checkout lines. I’ve always thought of it as an excuse to turn the customer into an employee. Rather than pay for a great experience as I leave their store, they implement a system where I work to buy from their store. I can understand the inherent inefficiency that checkout creates, so certainly […]

Create an Azure Function with Python to Retrieve GPS Coordinates from an Image EXIF in Azure Storage

This post is part of a series. If you want to work on creating your own Wildlife ID environment, start here! We started with provisioning an Azure storage environment that this uses to retrieve images. In this post we’ll provision the Azure Function, deploy the code via VS Code and configure an App Insights availability […]

Creating a Logic App to Identify Wildlife with AI, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, and Azure Storage

This post is part of a series. If you want to work on creating your own Wildlife ID environment, start here! In this segment we’re creating a Logic App that brings several other components together. The end goal is to examine a picture with EXIF data, identify a wildlife in the image, copy it to […]

Creating a Cosmos DB for our Wildlife ID Project

This post is part of a series. If you want to work on creating your own Wildlife ID environment, start here! We will start by provisioning a Cosmos DB environment for our application. First, login to your Azure environment and navigate to Cosmos DB and create a new database. Then, progress in creating your Cosmos […]

An Architecture for Modern Cloud Education and Wildlife Identification

A few years ago I got an idea… there were birds on my bird feeder that I didn’t know the name of. There were some times of the year they showed up and others where they didn’t. I wanted to get a better understanding of why certain birds showed up at certain times, where the […]

Beer 30: Product Development with Kyle Stevens

I had a great conversation with Kyle Stevens from Northwestern Mutual on Product Development. We talked about modern development, approach, jobs theory, and requirements.

Smart Restart: Your Employees

A conversation around Smart Restart and the impact on employees. We talk about Smart Restart testing with Power Apps, bots, and staffing considerations.

COVID Survival Kit: Demand & Inventory

I interviewed Michael Walton on Demand and Inventory centric to AI, Microsoft tech, business survival and other topics. Great conversation with a great guest talking about helping businesses maximize their opportunity to succeed in a challenging world.

Building a Simple Smart Restart Bot with Teams & Azure QnA Maker

You’re returning to work and you want to get your Smart Restart off the ground, but you are concerned about a flood of requests hitting your service desk. You want to create something that will provide immediate value but has a low time to implement. We had the same problem and started with a simple […]

Nathan Lasnoski

Technology is at the heart of the transformation of modern society and business. I engage in innovation, artificial intelligence, disruption, and ethics under the lense that we only do this because people matter.

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