Why accelerate cloud migration now?

The last several months have been challenging. We’ve experienced incredible disruption to the economic market that has left businesses in challenging positions financially and competitively. Some companies have seen the challenging times and stopped everything except the most critical “keeping the lights on” activities. This might even seem intuitive to many companies… like, “why wouldn’t […]

Speaking at IC Stars Capitalize on Wisconsin

I kicked off the IC Stars Capitalize on Wisconsin event this week, leading into a very interesting conversation on Ethics of AI. IC Stars is a great organization that helps individuals wanting to get into the technology field from a diverse background. Things IC Stars does: Community engagement in IT Education and internships Awareness of […]

Speaking at Wisconsin Technology Association

I spoke at the Wisconsin Technology Association on June 18th as a moderator for the Build vs. Buy conversation. Thanks for the WTA for having me and for such a great conversation! We talked about: Modern development Containers Development security Low Code / No Code Cost optimization Intellectual Property Engineering approaches Configuration oriented

Can bots possess 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 […]

Tech Insights: Teams as a Platform

In this edition of Tech Insights, we talk about Teams as a Platform and how it changes the way people work with each other. Working together is more than just video conferencing. It’s working together to do something special.

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 […]

Smart Restart: Operations

In this webinar I talked about how the Smart Restart is impacting the operations space, tied to data, analytics, and employee productivity.

Smart Restart: Your Customers

I did a webinar on Smart Restart engagement around customers and how businesses need to think about previously unmet needs.

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 […]

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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