Cyphercon 2023 Presentation: 5 Architectures Every Tech Exec Should Understand

Thank you for attending my Cyphercon session! I’m excited to have had the opportunity to spend time with you and to talk about how to improve the general security of your environment. You can catch me on LinkedIn or Twitter. Here is a link to the deck for the Cyphercon presentation. Nathan Lasnoski

What to know about Data Privacy and Open AI

Talking about data privacy and what you need to know to safely use Open AI

Azure: Ask the Expert

Loved this session on Ask the Expert. Myself, Lwin Maung (another Microsoft MVP), Chris Blackburn, Swami Venkatesh, and Brandon Hartman had a session to take questions on the modern environment, Azure, cloud, and M365. Love the questions, great discussion, and a great honor to be among these interesting and intelligent gentlemen. Swami certainly wins “best […]

Top Tech Leadership Priorities for 2022

In moments of transition often weak leaders freeze, unable to move or act until those around them move. The weak leader is unable to gather the team to move forward through the malaise and is challenged to reflect, think, and act. In contrast, the effective leader is able to use moments of transition to accomplish […]

7 Habits of Inspiring Tech Leaders: (5) Agent of Architecture

Have you ever tried to make a sand castle survive against the waves? I’ll admit, it can be fun for a while. The kids and I will build sand castles with extravagant moats and then create barriers between the lake and the castle. We’ll use driftwood, boards, more-sand, and… more sand. As fun as it […]

Best of Microsoft Ignite

I had a great time recording a webinar with Anthony Escobedo, Lwin Maung, Min Maung, and Steven Campbell on the best of Microsoft Ignite. We talked about IoT, data, productivity, Viva, Power BI, and many other topics.

Building a Manageable AI Framework on Azure

Had a great conversation with Jeff Lipkowitz and Swami Venkatesh on building an AI Framework on Azure. We talked about what an AI Landing Zone looks like and how we ensure the right practices are accomplished.

It will happen to you… why Zero Trust MUST be a technology North Star for 2021

In the past month we’ve seen a tremendous increase in companies coming to us having been ransomware victims. This is in addition to the impact of Solar Winds incident and conversations about Nation State activity. These aren’t new problems we’re seeing. It’s the same general vulnerability we’ve been talking about for years, just increased in […]

2021 North Stars with Brian Willson

I had a great opportunity to talk with Microsoft Vice President Brian Willson about the 2021 North Stars that every technology executive should be considering. We talked about each of these five North Stars:

Create digital lines of business
Deliver on new revenue or operational savings through AI
Get out of the datacenter business
Make substantive progress on Zero Trust
Measure and increase digital productivity

Simplicity Wins in the Zero Trust Game

This week I was in the market for two new computers for my kids. The ones they had been using were getting a little long in the tooth and it became apparent that we needed to replace them. This went from annoyance to emergency as they started school again and virtually needed to do classwork. […]