Why your Azure tenant needs sandbox subscriptions

Hello, fellow cloud enthusiasts! Today I’m going to talk about a very important topic: sandbox landing zones in the cloud adoption framework. If you’re not familiar with the cloud adoption framework, it’s a set of best practices and guidance from Microsoft to help you plan and implement your cloud journey. Sandbox landing zones are isolated […]

Your customers are expecting more…

Is this your customer service experience? 👇 You have the opportunity with AI to tremendously improve the customer relationship… here’s how: 1. Meet the customer where they are… 😡 understand the state of the customer at the point of time they are experiencing it. In this case, the customer is upset and NOT getting what […]

Should AI convey empathy?

I was pursuing my Facebook feed the other day and came across an advertisement for Replika, an “Artificial Intelligence Friend”, which offers to be a virtual personal relationship, providing a vehicle for self-expression, understanding, and feedback. We’ve talked about Empathy in the context of bots or applications, but this is a whole new level. This […]

Applying Open AI to Manufacturing

OpenAI ChatGPT is a new AI tool that can interact in a conversational way. It can follow instructions, answer questions, admit mistakes, challenge premises, and reject requests. It can also tell stories and write code. ChatGPT is trained using reinforcement learning from human feedback, which makes it more adaptable and responsive than traditional chatbots. But […]

How to make your hybrid meetings less terrible

I’ve been part of a LOT of hybrid meetings lately (onsite and Teams). They stink. Here’s how you can make them better… 1. Have a room setup that is optimized for hybrid, such as a Surface Hub, where it naturally works with Teams without a lot of screwing around. I’ve seen a TON of terrible […]

4 Ways to Safely Customize Open AI on Azure with Company-Specific Data

We love Chat GPT’s capabilities and the question being asked is… “what if I had this for my OWN data?” How do I do that and what are my options? Well… you’re in luck, because in this video I talk about how you do just that!

What to know about Data Privacy and Open AI

This is one of the most frequently asked questions I get about Open AI on Azure. In this video I explain the key things you need to know about Open AI and privacy/security.

Building a Cloud CoE that Actually Works

In this episode of Tech Leadership Office Hours I talk about building a Cloud CoE that actually works. A few big topics I cover:

Why CoEs fail
Structure of CoEs
Goals of a CoE
Approach to doing it well

Handling Overlapping Domains in a Data Mesh

The last time we talked about a Data Mesh we focused on the idea of Data Domains and the essential part they play in creating a scale-up data structure across an organization. A common question that arises however is how to deal with overlapping contexts of data and whether the Data Mesh creates too much […]

Understanding the Data Domain in the Data Mesh

The Data Mesh is a new-new thing. In concept, it’s really just a way to describe a large data platform made up of several distributed data estates, but managed and understood as one environment. The Microsoft Learn site actually has a very nice description of a Data Mesh concept. The core concept of the “Data […]

Nathan Lasnoski

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